Hi everyone! I've just finished the revision of Book 1. I ended up making a lot fewer changes than I originally anticipated, but I think that's okay. I'm satisfied with the final product, and I think future readers will be too.
Here are the changes you should know about if you read Book 1 pre-revision:
- Chapter 35: Removed the Shark Titan telling Autumn he would be in touch after the Hydra battle. I'm not removing the plot line this was setting up, it just doesn't fit with the exact way I'm going about it.
- Chapter 44: Fal the Shopkeeper originally says his family's den is in the mountains to the west, this has been corrected to the mountains in the east.
- Chapter 49: Changed the original founding date of Giantrock City from 257 years ago to 157 years ago, and changed frequency of Grand Hunts from "every few years" to "once a decade."
- Removed all references to "category rankings" for monsters, as I decided to go a different direction about halfway through the book. Instead, it's standard practice to refer to a monster as a "champion level threat," "Titan level threat," etc.
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- Specified that aching veins is sometimes a symptom of severe mana depletion.
- Changed Sir Abraham Brant's name to Abram Brant.
- Standardized the name of the redwoods as "The Great Forest"
Here are the changes that aren't important to know about:
Specific changes:
- Adjusted various prices/quest rewards so the economy makes slightly more sense
- Renamed Chapter 4 to "Reach Into the Void"
- Removed character sheets for party members because I ended up decided not to go in that direction
- Moved Chapter 61 - Elsewhere in Giantrock to Chapter 63 in the order, shifting chapters 62 and 63 backwards to 61 and 62 to accommodate.
Miscellaneous changes:
- General prose improvements throughout the book
- Typos/grammar corrections throughout the book
- Minor adjustments to some dialog to make things more clear/make more sense/improve the flow.
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I probably shouldn't admit this publicly, but I have to say, the first ~30 chapters of this book were in rough shape. Like, wow, the number of typos was WAY beyond acceptable. I had no idea it was bad until I started this revision. I'm happy to report that these chapters are in much better condition, and I wanted to thank all of you for putting up with it to continue reading. I'll make sure Book 2 is polished to a much higher standard at release, I promise. Speaking of, I'm off to go write!