diff --git a/docs/topics/db/multi-db.txt b/docs/topics/db/multi-db.txt
index 394d25cfd9a..f857d290109 100644
--- a/docs/topics/db/multi-db.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/db/multi-db.txt
@@ -163,6 +163,9 @@ A database Router is a class that provides up to four methods:
     used by foreign key and many to many operations to determine if a
     relation should be allowed between two objects.
 
+    If no router has an opinion (i.e. all routers return ``None``), only
+    relations within the same database are allowed.
+
 .. method:: allow_migrate(db, app_label, model_name=None, **hints)
 
     Determine if the migration operation is allowed to run on the database with