Succession Family Tree — Logan, Ewan, Pierce and GoJo Networks

The Succession family tree, without the guesswork

Succession is a show about a company, but its family tree is where the company becomes personal. Logan Roy built Waystar Royco and refuses to name an heir. Kendall, Roman and Shiv compete for a father's approval they will never securely have. Connor, the eldest, runs for president and for a family that treats him as a joke. Ewan, Logan's older brother, owns a large block of shares and despises what the company does. The Pierces own a rival media group with better manners. Lukas Matsson owns the future, or at least the streaming platform that might buy the past.

This archive treats the Succession family tree as data, not decoration. Every parent, spouse, sibling, adoption, mentor and loyalty connection is a named pair in a file. The interactive networks draw those pairs; an image model is never asked to invent a line. The result is a family tree you can check, filter and argue with — which is the only kind of Roy family tree that makes sense.

The families

The Succession story is not one tree. It is four separate arguments about the same inheritance. Logan's line asks who inherits. Ewan's line asks what principle costs and whether a grandson can belong to a family that despises its own money. The Pierces ask whether taste can be bought. GoJo asks who owns the future. Each network has its own cast, its own centre and its own way of failing.

Logan's line: four children and one refusal

Logan Roy has four children. Connor, from his first marriage, is the eldest and has spent his life running for something: a ranch in New Mexico, a presidential campaign, a family that never quite includes him. Kendall, Roman and Shiv are the children of Logan and Caroline Collingwood, and all three were raised inside the succession contest. Logan's third wife, Marcia, keeps the household operating like an institution. Tom Wambsgans marries Shiv and enters the family as an outsider who learns its rules faster than its children.

This network has twelve characters and twenty explicit edges. The gold parent lines run from Logan and Caroline to the four children; the rose spouse lines connect Logan to Marcia, Connor to Willa, Kendall to Rava and Shiv to Tom. The sibling lines carry the show's longest grudge: Kendall, Roman and Shiv, raised together, competing for the same chair. The network is the place to start because every other network depends on it.

Ewan's line: the brother who said no

Ewan Roy is Logan's older brother, a retired executive and a major Waystar shareholder. He took the money and refused to take the credit, and he has spent decades telling Logan that the company is a moral failure. His daughter Marianne is Greg's mother. His grandson Greg arrives at Waystar with no leverage, an awkward manner and a talent for survival. Ewan's line is the branch of the family that watches the empire from the outside, then sends one of its own inside.

This network has ten characters and twenty explicit edges. The parent lines from Ewan to Marianne, and Marianne to Greg, are the bloodline. The mentor line from Ewan to Greg is a grandfather's patronage; the loyalty line from Logan to Greg is a great-uncle's protection. Tom takes Greg under his wing at Waystar, and Gerri protects him when his position is exposed. The network is a study in proximity: Greg is never powerful, but he is always in the room.

The Pierces: old money meets the Roy bid

Nan Pierce leads the Pierce family and owns Pierce Global Media, a legacy publishing and news group with more taste and less cash than Waystar. Rhea Jarrell runs PGM and negotiates the sale as a professional survivor. Mark Pierce is another member of the family, an academic who treats the acquisition as a test of manners. The Roys visit Tern Haven for a weekend of dinners, gardens and measured insults, and the deal becomes personal.

This network has nine characters and sixteen explicit edges. The Pierce family is held together by loyalty rather than a clean parent line: Nan to Mark, Nan to Rhea, Mark to Rhea. The Roy side enters through Logan, Shiv and Tom, and the acquisition table becomes a second family argument. Nan courts Shiv as the acceptable face of Waystar; Rhea advises Shiv while negotiating with Logan. Every edge is a transaction with a smile.

GoJo: the streamer at the gate

Lukas Matsson built GoJo into a streaming giant and arrives at Waystar as a buyer, not a supplicant. He is deliberately unpredictable, uses vulgarity as a negotiating tool, and understands the Roy family's weakness for being taken seriously. Ebba runs communications and translates his chaos into strategy; Oskar is the chief financial officer who would rather close the deal than enjoy the fight. The GoJo bid becomes the final test of who actually controls the inheritance.

This network has nine characters and fifteen explicit edges. The loyalty lines inside GoJo run from Matsson to Ebba and Oskar; the deal lines run from Matsson to Logan, Shiv and Tom. Greg aligns with Matsson in the final board fight, which is the closest the show comes to a successor from the outer family. The Roy siblings are still connected by parent and sibling lines, but the centre of gravity has moved to the buyer.

Seven profile cards

The archive includes seven archival profile cards, each made with the character-profile-card skill: Logan Roy, Kendall Roy, Shiv Roy, Greg Hirsch, Nan Pierce, Rhea Jarrell and Lukas Matsson. Each card is a full dossier, not a portrait: age, identity, likes, dislikes, personality, a COMBAT radar chart, a TACTICS radar chart and a five-line character introduction. The cards sit inside their family sections, so you meet Logan, Kendall and Shiv with Logan's line; Greg with Ewan's line; Nan and Rhea with the Pierces; and Matsson with GoJo.

Five design sheets

Five characters also have full design sheets made with the character-design-sheet skill: Logan, Kendall, Greg, Nan and Matsson. Each sheet shows a front, side and back view at the same scale, four expression heads, detail callouts for shoes, hands and signature item, and a small colour palette. The sheets are visual references, not posters: they exist so the same face and costume can be reused across the networks and the poster.

The family poster: seven people, nine edges

The family poster is made with the character-relationship-poster skill. It shows seven named people exactly once: Logan, Caroline, Connor, Kendall, Roman, Shiv and Tom. It draws exactly nine edges: Logan to Connor, Kendall, Roman and Shiv as parent; Caroline to Kendall, Roman and Shiv as parent; Connor and Kendall as half-brothers; and Shiv and Tom as spouses. The poster is a summary, not the source of truth. The source of truth is the data file behind the networks.

Why a network instead of a poster

A poster is a picture of a family tree. A network is the family tree itself. In the four interactive networks, every edge is a source-target pair with a relation type, so a line cannot drift to the wrong person. You can switch views: the whole family, the bloodline, the marriages and exes, the next generation, or the final vote. You can click a face and read the relations around it. You can use it on a phone. None of that is possible when an image model is asked to draw a family tree from prose.

The poster still matters, but it has a different job. It is the one-glance summary: seven faces, nine correct edges, a legend that separates bloodline, marriage and sibling. It is generated from the same cast and the same pairs, so it cannot contradict the networks. That division of labour is the whole point: the networks hold the argument, the poster holds the image.

Frequently asked questions

Is this canon? The family relations follow the HBO television series Succession. Every narrative note is marked show-only because Succession is an original drama with no novel canon. We do not import book facts that do not exist.

Why are there four networks? A single graph with every character becomes unreadable. Four networks keep each argument legible and let you start from the question you actually have: inheritance, principle, a rival dynasty, or a buyer.

Is Connor Logan's full brother? No. Connor is Logan's eldest son from an earlier marriage, which makes him a half-brother to Kendall, Roman and Shiv. The poster and the Logan network mark that distinction rather than flattening it.

Are Kendall, Roman and Shiv all Caroline's children? Yes. Caroline Collingwood is their mother and Logan's second wife. The network draws her parent lines separately from Logan's so the family's two parental claims stay visible.

Can I read it on a phone? Yes. The networks are built to be dragged, zoomed and tapped. The hub and the archive page reflow to a single column, and the images are served as compressed WebP files.

Open the archive

Start with the hub, then open Logan's network and click a face. If you want the brother's argument, open Ewan. If you want the rival dynasty, open the Pierces. If you want the buyer, open GoJo. The poster is there when you need the whole family in one glance.

Every layer of this archive was built with four named skills: relationship-network for the four interactive graphs, character-relationship-poster for the family poster, character-profile-card for the seven dossiers, and character-design-sheet for the five turnaround sheets. The data, the drawings and the pages are separate on purpose, so each one can be checked against the others.