Summer Camp 2023 Pledge
ToC
So as I stand at the event horizon of another Summer Camp I gather my determination, my creative desire and set my eyes on the future. I imagine the topics I want to delve into and expand. I imagine bending prompts to my will. Summer Camp was my first World Anvil event and my favorite while I was learning how to break articles with unclosed tags. The waves have begun to wash upon us and the anticipation builds.
Campers & Badgers, Oh My!
I am simply blown away by the community creativity from World Anvil as we roll into Summer Camp. I am proud to display these Chilled Diamond Feral badges below to highlight their amazing works and how they resonate with me.
Reflections
My pledge and homework would not be complete without a look back at my world building News Years Resolutions and Reflections. New focuses will be on using multiple worlds and my Nexus world hub.
What is Nexus ?
Nexus as an idea has been brewing for a couple of years as I started to add worlds in World Anvil. Nexus is a gateway and gathering of my World Anvil journey. Stepping through into the shadow plots of vampires elders, heroes of illuminated flame, while pushing the engines of a faster than light starship and bending the layers of reality. This Summer Camp 2023 will mark the first article in the world as I consider using this as a place for all event meta articles. This also gives me a change to decide how I want Nexus to function.
Nexus update. I found it incredible difficult to have this Summer Camp article in a Nexus which is not my primary world. So I ended up creating article in the wrong world and quickly moved this back to my primary world, while leaving the article block in Nexus.
Scorecard
Copper Power
Silver Frontier
Gold Relics
Diamond Communication
All Articles
Copper Power
8 Prompts
2 Wild Card Prompts
Theme Description
The first theme (and the copper prompts wave) is all about POWER, in all its different manifestations—physical power, political power, and more! For inspiration, we have a guide to creating power dynamics in worldbuilding. Here are some additional questions you can think about this week to prepare for the first prompt wave:
Which are the powerful organizations within your world setting? Who are the powerful individuals? What kinds of power do they wield and what are their weaknesses and needs?
Which are the powerful organizations within your world setting? Who are the powerful individuals? What kinds of power do they wield and what are their weaknesses and needs?
My Goal
Power is the perfect place to highlight the forces at work in my primary world of Creation. The Vampires in their Shadow War, the Phoenix's Watch in their quest to hold back the darkness and even greater forces just now waking or being revealed.
Silver Frontier
8 Prompts
2 Wild Card Prompts
Theme Description
The second theme, for the silver prompts wave, is Frontier! Frontiers are boundaries between things, borders—but the word also has a connection to the edge of the “known world”. Frontiers are worldbuilding gold, so we’ve put together a deep dive about using frontiers in worldbuilding! Here are some questions you can use to get started:
Where are the frontiers in your worldsetting? And why would anyone want to go there?! What about metaphorical frontiers, like the “frontier of medicine” or space, the “final frontier”?
Where are the frontiers in your worldsetting? And why would anyone want to go there?! What about metaphorical frontiers, like the “frontier of medicine” or space, the “final frontier”?
My Goal
I have a feeling this will delve into the world creation myth with the state of the Elder Gods as well as my secondary world focusing on Science Fiction. This will give me a chance to revisit the Archon-Zero One-Shot and polish some of pieces connecting to this. I am on the lookout for world building my magic system and the Realms Beyond. This may be the one! This is also an opportunity to expand the vampire domains just under the surface of mortal life combined with the ward/domain map.
Gold Relics
8 Prompts
2 Wild Card Prompts
Theme Description
Relics are the remnants of past ages, and they’re a great tool to show your world’s history, as well as cultural values, in the present. After all, if something has been preserved throughout history, it means people consider it to be important! We wrote a blog post about relics and history in worldbuilding so you can get some inspiration for this theme. Here’s a couple of questions you can use to get started too:
What aspects of the past are revered today in your world setting? Which peoples are remembered? And which are forgotten, and why?
My Goal
Wow such an easy theme, I will have to be careful not to over use this. Elder Gods are relics, Vampire by the nature are relics of their human life. This like all theme will depend on the prompts. Will this give me a chance to dig into timelines and use them for my World Creation Myth as well as establish the Era's, that seems a solid idea. Using the given hints is a solid bonus to expand on timelines.
Diamond Communication
8 Prompts
2 Wild Card Prompts
Theme Description
Communication is an essential tool for societies, and it includes way more than just language! And as worldbuilders and storytellers, communication systems and the flow of information can be a great tool for showing the mood and themes of your world, and creating great plot points. Check out our worldbuilding communication blog post, and use these questions to get started:
How do people and organizations from different backgrounds or cultures communicate with each other? How does communication happen over short and long distances? Who in your setting communicates secretly or carefully, and how?
My Goal
This will be my challenging theme I think. Scrambling the homework a bit as a focus I will move a review of the world meta, categories and tags forward here, as things like colangs and white boards are not a focus for me. This theme more than any other will be about the prompts or the wild cards. I will try to keep an open mind.
Prompts
Copper Power
Prompt 1
Organization
Prompt 2
Settlement
Prompt 3
Material
Prompt 6
Military Conflict
Prompt 7
Rank/Title
Silver Frontier
Gold Relics
Prompt 1
Tradition/Ritual
Prompt 5
Profession
Diamond Communication
Prompt 6
Character
Wild Card
Prompt 9
Character
Article Staging
Staged Article 1
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