Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26174543-20181006151501/@comment-26174543-20181006201344

as an adition, besides the fact that we don't treat other forest spirits as being genderless in our articles (and neither does mothy if lich and eater have anything to say about it), it was brought up in the first discussion page for the heavenly novel that we don't actually know if mothy is reffering to both sex and gender when he says that they're sexless.



because lets think about this for a second. if you had all of your memories erased and then woke up in an animal's body in the woods completely outside of human society you likely wouldn't identify as a specific gender because you haven't been confronted with the idea that you have to. it's a difference in social conventions.

elluka is not all knowing, levia isn't even all knowing. if she only knows that a bunch of talking animals in the woods don't have a strong opinion on gender then she assumes that they are genderless. there are frankly a lot of details about how the world works and the history of the creation of the earth in particular that levia has gotten wrong. and elluka specifically was raised in a country that peddeled propaganda specifically about the gods

there is no conclusive evidence that tells us that elluka's word on this is valid or that she even meant it in the way that it's being interpreted here in the first place