About This File
Hello! This is Christian religion for manly men with big mustaches and absolutely no respect for women. ?
The short of it is you can be Christian but have 7-12 concubines (or 3 wives), very good relations, and are encouraged to build tall, rather than a wide but shallow expanding blob.
It's a lovers lab mod because you can 'have sex' with any women in your realm, and should you have a sufficient heir, sacrifice your wife in a cumsecration orgy whereby all your vassals fuck her to death. Nice.
There's a quite few decisions I've made 'just coz', so that the religion feels different to play and impacts your gameplay, rather than just being window dressing. It's also slightly customizable in-game should you wish.
The deets.
1st up, it is a catholic heresy. But this can be changed (but only prior to a new game) in Religion Haremaic\common\religions open Haremaic religion.txt
and at the start of line 14 put a single # so it reads #parent = catholic . This will make the religion more like a orthodox - a valid christian branch, not a heresy.
So what does it do? This:
Those pics show exactly what it's doing but the ethos of it is your military tech is severely hampered. Your levies are much smaller (-30%). Global supply is nerfed (-20%) so you cant wage distant wars - as is recruitable ships (-35%). Oh also ALL castle related buildings cost 10% more to build.?
That's it, that's all the mod does, it fucking nerfs you and makes you thankful for it, bitch!
Nah I jest It is of course balanced-ish out by a series of options that should encourage unity and building. 1st up, you get +30 opinion with all others of the haremaic faith, and +10 with other christians. There's no short reign penalty and you earn piety while at peace. Nice right? Oh and you can fucking designate your heir. Makes succession a much less stressful period, and with 7-12 concubines, you know you can pick an excellent successor!
Whats that? That all that sounds great but doesn't address the negatives I raised prior? Quite right, and may I compliment you on your keen eye, and if I may say so, wonderfully pert buttocks. Well what you do get are big bonuses to your garrsions, defensive combat performance and retinue maintenance costs (they cost less coz they're your HAREM, get it!? ) plus levies replenish 15% faster!
What all this means is you're hard to invade, but nerfed as a conquering war machine, but with controlled successions, you have time and space to brreeeaaaathe and play a nice peaceful game, punctuated by fiery bursts of Holy war and enforcing righteous learning on the heathens. What really drives this home though is the tech. Military -100%, tech and economy, +200%. Wow! Drastic right? Yes but not as much as you might think.
In the above image you can see the mods 200% effect vs, the base values and (an imaginary) 30% value. Hopefully you can see it's a noticeable effect that steers you to build up, away from military domination, but doesn't result in broken progress (YMMV please give feedback).
Additionally your city and temple buildings are 10% cheaper (so 20% better value than castles), this steers you into a none home-levy based leader, but not 100% ruling it out. It's psychologically pretty effective when you see the gold costs in-front of you. Oh and +3 demesne size which is flat-out freakingly awesome. But just makes realm management more bearable. Everything else I feel is a balanced trade off but this is a flat-out bonus to weigh up against the fact this is a heresy, and operating flat-out as a heresy is rather difficult. This helps.
So I know what you're thinking, and yes it would be nice to know the warmth of a another human and truly experience a real connection for once, but please, concentrate on the mod, I put a lot of hours into it. So that said, why is this mod on lovers Lab not steam? Coz i'm a dirty perv and it motivates my decisions. ? Ahem, and that has resulted in:
The fact you can have 7 -12 concubines!
You can "use" any unmarried woman in your realm. Each time garnering more kudos. It is just a flavor decision -there's no erotic reward for you, just in-game benefits and roleplay.:
Also if your current wife has provided you a heir, there's a couple of creative ways to 'divorce' her that are decidedly not steam friendly.
Just makes it different to play. Suddenly your wife has a value beyond just making the babies. Other noticeable religion features:
Parent/child marriage = yes
Brother/sister marriage = no
No looting
Has crusades (old pre HF system, see this post for a simple edit to use the new system)
religious head can grant claims... if they exist.
Priests cant inherit or marry.
The haremaic religion starts with no religious head, but, if you achieve sufficient moral authority (40?) - AND claim the city of Brest (lol breast) you can choose a pope-like pimpus primeri as you vassal and religious head. The 1st one you anoint is fanatically loyal and will grant ALL the claims you ask for...
Additional holy sites have been chosen for geographic prominence to encourage conflict, in York, center of England, Florence in the center of Italy, Jerusalem, and and a city in Lesbos (byzantine empire). Good luck claiming them all!
Becoming haremaic is SUPER simple, just right click your county capital flag.
Openly Christian rulers can then just right click themselves to personally adopt secret faith to openly become haremaic.
I believe none christian (openly) rulers have to form the secret religion society from the intrigue menu, and then also from the intrigue menu, openly adopt secret faith.
Once you're openly Haremaic, clicking your capital county flag will allow you to customize the religion slightly via some decisions. Freely change between 7 or 12 concubines. Or switch to 3 wives but no concubines (once per ruler). And change doctrine to allow brother sister-marriage, or even female temple holdings. You can even make it a 1 wife only religion! But that cost much piety.
I say piety, I mean Ardour, which is what Haremaics calls piety. If you don't like it. Just rename it in line 3 of the localiztion, in line 1 you can even rename the religion completely! All other references in game SHOULD notice this edit, and update to the new names with no issues 
Speaking of editing, this mod changes the interface colors slightly - I like it, I feel it adds to the playing a different experience vibe, but if you dont, just delete or edit lines 10 and 11 in the Haremaic Religion.txt within the common folder.
And just because I haven't mentioned it yet, other rulers can become haremaic and get that haremaic privilege (victims CAN get pregnant) going on, but only the player can appoint "the haremaic pope".
That's it, hope you like it. I aim to please and address bugs and any minor glitches swiftly, please feel encouraged to post.
Tech specs - Probs needs a new game.
Tested briefly with Luxuria Fantasia and DW:R and functions fine with both or individually
