Are the Patrons all male?

spartaxoxo

SilverBride wrote: »

spartaxoxo wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

Tamriel is a fantasy world and that includes its card game. It is not a reflection of real life nor should it be expected to be.

The lore of Tamriel does not suit to patrons only being males either. It's an egalitarian society, that nobody could name a notable female when creating the cards makes zero sense from a lore perspective. That they are all males is a reflection of the real life creation of this game, in particular that people use to develop video games as a "boys" hobby, so earlier video games skewed heavily male.

The day that gaming was considered a boy's hobby is long gone, and I do not believe that the choices they made had anything to do with an outdated idea when choosing the Patrons.

I hadn't even noticed that they were all males, and once it was pointed out I didn't read anything into it. It is a card game in a fantasy game.

It's not that they still had that idea. It's that they were picking people from the first era lore. And that first era lore was very much written when that idea was prevalent. Because the patrons are reflection of old lore, they also reflect the way the lore was written at the time.

Aliyavana

Delmene Hlaalu shoulda been female. It would be so easy to retcon him as female.

merpins

Who cares? No one wanted the card game anyway.