Sirin muddies the water a lot. First it's a 'she', then she switches to saying 'him' and 'his', and then refuses to elaborate.Nammu Archag wrote: ↑ February 28th, 2024, 20:14Kyros is normally referred to as "Kyros" or "The Overlord". The game doesn't even use pronouns when describing him, only his titles, at least for the first few hours as that is what I just skimmed through. No pronouns =/= nonbinary. Maybe you are mistaking what a wiki says for what the actual game says? And to play the devil's advocate, even if he was a woman, why would it matter? He rules in large part due to his absurd magical ability, not strength or heritage or anything based on physical biology. Female queens and Empresses were not unheard of in antiquity and medieval times either, especially if they hypothetically had world-ending magic at their disposal. You are retroactively applying modern gender politics to something and so come to the same conclusions troons do about past works.Lord of Riva wrote: ↑ February 28th, 2024, 19:47He? Kyros is normally referred to as "they", I am also not the only one with the impression, including with Tunon.Nammu Archag wrote: ↑ February 28th, 2024, 19:26You are definitely exaggerating. 3 or so instances of which most are with rebels insulting your position doesn't equate to nearly all. Kyros is not the abstraction of evil whatsoever, and I never claimed as such. He is in a morally grey area. Does he do evil stuff like raze cities or tolerate the Chorus? Yes, but he also greatly improves the QoL of his subjects, builds infrastructure, guarantees housing and food to citizens, etc.
He isn't any more evil than the people he subjugates. The point that the player doesn't even fully know whether he is male or female has nothing to do with Kyros being non-binary. At the worst, he "may" be a sorceress. But again, most evidence points to him being a man, and none to him being non-binary or queer. This is such a stupid thing to claim in the first place
I'm not sure what you tell you, I think your assessment is wrong. Possibly biased, by not wanting to see or wanting to normalize this ambiguity where it was never needed a few years before Tyranny.
The fact that a character cannot be ambiguous without you automatically thinking of faggots points to liberal brainrot. As Rusty stated the game does have woke elements, especially in its DLC, but Kyros is hardly one of them.
It's the usual bullshit. They could have picked one and stuck with it. There was zero added to the game with these elaborate word games. If you're going to write a character like that, at least have the balls to do what Enderal did - making (most likely) him into something that is truly warped. Actually Nerat probably would have been a good candidate for that sort of role given that he was flaying his own family to prove loyalty to Kyros etc. Analogous to 'The Father' in Enderal.