the contract system might allow you to as players set up a system like that

or only include those specific types in your family

i certainly don't think the devs should dedicate development time to implement a game mechanic for it unless it was timewise an easy thing to do

Polygamy.... Lol

There might be a limit to marriages just because there could be certain bonuses linked to being around your spouse (I think your family can help you get through the Astral Plain faster if close to them...so if everyone in your group was married to you, I could see how that might be abuse-able).

However, I don't think marriage limits your eligibility to contract with other players to produce children. So in a way, something like swinging is allowed :-)

The game needs to know how to resolve any contract according to the terms therein. Which means you need to avoid the possibility of a deadlock situation where multiple parties have the same claim to the same asset. So I doubt they would allow marriages between multiple parties. Who would get the marriage buff then? Who gets to act as your anchor to this world while spirit walking? Who gets to access whose biological lines for heirs? This all gets too complicated to deal with when you have an undefined number of participants in a series of contracts that almost nobody would use anyway.

I'm sure there will be tons of "illgitimate" children wandering around. I know personally I hope to play another character on the side and have side children with my main's spouse if possible. Don't know if you can select if they get benefits (if they are a noble and they have a child outside marriage with commoner) not sure how that works.

But you can't marry them both. It will most likely work like real life, they have one legal wife and the rest are "Spiritually" married. As long as the side girlfriends have a house then you should be able to have lots of offspring.

I'm sure if this is true though then a king would have his own concubine village.

Pretty sure you can only be married to one person at a time. being married gives you too many bonuses to allow for multiple. Not the least of which is strengthening your life link so when you die you can make it back easier. i remember it being talked about in one of the Q&As, but I could of course be wrong. Fairly confident I am remembering that correctly however.

I think this topic deserves some thought by the game developers.

If they're already stretching the 'fantasy' element enough to accommodate the institution of gay marriage with unquestioning, contemporary effetism in an archaic setting, then the range of human marriage that has a far greater claim to historical accuracy deserves another glance.

Should the traditional 1:1 monogamous be possible? Unequivocally. Lots of strong characters and stories to be had there. But there are other traditions in history as well--and it might add some mystique and ambiance to the different civilizations in the game if they were....well...Different.

Hindu myth is replete with multiple queens to a king. In Arabia, Islam limiting the sanctionable number of wives down to 4 was a feminist reform!

In another nod to contemporary sensibilities, the less-common polyandry of multiple husbands to a woman could be just as enjoyable a medieval fantasy.

The role players will have no trouble recreating the voracious morays of 'GoT' in the game, regardless of the "marriage" mechanics. But I'd be willing to bet it's actually creating programming work to forcibly limit "marriage.exe" to singularly exclusive pairs.

Let the players decide for their own kingdoms. Heck, let the players feud within their own kingdoms! Let the different attitudes be an element of mystique for each player about 'those foreigners.'

Y'all done already let the genie out of the bottle. Marriage in CoE ain't "traditional." You're making a World. Let it be Worldly.

Don't ask me where, but I remember that marriage is going to be forced 1 to 1, basically like a contract. That doesn't mean you can roll play multiple partners or play with more, just when it comes down to assets, contracts, and distribution, there can be only one lineage, one line. That doesn't mean you can't have children with different partners it would be out of wedlock. In that case you would have specify by name any assets to be passed on to an heir, but the mother would not be your wife.

This is an oldy, but a goody, and was never truly answered.

I have been out of the loop lately, so has this one been answered by a dev? Or on one of the videos?

This is the end game of Chronicles