Would we? Funny. I've never known Paarthurnax, Durnehviir, or even Alduin as anything but "he."
Know what sort of people I've seen use "it" for sapients? The sort of folks who call me "lizard." Who say an Argonian isn't fit to live in their city or that a Khajiit can't be allowed to trade within their walls, because we're nothing but talking animals. This cute little "we have to use it" thing, strangely enough, only ever seems to apply to things that look different from you races of men. How you talk when you aren't thinking gives away a lot about the assumptions you hold, land-strider. Try to avoid not thinking.
Anyway, your obvious disdain for nonhumans aside, I think you maybe expect too much, dryskin. Jarl, Daedric Prince, divine, mortal... no matter what someone is, nobody lives purely and completely for someone else. There's no such thing as a strictly altruistic existence. The Storyteller is not our keeper or our egg-tender. What they have with us is a business relationship.
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Know what sort of people I've seen use "it" for sapients? The sort of folks who call me "lizard." Who say an Argonian isn't fit to live in their city or that a Khajiit can't be allowed to trade within their walls, because we're nothing but talking animals. This cute little "we have to use it" thing, strangely enough, only ever seems to apply to things that look different from you races of men. How you talk when you aren't thinking gives away a lot about the assumptions you hold, land-strider. Try to avoid not thinking.
Anyway, your obvious disdain for nonhumans aside, I think you maybe expect too much, dryskin. Jarl, Daedric Prince, divine, mortal... no matter what someone is, nobody lives purely and completely for someone else. There's no such thing as a strictly altruistic existence. The Storyteller is not our keeper or our egg-tender. What they have with us is a business relationship.