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Quick reference for how things are capitalized/hyphenated.
See also: Common Misspellings
Editors, don't add to this one. (But you can consult it if you're reading a manuscript).
General
- city-sphere: has a hyphen
- D-per: first letter capitalized always (but not the P)
- Eldrich Navy, not Eldritch navy
- emitter, not emittor
- eyefilm: one word (or film, alone)
- God in the stream: god is capitalized, stream isn't
- halo-arch: has a hyphen
- heavy gravity worlder apparently has no hyphens
- in-system (drives): has a hyphen
- liegelady/liegewoman has no hyphen
- medplex is not capitalized
- offworld and offworlder: no hyphen
- outworld and outworlder: no hyphen
- quickheal is apparently one word
- shock-staff: has a hyphen
- Speaker-Singer: caps on both words (apparently this is the most common usage)
- Spindle: is capitalized
- words in Meredan are not italicized ("arii", not arii)
- Wellspace, not wellspace
Faulfenza
- hyphenated words intended to invoke the vocabulary directly are not capitalized except when they include sacred concepts: ex. 'shelter-wraps', 'joint-olding', 'first-year', (but 'place-of-Dancing' because sacred concept)
- 'Wisdom Scrolls' - capitalized, as 'the Bible' is. Anything that implies the Wisdom Scrolls takes the caps, so 'I'll be recorded in a Scroll' not 'in a scroll.' Similarly, 'Lesser Wisdom Scrolls' and 'Greater Wisdom Scrolls' because those are codified bodies of work. Scrolls is not capitalized when referring to a piece of paper.
- Midcaps for compound words: FireBorn, FireMother, WisdomDancer, etc.
- words in Faulfenzair are italicized (Qiifaula, piipiizauq).
- it's 'arm ruffs' and 'jaw ruffs' and 'foot ruffs', not armruff, and not arm-ruff (etc)
- It is Bonding rite not Bonding ceremony, and Bondmate, not Bond-mate (or bond-mate). However, it is 'lifemate', not 'Lifemate.'