I realized the gender thing was an issue around... level 20, when Master Lord Adepts kept referring to me as a female. But I liked the character and was having fun, thus dooming myself to thousands of hours of correcting people.

I've also been vary wary of changing personae, because I think it's useful from a CF history perspective if major forces exist in a recognizable form across as many ages/eras/whatever as possible. It helps players pick up on the more subtle aspects of each character as well- when someone like Shokai or Scarabaeus shows up, you probably have a very good feel for the particulars of their character if you've been playing here a long time.

Fortunately, in my current guise as a disembodied voice/possessing spirit/angry pile of dust/etc. the gender thing comes up less.

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