Okay, that makes sense – spiritually, Sartina was the heir even if the timing was a few years off, it just snagged me since the framing of the game is explicitly that I’m consulted to do rules-lawyering.
Rules lawyering (nice spoiler trick btw)
Originally, I was double-checking that Morfal was actually married when Sartina died, since I was worried that the game would pull out a twist of “actually, Soleel was the true heir because Morfal wasn’t married yet”. Before I figured that out, I concluded that the succession rules don’t really cover the case where none of the heirs are deemed suitable, and so I went double-checking all the marriage/olesata timings. Ultimately, I couldn’t determine suitability for either Sartina nor Ervala, and Lonara was definitely neither married nor olesata’d by her mother’s death, and had to headcanon that the succession rules allow for cyne-less ‘gaps’ where there are heir(s) who are not yet suitable, but whichever heir wins the suitability race can get crowned later.
Now that I look back at it, since I can’t confirm that Ervala was suitable by Morfal’s death, it’s possible that Soleel would inherit the claim to the throne after Morfal rather than Ervala, making Ludir the rightful heir-in-waiting, but then, that might be me overlooking some evidence.