Female Temporal Raider?

[Grand Paladin]

Hi all, I wanted to know if anybody is aware of any mention in published material, of an exams of a female Temporal Raider?

[eliakon]

Hi all, I wanted to know if anybody is aware of any mention in published material, of an exams of a female Temporal Raider?

Since Temporal Raiders are "Alien Energy Beings" I am not convinced that they have specific genders....... They may simply pick a gender for convenience in conversation with lesser beings (which may or may not change)

[Grand Paladin]

eliakon, that is how I view these creatures as well.
I was just curious (and my memory on this is foggy) to see if there was any examples of a written Temporal Raider that identified with a more feminine persona.

[Nekira Sudacne]

eliakon, that is how I view these creatures as well.
I was just curious (and my memory on this is foggy) to see if there was any examples of a written Temporal Raider that identified with a more feminine persona.

I don't think there are, no. they are genderless as far as i've ever seen.

[Shark_Force]

on the other hand, i can't really think of a lot of temporal raider NPCs at all, male or female, so it's entirely possible to just be an absence of information.

[drewkitty ~..~]

Hi all, I wanted to know if anybody is aware of any mention in published material, of an exams of a female Temporal Raider?

Since Temporal Raiders are "Alien Energy Beings" I am not convinced that they have specific genders....... They may simply pick a gender for convenience in conversation with lesser beings (which may or may not change)

Are you sure? what is depicted might be a female Tem. Raider...and you'd need to ask for a male one.

Thou, Eli might be right in that they might not have genders.

[say652]

Keep the horror factor and add to pb.
Be even more terrifying if female raiders looked human.

[Tinker Dragoon]

Since Palladium stat blocks frequently fail to list a character's sex, one must often rely on inference and illustrations to make a determination. I only know of five published Temporal Raider NPCs:

Malkhom, SA1 pp. 129-130: Repeatedly referred to by masculine pronouns; presumably male.

Lagouda the Hideous, SoT3, pp. 51-53: Repeatedly referred to by masculine pronouns, but occasionally as "the creature"; presumably male.

Shell ("Lord Hades"), CB2, pp. 110-112: Repeatedly referred to by both masculine and neutral pronouns; illustration looks masculine, but who knows?

Ki El, DB1, p. 38: Barely any information is provided for this character, only a name, R.C.C., level, and alignment.

Karadoun the Penitent, DB5, p. 94: Referred to by masculine pronouns, but otherwise little information to go on.

[Tor]

Let's nominate Ki El to be our Token female Temporal Demon.

[Shark_Force]

it is worth noting that in english, for the past several centuries afaict, "he" is basically the default for a human being of unspecified gender as well as being masculine. in much the same way as the area the CS controls is sometimes referred to as "the domain of man" and yet contains many women, the writers may not have intended to be specifying the temporal raiders as being specifically male, but rather "he" would be the proper pronoun to use for something you consider to be a person of unspecified gender, while "it" would be considered quite rude and basically would imply you're defining the noun it refers to as a non-person.

[Tor]

Yet Palladium has used 'it' and engaged in such rudeness, so I think the gender pronoun informs us at least of the being's assumed gender, whether it is what others assume their gender is, or if it is the gender they present themself or describe themself as.