i feel like the sepra or whatever divine beast can be taken peacefully, like when the duke...

i feel like the sepra or whatever divine beast can be taken peacefully, like when the duke dies of natural causes like old age then the heair can have the beast why did they assume you have to kill the dude? or does it specifically state that you have to do that? its a divine beast, i'm sure it does not mean to have such a brutal way of being inherited