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Hi, Everyone - I promised I'd provide a summary of the changes I made between my first version of Vainglory and the version that is currently on this site. That being said, there will obviously be a lot of spoilers here! Don't read this post if you intend to read Vainglory.

Spoilers below

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Seriously! Last warning! Spoilers!

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Okay, here are the main changes:

1. There used to be "anima" and "soul anima" - this got changed to "mana" and "anima."

2. Grace and her "uncle" used up all of Ward's anima, giving him a reason not to just chill out in town, flirting with pretty girls. He now has a purpose to "advance."

3. I changed it so Ward didn't accidentally knock his "mana-well" over to Nevkin. Nevkin begged him to let him borrow it, and Ward succumbed to his good nature and loaned it. This was another reason for Ward to be pissed; Nevkin betrayed his trust.

4. Ward's relationship with Grace is less "cutesy" and more contentious.

5. Lots and lots of cleaning up prose and dialogue.

6. LitRPG elements have been added. I wrote two full chapters just about LitRPG mechanics (35 and 44) and lots of smaller scenes in existing chapters.

7. Finally, there was a massive change to the last few chapters of the book that none of you have seen, so I won't write about it here. :)

I'm probably forgetting something, but that's most of it.

Thanks for reading!

Comments

IndyBart

#4 just wouldn’t feel right unless Grace also gave us a reason that she was a victim as well. As it stands I’m not fully sure either way. I like that she is going to have to earn the trust of Ward. Even if she is at fault now, some kind of redemption arc where she somehow sacrifices to give some Anima back to Ward could be interesting.

evan maples

I didnt read the original draft but i think the change between grace and ward relationship was good one because acting cutesy with a literal devil that stole your soul would be very odd to me

vuduman78

I only read what was up on RR before this was taken down I wasn’t a Patreon at the time but I know Ward and Graces relationship is now a lot better. Grace was pretty annoying before imo