User talk:HopHoppip

Disruptive Edits
Your edits to Deep Sashelas were good, but I have temporarily blocked you, because your edits to Corellon have been disruptive and are violations of our policies here.

Our policy is to treat biological sex and gender as distinct on this wiki and to avoid anachronistic/modern terms, especially if they never appear in the sourcebooks or the lore. Undoubtedly, Corellon has been able to change his sex&mdash;so can most gods anyhow&mdash;since 1e, but that is his apparent biological sex. It refers to a physical form, not how he relates to others grammatically or socially. Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes makes it clear that he chooses the masculine gender to relate with the elves.

And even if he were gender non-binary&mdash;and some characters in the Realms certainly are&mdash;we do not use anachronistic terms. We only permit three genders on this wiki: masculine, feminine, and unspecified.

Our wiki is also edition-neutral. We do not favor any edition over another unless there is a direct conflict, and then we actually prioritize Realms sourcebooks over general D&D ones and newer ones over older ones. Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes is a newer source than 5e Dungeon Master's Guide, so its treatment of Corellon is considered both more current and more relevant than the DMG.

Lastly, the proper place to state your opinion about such an issue would be the page's Talk page, before making sweeping edits.

I recognize that gender identity is a sensitive and important issue in our modern world, but we are a wiki about the lore of a fictional multiverse, and we have policies to remain true to that lore as written as best we can. As a DM, of course, anyone is able to make Corellon as genderfluid as they wish, but having checked this issue countless times among multiple long-time editors, we are convinced that the lore is that Corellon is a masculine but form- and sex-changing deity; the sources never use the modern term "genderfluid" and neither will we.

~ Lhynard (talk) 21:06, 15 May 2021 (UTC)