Is it possible that Mengoor might be female but just sterile? The Hive castes are all biologically female except for Knights but there's Xivu Arath who became a Knight but retained her gender, and of all the castes only Wizards are fertile. The Grimoire card for Mengoor and Cra'adug speaks of "sterile Mengoor" and "dyad-bound", and the Books of Sorrow speak of the two as "dyad Knights". What do you think? --Dante the Ghost (talk) 16:26, 4 November 2016 (EDT)
- Dyad - Two individuals or units regarded as a pair, such as a mother and a daughter / A divalent atom or radical / One pair of homologous chromosomes resulting from the division of a tetrad during meiosis. If the Grimoire states that Mengoor is sterile, then there is no doubt in my mind that it is indeed a girl. Usually there is no relevance in male sterility. --Arcmind (talk) 17:11, 4 November 2016 (EDT)
- Good point. --Dante the Ghost (talk) 17:22, 4 November 2016 (EDT)
I’d like to re-open the subject of Mengoor being female. I’ve checked the definition of “sterile” on several online dictionaries, and most of them have example sentences referring to men, when gender is included (MacMillan, Cambridge, Google, and Wiktionary). In addition, I can’t find any reference to “sterile” as a word being used primarily in reference to female animals. Observance (talk) 18:17, February 17, 2022 (EST)