On this day, one year ago, I randomly started the Legends of the Dragonguard world.
At first, it was just to write down an idea I had when I was falling asleep the night before. After finishing the DreamWorks Dragons: The Nine Realms show on Hulu, it seemed to me that the HTTYD franchise is kind of over with now, and that made me sad. The original "Pilot / Intro" scene came to me after I finished watching the show and went to bed.
I kept adding to the world; World Anvil made it so easy to organize. I just kind of rolled with it in the beginning, not expecting this to really turn into much of a thing. The next thing I knew, a few months had passed.
After those few months, I saw the potential in this world and decided to do the Summer Camp event. It was my first World Anvil event, and I absolutely crushed it, writing for all 42 prompts (and then some)! The event helped with a lot of the worldbuilding and story.
It’s been a year, and I’ve somehow managed to create about 250 articles (although many are technical pages, lol), 140k+ words in total, a work-in-progress story (18k words!), and gain 50 followers of my world! I want to thank everyone who has liked, commented, and followed my silly thing here; it’s nice to see that people are actually interested in it. :)
In the next few days, I'll add the first hastily-put-together rough draft of what I wrote for NovelEmber 2024 in a manuscript on here for you all to read! It's not great, but NovelEmber made me sit down and cobble together my story ideas, so it's something. I'm just putting the first rough draft on here; I'll just post the Google Doc link for any other versions I decide to share.
Here’s to the next year! It’s been fun, and I’ll certainly continue to add to this world.
As they sign off in my world,
> Fly high, Guardians! o7
P.S. I’ve got a Discord server for anyone who wants to join. :3 Hopefully, one day, I’ll have dragon-themed emojis and stuff based on the dragonkin in my world.
