Also, I'm not sure why the Roman Empire is being referenced; the elves are not from earth, so why would how names are used on earth matter? That's like saying a major character in Star Wars can't be named Luke because clearly they don't have the Bible on Tatooine. How silly.
I agree it would indeed be annoying, provided that you know it in the first place. For me, and I think I could speak for many players here, we do not see any issue here, because we do not even know they are male names, even though they might be ancient. Maybe dev could consider changing these names?
The thing is, you're still trying to equate fantasy with reality. The characters come from worlds far different to our own, different world, different origins of words.
You have a good point here. Nevertheless it is still a game designed for normal English speaking players to READ, and all these fantasy world is linked to reality to a degree. Calling a girl by a male name could indeed ruin the atmosphere, and unless there is specific reason, it should be avoided.
I would say probably it changes with time as well. What used to be a male name could now become unisex, given that it seems to be sometime since your high school?
I see where he is coming from however. I used to organize quite a few sports tournaments and started getting interested in the names of international participants. It made me stop playing football managers (soccer video games) later on because they had one nameset for African players and it just didn't feel right, all those Congolese with definitely West African names. Once you notice, you notice and it bothers you. Another example, since somebody named Finnish, is Captain Sisko of Deep Space 9 - while last names can be like that, "Captain Sister" sounds strange to anybody with Finnish knowledge.
*Sign it is probably something you just have to live with. So many names sound strange one you know what it actually means in the original language. We don't even need any fancy language, just Smith, Bush, Brown, Miller, White, Walker, Hall, King, Green, Baker, Hill, Cook, Cooper, Bell, Wood...
Fair enough, I don't speak Catalan, but I was looking for words spelled the same but with completely different meanings in other languages.
Translation is fan made. Dev might even not know much about Spanish at all.
I don't believe.
I trust you, I was curious so I make a little research and after finding this athlete I continued to look and the results of my researches showed that this name is more used nowadays ( I've seen the percentage vary from 45/55%) in it's male form instead of the female form, of course take this info with a grain of salt, salso sorry if my post sounded rude it wasn't my intentions to belittle what you were saying.
That's why I mentioned the name before. Here it is (Italian expats not withstanding) almost exclusively female, and in my experience that is true for the whole Germanic speaking world, including English (though my experience may be limited).I trust you, I was curious so I make a little research and after finding this athlete I continued to look and the results of my researches showed that this name is more used nowadays ( I've seen the percentage vary from 45/55%) in it's male form instead of the female form, of course take this info with a grain of salt, salso sorry if my post sounded rude it wasn't my intentions to belittle what you were saying.
Consider that as time change so the society uses and customs, just to give you an example here in Italy where I live we had a similar case with the name Andrea ( that's typically male), well a recent survey showed that in the last decade this name was used a lot for girls too ( like you I always I thought it was a common custom only in Anglo-Saxon countries where it is more common as a unisex name).
