Using Names and Pronouns

One of the trickiest bits of writing in this Space is the fact that I decided to make the Characters gender-neutral whenever possible. The result is that about 80% of the Characters are gender-neutral, and the Character Sheets and Who You Know references to them need to respect that.

This means that writing these materials requires using a bit of QL, Querki's programming language. It's not deep and complicated, but pretty pervasive. Summarizing the key things to keep in mind, and not getting into the deep details of QL:

When you are referring to a character from another character, you need to write a QL expression to generate the right words. Here are the QL expressions you will typically need. I will semi-randomly use I Zubin as my example, mostly because he has a shortish name to type.
Each Character has a "Link Name", which is what you use in QL expressions. For most characters, this is the first initial plus last name. You can find the Link Name for each character in the subtitle of its page.
When you just want to link to this character in GM Materials, simply name the character, like this: [[I Zubin]]. Don't do this in Player materials, though -- it shows up as first initial + last name, which looks weird.
When you want to give their full name, you say that like this: [[I Zubin -> Full Name]]. Similarly, you can say [[I Zubin -> First Name]] or [[I Zubin -> Last Name]].
A set of gender-neutral pronouns have been defined. So for example, to say "he/she", you say [[I Zubin -> sie]] -- that renders the correct pronoun based on how the Character has been cast.
The other pronouns are "hir" (her/him); "hirp" (possessive -- her/his); and "hirs" (possessive object -- hers/his). Yes, they're just made-up; I had trouble finding a single good, complete set.
These gender-neutral pronouns are case-smart: if you say [[I Zubin -> sie]] it will display as "he", but if you say [[I Zubin -> Sie]] it will show as "He". So use capitals at the beginning of sentences, as you expect.
If you need to use another gender-specific word, use the Gendered function. For example, when Ainsley is talking about Amy, she refers to I Zubin as Amy's [[I Zubin -> Gendered(""Mom"", ""Dad"")]]. That is, Gendered produces the first parameter if the Character is Female, the second if Male.
Within a given character sheet, you don't need to name the character -- that's assumed. So inside I Zubin's character sheet, you can just say [[Full Name]] and get "Isaiah Zubin".
Within a Who You Know entry, the referred-to Character is the assumption. So in Millie's Who You Know list, in the section on I Zubin, you can just say [[Full Name]] and get "Isaiah Zubin".
If a Character has a fixed gender, you are allowed to simply assume that gender when writing, rather than worrying about all this QL. But be careful not to fall into this as a habit; think gender-neutral as your default mindset.
Finally, if you have a long stretch in a character sheet that talks about another character, you can create a section of text where that other character becomes the default, to save typing. So in Millie's character sheet, you could have a section that looks like this -- [[I Zubin -> ""[[Full Name]] is a close friend of yours, and you trust [[hir]] implicitly. You hope [[sie]] can cope with this horrible day.""]] -- and it renders as "Isaiah Zubin is a close friend of yours, and you trust him implicitly. You hope he can cope with this horrible day.". Basically, everything in the double-double quotes will use I Zubin as the default Character.