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Joël of the FoS wrote: Wed Dec 10, 2025 7:58 pm A few days more!

Huh. I feel that there's some possibility that I'm a particular target of this post. For understandable reasons! I will try to proofread my final article this weekend, and if I don't find the time, well, then that's on me.

Were the changes I requested on 2025/11/19 ever incorporated? They were not marked as such.

p.490, 2nd column, 1st paragraph
Please replace "aspects of Vaasi society" with "aspects of Nova Vaasan society"

p.490, 2nd column, 2nd paragraph
Please replace "by a Vaasi mob" with "by a Nova Vaasan mob"

p.491, 2nd column, 1st paragraph
Please replace "The Home Faith has literal interest" with "The Home Faith has little interest"

p.491, 2nd column, 3rd paragraph
Please add a linefeed between the quote and the attribution:
...light I raise within them." -The Bride of
-----------------------------------^^

p.492, sidebar
Please replace "Imprisonment or Death The Home Faith" with "Imprisonment or Death. The Home Faith"
Please replace "Excommunication Erudites" with "Excommunication. Erudites"
Please replace 'the "no gods or goddesses"-rhetoric' with 'the "no gods or goddesses" rhetoric'

p.492, 2nd column, 2nd paragraph
Please replace 'The name Mitakian is' with 'The name "Mitakian" is'

p.493, 1st column, 1st paragraph
Please replace "whether or not the older text and the modern form of the text are the same or not"
with: "whether or not the older text and the modern form of the text are the same"

p.495, 2nd column, 3rd paragraph
Please replace "another book, : the Lost History" with "another book, the Lost History"

p.495, 1st column, 1st paragraph after sidebar
Please replace
`by the title "the Unparalleled Light".` with
`by the title "the Unparalleled Light."`

p.495, 2nd column, 5th paragraph
Please replace
`"the Unparalleled Light",` with
`"the Unparalleled Light,"`

p.496, 1st column, 2nd paragraph
Please replace
`"Unparalleled Light".` with
`"Unparalleled Light."`

p.497, 2nd column, 3rd paragraph
Please replace
`"the Unparalleled Light",` with
`"the Unparalleled Light,"`

Please add a linefeed before "If Iucunda had been a Pure Heart"
Please replace "Iucunda's ultimate choice of sect" with "her ultimate choice of sect"

p.498, sidebar, paragraph 5
Please replace "These storms are perceived" with "The storms are perceived"

p.499, 1st column, 3rd paragraph
Please replace
`"D".` with
`"D."`

p.500, 1st column, 2nd paragraph
Please replace
`("Rebellion", the source` with
`("Rebellion," the source`

p.501, 2nd paragraph, 1st paragraph after sidebar
Please replace
`Titled "the Disease", it` with
`Titled "the Disease," it`

Please replace
`each was titled "The Disease".` with
`each was titled "The Disease."`

p.502, 1st column, 4th paragraph
Please replace
`also called "The Hidden Disease".` with
`also called "The Hidden Disease."`

p.508, 2nd column, 1st paragraph
Please replace "between Witches, who are female, and Warlocks, who are male."
with "between witches, who are female, and warlocks, who are male."

p.508, 2nd column, 4th paragraph
Please replace
`considered "Sorcerous Witches", who Halans` with
`considered "Sorcerous Witches," who Halans`

p.509, 2nd column, 1st paragraph after sidebar
Please replace
`Named after "The Prism", a book` with
`Named after "The Prism," a book`

p.510, column 1, paragraph 2
Please replace "Its commentary on half-elves is strange, and, I would argue, inconsistent."
with "Its commentary on half-elves is strange and, I would argue, inconsistent."

p.510, column 2, paragraph 2 after sidebar
Please replace "Even the Books of Ezra, which adhere influence from earlier works, which are not credited in the text."
with "Even the Books of Ezra, which adhere closest to this model, show significant signs of influence from earlier works, which are not credited in the texts."

p.513, 1st column, before paragraph 3
Please bold "What did the Iron Faith prohibition on arcane magic actually refer to?"

p.513, 1st column, 3rd paragraph
Please replace
`similar to the word "forskald".` with
`similar to the word "forskald."`

p.514, 1st column, 4th paragraph
Please replace
`Ezra as "Sainted Mother of Tears", like` with
`Ezra as "Sainted Mother of Tears," like`

p.514, 2nd column, 2nd paragraph
Please replace
`appear to say "Ezra", as the` with
`appear to say "Ezra," as the`

p.515, 2nd column, 2nd paragraph
Please replace "free love-philosophy" with "free-love philosophy"

p.516, 1st column, 1st paragraph
Please replace
`Hala is referred to as "Hala the Holy", and a strict reading` with
`Hala is referred to as "Hala the Holy," and a strict reading`

Please replace "Hala was not strictly speaking a goddess" with "Hala was not, strictly speaking, a goddess"



Other Notes / Questions
Quote variations
There are different types of quotation marks in the document, which I believe are a result of me writing some sections in the google doc, and some in text files I then pasted into the google doc. For example, the quotes that surround “The Prism”, at the bottom of p.509 are not the same as the quotes that surround "Sorcerous witches" at the bottom of page 508. If one or the other are preferred, I can flag them. If having variation in them is also fine, I can ignore them.


Sections beginning with sidebar
p.495, 1st column, sidebar
There's no heading for the Unparalleled Light. The section starts with the sidebar, so I'm not sure how best to caption it, but it does seem like something's missing

p.501, sidebar
No heading for the Kriger Heresy
similar to Unparalleled Light

p.504, sidebar
No heading for Jurist Heresy
similar to Kriger and Unparalleled Light

These are my fault for the weird way I've organized the text.
I could write some more text to enable having a header, then some text, then the side bar. Or maybe I could reorganize paragraphs differently. What are my options there?

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Tonitrus wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 9:42 pm
I could write some more text to enable having a header, then some text, then the side bar. Or maybe I could reorganize paragraphs differently. What are my options there?

No it's OK. Fixed.

IanFordam wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 6:19 pm

Joël of the FoS wrote: Wed Dec 10, 2025 7:58 pm A few days more!

Huh. I feel that there's some possibility that I'm a particular target of this post. For understandable reasons! I will try to proofread my final article this weekend, and if I don't find the time, well, then that's on me.

Not targeting anyone in particular. But if you need more time, just let me know here.

Were the changes I requested on 2025/11/19 ever incorporated? They were not marked as such.

Yes!

p.242, 2nd column, 2nd paragraph
Please replace "Dark Powers presents" with "Dark Powers present"

p.250, 2nd column, 1st paragraph
Please remove duplicated text, from the start of the paragraph ("According to the priests...") through the first occurrence of "When the priests believe"

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Joël of the FoS wrote: Fri Dec 12, 2025 11:09 am

IanFordam wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 6:19 pm

Joël of the FoS wrote: Wed Dec 10, 2025 7:58 pm A few days more!

Huh. I feel that there's some possibility that I'm a particular target of this post. For understandable reasons! I will try to proofread my final article this weekend, and if I don't find the time, well, then that's on me.

Not targeting anyone in particular. But if you need more time, just let me know here.

I will admit that I was being disingenuous. I didn't really think the message was directed at me (and certainly not only me), but it was useful to pretend so to spur myself into actually proofreading my last article. Motivation through self-deception!

Joël of the FoS wrote: Fri Dec 12, 2025 11:09 am

Were the changes I requested on 2025/11/19 ever incorporated? They were not marked as such.

Yes!

Thank you!

IanFordam wrote: Fri Dec 12, 2025 4:53 pm Motivation through self-deception!

Joël of the FoS wrote: Fri Dec 12, 2025 10:52 am

Tonitrus wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 9:42 pm
I could write some more text to enable having a header, then some text, then the side bar. Or maybe I could reorganize paragraphs differently. What are my options there?

No it's OK. Fixed.

Thanks!

I do not know if this is still valid but if it is add this at Page 93 first column, after Meriadar entry:

Their sister Lavendrak, the Night Song, the Overseer of Rest is the Neutral Good Intermediate Goddess of vigilance, music, rest, dreams and the moon. Her Domains are Darkness, Good, Knowledge, Protection and Repose. Her Holy Symbol is a moon shaped shield with a trumpet. Her Favourite Weapon is the light mace.

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Mistmaster wrote: Wed Dec 31, 2025 8:02 pm I do not know if this is still valid but if it is add this at Page 93 first column, after Meriadar entry:

Their sister Lavendrak, the Night Song, the Overseer of Rest is the Neutral Good Intermediate Goddess of vigilance, music, rest, dreams and the moon. His Domains are Darkness, Good, Knowledge, Protection and Repose. Her Holy Symbol is a moon shaped shield with a trumpet. Her Favourite Weapon is the light mace.

"His Domains" or "Her Domains"?

Her domains, I edited.

Yep, I aim to get the new version out in the first week of Jan, so yes, there is time.

Anything else to add?

Ahem. Yeah. If you would, please replace all instances of "kshaitriya" with "kshatriya" throughout my Sri Raji articles. (I can call out individual page numbers if that would be useful.)

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If I'm not too late, please make the following changes to "Contradictions and Mysteries":

Insert the following paragraph after the first paragraph of the "Caste" section on p.247:

Each caste has its own svadharma. Brahmins are expected to sacrifice to the devas; Kshatriyas, to rule; Vaishyas, to create material goods; Shudras, to labor.

Similarly, within the first paragraph of the "Reincarnation and Karma" section on p.248, please replace

When one acts according to dharma, one accrues...

with

When one acts according to dharma (whether eternal dharma or svadharma), one accrues...

Merci beaucoup!

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