I know from _The Hollowed Hunt_ that the events in the The Hallowed Hunt take place about 400 hundred years after the Wealdeans lost their war against the Darthacans. However, I am not sure about how the books about Chalion and Penric fit into the overall timeline.
What's on your mind?
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What do you think? Cedonia == Roman Empire, Cedonian == Latin?
I think I'll wait on putting a plot summary up for a bit (even if I weren't behind on the others anyway) on the grounds of delaying spoilers, but it's a fun tale. Feels more like the start of a tale than a full one, though - figure we can hope for sequels?
I've made changes to the front page, mostly trying to make better use of the 2nd column of info (I could wish the ad space was half the size it is, but I suppose wikia-beggars can't be choosers). Any thoughts on it? I'm not totally sold on the color scheme, for example (I picked purple for demon magic - the full godly color scheme doesn't look re-creatable on a wikia front page, and I expect it would end up rather garish).
I sort of stopped on the Bloodfield page, and would like feedback (or other editors) before going on. The last bits I thought about adding are in the last section (which might need a better title):
1. why Horseriver set the geas and binding on Ingrey to keep Ijada's death from opening Bloodfield to the gods
2. perhaps carrying the description through how Horseriver's plot failed...but that might be better in the plot summary.
Not to discourage anyone who is ready to do a page, but I have notes pulled out to do Biast and Fritine, and will tackle those after finishing Bloodfield if they're still showing as wanted (and after my grocery/errand run).
I haven't begun on Horseriver or Ingalef.
Ingrey's page needs work to be considered done.
But hey, it's all looking great!
The Curse of Chalion's Plot Summary is less than half-done, but it's already gotten pretty long. I could trim it down somewhat by removing references to the merchant who did death magic, but much more than that will seriously cut into the meat of the story. I think the later part of the tale will go somewhat faster than the first part, because the infodump part will be reduced, but I haven't even touched the menagerie or Umegat and I'd definitely consider both of them to be crucial to any serious summary.
I figure the "Publisher's Summary" takes care of any need for a very-short summary, but there's a lot of variability available for how much should go into these.
So what do you think? Let it get long, or try to trim it further before it gets very long? (Granted it's easier to remove things than create them, so maybe long is better for a first try...)
Do we want to have someplace for animals? Some of them really stand out, like Demon in Paladin and Fafa the Bear in tHH. Not to mention the menagerie. I can write the article(s) if we can decide if and where they belong.
OCD word usage:
I saw the round of edits on "provincar of" to "provincar dy", and went looking to see what Lois had used. First, it isn't perfectly consistent, so I think if you really want "provincar dy" in a spot it's fine. However, most often she uses "the provincar of [province]", with provincar lower case, when referring to the position as opposed to the man. That's the majority of the uses--in CoC it's 18:2 of of:dy, and 19:0 in Paladin. If my ebook counts are right. I'm ignoring the Dictionary in Paladin as that's my text (though edited by Lois).
For places where the definite article isn't used ("Provincar dy [province has done x"), Chalion has 1:6 of:dy. Paladin has one "dy" and no "of".
I suspect some of this evolved as the books were written, and some may be copy-edit misses.
The Provincara (of Baocia) is a special case, and I recall Lois saying that she had such presence she was special. It's always Provincara (capitalized), and almost never with the province--she's just the Provincara. (For completeness, when Baocia is mentioned there's one "of" and one "dy".) Usually not with "Dowager", but when it is, that gets capitalized too. Quite a personality. :) Oh, found the Bujold list message from Lois (July 10, 2002): "In general, I've tried to follow modern usage and not cap titles except in direct address, but the Provincara was having none of it; she remains capped throughout."
Further note: provincar is not done the same as March, where in CoC it's almost always capitalized and almost always "dy"--the 2 exceptions are for "the high march of Yiss", but there's one "March dy Yiss" in there too. In Paladin we have lots of "the march of x" and the "March dy Oby" (only person using this) when the reference is definitely to the person and not the position.
I'm not going to try to deduce the rules for "Lord dy X" and "lord X". :)