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🏳️‍⚧️Trans Pride: How is the idea of gender/queer identities treated in your world? What was your character's experience like?

🌈Rainbow: Has your character ever been to a Pride event?  What was it like for them?  If they’ve never been, what would it be like?  

Thanks so much!

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I’m going to use the first question to explain the wizards and gender identity, it’s been in the back of my mind for a while but I haven’t fully explained it (it probably also could use some work but anyways)

So, wizards are their own species. Characterized by circles on their fingers that glow when they perform magic, and the ability to be in touch with magic and control it in the first place. The main difference between them and animals with magic is that they’re sentient and resemble humans.

Wizards dont have multiple genders, they rather have one gender that encompasses everything about male and female. They probably have their own word and pronouns for it but I haven’t developed the wizard language yet…

Now, this does not mean there’s no discrimination. As example, Alphairs dad is more well known then his mother. That is because of humans. You see one of the more recent gen of wizards (one or two behind Alphair. Their gens are fairly small) started integrating themselves with wizards, and so putting their own gendered terms onto them. Some wizards accepted this and embraced it.

There’s still a lot to figure out, but the gist is their gender is pretty special to them and can’t be fit into traditional two gender roles.

As for the humans…Westwend is a little different. They more closely align with traditional gender roles. Except not with jobs, those are separated using a whole different system. But as for man and woman, they adhere by that. And can be pretty transphobic😟, which is why Miss Marmel left.

I don’t think Norah thinks too much of it. It’s more about who happens to get into power. Like for Rufus, it’s not that he’s a boy that gives him power, it’s that his parents run the place and that he is physically strong because he trains, that’s more how he sees it.

For specifically sexuality that can get tricky. I don’t think it’s talked about all that much, at least with the humans. Cause they wanna have babies and all that. Antonio is pretty homophobic lol (including internally :)

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Now this is fantasy so there’s no pride events but…if they did it would be Alphair dragging them to it (I mean he already does when I draw them for every pride month.) I think they would have a very good time, but it would have to be after Rufus starts accepting his own identity. I think it’d be very cathartic and healing for Marmel too, she’s been through a lot. Perhaps her and Daress would host their own parties post book three.

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"Is there any decision that the Warden regrets? If so, which is it and why? How would they change it?"

Oh thanks for the question! 😍

Just one regret she is not going to tell anyone: Killing her friend Leske. He forced her hand, she tried to give him an out and he didn't take it. Brosca knows she'd do it again, doesn't make it not hurt though. The Sacred Ashes temple helped more than she'd ever admit to calm the guilt.