The Clans are Tànaiste…
Jamie has MacKenzie blood.
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was a Gaelic system for passing on titles and lands. In this system the Tanist (Scottish Gaelic: Tànaiste) was the office of heir-apparent, or second-in-command, among the (royal) Gaelic patrilineal dynasties of Scotland, to succeed to the chieftainship or lairdship.
The Tanist was chosen from among the heads of the roydammna or “righdamhna” (literally, those of kingly material) or, alternatively, among all males of the sept, and elected by them in full assembly. The eligibility was based on patrilineal relationship.
The Tanist held office for life and was required by custom to be of full age, in possession of all his faculties and without any remarkable blemish of mind or body.
Tanistry as the system of succession left the headship open to the ambitious. It was a frequent source of strife both in families and between the clans, but it was conversely quasi-democratic.