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To the translator Legge (and team): First of all thank you so much for translating this criminally underrated book and allowing international fans to enjoy the incredible story, Chinese isn't the easiest language to translate and you guys are doing a good job. Just one thing I want to say and hope you guys can check out is, I think 骑士 should be translated as "Knight" instead of "Rider". I know that perhaps taking into account the life and death challenges they have to do to become 骑士 is the reason you guys chose rider instead of knight, but in chapter 467 of 夜的命名术 (sequel of The First Order), the protagonist Qing Chen talked about the definition of 骑士 and here's what it says: 骑士的精神是什么？是当个好人吗？是忠诚于自己的领主吗？     不，那是表世界西方权力阶层对骑士的定义，不是庆尘所归属的骑士组织！     骑士的精神，只有不屈的意志，以及落子无悔的勇气。     那是他们面对生死时，所需要的一切。 As you can see, this paragraph doesn't make sense if you translate 骑士 as "Rider" instead of "Knight", so I hope you guys can consider changing the term especially if 夜的命名术 is also going to be translated after The First Order is finished. To be honest, even before chapter 467 of 夜的命名术 came out, I always felt weird to read it translated as "Rider" instead of "Knight" but didn't think of sending a message to you guys since there wasn't any clear cut reference I could present. Just like what's written in the excerpt I copied above, the definition of "Knight" in this story doesn't fully align with the western definition of the word and instead has another meaning, but I still feel that "Knight" is a more appropriate translation than "Rider", especially after reading that paragraph. Once again thanks for the hard work of translating this story, I hope I'm not coming across as too nitpicky, I really love this book and its sequel, and I feel that 骑士 is a very important term that will only become more important in later chapters. Also sorry if I ended up revealing some things for those who don't read or keep up with the sequeI, I made sure not to include any major spoilers in my comment tho hahaha.