Thread: (5.2 spoilers) The Defector

Originally Posted by MikkoAkure

Hythlodaeus uses your characters pronouns when he talks about the person during his time who shared your soul.

Hythlodaeus: Hm hm hm... Your connection is hardly a coincidence. In our time, the two of you were one─the color of your souls tells the tale.
Hythlodaeus: A hue that distinctive cannot be mistaken, no matter how thin the soul is spread.
Hythlodaeus: Hah! This is just the kind of fate I might expect for one such as she. Surely Emet-Selch has recognized the hint of “her” in you...?

Also I believe they called Venat "she" or "her" after the CS if you talk to the NPCs but it's too late to check back on that. I thought there must've been something there because I had forgotten that Venat was female until that quest.

Back on topic, I'm thinking now that the reason for us being the defector may be to make us sort of an anti-ascian who will be as powerful but not necessarily on any one side. We've already shown shades of this throughout the game as we've put down ascians one-by-one and even Thordan is scared of what we are.

While I am a proponent of the Warrior being the Fourteenth, that quote in particular does not specify us as the 'Fourteenth', simply as an old friend of Hythlodaeus and Hades. I too, like Vulcwen, heard rumours that the French version is more explicit in using gendered pronouns to refer to the Fourteenth them self, that change depending on the player character, but again, have not seen any concrete proof.

Also, in regards to Venat, the Scions do not refer to them in any gendered way in English. Again, maybe other languages are more explicit, but no proof atm.