Galka Asexual

[Fudd]

The other day while playing with my Hume Male Whm, I noticed when I blocked with a shield that the message said "Fudd blocks the Amber Quadavs attack with HIS shield". For some reason the "his" triggered a part of my brain that said "Hey wait a second, Galka are Asexual, neither male nor female" (widely considered male though), so what does it say when they block an attack with their shield. Does it say "his" like I'd think, if so then it is incorrect in doing so, it should say "it's" or "their" shield or something. Mithra will say "her" because they are female though (males are breedstock lol).

[Yuanlung]

according to the manual, Galkas, while having no gender, are generally concidered as male. (guess the people of vana'diel are having problem concidering a big berly mass with thick beared female).

so for those who have to concider everything with a gender (I just don't get the French), the Galkas are male.

also, the lack of a non-gender specific third person pronoun is a defect of the English language, not a problem with the programming.

[GeneralNobunaga]

guess the people of vana'diel are having problem concidering a big berly mass with thick beared female).



they did it in lord of the rings with dwarves

[Fudd]

Dwarves

Dwarves in LOTR had a female gender though, they just looked like the men. Galka, on the other hand are Asexual... neither male nor female, although I don't remember how they reproduce (read it somewhere... maybe in the manual?).

[Kousai]

reincarnation

[Frumply]

I think the biggest gripe in this situation is the fact that galkas, while being asexual, cannot wear wedding dresses. Sure, asexual would be "neither male or female," but damn, that choice must have put many galks to tears!

They'll get into real trouble if they ever implement tuxedoes and allow galks to wear them; that would imply that S-E thinks of galks as more hermaphodites than asexual, and will have to allow galks to wear both tuxes and wedding dresses.

...oh god, the horror.

[Hellfire]

I think someone put too much thought into this ><
Seriously.. lol

[poweryoga]

ok, if galkas are asexual and can't reproduce but only reincarnate...

why are there so many galkas?!?!?! Where did the others beside the first one came from?

did they just spawn out of the ground or develop immortality one day?...

[Voyager]

For general refference, the entire "bearded female dwarves" was a joke, referencing various things going on during production, and the longstanding bearded female drawf debate popular with RPing circles. Tolkien never made any comment, one way, or another indicating whether female dwarves had, or had not beards.

The reason that joke made it into the movie was because with the Riders of Rohan, they had to get skilled horsemen who owned their own horses, and it turns out that New Zeland had a rather large population of women's riding clubs, so most of the Riders of Rohan ended up being women in beards. And just to add a final twist to it, the actor who played Aragon was dating one of them during the filming, a nice strawberry blond too, with a strawberry beard.

Anyways, back to the original subject, "their" is currently only a plural pronoun, though it does seem to be evolving into a signular, gender indeterminant, pronoun as well. "It" is the only genderless singular pronoun currently avaliable in the English language. Many languages do not have any pronouns for ungendered items. I know in Russian everything has a gender associated with it, for pronoun purposes, even inanimate objects. I have no knowledge of Japanese pronouns, so I have no clue if it is similar in that language.

And on the next note, I find the thought of a Galkan in the wedding dress somewhat horriying. Even a tuxedo would be rather intimidating on a Galkan; in mage armour we already look like mob hitmen. All we'd need to do is play Ranger with guns to complete the picture.

Harry Voyager

[Griddlecake]

Well, there is no real expansion in numbers, that's why they're so few of them

[poweryoga]

but you don't get the point....

they can't reproduce in the FIRST PLACE.

Why is there more than one????

it makes my head hurt...

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[Voyager]

Because one day some sentient jewl woke up and said to itself, "Hey, I'm going to sit out fifteen thousand Galka."

Harry Voyager

[Bajan2]

According to the story line Altana wept 5 tears, one for each race. One was the spiritual race of Galka that lived in the Altepa regions. But one day the beastmen invaded and slaughtered them all, allowing only a handful to escape through korroloka tunnel.

Who knows how big the original galka race was, but at one point all of altepa was theirs.

[Quezi]

Im still not entierly convinced galka even exist!

I mean, yeah i have seen the screen shots, and iv even had a few 'close encounters', but never is there any evidence left behind. In all cases that i have encounterd a would be galka the scientific part of me was able to wright these 'galka' off as perfectly natural phenomina rangeing from swamp gass to freak magnetic disterbances.

What we need is a body. A real dead galka that we can study and disect, before that happens, im just not gona belive that these 'galka' are anything but local superstition.

[Mal]

If Galka are "considered" male, and you accept that already, why is there a problem with terms like "HIS shield?" That would be considering the Galka a male, wouldn't it?

Quit griping.