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Okay, now for more specific style conventions.
 
Use American English (British English isn't a big deal, but the correct spelling will probably be eventually edited out in favourfavor of its corrupt brethren). So, use [[aluminum]] instead of aluminium.
 
To create a new paragraph, make sure you have an empty line. If you just press enter once, the wiki will render that new line as part of the same paragraph. Do not put each sentence of a paragraph on their own line, just write like you normally would.
*Verbs and Modifiers related to Metallic Arts - burn, flare, store, tap, charge, spike, atium shadow, pulse, etc.
*Steel Ministry Rankings when not used as an honorific - obligator, prelan, high prelan, lord prelan, etc.
*Terms with the Nobilitynobility when not referring to a specific case - keep, house, manor
*Mundane terms - boxing, mists, ashfalls, streetslot, etc.
 
===Stormlight Archive===
 
===Warbreaker===
'''Things to be capitalized:'''
*Awaken and its variants
*God King
*Locations: Idris, Hallandren
*Type Two BioChromatic entity
*Lifeless
*Command
*Breath
 
'''Things to never be capitalized:'''
 
===White Sand===
'''Things to be capitalized:'''
*Diem
*Diem ranks when used as a title (Mastrell Traiben)
*Dayside/Darkside
*Taisha/Taishin
 
*Profession (when referring to the official Professions)
*Slatrification (as a noun)
*Sand Lord
 
'''Things to never be capitalized:'''
*sand mastery/master
*Diem ranks when(except usedfor as athe title (Lord Mastrell Traiben)
*sand master(s)
*deep sand
*Diem ranks not used as a title
*sand
*general fauna and flora (e.g. sandling, tonk, dorim vine)
 
*(Rithmatic) lines, defenses, offenses etc.
*(wild) chalkling
 
=== Sixth of the Dusk ===
'''Things to be capitalized:'''
*Sixth of the Dusk, or Dusk for short
*Aviar
*Pantheon
*the Ones Above
 
 
'''Things to never be capitalized:'''
*"normal" lifeforms (nightmaw, nightwind fungi, deathant, deepwalker etc.)
*trapper
 
===Cosmere===
 
'''Things to never be capitalized:'''
*[[focus]], [[intent]] (referring to Shardic intent)
*[[cosmere]] (this is not consistent, but it is not capitalized in [[The Letter]], and that is our current convention. This may change)
 
'''Note''' that we follow capitalization rules of the main sequence of published novels. Other, secondary titles--especially [[Mistborn Adventure Game]]--may not follow the same styles.
 
=== Skyward Universe ===
'''Things to be capitalized:'''
*FTL travel
*Sense (when referring to Cytonics sensing)
 
'''Things to never be capitalized:'''
*cytonics(it is capitalized in ''[[Defending Elysium]]'', but Skyward does not capitalize it)
*telanium
*mindblade
*(cytonic) suppression
 
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