The lines about bats were converted to typographic quotes in 3fcba6aa, so this
could be cherry-picked to the 1.16 branch along with that (but shouldn't be
cherry-picked without it).
Was written 13 years ago. While 'the many' could be acceptable as well, there is no precedent for its use elsewhere in this dialogue. Plus the prior sentence just says 'some'.
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* SotA S6 Provide better tomato surprise hint. (fix#6120)
* SotA S2 Add objective note about guardhouse. (fix#6121)
* SotA S4 Add objective note. (fix#6123)
Previously the invalid variable would just be rendered blank, leaving the remaining text as 'which way should we go?' which is still sensible albeit with a lack of starting capital letter.
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Issue #6125 - UtBS S2 Across the Harsh Sands Pinnacle Rock is covered during dialog fix. Now the camera will scroll to the tile where the "Pinnacle Rock" map label is.
* Revise capitalisation as per https://wiki.wesnoth.org/ProseStyle
Capitalisation of race names was inconsistent in parts, even within the same scenario in some cases.
As per https://wiki.wesnoth.org/ProseStyle, race names are generally lower-case unless part of unit or place names, or a specific group (such as 'Quenoth Elves'):
* Elf/Elves/Elvish/Elven
* Drakes
* Dwarf/Dwarves/Dwarvish/Dwarven
* Goblins
* Gryphons
* Humans
* Mer/Merfolk
* Nagas
* Ogres
* Orcs
* Saurians
* Trolls
* Woses
I substitute 'human' for 'men' on occasion, not for PC-ness, but to make it clear it's a reference to the race, not males (non-humans sometimes say 'men' when speaking to fellow male soldiers, for example).
Capitalisation of titles is a little less straightforward. Clearly cases such as King Haldric, Queen Asheviere, Prince of Wesnoth, Great Chief, etc, are capitalised.
However, use of a title alone can be valid with or without capital, eg 'the king/King'. I try to be consistent and consider the context:
* Title is used in place of the name, eg compare 'by the King's order' with 'by Garard's order'
* Would the speaker show respect to the person concerned as their leader, or a foreign dignitary? Contrast, 'Asheviere, that vile queen'.
* Compare 'my king' with 'my father' (latter is not usually capitalised in everyday English)
* Occasionally, when the speaker may not otherwise know a character's name or the correct protocol to address, may say something like 'Sir Elf'.
I apologise if I run counter to previous revisions - removal of 'princess' as a direct address in Northern Rebirth, for example, also dealt with the capitalisation issue, if I recall correctly.
Miscellaneous changes:
* Magi, as plural of mage, is not usually capitalised.
* Council may be capitalised when referring to a specific instance, such as the Elvish High Council in the Ka'lian, but not in instances such as 'making council'.
The review focused solely on campaign prose - there may be cases in other data files where capitalisation needs revising too.
* Capitalise proper noun use of 'kingdom'.
Just as England may be referred to as such on its own, it was also known as the Kingdom of England.
In the same way, Wesnoth is usually referred to simply as Wesnoth, but it would be formally called the Kingdom of Wesnoth.
* Capitalise 'majesty' when used as an address.
For consistency with existing instances of 'Your Majesty'.
* Capitalise 'Land of the Dead'.
While we might not normally refer to such as a place as a proper noun, Delfador's Memoirs seems to establish this as a specific location in Wesnoth lore.
For consistency, also capitalise a few references to this place in Northern Rebirth and Son of the Black-Eye.
(Granted, this does make Iliah-Malal's line in DM S18 seem a bit awkward, contrasting with 'land of the living', but the precedent has been set throughout the rest of the campaign.)
* Capitalise instances of the Book of Crelanu.
I leave book as lower-case when it's not yet famously known as the Book of Crelanu, such as in Legend of Wesmere, as well as in DM S15, where it is simply described as a book belonging to the old mage Crelanu.
* Harbour of Tirigaz does not appear to be a formal (capitalised) name.
In S12, Tirigaz is only described as a 'harbour'. Other instances of Tirigaz describes it as (lower-case) a port city.
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Avoid use of 'cool' and 'guys' (closes#6107)
Have left 'guys' in Camerin's lines as it's justifiable in his informal crazy talk - Northern Rebirth is supposed to be rather informal in parts and light-hearted in tone.
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According to the bonus objective as it stands, it should be possible to end the scenario early by simply destroying the 'generator' stones even if leaving a few skeletons around.
However, the way victory condition is established simply by counting the number of enemy units at the start of a turn - if there are no units left, then the stones are assumed to be destroyed. (No generator stones active -> no enemy units)
As a work-around, simply update the objectives to make it clear that all enemies need to be eliminated for victory to be achieved.
Macros with very generic names such as "STR_CASTLE" were defined and not
undefined. This prefixes all of them to be WC_STR_CASTLE, etc.
Either fixes or reduces the severity of #6062.
(cherry picked from commit d3d21e59ee)
This string appears to be untouched for 13 years so hard to ask for the original intent but it doesn't appear to be an intentional attempt to sound archaic.
