Path to Araea 1.0: Stuff Left To Do!

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These are the things left to write for Araea to be considered "completed", at least in the basic sense. The world should be fully fleshed out, all the places defined and enough bits & bobs to give the reader an idea of the world.

LAST UPDATE:
Finished: The Labyrinth

Some summaries:

Current Articles Done (Including ones listed as done here)

Regions: 16
Settlements: 12
Flora/Fauna: 23
Misc: A whole bunch

Left to Do:

Regions: 6
Settlements: 15
Flora/Fauna: 25
Misc: 3

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Additional Surface Regions

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Item	Description	To-Do
Aschar Region	Mountainous region	1st Pass Done
Kagarai	Surface region.	1st Pass Done

Additional Outer Shell Regions

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Item	Description	To-Do
Atharkam Region	Ancient volcanic tunnels - obsidian tunnels, crystal caverns, smouldering remnants.	1st Pass Done
Ucurum, the Wound Across the World	Giant Ravine Region!	1st Pass Done
Phrōjhana Region	Arctic-adjecent caves. Ice, snow, glaciers, frost bite.	1st Pass Done
Senjō Region	Maze of tunnels around a shaft,skirmish zone - uncommon caves large enough for life to take root.	1st Pass Done

Additional Inner Shell Regions

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Item	Description	To-Do
The Abyss	Vast, underground ocean of black water and cthonic terrors.	1st Pass Done
Vataam	Centered around three sections of large semi-continous tunnels, flanked and criss-crossed by regions of tunnels. River, webs, spiders.	Write
Sheoin Region	The caves around Dhanu - cold, due to reverse geothermal vents from the Far Deep. Hard, cold, monster filled.	1st Pass Done
Name TBD: 'The Hinterlands'	Last explored region of Inner Shell, only settled lightly. Very new. Where Ti'tua hang out. Ruins of other, fallen, older civs.	Write
Name TBD: The Big One	A singular cavern of titanic size.	Write

Additional Far Deep Regions

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Item	Description	To-Do
The Dunes	Quartz and crystal-sand desert, haunted by distant light. Possibly sentient!	Redesign/rewrite.
The Labyrinth	A spatial anomoly, the area between geographic regions in the Far Deep. Time/space warpage.	1st Pass Done
Hkata	A volcanic, molten region full of lava, smoke and metal.	1st Pass Done
Name TBD:	High concept: the inside of a great god-beast. See. Cells At Work, Etc.	Write.
Name TBD:	An exemplary Far Deep region; exaggerated, larger, stranger. Lake, large caverns, fissures, enormous chasm, massive webs.	Write

Surface Settlements

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Item	Description	To-Do
Waypoint	A collection of explorers and expeditions, built around a partially collapsed mesa. One of the more successful settlements on the Surface	Write
Chai'n	Established in Aschar primarily to harvest the volcanic ash/soil for export. Unpleasant, unhealthy place.	1st Pass Done
Name TBD:	Ramshackle and makeshift, set in Kagarai. Thrill-seeker, monster hunters and star-cultists.	Write
Name TBD: The Burrows	A few of the burrowed-in nest-towns along the Road in the Howling Plains, like the Windchaser Log or the Welcome Mat	Write

Surface "Flora/Fauna"

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Item	Description	To-Do
Name TBD: Electr-skewers	Surface fliers with fixed wings, flying through ionization of the air.	Write
Pahü Worm	Fuzzy centipede-worm thing that lives in ice and eats algae and radition	1st Pass Done
Ārmara	A species of rhino/wilderbeest like surface animals with a vaguely bio-mechanical hide and prehensile tongues with barbs on them	1st Pass Done
Watchers	Floating, blight-eating blobs of mystery.	1st Pass Done
Zaveru, the Blizzard-Spawn	Spirits of snow, ice and hunger.	1st Pass Done
Vile Mold Hive	Sentient-ish colonies of acidic mold-things	1st Pass Done
Name TBD: Hopper	Three long, blade-like legs, giving it an odd hopping gait. Spherical shell-like body. Grows eyes on the shell, replacing them as it pleases. Feeds like a Starfish.	Brainstorm/Redesign
Unnamed Flora/Fauna	Idea: Gargantuan Glider cryptozoology inspired?	Brainstorm/Redesign

Outer Shell Settlements

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Item	Description	To-Do
Tah'loh	A town whose main exports is blocks of ice from the nearby glaciers - Very close to its parent-city of Mhajari, culturally.	1st Pass Done
Thânh	Inside Ucurum's ravine	Write
Name TBD: Shaft-City	In Senjo Region, spirals around shaft, bottom is pretty much giant pile of trash and poo you can drown in. Constant shortages, lots of skirmishes.	Write
Name TBD: Merchant Way-city	In the sprawl, a minor power. Silk Road-y. Strictly neutral, entirely guarded by mercs. On a cross roads, physically and spiritually. Mystic architecture.	Write

Outer Shell "Flora/Fauna"

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Item	Description	To-Do
Blood Bugs	Flying isopod-things with a taste for blood.	1st Pass Done
Dungeon Frog	Predatory amphibian with fake skull and crushing smash.	Write
Name TBD: Cthulhu-Head	Terrestrial octopod-ian thing, maws on tentacles. Very smart, very predatory. Big, bulbous head-y thing, circled by tentacles with barbs.	Write
Name TBD: Hunting Ticks	4-legged, hopping, tick-like things. Hunts in packs, tearing things off. Symbiotic relation with slow, shelled reptile.	Write
Name TBD: Murdersquito	Native mainly to Ucurum. Smaller ones elsewhere. Pistol-shrimp like spring that launches a saw-bladed front-mounted blade/piston. Slurps organs.	Write
Name TBD: Bluff-Shroom	A predator that masques itself as a big mushroom, attacking with a whole bunch of poisonous/dissolving tentacles. Also uses those to feed. Once discovered, very mobile.	Write

Inner Shell Settlements

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Item	Description	To-Do
Dhanû	Underground samurai/viking, in cold/lake-y place. Martial, feudal culture, prone to morbid displays of conquest.	1st Pass Done
River City	Located in Vataam, a mix of reasonable things, secret cults, smoke and military dictatorships.	Brainstorm and design
7 Islands	Set in the Abyss, a singular-ish settlement spread across 7 islands of various sizes. Hints of Innsmouth, crossed with pirates and Dhanu.	Brainstorm and design
Settled Wilds	Largest and most successful settlement in the Hinterlands. Needs a lot of work. Undercity, Shell-temple, Overcity.	Brainstorm and design
NestVille	Located in Vataam, built out of a former hive of vast proportions - entire rooms or buildings fitting inside honeycomb hexes. Famous spider-ranchers.	Brainstorm and design
Corridorvania	Located in the titan cave; entire settlement is pretty much along a single long, snaking tunnel/cavern.	Brainstorm and design
The Ruins	Once thriving city-state, now a crumbling ruin. Built along block-like structures, with degenerate cannibals dressed in noble finery.	Brainstorm and design
The Mine	Former mining outpost that has grown in size and influence. Uses the crisscross of strip-mined tunnels to make homes, shops, buildings.	Brainstorm and design

Inner Shell "Flora/Fauna"

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Item	Description	To-Do
Ashikumo	Bear-sized centipede-spiders	1st Pass Done
Asakara Dragon	Leech-infested reptile-monster with symbiotic parasite-leeches	Brainstorm and design
Collectors	Primordial spawn with limbs that are too long, with too many joints. Collects corpses, will steal bones and skulls left behind. Occasionally molts.	Brainstorm and design
Cowcodile	Large, six-legged reptiles: a combination between newt, gecko, komodo, dinosaur and crocodile. Aggressive predators, sort of domesticated in places.	Brainstorm and design
Mish-mash	Not a single creature, but a hive of symbiotic critters coming together in a rough approximation of a body. Constantly sort of shifting.	Brainstorm and design
Unnamed Flora/Fauna	TBD	Brainstorm and design
Unnamed Flora/Fauna	TBD	Brainstorm and design
Unnamed Flora/Fauna	TBD	Brainstorm and design
[OPTIONAL] Raksasō	Very large serpentine creature with incredibly flexibility?	Brainstorm and design
[OPTIONAL] Unnamed Flora/Fauna	TBD	Brainstorm and design

Far Deep Settlements or "Settlements"

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Item	Description	To-Do
Bones	Desperate, greedy, tough. A harvest camp located in the Harorao region, home to particularly stubborn and greedy people seeking to exploit the wealth of shrooms in the region.	1st Pass Done
Unnamed Settlement	TBD	Brainstorm and design
Unnamed Settlement	TBD	Brainstorm and design

Far Deep "Flora/Fauna"

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Item	Description	To-Do
Living Darkness	Pseudo-spirit, hive-minded darkness-thing	Brainstorm and design
Primordials	God-monsters, blurring the line between spirit and living creature - terrible, powerful, alien and strange.	Brainstorm and design
Unnamed Flora/Fauna	Idea: An enormous centipede-like creature with maw tentacles and an angler style light, as well as chameleon-like capabilities?	Brainstorm and design
Unnamed Flora/Fauna	TBD	Brainstorm and design
Unnamed Flora/Fauna	TBD	Brainstorm and design
Unnamed Flora/Fauna	TBD	Brainstorm and design
[OPTIONAL] Unnamed Flora/Fauna	TBD	Brainstorm and design

Miscellaneous

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Item	Description	To-Do
Light & Darkness	How light & darkness functions in the world, as well as different sources (and kinds) of each. Yes, some of them will kill you.	Revise, expand, design
Travel	Travelling in the underworld, hazards and obstacles, formation of caverns, limits of perception and supplies	Brainstorm and design (obstacles, hazards, cave formations)
War in Araea	How war works (poorly, mostly): size, scale, supplies, logistics, strategy and tactics	Revise, expand, write