Ethnis 2019: A Year of Great Strides, Reviewed
Happy New Year Ethnis folks, The sun has set on 2019 and 2020 rises on the horizon; and the Wheel continues to turn. We want to take a moment to remember 2019 and what made it special for Ethnis as well as take a peek into 2020 and lay out what we hope to accomplish! 2019 brought many statistical and personal achievements with Ethnis. Establishing Ethnis Lite and getting games played on it was one of the biggest achievements under our belts. Redoing many of the Sophont and reworking the Banners proved a huge success even if the information overload caused us a bit of burnout. We networked with a lot of amazing people as well, with so many fantastic creators with us, there is no telling where we will go! Yet despite all the fantastic successes, we learned some major lessons- such as getting eyes bigger than your stomach. We did that several times. For example, while we have almost completed Ethnis Lite, we still planned on having it done much sooner. Ethnis Eats was another point of learning, especially for Barron. While he did not complete it himself, he is still happy with the experience of outlining and partly drafting a short story. Overall, it has been an absolutely fantastic year for us, we've done great work, learned valuable lessons, and have made a ton of new friends on World Anvil and out of it. We look forward to seeing what 2020 will bring. We have big plans and we are very excited to have every single one of you here with us. To the Future,
Ademal and Barron
Yearly Roundup
Taken from Jan 2019 to Jan 2020Ethnis Lite is Born
2019 brought Ethnis Lite from conception to play testing. The idea consisted of a narrative RPG system that could be applied to any setting. Developing, documenting, and refining the system has been a constant project of 2019 and stretches into 2020.
The development process helped Ademal and Barron refine what makes a game fun, simple to play, and easy to implement.
A big push during Summer Camp brought several other worlds into the Ethnis Lite family and it has been an amazing experience supporting other worlds in making their world playable.
Now that we push into 2020, we are continuing to refine and test, marching forward to a very exciting announcement coming early this year.
(You can check out Ethnis Lite here.)
Stories to be Told
Part of Ethnis Lite's implementation involved play testing, which we began by hosting a Play by Post Discord server. Several game came out of the effort, including games from Menicea, Ethnis, and Haven.If you are curious about Ethnis Lite updates, take a peek at some of our WIPs!
Ethnis Lite
An absurdist sci-fantasy universe full of intrigue, drama, humor, sensuality, and horror.
A solarpunk sci-fi setting in a future where humanity wises up about how we care for our world.
A rich fantasy setting about a country in the midst of a time of renaissance and grand adventures.
Where the dead cannot rest. Where brutality and cannibalism are the norm. Where madness lurks. Haven is hellish.
Inequality, corporate greed, and human stories of survival against the pastel backdrop of planet Libertas.
A Romanesque world of Elves, Man, and Orcs embarking on an age of exploring Ultima Thule—beyond the known world.
Humanity destroyed Earth, but lives on, divided, on new worlds and among the stars.
A fictional science fantasy world set in 19th century Bradstowe, capital city of The Isles of Orlend.
Sprawling political Euro-Fantasy rife with dynasties, dragons and lovecraftian monsters.
A world of song and magic stands on the precipice of abyss, rife with drama, sensuality, and mystery
In the ashes of civilization, the Proto Agon—Humans, Automa and Hollow—carve their living from its remains.
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Bright Fantasy Exploration & Discovery
Fillimet is a world of exploration and discovery, where unfamiliarity yields its secrets to reveal familiar experiences.
Bright Fantasy Exploration & Discovery
—Coming soon is also The Magic Multiverse by Emperor Charles II.
Top Works of 2019
Fan Faves and Personal
We had a lot of great articles in 2019! Some, such as the Aen, Parisan, Nasyk, were total rehauls. Others, Such as Rukta and Lillian Hesperides were made for Challenges. Our best articles come right from our passions. Barron's love of writing about the Sazashi shines through in the Parisan and Nasyk articles, while Ademal's frustration with societal issues led to the broad popularity of The Final Rest of Sleepy Abigail.Ademal's Top Articles
Barron's Top Articles
Crowd Favorites
Beyond World Anvil
Leigh Wright, curator of WYRD DAZE e-zine. Interviewed us! He is a pleasure to work with, and put together an excellent interview with us! If you've ever wanted to know a little more about us, think the e-zine format is cool and the way of the future, or are just looking to get a little more of your Ethnis fix... check it out!
In case you somehow haven't heard, Project Deios is the new hotness in the mapmaking and worldbuilding community! We've been hype over this for a long time, and now that it is out we're positively brimming with excitement. We have proudly backed it at the Platinum CL tier, which gives us license to use it commercially!
Events
Both Summer Camp and World Ember were done in less than a day using the new streaming setup! We planned massive single-day events, writing sprints that lasted a total of 12-13 hours. It was a ton of fun and massive success for Ethnis as a whole! We made a ton of friends, got to get a ton of writing done, and tested our resolve all at the same time!WorldEmber
While we haven't wrote up an article for World Ember itself, we did a massive thirteen hour stream where we not only hit 12500 words a piece, but we smashed past the 600,000 words in Ethnis mark. It was a great time, so great that we wrote an article commemorating the success. You can read what we wrote for World Ember 2019 here!Summer Camp Sponsorship
We were very proud to be able to sponsor Summer Camp 2019. As part of sponsorship, we got to provide prizes and judge certain catagories for Summer Camp! It was an absolute blast and we'd love to do it again soon!
One very special part of the Sponsorship was the fact that we got to make a short 'spot' for Ethnis to be played during Streams. Over a coffee, Ademal and Barron began brainstorming and filmed all the shots in three hours. With some previous Sony Vegas experience, Barron went to work editting the video in two days.
The resulting video has sparked a couple of solid Memes such as Barron's "Oh hey there! Didn't see you come in!"
Merch and Art
Thanks to the fantastic support from our discord and the community at large, Ethnis was able to pick up new art! Concepts of both the Parisan and the Faeo helped us show off the uniqueness of our species as well as inspire us! (Barron totally cried when he saw the Parisan)
We also made the leap in starting our own merch store! Even though it is just the Wheel and the Parisan currently, we will no doubt expand in the future.
Haimarchy Faeoverin by Antti Hakosaari
Sazashi Parisan Kona Helmshigh by Antti Hakosaari
The Young Dramatist by Ademal
Livin' it up at Club Kismet by Ademal
Swing by MidJourney
This Machine Kills Sinners by Ademal
A Posthumous Wave Farewell by Ademal
Nasyk Like High Places by Ademal
Lillian Hesperides by Ademal
Jupiter Syndicate Default Cover by Ademal
ValuSelu Pact Default Cover by Ademal
Yantra Lume Tattoo by Midjourney
Here's to a fantastic 2020 with all you fantastic folks!
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