Demesnedenoir
Myth Weaver
As to character voice... there are plenty of choices that can be made. In an Epic I'm working on, you will find differences of terminology. Little things in word choice, outside grammar, such as the narrative and dialogue voices of religious people referring to a collection of religious figures of differing ranks as "adherents" while the Clan POV will call them "holies". The 90 year old scholar isn't of a mind to consider bopping people on the head, but the 9 year old is good with that. The narrative voice of young scholar who grew up in a village might say "I didn't see no cattle" while getting mocked by her peers, while the Clan warriors might speak this way most all the time and mock those with a scholarly air. A lighter more buoyant narrative for a seventeen year-old girl high on her trying to solve a mystery despite the fact she could die any moment, and a more stern, get the job done narrative (with flashes of unspoken irreverence) for the son of a clan Chieftain.
Trying to mash-up the POV with the narrative voice is both challenging and fun. Dialogue is a related bird, but in some ways easier to hit than the snipe which is the POV-narrative mash. If determined, all one needs to do is highlight every character's dialogue in a rewrite phase (preferably very near the end) and make sure character speech patterns and word usage are as strict as you want. This is done in screenwriting a lot, where it's super easy since every dialogue has a tag.
One area where 3rd Om is easier than a multi-POV limited (I separate 3rd into Limited and Intimate) is that there is only one narrative voice in the 3rd Om. From there, it's all about dialogue and consistent actions. In a multi-POV 3rd Limited, a person can go all kinds of crazy tweaking that narrator-POV blend for every POV.
Trying to mash-up the POV with the narrative voice is both challenging and fun. Dialogue is a related bird, but in some ways easier to hit than the snipe which is the POV-narrative mash. If determined, all one needs to do is highlight every character's dialogue in a rewrite phase (preferably very near the end) and make sure character speech patterns and word usage are as strict as you want. This is done in screenwriting a lot, where it's super easy since every dialogue has a tag.
One area where 3rd Om is easier than a multi-POV limited (I separate 3rd into Limited and Intimate) is that there is only one narrative voice in the 3rd Om. From there, it's all about dialogue and consistent actions. In a multi-POV 3rd Limited, a person can go all kinds of crazy tweaking that narrator-POV blend for every POV.