: Wha? Myrmidons female? Why? Because of their vanity? Wha?
: Wha?... ::mind quiets down: Narcissus is the epitome
: of vanity, and he was a he. Generally, I'm not
: following your sexing of any of the above Myth races.
: Please explain your thinking for each.
Well, for all of them in general: GURPS says that the world of Myth is "equal opportunity" and that unless explicitly stated otherwise (as with the Forest Giants), we should assume that gender is irrelevant to the racial descriptions. As for individual races: well, Ghôls are bands of raiders and scavengers with virtually no family life--according to GURPS, child mortality is high and a mother on the move will sometimes just forget about her baby--so it seems unlikely that half the race sits around sewing while the other half goes out and kills people, especially when we've seen them at home (in a Long-Awaited Party.) Ditto for the Krids. The Mauls, actually, might leave their womenfolk at home--they're apparently devoted parents--but it could just as easily be the women who are fighting and the men who stay at home. We don't know much about sexual dimorphism there.
And for the undead--I can't really see the former gender of a person mattering much once they've been reduced to something as inhuman as a Soulless or a Mahir. Plus Mahir are created involuntarily, so there's no reason for there to be any gender bias as there might be with other undead (because they might tend to get created from fallen soldiers, who would be male more often than not.)
Myrmidons were once an entire tribe of Zerks, and it's likely that the Northerner women are competent soldiers (evidence: the female Zerks which were taken out mainly for aesthetic reasons, and the ability of the Zerk "homeguard" to hold off the Dark hordes during the Great War even while lots of the menfolk were off fighting for the Nine). And even if they weren't, I can't see the men of the tribe all accepting Balor's offer of immortality without wanting the women to get in on the deal, unless Myrmidon marital relations were really really bad. :-) Any member of the tribe who could hold a sword probably got a piece of the horrifying living death pie.
--SiliconDream
