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Those of us old enough to remember the Carter Administration will remember that Mistah Cartah had a no-count brother named Billy.  Someone paid him to allow them to call their product 'Billy Beer'.  (As I recall, it was a brewery that was even despised by college students.)

Anyhow, the joke goes that Mo Udall bought a can of the stuff, took one sip, and sent it off to be analyzed by the Department of Agriculture.  He got a letter from them a week later: Dear Mr. Udall, We are sorry to have to inform you that your horse has diabetes..

In the opening of A Christmas Carol, the good Mr. Dickens offers a defense of the expression 'dead as a doornail'.  I would apply it here.

Amy, another place you could mention Anver's surname is in the Council with Geron, when Anver is offered the school.

Worse, 'dinky' sounds almost like 'dinghy'.

Oh, the reason for a feldic or intermediate rock is because mafic rocks are usually dark.  I want a tan-to-orange rock.  I think granite, grandiorite, or dacite would work.  All are plutonic and found in dikes and sills; all can get the color range that I want.

Free Body Diagrams are a lot  more basic than orbital mechanics.  I'vd never done OM, but I could derive the basics from the basics.   I could not demonstrate the stability of the LaGrange points (which speaks to your out-of-phase moons).  There are good Wikipedia articles on FBDs and LaGrange points, and I'd give pretty heavy odds on there being a good OM article out there.

Given that purses are either bigger inside than outside or, for the very fashionable kind, much smaller inside than outside, you'll have to write that as either Sci Fi or Fantasy.

Getting to the point.

I don't think you need to set the cutoff at 200 years.  WWII, or even WWI (100 years) will do, with room to spare.  The word 'role' entered English somewhere around then, I think.  C.S Lewis put the French hat on the 'o' when he used it.

Raiders is not  Temple.

I'm concerned that you'll end up with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: A roller coaster ride that never stops and leaves the reader wrung out rather than nourished.

Maybe one of the healers, seeing Anver faced with double-grief, took Anver aside the week before and told him that Anda was Alina's victim?

Remember, Kha tells Anver about the twins  later.  If Anda was intact when Kha went away to Earthwound he couldn't tell the story so cleanly.