Editing Otherwise: Fresh Approaches to Stories and Settings

I recently worked with a French author who used the title “Ser” to roughly mean “Sir” in their fantasy novel. This opened up gender and Game of Thrones-shaped cans of worms. First up, the basic answer to the question is that you can use whatever honorifics you like, as long as you make it clear what they mean to the reader (e.g. through how you use them, or how you define them). Now, in English-language fantasy, G.R.R. Martin famously used Ser as an honorific, probably to sou