The culture doesn’t really have social genders, so using gendered pronouns would be weird.
I was very worried about the gender-neutral language, when I first uploaded the demo, but the feedback I got was that it was fine… 
@poison_mara Yeah, but I’m an indecisive idiot. 
I’m fully aware that the game prologue will be strange for most people, and I want to make it as comfortable as I can. Considering that both @Caspiera, who I asked a while ago, and the people who chose an option in the poll, all pointed to ve/ver/vis, which I had expected to be the least favored, I really think that was a good idea. 
And it’s not like I’m forcing people to help me choose, if they don’t want to.
EDIT: I specifically didn’t want to reopen the WIP thread for this, but considering that it’s old, and most people probably haven’t read it:
https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/set-in-stone-wip-updated-05-mar-2018-new-description/35980/1