Knights of Evallon (WIP) [Updated 27 Jan 2024, 59k words]

Pronoun mismatch- “Their wings of light spread afar, armors gleaming with the brilliance of a million exploding suns, they rain fire on your forces, and the humans break into cheers.”

According to the rest of the page and your own RO cheat sheet, the angel is male, so that should be “His wings.”

And you know, the interrogation scene is weird.

The interrogate being all “I’m sorry for your loss” and then turning their attitude around 180 degrees when I play good cop to “What kind of fool do you think I am?” kind of gives me whiplash.

So either the interrogate is trying to play us so we don’t hurt them, in which case our responding with good cop is exactly what they were hoping for.

Or the interrogate is making a sincere overture in which case wouldn’t the MC responding with good cop be seen as responding in kind?

Heck, my MC “playing good cop” is in fact being sincere. Libra is the guilty party, Capricorn and Taurus were just kind of there.

So when my MC says he doesn’t blame the interrogate he absolutely means it.

“Oh what fun?” Sarcasm drips from your mouth." That is not actually a question, so that should be a period not a question mark.

They and their can be used for male.

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They is for people who chose that pronoun, groups, or for indeterminate singular individuals.

None of those are applicable here.

And it would still be a mistake, since his pronouns are he, his and, him on that very same page, which I already mentioned.

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Grammatically, ‘they’ can be used whenever gender isn’t important to the sentence itself, use of other pronouns on the same page doesn’t matter.

So no, it’s not an improper use of it.

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Id be down to help. I really enjoy this so far

But the gender is important. Gender is an important part of people’s identities. Just because we haven’t met him yet doesn’t change that. If you know someone’s a man, you should use said pronouns. If you don’t know, all you know is that there’s an “angel,” then you can definitely use they. And I don’t know what English class you took, but mine always had us use the person’s pronouns, even if it didn’t matter in context

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@stsword @Dragomer @Anna_B

Seeing the conversation you were having i did another quick replay up to that point and the usage in that scene is correct " their " is defining the Host of angels not just the leader of the angels.

Thats the quick short of it hope that helps clear the confusion :grinning: equally hope this finds everyone doing well.

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The knights are starting to look evil in update especially when our friend is held hostage despite them advantage. They better watch their backs

Eh, the author seems to be going for “dogmatism instead of empathy leads to atrocities” angle here.

They think we’re the bad guys, so their actions are justified.

We think they’re the bad guys, so we think our actions are justified.

And unless the Dark Lord we used to be was just a whiner, the same hold true back then- The “heroes” designated us acceptable targets.

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Thanks, Valix

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Hi, I actually really liked the original version. Also, is there any way to save Kairi?

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No there is no way. this is sad fact.

But we will be able to resurrect her though

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Alright, I’ll take it. Thanks.

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They can absolutely be used to refer to a singular individual even if the reader knows their gender. They/them/their/theirs are epicene terms, meaning they are gender-neutral. So, you can apply them to anyone and it’s fine as you can’t unintentionally misgender them, because again the terms do not imply a gender. Whereas terms like he/him/his or she/her/hers are masculine or feminine respectively, so you can’t use those terms to apply to someone who is not a man, women, or otherwise wants to be referred to by said terms. So, it is fine to refer to a man as them rather than him but referring to someone who specifically goes by epicene terms as he or she would be a problem because you are implying they are a gender they don’t identify as.

The update will be out in a few days. Proofreading 30,000 words is no joke. :sweat_smile:

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The guy on top is waiting and I am waiting too

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Ouch. Good luck lol

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Thanks!

And to everyone. Thanks for the update. The update is due soon.

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Not had a chance to play the demo yet, so sorry if this question makes no sense within context of what’s known.

If going the Dark Lord path, how evil do you have to be? Can you be a well intentioned Dark Lord? Again, sorry if this is a stupid question.