I have been able to pull apart the mod files and found the translation file, and while I know how to format things, Google Translate and my years of creative writing classes can only take me so far, I'm wondering if there was someone that could help me with effective translation (compared to Google's literal translation) and cultural differences that are passing over my head.

I'll throw stuff that I've translated and smoothed the edges on up here for people to look at and give feedback on:

Backstory Title: This is what shows up in the field on a pawn's character sheet.

Changed Title: What I've changed that to.

Short Title: This is what shows up as the pawn's descriptor (the thing that shows up under their name, like Engineer, it's usually what their 'job' is).

Original Text: The original Korean description pulled straight from the file

Smoothed translation: What I've written to replace it with what I think both holds true to the original intent and the differences in how English is spoken and read.

[PAWN_nameDef] means that the character's name will be placed here automatically in-game.
[PAWN_pronoun] will be replaced by He/Her and is determined by the pawn's gender.
[PAWN_possessive] is replaced with His/Her and is also determined by the pawn's gender.



Backstory Title: Kurin 여우무리 일원

Changed Title: Kurin Vigilante

Short Title: Vigilante

Original Text:
여우무리 자경단 이야기는 어린 쿠린들에게 가장 인기있는 TV애니메이션이었습니다. [PAWN_nameDef] 는 방과 후 여우무리 자경단을 만들어, 친구들과 공터와 골목을 돌아다니며 지방 도시의 평화를 지키는 수호자가 되었습니다. 치안이 워낙 좋아 별로 할 일은 많지 않았습니다만.

Smoothed translation:
Enthralled by the story of Fox Mugi Jagyedan, a popular children's show, [PAWN_nameDef] made [PAWN_possessive]self a costume and set out to keep the peace in their city. [PAWN_pronoun] didn't find much to do.

I'm having one issue with this: the direct translation references a 'a fox school after school', I have zero clue how to handle this because it almost sounds like a pop culture reference to me, though it could be that it's supposed to mean a pretend super-group of sorts, but I'm chopping it out and saying that they made a costume until I know how to handle it.

I cut the length down to allow for easier reading, and specifically lopped off some superfluous details that are unneeded in English or are easily inferred.



Backstory Title: Kurin 따돌려진 아이

Changed Title: Kurin A Drowned Child

Short Title: Drowned

Original Text:
[PAWN_nameDef]는 보기 드문 새파란 눈을 가진 아이였습니다. 쿠린 사이에서는 불길하다고 여겨진 증표로, 어린아이들부터 어른들까지 모두의 냉대와 차가운 시선 속에 외로운 아이로 자랐습니다.

Smoothed translation:
[PAWN_nameDef] was born with hauntingly pale blue eyes. Abandoned at an early age [PAWN_pronoun] grew up in the cold, ignored or feared by almost all. [PAWN_pronoun] came to view those who promised luxury with a caution.

This one has to be something cultural, the title translates directly as A Drowned Child. I can't find anything because google thinks I'm searching for news and not cultural works, so I had to guess and probably left my ignorance showing, please tell me if I'm even close to the original intent. I'm also not sure why the word ostentation was used, but I tried to capture it as well



Backstory Title: Kurin 비행청소년

Changed Title: Kurin Delinquent

Short Title: Delinquent

Original Text:
[PAWN_nameDef]는 어떤 아이들에게는 선망의 대상이면서, 선생님들에겐 큰 골칫거리인 쿠린이었습니다. [PAWN_pronoun]의 대표적인 악행으로는 청소당번 빼먹기, 선생님 말 안 듣기, 현관에서 신발 안 털고 들어오기 등이

Smoothed translation:
[PAWN_nameDef] seemed to be unstoppable, other children were envious to the things [PAWN_pronoun] got away with. [PAWN_possessive] actions often included dumpster diving, ignoring those around [PAWN_objective], and flinging mud. None were safe from [PAWN_nameDef]'s evil acts, and everyone knew it.

This one was fairly straight forward, stereotypical bully, granted I'm not exactly sure what 'shoveling in the shoe' means, but I figure flinging mud at people would be close enough.



There's a lot of stuff to translate, and with work I'm probably going to need several weeks to do it, but I'll try to keep up as best I can. If the mod author want's to slot stuff in as I go that would be great, or I'll end up building a zip with the files needed at the end and an install guide (because I really rather not add extra things onto people's modlists, my game already takes 3 minutes to load in).