This programming choice allows players to run homosexual PCs while simultaneously rendering the PCs sexual orientation inconsequential to gameplay. Bethesda scripted the marriage function to operate without regard to gender in other words, gay marriage is legal in Skyrim. Once a PC obtains the Amulet of Mara, he or she can marry one of several eligible NPCs of either gender. Gender becomes even more interesting when one examines the marriage feature in Skyrim. Skyrim boasts female jarls (Idgrod Ravencrone of Morthal, Laila Law-Giver of Riften, and Elisif the Fair of Solitude), bards, and housecarls (all "fixed" characters), and the randomly-generated (or "radiant") bandits, necromancers, and Forsworn have even chances of being either sex.
This gender equity extends to NPCs as well, both fixed and radiant. As far as the mechanics of the game are concerned, gender is a purely aesthetic distinction, affecting only a character's appearance (including male and female versions of every clothing and armor type). Male characters have no advantage in combat, and female characters have no advantage in cooking. A PC of either gender can play any kind of character type and can achieve the maximum level in any skill. In Skyrim, for example, gender has absolutely no impact on gameplay - no skill or ability advantages as there are for race. One of the grand ironies of fantasy RPGs (both tabletop and video) is that, despite their Iron/Middle Ages setting, the in-game roles available to female PCs and NPCs are sometimes more varied than they are in modern society. PLEASE NOTE: HERE BE SPOILERS! If you have visited this blog before, thanks and welcome back! These posts are of particular use to those readers less familiar with Skyrim (or video games in general). These posts include a short introduction to this project, a content-specific author bio, and a few other pieces that explain key concepts relevant to this study. If you have not visited this blog before, it might be helpful to read the posts labeled " Orientation," most of which are the first few entries in the blog archive (see right). Please note that the purpose of this blog is to discuss morality within the context of the game, not to determine whether playing the game is immoral in and of itself the latter type of "discussion" tends toward tedium and inhibits, rather than promotes, a meaningful conversation. Rather than a fansite, review, or walkthrough, it is a serious attempt to examine the game through a moral lens. Welcome! This blog is devoted to considerations of morality in the The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim by Bethesda.
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