Copy Editor for Fantasy Field Guide

Posted 3 days ago

Worldwide

Summary

I’m releasing my third book in a four-part series, along with a 36,000-word Compendium Field Guide. It is a sort of “boy scout” guide for young warriors in a dark medieval fantasy. It has all the lore from my book series plus a complete dictionary with phonology and grammar. It will be fully illustrated (ongoing). I am seeking a copy editor to catch grammatical errors. The lore is set and will not change, and so will the structure of the field guide. The applicant should be familiar with dark fantasy nuances and other TRPGs and TCGs with heavy lore. Below is just a small sampling of some of the field guide: Section III: The Chants The power of the Veil is not thrown from the hand like a stone. It is called with the voice. The old words — the words of Fin’Varran, the tongue of the Goddess — are how you reach through the bond and draw the Veil’s strength into your own body. Speak them true, and the power answers. Speak them wrong, and nothing comes. Speak Them True. The Veil hears your intent, but it obeys your precision. In the training circle, your Tarkain will drill your chanting until every word rings clean and clear. Do not resent the hours. The graekull will not wait for you to correct a stumbled syllable. In the field, a chant spoken wrong is a chant that fails, and a Veillen whose power fails at the wrong moment does not live to try again. The old words are not a lesson. They are a shield. Learn them as though your life hangs on each one, for one day it will. The Release. When the fighting is done, or when you feel yourself running dry, you speak the release, Klute’rean, and let the power fall still. Chants of the Field. These are the chants every warrior must know: Akili’safi (Swift Strike) — you move faster than the eye can follow. Moits’ava stryke (Encompassing Strength) — your strength swells to crush bone and armor. K’oda van sarig (Skin of Stone) — your skin hardens to turn aside a blow. Hara’bel pas (Sparrow Step) — you move light and silent, swift of foot.

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Creative Writing
Proofreading
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Copy Editing
Content Writing
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About the client
Member since Dec 31, 2012
  • United States
    Austell3:57 AM
  • $15K total spent
    25 hires, 3 active
  • 492 hours

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