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EDIT: As a counterpoint, though, one of the societies most infamous for its misogyny, Ancient Greece, had a female war goddess who seems to have been very respected. Exceptions are used to prove the rule in societies like that.

I was about to draft my response only to find you answered it perfectly. Iomedae is seen as an exemplar of strength, righteousness and infinite courage - the values the (male) paladins of Iomedae hold in high regard. She is beyond gender considerations and her clergy focuses on her current divinity rather than her path of ascension.

I've written up that the Glorious Reclamation is made up entirely of male paladins and a mixed gender congregation in the clergy. I haven't yet decided if I want to set that as immutable, my PC's haven't reached Kintargo yet.

I know this thread is a few weeks old but I'm throwing my hat in the ring for Foundry as well. Some of the learning curve is insane (try figuring out the A/V setup without a guide!) but once configured you can do just about anything you can dream of.

I managed to convince my very pro-D&D group to switch over to PF2e by enticing them with Foundry (they used to run Roll20). We've been running Age of Ashes for a while, the importing module works really well.

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[...]there are no Mistress of Blades in any order, only Masters.

You got rid of Maidrayne Vox? I don't buy that a Centaur woman is any weaker than a human man.

Yep, he's Madeus Vox. It was more to be consistent with all of the Hellknight orders restricting MoB and Lictor roles to male-only than anything, I agree that as a monstrous race I could have just as easily left her female.

Interestingly enough my PC's are about to meet Madeus next session or so. Running a modified Age of Ashes wherein the Order of the Nail has finally decided to finish the mess they left behind in Isger and the PC's are working on infiltrating the political ranks of Elidir in order to mount a defense against a looming Cheliax incursion.

Presumably, those Runelords would be exceptions to the rule. You can have a female ruler in an otherwise patriarchal society. England's been ruled by queens for a long time.

Correct. Any individually powerful person/entity was left untouched (this obviously extends to gods such as Iomedae). Remarkable outliers certainly exist in the world and the PC's are meant to highlight that.

As far as Abrogail Thrune goes I did make them male but I kept the name since it was suitably androgenous. Certain orders are male-only (Chain, Rack, Pyre) while others allow some female staff in limited roles (Godclaw, Scourge) and in the specific case of Gate they are more or less equal in strength excepting that paralictor/paravicar is the highest rank they can attain and there are no Mistress of Blades in any order, only Masters.

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Umm. But matriarchal society is neither unrealistic nor egalitarian utopia ._.

There aren't any historical examples of large matriarchal societies, typically they were smaller on the order of tribal or communal in nature. Golarian has many examples of large orders or whole ancestries which is perfectly fine, just not the way my group prefers their setting.

I wish I could understand suspending my disbelief far enough for aliens, dragons, elves, mammoths, and nanomachines all sharing a setting, but drawing the line at ”women in charge in some places.”

Every ancestry in the CRB is a bipedal, two armed, vaguely human-like mammalian creature. They could have just as easily been mammoths, oozes, and animated swords, but as it happens people like settings that resemble the real world to a degree.

Some tables prefer verisimilitude.

Did he meant that his setting was a lot more patriarchal

Yes, generally. Women experience discrimination regularly in the world in most civilizations, with the exception of the Elves due to their alien nature (though there are some notable NPC exceptions among other civs) None of the human civilizations have a female head of state and only a handful of the more monstrous ones do. Things like Anadi matriarchy are rewritten, etc, etc.

I get it's not most people's cup of tea but my group (including my wife) prefers it. They see it as challenges to overcome.

Umm. But matriarchal society is neither unrealistic nor egalitarian utopia ._.

There aren't any historical examples of large matriarchal societies, typically they were smaller on the order of tribal or communal in nature. Golarian has many examples of large orders or whole ancestries which is perfectly fine, just not the way my group prefers their setting.

Definitely not for everyone, but the groups I play with prefer a lot more realistic, gritty strife so in my Golarian there are no matriarchal societies, racial strife runs amok (even defining certain heads of state), slavery is presented as functional pragmatism rather than diabolical evil, etc. Even some "good" nations only allow enslavement of "lesser" humanoid ancestries but are morally opposed to enslaving their own.

My players happen to love it as it gives them a chance to be even greater beacons of good in a dark world and they run into unique challenges that they enjoy overcoming (such as playing an ancestry they know will expose them to bigotry)