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Just a quick one... Does anyone have any suggestions for an alternate term I can use for 'witch hunter'?
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I think it would be good to avoid words we use, such as Inquisitors or Investigators or anything. It's worth putting some brain to stuff like this because it rings hard and often with the reader. Also the word you choose can end up coloring the way these guys think and operate...guiding you in creating them.
"Cleansers" came to my mind, then "Redeemers". Billy The Kid's posse/outlaws were called "Regulators", which I just loved. Something like Liberators can go good/bad, and be rather chilling.
I like the idea of usiing a thesaurus, but the trick is coming up for the words to search for synonyms of. I'd look for a word that goes to the heart of what they are doing vis a vis your plot... or something so left-handed and seemingly irrelevant that it's a statement in that way. Like Registrars or Corporeals or something.