User blog comment:Janus100/Commander/@comment-26247132-20160215010258

"After the unsuccessful vote of no confidence, Lexa allows Nia to challenge her directly. If Lexa chose someone to fight on her behalf and that person lost, what would that mean? Since Nia can't be the Commander (since she's not a Nightblood), is Nia winning the challenge the same as a successful vote of no confidence?"

My current speculation is that if your representative loses the fight, you die anyway. So, even if Lexa had someone else fighting on her behalf, if they lost to Roan, Lexa would also die. In that sense, Lexa killing Nia was her following through on the fact that Roan lost (she just spared his life instead).

As for choosing the next Commander, Nightbloods, and reincarnation, I'm really hoping it's all intertwined with ALIE.

"Was the Commander just the title of the Trikru leader before the Coalition?"

Again, speculation on my part, but I think that there has been a Coalition of clans for a while (not all twelve), so the Commander would still be commanding the 9, 10, 11 clans (or however many) of the coalition. Lexa is simply the commander who got the final clan (the IN) to join.

"So, in Woods Clan, we had Anya, Indra, and Lexa."

Don't forget Tristan! I'm still holding out hope they'll eventually clarify this for us, but as far as I've been able to suss out:
 * Lexa is the Commander (possibly of the Trikru, definitely of the 12 Clans).
 * Indra is the Chief of Tondisi (and "leader of the Trikru," according to Kane, which might mean a leader or the leader, as in she is the "commander" of the Trikru)
 * Tristan was in charge of "Rangers" and seemed to be a Trikru military leader of some sort. He had higher ranking than Anya, meaning...
 * Anya was probably another military leader in charge of the outpost where she took Clarke and Finn and in charge of the scouts (like Lincoln) in the Mount Weather area where the dropship landed

"Also clan leadership may follow bloodline"

According to a tweet from JR, the clans have different methods as to who becomes the next leader. In the case of the Ice Nation, it seems to be hereditary. In the case of the Commanders, it appears to be "reincarnation" of some sort.

This is really a really thorough and high-level dissection of the information we've been given so far. Do you have any interest in maybe creating a new page revolving around the Coalition, Commanders, and the Conclave?