#:gender

[unearthlysaga]

so i did a tiny bit of research and a Lot more thinking and i came up with some Ideas about gender in nalduway beyond "it's not a binary"

obvs this will vary by culture but

what i'll probably wind up refering to something along the lines of "wifekind" or "motherkind" being those who marry and bear children [which would probably be roughly equivalent to cis het/bi women who want kids]

what i'll probably wind up calling "fatherkind" or something, being those who marry and father children [roughly equivalent to cis het/bi men who want kids]

people who don't get married - because they can't, or don't want to, or whatever. probably divided into "would be ~motherkind~ if anything" and "would be ~fatherkind~" and maybe a third group for ppl for whom it's unclear/they don't care/are fluid between roles [roughly equivalent to asexual ppl, gay ppl, binary trans people, and probably some nonbinary people]

and ppl who reject things on a more radical level altogether probably [roughly anyone whose identity is too complex or indeterminate to fit into the above categories]

like all nalduway cultures will probably not recognize all these roles and probably not all in the same way but its a Start i guess

[unearthlysaga]

So as i was going to bed last night i had a thought about gender in nalduway

and how b/c of magic and all it's based off of, like, the frequency of the energy of your soul or something, so it's basically like a metaphysical form of color

and transcendentals, being transcendentals, can see this, of course

and maybe there are thought to be three "basic" genders just like there are three primary colors - and maybe a lot of cultures mistakenly consider these to be the only genders when in fact it's really a spectrum, and people's genders can be all different shades and can even change

so trying to describe someone's gender in that system would be a little like someone trying to describe colors in a language that only has words for red, blue, and yellow. i may have to have one of my Transcendental characters use that exact metaphor actually.