a character can set aside a concubine, facing only a -20 opinion penalty from the woman set aside,.a character can take a concubine without being married (This is useful if a wife of suitable status is unavailable, which would force a ruler to take the prestige penalties of marrying under your rank),.Muslim tribal and nomadic rulers cannot ask for concubines from iqta realms they have to invite the woman to their court first. Pagans (except Hellenic), Zoroastrians, followers of the Eastern religions, and all tribal and nomadic rulers (regardless of religion), rather than marrying multiple wives, may take up to three concubines. With sons coming from one or two mothers, the heir is more likely to have full brothers and only suffer from -20 opinion penalty, rather than half-brothers who suffers from -40 opinion penalty as potential competitors. (The maximum age of a bride for marriages arranged via the "rings" button is 40 years old use the character finder to find older brides.) Apart from the prestige bonus, or prevention of prestige penalties, childless wives past childbearing age do not attempt murder on stepsons. There are some advantages in marrying at least 1 or 2 wives who are near the age limit of childbearing (45). Wives who are Ambitious, Envious, or Cruel are more likely to attempt murder. They might even be bold enough to murder all sons but theirs. Wives also like to see their offspring on the throne and might attempt to kill the current heir in favor of their own. They will sometimes ask the husband for the status of first wife, and if they are in a scheming mood, they might kill the present first wife. The first wife is a very prestigious title and the secondary wives will try to attain this status. This can be very good for realm stability if one maintains a larger number of vassals, such as the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties in the early bookmarks. Non-aggression pacts upon marriage make marrying within the realm more attractive: a vassal cannot join or form a faction against his liege when he has a marriage pact with him, nor can the liege revoke an allied vassal's title. Muslim rulers thus have it easier to create alliances, but may also entangle them in more wars as a consequence.Ī Muslim ruler will also have it easier to placate vassals with their many marriage possibilities. However, rulers may still reject marriage offers as they might "want a better alliance/non-aggression pact".Īlliances can be formed with the relatives of all wives (and the relatives of all your sons' wives), not just the first wife. to gain powerful allies or claims), since the ruler with which you are negotiating is not concerned about their own prestige loss. At the same time, you are also free to marry up (e.g. Since Muslims do not gain or loss prestige based on marriage rank (if both bride and groom are Muslims), you are free to marry down (e.g. However, sons can still inherit claims from their mothers. Muslim succession is agnatic and thus wives' claims are not pushable. Suitable brides can be found using the character finder.
You can easily get a genius as your successor when you marry only women with the Genius trait. the one with the most land, will inherit. With open-agnatic succession, the most powerful son or grandson, i.e.
a king-tier (sultan, shah) or emperor-tier ruler (badshah, shahanshah, padishah) should marry 4 wives.Ĭharacters under polygamy tradition are encouraged to take as many wives as possible, and will even get a +0.4 prestige bonus per extra wife according to rank.Ĭhoosing the right wives.emir, satrap, beylerbey) is expected to marry 3 wives, and sheikh, marzoban, bey) should marry at least 2 wives The expected minimum increases by one wife per title rank: However, secondary wives are still eligible to become the spymaster in the council.Įffects of polygamy Ī Muslim ruler or ruler following a reformed pagan faith with the Polygamy doctrine, who does not marry enough wives will get a prestige penalty modifier of -1 point per missing wife. Stats boost to state attributes are received from the first wife only. There is a first wife who is the favorite among the wives. This is closely tied to decadence as it encourages plenty of sons who may become decadent, and therefore, they may need titles to be granted to. Polygamy allows Muslims to bear a lot more legitimate children than Christians do.
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