my understanding is that currently it would be approx 4-5 deaths involving coup-de-gras to ensure a monarch's permadeath

and depends on how old he actually is. each cdg cuts off lifetime from the end of the kings life. if he is very young, he may survive 6 kills. if he is already old, one kill may mean permadeath.

Thank you guys.

to offset this monarchs get story points faster, story points can be used to buy another spark of life. so the higher somebody is in noblity the more story points they get becasue their deaths take more time off their lifespan

If I remember right one CDG = 2 days right? king is x32. King CDG = 64 days.

365.4 days / 64 days = ~5. With family bonuses and a wife (queen) this will prolly be more like 6 to kill a king. Of course this is for a fresh king. A king character that is like 60 years old might only live thru 1 or 2.

And the killer when caught would take a 128 day penalty then. So you better get paid a ton if you want to go king killing.

As few as one, as many as six (or so). Spirit walking is a mechanic with a few contributing factors that can affect things, one of which being how well or badly the player navigates the spirit realm.