WorldEmber 2020

Planning and meta information for my participation in WorldEmber 2020. And here's my page.

Homework Challenge Week 1

Read through your world, current to-do list, world meta. I haven't done this explicitly, although I did read through my Meta and update it.
Pinpoint the areas or aspects of your world you'd like to expand. Done, mostly.
Create a pledge document This is it!
Share it! Done.

Pledge

I'm going to cover the following areas. The number in parenthesis is the potential number of articles the area can provide.

85% (1) The Realms of Reality. This is an in-universe document describing how reality works. Think Manual of the Planes, written from an in-universe perspective. It will also have meta information, as it will be close to how things really work. As I turn this over in my head, I think it may be implemented in many linked articles.
Astral Realm, header

The Astral Realm overlays upon the Mortal Realm. Image composite by Michael D Johnson; Bridge by James DeMers; Milky Way by Felix Mittermeier; Stars and Mountains by Joshua Woroniecki; Clouds by Free-Photos; Aurora by Noel Bauza

Mortal Realm, header

The Mortal Realm is that of our reality.

Private Realm, header

A private realm with rules different from ours. Header image for the Private Realm page.

Realms of Reality Header

Header for the Realms of Reality. Drawing and composition by Michael D Johnson. Leather texture by Pexels on Pixabay. This is a placeholder image, as I haven't completed the cover.

Realms of Reality, drawing 1

Realms of Reality, drawing 2

Realms of Reality, drawing 3

Realms of Reality, drawing 4
The articles related to the realms created during WorldEmber 2020 are:

Astral Realm

Mortal Realm

Pocket Realm

Private Realm

The Realms of Reality
100% (12) Describe each of the currently named Scions and/or write a story for them. I've added very brief descriptions on the central page, which also has the image gallery for them.

Dewnt

Geren

Girt

Hak

Jindack

Loshm

Nylvor

Rhic

Stagstbur Research Group

Stastn

Threrdsul

Vontshy

Vuwqua

Zhosis

Note that the list included a couple items that aren't Scions but are directly related, Stagstbur Research Group and Threrdsul.
100% (4) Fill out stubbed gods. They are

Koavurpé

Koďö

Ŗadev

Thōsh

Koavurpé is not one of the active gods and therefore doesn't have a Scion, so will probably be last. Others may be addressed in the process, but most of the gods have enough content that they won't count ☺
100% (1) Summarize the known Wizard Kings. This is a single document that lists the wizard kings and provides a brief summary of each. It wil probably end up being a category page.
95% (1) Describe The Book of Žoax Ŗel, the holy book of Bang Thebaz, a wizard king cult operating in the Fourth Age.
100% (1) Describe Bang Thebaz, the aforementioned wizard king cult. The basic description is done, and that satisfies this page
0% (1) Create an almanac of Mis̀tapidna, the northern continent, which summarizes the various regions of the continent, including nations and large settlements.
0% (1) Create an almanac of Mishtz̀azey, the southern continent, similar to the one for Mis̀tapidna.

That makes for 22 articles total. However, several of them can lead to more detailed pages, so I won't be wanting for things to write. I may be wanting for less to write, though. The good news is I have sketched ideas (in my head, on paper) for the Guide, the Wizard Kings and the holy book. And I've listed all the Scions and determined their related gods. So I'm already off to a good start, I think. Not related to writing, but I just discovered the World Meta thing. Maybe that was added for Summer Camp, but I didn't see it then. So, I'll probably be putting that through it's paces.

Homework Challenge Week 2

See the challenge page for details.

Start by thinking about the best hierarchy for your world! You might need to read over the blog post again for ideas and advice! I'm constantly thinking about this. But I'm largely taking the DM approach mentioned on the challenge page. I've created a Campaigns category, and pulled the few articles that are campaign specific into it. I don't have a player's section at the moment. Once I get a better handle on everything I may add a player's section.
Go to the Articles and categories interface in World Anvil and create your article hierarchy. This is kinda well built, but I've got same articles nested in articles rather than categories. I did spend time splitting up a lot of the work I did for Summer Camp 2020 into more detailed catgegories.
Reorganize your articles into your categories! I've spent time and categorized everything. I'm not 100% satisfied with where everything landed, but it's better than it was before.
As a bonus, create a tagging system so you can find and list articles quickly whenever you need to! As with everything else, this is something that's evolving. I'd like to make a Tag Listing. Right now, I tag things related to events (e.g. summer camp 2020), major players (e.g. the god thosh), types of things (e.g. images tagged as header for a page header), and related to a category (e.g. scion).
Once you’re done, simply write a comment at the bottom of this blog post, and copy the URL of your World’s Homepage, so we can admire your exquisite organization! Remember to let us know how you enjoyed the challenge, too! Not there yet.

Homework Challenge Week 3

See the challenge page for details.

Create a list of maps and images which might be useful for your world. If you’ve completed the first WorldEmber homework challenge, you can go through your Pledge and see which images and maps you’ll need for the articles listed there. I will be doing images for the Scions, all the active Gods, the Realms of Reality book, and probably the almanacs and wizard kings.
Find and upload the images to your World Anvil world, either as pictures or as maps! Remember to credit the artists! So far, I've built all the images I'm working on, in Portrait Worshop, an ancient program called Fyre, and by hand (on paper!). I'll probably also be doing some other artwork.
Add the images to your pledge document, so you’ll be more inspired when you look at it. You can either do this in a section at the bottom, as a gallery or next to the individual articles! I'll link galleries above.
Once you’re done, simply write a comment at the bottom of this blog post, and re-copy the URL of your WorldEmber 2020 Pledge Document into the comment!

Additional Things Done

This these are things that I've worked on for WorldEmber 2020 that don't have anything to do with the pledge.

Wizard Kings. I've actually fleshed some of them out, as well as a group of them that became active at the end of the first age.

Alvax án Déŗablo

Án Lölädän

Nöx

Žan Éxurpé

Žoax Ŗel
Scion-adjacent work. For instance, the Fire worm, Onlen Ninatnlat and her library (related to Stastn), their organization in the third age (Stagstbur Research Group at Threrdsul), the Rotai Cabal (stubbed during Summer Camp 2020), and The Battle of the Western Shore
Filled out more things from the Eastern Principalities. This was because I ran out of steam on the Scions and Wizard Kings and the Kaushan culture still hold interest for me.
Not writing, but I worked on images a lot... got headers and portraits on a lot of pages, including ones that couldn't take part in WorldEmber.

Postmortem

It is now January 3, 2021. WorldEmber 2020 is done. And I think I did pretty good. I approached 15,000 words in 46 articles and mostly stuck to what I had hoped to do. Having the plan helped a lot. I would have liked to do more of a blog with it, but, alas, I did not. I did write up two entries, though. The biggest thing I wish I could have done was be more consistent. I did a lot up front (I had nearly 5,000 words in the first week), then slowed down, and had a final burst at the end. This is in part because I had a day off at the beginning and was able to get a lot of momentum for that first week and my company shuts down the week between Christmas and New Years, so I had that burst at the end. But I did not write consistently in between. I got some done, of course, but not what I would have liked.