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Sunday, 10 March 2024 12:39 (UTC)
pangolin20: A picture of a green parakeet in a tree. (NRSG)
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Which makes no sense because their male Banes don't grow horns. They turn into stag-headed dudes who therefore have antlers

NRSG: Good point. I guess the antler nubs might seem like horns at first? Though that is still off...

"Sward" is an old word meaning an area of short grassland, so calling a forest this is absolutely ridiculous.

Well-seen! I was so used to it that I did not notice.

Fun fact, in the original draft she was called MoonWalk but for some reason the publisher made her change it. 🙄

I am somewhat amazed her publisher even managed to do that, given all the stuff she got through in the later books. Also, at least we were spared that particular name...

Also he's not a lord.

Yes, I swear no one proofread this glossary at all.

I'm probably reading too much into this but it kinda feels like thinly veiled homophobia. Dandies and fops didn't exist in this time period equivalent anyway, FFS.

Oh, that was the idea I got myself, too. Here is a bit from chapter 7:

He brushed past Isend and Borneheld talking in low tones in the corridor. Surely the dandified Isend wasn’t offering to fight alongside him? As far as Axis knew the closest he’d ever come to a weapon was the fruit knife that he constantly carried with him, hanging from his begemmed belt on a small silver chain. ~BattleAxe, Chapter 7, "In the Brother-Leader's Palace Apartment"

I think I will edit that in, in fact...

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