Pronouns???

[Alaray]

Going to be a bit blunt.. and perhaps a bit rude here. This is a fantasy game with rules set for how and what things are. With a request like this all I want to know is the following: How does this work by the rules of this setting? All the playable races are from everything we have seen of a binary nature, male and female. Thus what you request on behalf of your friend is not necessary, nor would it fit in.

Look, I get that it is of a 'personal preference' nature based entirely on IRL. But sometimes you have to recognize and accept that the setting of a game is not meant to take into account and accommodatie real life. Do you know why skin color is never brought up as an issue in this game's setting? Because it isn't one. That generic darker skinned Viera NPC is not treated any differently than the other Viera NPC with lighter skin. Even the discrimination that is there, for example towards Ala Mhigans, has nothing to do with skin color and everything with them being 'filthy refugees', has everything to do with reasons rooted in the narrative, not real life.

Ultimately my view is this: You play a character in this setting, of a race and gender that abides by the rules of the setting. Disconnect from the character. Acknowledge that the character is not you and is not meant to represent who you are in real life. It is most definitely what I'd advise your friend to try to do. Now, in player interaction, that's an entirely different matter, you can request friends/acquaintances and if you wish attempt to ask even strangers to respect preferred pronouns. Obviously in interactions with other people it does matter more.

Despite that the viewpoint is flawed as the world is based upon our own as a referential point so that the end user can relate to it, the world does have nonbinary characters -- namely, the pixies.

I'm more in the technical limitations being the largest hurdle camp, but this point doesn't ultimately matter especially when the canon of the world itself doesn't actually neatly fit the experience (ie: male miqo'te are supposed to be a very rare sight, particularly keepers, yet they're all over the place etc...).