Of course some people will do that. Folks have been writing up custom Charms like I Win Exalted Forever Prana since the 1e core came out. This is nothing new.

We won't send developer ninjas to your house to tear up your character sheets when you create your Exigent of The Even More Unconquereder Sun Who Kicked The Unconquered Sun's Ass And Took His Lunch Money. But we aren't going to encourage it either.

Is it?

Or you can play out the adventures of Don Juan, Don Quixote and Critilio, taking Spain's wealth and power as a given without thinking too hard about where it comes from. But the text of Spain: What Columbus Has Wrought won't shy away from spelling out those details.

“He knew himself, however, from the first, a hero—that is, one with a destiny to fulfill which should shake the world a bit, at its corners.” – Tanith Lee, Death’s Master

Water Margin is an amazingly good read, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to run or play in a game set on the Blessed Isle or in the satrapies.

I pushed the "unknowable" angle in Ink Monkeys to try and salvage something of the original intent after multiple writers insisted on putting hard facts about Cytherea into canon.

Meaningful setting lacunae can be very effective, but maintaining them in an ongoing game line is a fool's errand. Sooner or later, a writer will see the lacuna as something to fill and will go ahead and fill it.

I believe this quote is the source of the idea that vitriol is a transformative substance. My guess is that the 2e writer in question couldn't understand why metody transform, and so felt the need to incorporate a broad transformative effect into vitriol's nature. The actual explanation is simpler. Vitriol does the things that hate metaphorically does. It eats away at things; it makes things ugly; it can make you stronger. And in the end, you become the thing you hate.

Making metaphors real and tangible in the setting is a hallmark of Jenna Moran's work. Once you know how to look at the material, you can't miss it.

No one is going to pry the 2e version from your fingers.

Vitriol's properties are all elegant outgrowths of its formation as the pure congealed hatred and resentment of the Yozis. In trying to explain its properties as deriving from some other source, the 2e approach deflated the very thing that made vitriol interesting, while simultaneously drawing attention away from how things are to focus on irrelevantly remote history.

The idea that Theion To was originally conceived as a pure transformative substance by Malfeas in the Time of Glory is counterproductive 2e wankery that will go away in 3e.

In English, "voivod" is an accepted -- albeit rare -- alternate spelling of "voivode." The word has a number of English spellings; merriam-webster.com lists "voivode" itself as an alternate spelling of "vaivode," which I've never seen before.

Since a web search shows the most common use of "voivod" as the name of a Canadian metal band, I think I'll eschew it in favor of "voivode."

You're correct in this instance. I had a brain stone and it didn't register that putting the title in apposition to the name of a people was, in fact, creating a well-formed personal title. So he is more properly the Voivode of the Karaschin Clan.

But "titles are capitalized" is not a good rule of thumb. Voivode Tomaj is a voivode, not a Voivode.

John and Holden invented Medo. I added a few details and wrote it in its current form.

Wish I could make it, but money is tight these days.

He's a hard man to get a hold of, but if I hear from him I'll let him know.

Plague of Hats is currently working on the baking rules. He's invested a great deal of effort into it, to the point where the 3e launch has been pushed back in order to get the baking system working just right. True story!