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    It's "König" in german which is clearly the male word for a ruler

    Male: "König" - "King"
    Female: "Königin" - "Queen"

    I first thought this to be a fault by the ger. localisation team, which bugged me, cause "Every child knows that Titania is the Queen of Faires and Oberon is the King!"

    But hearing it's the same in other languages and then with the explanation it just bugged me even more. The Pixies are genderless and named the title after the King of Voeburt? This is just so unreasonable. Why did the devs come up with this, just to change it from Queen to King? The Pixies also could've named it after the Queen of Voelburt.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kreyd View Post
    But hearing it's the same in other languages and then with the explanation it just bugged me even more. The Pixies are genderless and named the title after the King of Voeburt? This is just so unreasonable. Why did the devs come up with this, just to change it from Queen to King? The Pixies also could've named it after the Queen of Voelburt.
    Like Espiritduo said, the leader of Voeburt had been a king before they took the place over, so they just adopted that title. If you didn't know the nuances of a language, or really understand the culture that it belongs to, I don't think it's that unreasonable to assume that King would be a genderless title. We don't know if Voeburt had a queen at the time, we just know there was one in the past (from the sidequest where you're helping the pixie that wants to be popular).

    Also, yes, we know Titania is the Queen and Oberon is the King, but there's also the fact that Titania is a title as well, not a name, so I suspect even if the fae folk did have genders in this game, and we got a male ruler, they'd still be called Titania, not Oberon.
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    Last edited by Elamys; 07-11-2019 at 02:38 AM.

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