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Capitalization

Naturally, proper English capitalization should be used (proper nouns capitalized, and so on). But, you knew that already! What you really want to know are the rules for capitalizing all the new terms from the book. Well, fear not, because here you shall now know them!

We always follow the style in the main, published novels (see the note below), so if you see a term capitalized or not capitalized there, that will be our convention as well. But in case you forgot, here are our capitalization conventions, book-by-book, as well as standard capitalization rules for cosmere terms which rarely appear in novels thus far.

Mistborn

Things to be capitalized:

  • Names and House Names - Venture, Elariel, Tekiel, Kelsier, Vin, etc.
  • Metallic Arts and Users of the Metallic Arts - Allomancy, Mistborn, Misting, Feruchemy, Ferring, Feruchemical, Feruchemist, Hemalurgy, Inquisitor, Thug, Smoker, etc.
  • Specific Terms - the Well of Ascension, the Deepness, the Hero of Ages, the Lord Ruler, the Final Empire, Steel Ministry, etc.
  • Cantons in the Steel Ministry - Canton of Orthodoxy, Canton of Inquisition, etc.
  • Locations - Dominance, Luthadel, Fadrex City, Urteau, Ashmount (and specific Ashmount names), Pits of Hathsin, etc.
  • Individual Cultures and Organizations - Terris, Khlennium, Synod, Keepers, Worldbringers, etc.
  • Honorifics - Master Vaht, Lord, Lady, etc.

Things to never be capitalized:

  • Names of Races - skaa, noble, nobility, koloss, kandra, mistwraiths
  • Metal names and variants - iron, steel, tin, pewter, copper, coppermind, coppercloud, atium, lerasium, bronze spike, etc. (Note: Brandon, in interviews, sometimes capitalizes atium and lerasium. These informal interviews should not be construed as official capitalization, because in the trilogy, atium is never capitalized, and on the official Table of Allomantic Metals, atium and lerasium are lowercase)
  • 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 nobility when not referring to a specific case - keep, house, manor
  • Mundane terms - boxing, mists, ashfalls, streetslot, etc.

Stormlight Archive

Things to be capitalized:

  • Shardbearer, Shardblade, Shardplate
  • Knights Radiant and orders of Knights Radiant (Windrunners, Dustbringers) (also Lost Radiants)
  • Magic systems and their users - Surgebinding, Surgebinders, Voidbinding, Old Magic, Surge, Soulcasters, Lashings, Honorblades, Dawnshards
  • Mythological things - Heralds, Voidbringers, Unmade, Recreance (or Day of Recreance), Desolation, Return, Isolation, Last Desolation (or Aharietiam), False Desolation, Damnation, Oathpact
  • Titles of Fused
  • A specific ideal of the Radiants, such as Second Ideal, Third Ideal, etc.
  • Planets: Ashyn, Braize, Roshar
  • Specific spren types that do not have the -spren suffix are capitalized, like Cryptics and Reachers.
  • Lights: Stormlight, Voidlight, Lifelight, Warlight, etc.

Other capitalized things: Heraldic Epochs, Epoch Kingdoms, Parshendi, Bow of Hours, Covad Fragment, Curse of Kind, Cult of Moments, Ghostbloods, Diagram, Passions, Everstorm, Siah Aimians, Sleepless, Ryshadium

Things to never be capitalized:

  • ardent
  • Spren and types of spren are generally not capitalized, such as honorspren, highspren, deathspren, etc.
  • fabrials and types of fabrials (like painrials, heatrials, etc.)
  • Names of the brands of Fused, like shanay-im. (Though their alternative names, such as Heavenly Ones, are capitalized)
  • If referring to a generic order of Knights Radiant, the word "order" is not capitalized. The word order is only capitalized when the full name is used, like Order of Windrunners.
  • General flora and fauna: skyeel, blackbane, bitterleaf, axehound, chasmfiends, greatshells, larkin, lanceryn
  • Synonymous with ideals of the Radiants, but NOT capitalized, would be the "second oath," "third oath," etc.
  • The word "princedom" like in "Aladar princedom" is not capitalized.
  • listeners, singers
  • Alethi caste system words: lighteyes, darkeyes, nahn, dahn
  • Other grab bag of words: backbreaker powder, polestone, perfect gem, listener, burn ink, Dalinar's elites, women's script, highstorm,

Other The Unmade use very specific capitalization and are not always capitalized following the use of hyphens.

  • Ba-Ado-Mishram
  • Re-Shephir
  • Dai-Gonarthis

NOT capitalized after hyphens:

  • Sja-anat
  • Yelig-nar

Titles for the Unmade are capitalized, like Midnight Mother, the Thrill, Heart of the Revel, Dustmother, Taker of Secrets, Blightwind.

Elantris and Emperor's Soul

Things to be capitalized:

  • Aons are always capitalized
  • Magic systems: Aon, AonDor, ChayShan, Forgery

Things to never be capitalized:

  • Sapient beings: seon, skaze (note: this is the standard after the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Elantris)

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
  • 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 (except for the title Lord Mastrell)
  • deep sand
  • general fauna and flora (e.g. sandling, tonk, dorim vine)

The Rithmatist

Things to be capitalized:

  • Line of Warding etc.
  • Glyph of Rending
  • Professor (if used as honorific)
  • Knight-Senator (if used as honorific)
  • The names of the Defenses (i.e. Easton Defense)
  • Warding Hall, Making Hall (and two others)


Things to never be capitalized:

  • inception ceremony
  • chamber of inception
  • the office
  • campus
  • (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 be capitalized:

  • Adonalsium
  • Terms like Shard, Sliver, Splinter, and other derivatives of them, even if they are nonstandard (Shardpool, Shardholder). Similarly, the Shattering and Splintering are also capitalized
  • Names of Shards like Honor, Ruin, Preservation, Cultivation
  • Realmatic Theory, names of the three Realms (Physical Realm, Cognitive Realm, Spiritual Realm). Typically, when referring to something's Physical/Cognitive/Spiritual aspect, they are also capitalized.
  • Names of Shardworlds - Scadrial, Sel, Taldain, Roshar
  • Other terms - Investiture, Spiritweb, Worldhopping

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.

Cytoverse

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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