Thread:Old McDonald/@comment-25509684-20160216042556/@comment-24494906-20160216193310

I asked around in the chat what people thought, and people active at that time in the chat (half a dozen or so) thought it should usually be written in lower case.

There is no general, consistent capitalization rule for this in fiction. Ghoul is a common word, and I personally view ghouls mostly as a species, not a race or cultural group (because there is no real cultural difference to humans), so I usually write it in lower case.

Capitalizing ward is fine, but only if it follows an ordinal number (so "1st Ward", but "a/the ward").