Talk:Dark Sun Gwyndolin/@comment-1975828-20160913063500/@comment-24460960-20160923153151

Um no it doesn't. It says Gwyn recognised his affinity for the moon during infancy and decided to raise him as a girl. No references to any sort of "magical moon estrogen" was mentioned. So by your logic, why did Gwyndolin ever start as a male in the first place if he was just going to automatically change?

A well known mythology is Egyptian and hey have a male moon god called Khonsu. No feminity about him. Just because "most well known cultures" often have female moon goddesses, doesn't mean the moon is inherently feminine. There are many lesser known religions that have both male and female moon gods, sometimes even in the same religion. For example we have Tecciztecatl from Aztec mythology, Alignak from Inuit mythology, Abaangui from Guarani mythology. There are many many more male lunar dieties and none of them were born male and were somehow magically changed into females later on by the very thing they embodied.

The thing I find confusing is that you say the magic of moonlight and not the moon itself, affects Gwyndolin. I'm not entirely sure how that works as moonlight is indirectly sunlight which, by your logic, is male magic. Also if Gwynevere inherited the sunlight from her father, would she not start changing into a male? Since you say that each child of Gwyn inherited these things, does that mean Gwyn once embodied moonlight himself and if so, why does he not have a feminine appearance?

Gwyndolin was a male who's bigoted father decided he should be raised as a girl for no reason.