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    The Devilet Inside - a few issues

    This is the Description for the Camp Horizon Leve Quest "The Devilet Inside"

    "A Pair of Mischievous shape-shifting imps charged with setting over a hundred different fires, Many of which led to the deaths of humble farmfolk, has escaped from its unescapable cell in the......"

    I believe Has should be Have and its should be their. As has & its are singular. its being a singular possesive pronoun. Since we are after all dealing with 2 imps
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    Is the 'm' in 'many' capitalized too, or was that a copying error? That, too, would be wrong.
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    it was just me with that capitalization on the M in many
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    Hello again Heir Edge,

    This one has resulted quite the heated back and forth between the translation team, our editors, and our QA team. On one hand, 'pair' (the subject of the sentence) is a singular unit, and therefore should use the conjugation 'has' (and the corresponding singular 'its'). On the other hand, because the 'pair' in question consists of animate beings (imps), using the singular 'its' sounds completely unnatural. It was also brought up that other singular entities (such as team or family) consisting of animate objects will sometimes utilize the plural conjugation (have, etc.).

    Weighing both options, I decided that your suggestion sounded better, and have gone in and changed the text.

    -> A pair of mischievous shape-shifting imps charged with setting over a hundred different fires, many of which led to the deaths of humble farmfolk, have escaped from their unescapable cell in the Marasaja Pit.

    Thanks for bringing this up!
    And no more capital Ms for you!
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