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 Vestiges of the original ideas now take the form of the noticeable mental effect that an avatar may exert on a Threadwielder who is routing their sensory processing through the avatar (the "autonomy"), that Threadwielders themselves exist in a fundamentally intangible form relative to our everyday reality (the "dimension"), and that they are powerful but not unknowable.
-Of course, with Threadwielders came [[:Thread]], which restricts what precisely Threadwielder can even do to the universe, and is much of the driving force behind what has turned the series' genre from sci-fi so soft you can spread it on a croissant, sprinkled with fantasy, to a decent hard sci-fi setting.
+Of course, with Threadwielders came [[:Thread]], which restricts what precisely Threadwielder can even do to the universe, and is much of the driving force behind what has turned the series' genre from sci-fi so soft you can spread it on a croissant, sprinkled with fantasy, to a decent hard-ish sci-fi setting.
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   * **Jeneth** is a minor antagonist - that said, he has been greatly toned down from the //force of evil// he used to be (far closer to his depiction as //[[:kavkem:mythology:Tkanetar]]//, then known as //Kanus//), although this doesn't manifest in any actual changes, since he was absent from the books, surfacing only later for some roleplay (back on //InsideTheWeb// and in the author's early IRC roleplaying days).
   * **Madjan** is absent, but supposedly a pretty impressive guy. His old mythological name was Kronos; he probably didn't have a proper name, the author does not recall him ever making an actual appearance.
-  * **Zalaagra** has seen some change - the original continuity had her a little more involved (although if the author recalls correctly, not in the actual books, but only the aforementioned later narrative efforts). That was largely because her worlds were a lot more accessible than they are in the new continuity, however. In the original setting, it was easy for her to hop over to say hi. The author has forgotten how she used to be called, too.
+  * **Zalaagra** has seen some change - the original continuity had her a little more involved (although if the author recalls correctly, not in the actual books, but only the aforementioned later narrative efforts). That was largely because her worlds were a lot more accessible than they are in the new continuity, however. In the original setting, it was easy for her to hop over to say hi. Unfortunately, the author has forgotten how she used to be called.
   * **Valcen** is still, most notably, a (hopefully) temporary ally to the Nayabaru. The original books never got into his reasons - indeed, the author never bothered to come up with them. In the books, he eventually switched over to helping the kavkema. The author was sufficiently intrigued by his unspoken motivation to switch sides that she wanted to explore exactly what led up to that, which is why she chose to make Valcen the narratively central character in //A Thread Between The Stars//.