Look out Kodex, she has a penis!
What a twist. The whole game we're led to believe Taash is FtM, when it's actually MtFtM.
So it's a man who pretends to be a woman who pretends to be a man.
It's heteronormativity with extra steps.
Wasn't it with Moorcock that the moral revisionism of fantasy began? The first novel, a fix-up of short stories from the 1960s, had themes of incest, sadomasochism, cuckoldry, homosexuality, transvestism, transsexualism and hermaphrodism. Plus a lot of nihilism. And yet Elric, Jerry's multiverse variant, is the basis of both the beloved Codex The Wither and Warhammer...
I think we can safely admit that today's state of fantasy is just another step in the great march away from Tolkien and Howard.
Even Moorcock has more nuance than any of this slop though.
I was just wondering out loud, but I guess some people took my post a little too literally.
The problem is - whether we can really talk about the inevitability of degeneration when we move away from stable moral patterns (Tolkien is an obvious case, but Conan is a character with a strong moral backbone, even if non-Christian). This is a broader issue, isn't it? If straying from orthodoxy is the path to degeneration, it would mean we could never afford to take liberties. We would always have to stick to the basics so as not to wake up one day in a world of chaos. If this is true, human life would be a terrible endeavor.
I was thinking about this because personally I have always preferred Moorcock, even if realizing the imperfections of his writing. Therefore, the question about Moorcock is a question about myself as a recipient - whether, through my liking, I contributed, along with him, to the state we have today.
Let's start from " Make Blight a Thing Again!"
There, done.
This was a proper way for Dragon Age - edgy, bloody, gore.