I am puzzled by the following behavior in game, and I'm not sure if it's a bug, or WAD. If it's WAD, I would say I have some pretty strong feelings that that's a bad idea.
Here's the thing: If you reform a religion in such a way that women can have concubines (called consorts), although the female can pass bloodlines through matrilineal marriage, they *cannot* pass them through consorts. Men, however, do pass them through all kinds of marriage, and *also* through concubines.
The problem with this, in terms of a player playing the game, is that if you care at all about bloodlines, and have a system where you can end up with a female ruler, you absolutely don't want a consort. Consorts will pass on claims without any bloodlines that aren't matrilineal (which are rare-to-nonexistent if you don't craft them).
If you actually care about bloodlines at all, then, it means that the 'feature' of having consorts is a pure negative - not only can you not carry bloodlines in your primary line with them, but any woman with a matrilineal marriage who also has consorts may stay pregnant with unuseful children that aren't sired by the one marriage that counts (for the mother's bloodlines).
It's also spiritually a little odd that the kid counts as the mother's dynasty, but because it's a random schmuck consort rather than a formal marriage, the man somehow counts as *more* of an obstacle to passing on the bloodline. I imagine, though I have not located it, that a mother with an unknown father passes on the bloodline.
Anyhow, if it is WAD, I'm puzzled, in that the expansion adds two major features, reforming a religion, and bloodlines, and one has the potential to randomly disable the other. I'm hoping it's considered a bug to be fixed.
Here's the thing: If you reform a religion in such a way that women can have concubines (called consorts), although the female can pass bloodlines through matrilineal marriage, they *cannot* pass them through consorts. Men, however, do pass them through all kinds of marriage, and *also* through concubines.
The problem with this, in terms of a player playing the game, is that if you care at all about bloodlines, and have a system where you can end up with a female ruler, you absolutely don't want a consort. Consorts will pass on claims without any bloodlines that aren't matrilineal (which are rare-to-nonexistent if you don't craft them).
If you actually care about bloodlines at all, then, it means that the 'feature' of having consorts is a pure negative - not only can you not carry bloodlines in your primary line with them, but any woman with a matrilineal marriage who also has consorts may stay pregnant with unuseful children that aren't sired by the one marriage that counts (for the mother's bloodlines).
It's also spiritually a little odd that the kid counts as the mother's dynasty, but because it's a random schmuck consort rather than a formal marriage, the man somehow counts as *more* of an obstacle to passing on the bloodline. I imagine, though I have not located it, that a mother with an unknown father passes on the bloodline.
Anyhow, if it is WAD, I'm puzzled, in that the expansion adds two major features, reforming a religion, and bloodlines, and one has the potential to randomly disable the other. I'm hoping it's considered a bug to be fixed.
