Titania (King)?

[AncientCrystal]

Why is Titania referred to as a "King"? Did I miss something? I think anyone on the Thrown is considered the King but not a Queen?

[Espritduo]

The Fae took the title from the former King of Voeburt when they moved in. They saw that the ruler of the mortals was called a King, so they took the name for their ruler as well, regardless of who or what their ruler happens to be at any given time.

[Elamys]

Titania is referred to as both king and queen, but mostly by king, I only remember seeing queen in the quest where you're given the dress. Given the exclusive usage of "they" (at least in the English client) by the pixies (& co) it appears they don't really care about using gendered terms. To them the leader of the fae people is the king.

[Enla]

Pixies are pretty much agendered from what I can tell and only use the terms King and Queen as it pleases them due to mortal influence. Plus they're basically the reborn spirits of children. Children don't care about proper word usage so much as what sounds better, and I imagine /King/ does when considered in conjunction with what Espiritduo stated.

[Iscah]

All of the Fae are genderless, as far as I could tell. Pixies and Nu Mou both use "singular they" pronouns.

[Daralii]

All of the Fae are genderless, as far as I could tell. Pixies and Nu Mou both use "singular they" pronouns.

Apart from Feo Ul, who uses gendered pronouns when referring to herself. I don't know if that's in any way related to her being derided as the "madblossom," or if it's just her temper.

[alacruxe]

All of the Fae are genderless, as far as I could tell. Pixies and Nu Mou both use "singular they" pronouns.

I did notice one Nu Mou NPC being referred to specifically as "he," but for the most part this seems to hold true. Given the fact that the fae don't reproduce the traditional way and given their lack of secondary sex characteristics, I think it's pretty fair to assume they don't have much of a concept of sex or gender.

I did see it mentioned earlier in the thread that we've historically referred to certain women as kings, which is a good point. The kings of Egypt are a great example.

[Dualblade]

I'm also pretty sure that King in certain cultures is considered gender neutral, though even for those its usually males who get the title anyways. So it isn't all that out of place.

[KingOfCheese]

There is also the fact that the title King in some cultures is genderless and refer to the leader of people, regardless of gender. We've had a few women in our history who were called king because of this. The Pixies, who don't seem to have gender as we understand it, would logically follow that type of custom.

[QT_Melon]

The term King is more gender neutral. This is the same thing that happened in Berserk's story their Fae King is actually a "Queen" Flowerstorm "King"