How do concubines work now?

[Flybox]

Started a Wales run, and the Welsh have the Concubines tradition, but it seems like, being Catholic, and from reading the tool tips in the gender laws, it's kind of meaningless unless I change religions. But then, I suddenly noticed a warning that I was under the concubine limit, and sure enough, I can select a concubine. Haven't done it, yet. Trying to work through in my head what all the implications are going to be (probably a mad spouse, a concubine that wants to murder me, and upset clergy).

[Razorblade]

Cultural marriage rules trump religious rules, so as long as you remain Welsh, you will always have access to 1 spouse and 3 concubines. That means you are barred from monogomy and polygamy, regardless of your faith.

[Flybox]

Originally posted by Razorblade:

Cultural marriage rules trump religious rules, so as long as you remain Welsh, you will always have access to 1 spouse and 3 concubines. That means you are barred from monogomy and polygamy, regardless of your faith.

Thanks. I wonder what all the side effects will be if I take one. Still being Rodri, I don't feel the need to test it right now, but when his son takes over, maybe.

[Jrago73]

The side effect is splitting your realm 10 different ways among all of your children when you die.

[The Phantom Raspberry Blower]

Why are people talking about Porcupines? They are prickly and should not be in this game.

[Daystar]

I am about to add polygamy to my culture, will add concubines later and see what happens lol here's hoping for 4 wives and 3 concubines.

[Daystar]

Ok so for the above, if you add any one of the three romance options to your culture, it overwrites the faith based option. So for me: my polygamy finally went through in culture and I had concubines as my faith, polygamy took over because it was culture based, and I could not add concubines to culture with polygamy now active, I could only replace. Hope that helps anyone else that is curious about how this works now.