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    Koori Graywolf
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    Fray's gender could be clearer

    This is my first post in the forum so I don't know if the lore section can be considered spoilery by default, but just in case, this post contains spoilers for the Dark Knight job quests.

    I did the Dark Knight quest on a female character, and I remember just automatically assuming that Fray was male. I thought that was just me being biased as a guy or just how people in general tend to assume male gender by default when ambiguous (for example with animals). I think somewhere in the middle of the questline, and by looking at other players on YouTube, I realized that Fray was supposed to be the same gender as your character.

    Now, when trying New Game+ on the Dark Knight quests, I noticed something: The New Game+ description stated Fray's gender as "she", which was consistent with my newer understanding. But when talking to the Ishgardian Citizen in the quests "A Dark Spectacle" and "Our End", he describes the fallen dark knight as a "he". For me and possibly for other people, I think this reinforced Fray as male when we get the soul gem, regardless of our character's gender.

    I think it would be more consistent to refer to Fray as the player's gender already on "A Dark Spectacle" and "Our End". Of course I do understand that the Fray that was slain and the Fray mentoring us aren't the same person, and the one that was slain could be consistently male across the board, but I feel it would make more sense from a player's perspective to make the slain Fray the player's gender as well. That way it would be more clear that Fray is our gender when they're mentoring us, and help it better connect to the end of the 30-50 Dark Knight job quests.
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    Last edited by KooriGraywolf; 02-15-2024 at 11:23 PM.