Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20130913170916/@comment-6192846-20131112212741

Singular they is vernacular; traditionally it's assume "he" when gender is unknown. Arguments about that archaism is a separate issue. I personally think we can avoid using pronouns all-together with the child/infant/baby/newborn/babe. Plenty of synonyms to keep us from just recycling the same nouns over and over again imo.

And yeah, Sloth covers it. There was a confusion on Sohni's gender due to a belief there was a connection to Sonika. Later material explicitly used "he" and Cloture didn't mention Sohni among the powerful women of the era.If Juno's name is derived originally from the month, not the goddess herself, then Emperor works. Even then, there's nothing stopping mothy from using an ancient extinct feminine name of a deity for a male character. I'm leaning on Juno being a guy right now, if its a choice between two devils.

Also, I checked over with some others about Meguru borrowing the sword. One of the difficult to translate areas is clearly reiterating what this newer source is saying: Meguru starts to try eating the mansion's dead after the famine. This resulted in her trying to prepare the bodies for cooking by borrowing her husband's sword. They struggled and Muzuri killed her.