Thread:Roboartitec/@comment-4547267-20130722015405/@comment-3390396-20130723021240

In Japanese, the word for "power" is "chikara", and I think that there are no different words between between "power", "strength", and "ability"; all of them are chikara. I think translators barely think about things like wanting to convey the meaning more accurately, and just use "power". But remember, this is based on the knowledge I gained from watching so much anime with subtitles. I may be wrong.

This can be compared to Jericho being considered as male. In japanese, the counterpart to "Lord" is a affix, "-sama". And it doesn't change with genders. So the translators merely assumed that Jericho was male, and then translated the the honorific and pronouns appropriately when she was revealed to be female.