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I'm doing "The Princess" for the Knights of the Dragon, and I find the princess is... well...
Needless to say, I'm very confused.

The little portrait on the side of the screen once you start escorting her back to the order hall also seems to shift between male and female at random in between instances of this quest.

Not currently using mods.

When you click on him, by any chance did he tell you your princess is in another castle?

In any case, this is a simple fix. The data in the quest file tells the story:
Usually there's a parameter defining the person as male or female, but in this case classic depended on the face parameter to always make it the same graphic, I think. In any case I can modify that when I have a chance.

There was just a fix related to quests and gender in the last few days. Any chance it fixed this one?

That fix was for static NPCs injected as questors, this one looks like a virtual NPC.

I think issue is simply that quest fails to define gender, which results in 50/50 shot for virtual NPCs. A well-written quest should define gender when related to plot.

B0B00Y00.txt: How can it be fixed, is adding "female" keyword there sufficient?

Yes, that's the solution.

Have we decided that's the way we're going to fix it? I though that was still in doubt. Happy to fix the quests if a decision has been made.

That was not sufficient, or I didn't do it right... At least the face was female, hopefully not just by chance...

Thanks guys, I'll look into why the gender tag didn't work for that static NPC sprite selection. That should have worked.

This is still the correct solution for the quest though. For NPCs like this that are spawned completely by quest, informing the quest engine what the gender is supposed to be is a must (when it matters for a the narrative anyway).

Pango, did you change the quest script before accepting the quest?