SummerCamp 2023 Pledge

As the Summer reaches its solstice and the heat makes a nest in the central valley, Barron and Ademal trim back the vinyard, tend to the veggies, and clean up the Codex categories. Long days and icy lemonade are the perfect backdrop against which to worldbuild, and the duo are eager to use the opportunity to advance their current objectives.

Reading List

The outcome of Summercamp! At time of edit, all articles with a are worth reading!

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No.	Template	Prompt	Ademal	Barron
1	Organization	A powerful organisation	Gishani Marshall's Office	Survivalist's Guild
2	Settlement	A seat of power of any kind	Tyrn-Cha	Kainga
3	Material	A resource that provide fuel or power	Meta Cask	Solar Tree Sap
4	Species	An animal associated or symbolising power	Valipsyrid Ramscorpion	Waimana Keepers
5	Ethnicity	A culture that has suffered under the rules of a stronger nation	IdPari Skydivers	Kaingans
6	Conflict	A conflict between 2 unequal powers in your world	Ramscorpion Insurgency	The Cutting of Ark
7	Title	Title and responsibilities of an important person in your World	Pure of Heart	Chiefdom of Kainga
8	Law	A destructive natural/supernatural event	Recurring Nightmare	Red Mists
9	Species	A species known for its mischievious personality	Kleppers Lizards	Headbutt Goats
10	Tradition	A popular summer tradition that involves art and creativity	Weavers Season	Solstice Tournament
11	Location	An unclaimed, unregulated, or lawless region in your setting.	Strashya Atoll	Beyond the Valley
12	Settlement	A Settlement at the Limits of the "Known" or "Civilized" World	Dir'rh Nejethon	Faur'ricai, Seat of the Survivalists
13	Profession	A job that takes its practitioners to remote or faraway places	Mason	Pact Survivalist
14	Species	An animal found in a non-populated area.	Stinging Flatworms	Hallcrawlers
15	Species	A useful plant found in a wild area of your world	Geyser Tubeworms	Wrathful Mane
16	Material	A material or resource that comes from a dangerous location	Strasyan Nitre	Corralum Filtrate
17	Person	A character driven by wanderlust of the desire to explore	Xetto the Pugnacious	Relana
18	Ritual	A cuisine from a sparse, barren or remote region in your world.	Xetto's Gumbo	Fungal Cakes with Mole-fries
19	Building	An iconic building or landmark representing a location	Strashya Dam	The Kaingan Arch
20	Document	A letter sent in secret by a well-known person in your world	Xetto's Broadcast	Marshall Lino're's Vigilante Marque
21	Tradition	Describe a tradition or behaviour considered old-fashioned.	Rituals of Consecration	Mana Meditations
22	Item	An item of great cultural significance to a people.	Mariners' Coin	Sonoliaro's Wand
23	Settlement	An ancient city that is still inhabited today.	Arcology	K'khelaKhen
24	Person	A historical who is still venerated today, and why	Mazzu Tr'ruoha-Oulsfiazzo	Jeong Yamamoto
25	Profession	A profession that has been rendered obsolete	Valipsyrid Exterminator	GravTrain Engineers
26	Tradition	A children's tale or song based on a real event	Sky's Dive	The Little Keeper
27	Species	A species now considered extinct	Nictipagua	Brownbell Cows
28	Ethnicity	A historical culture whose influence is still felt today	Vadakendanic Verrasi	Polynesian Irehearts
29	Ritual	A ceremony that represents a transition or transfer	Yak'kolishi Funerary Procession	The Engraving Ceremony
30	Law	A rare natural phenomenon that most people look forward to	Index Manifestation	Rangi Marama
31	Vehicle	A method used to carry goods over long distances	Gondola 5	Jackhammer Platforms
32	Technology	A system to send messages between distant places	Comm Chain	Intrasystem Booster Array
33	Language	A Form of Silent Communication	Abi Handspeak	Snowflare
34	Organization	An organization for which recruiting or proselytizing is important	Order of the Lotus	Alms St Hedon Chapter
35	Species	A species with an unusual form of communication	Kappa Dragon	Brillant-Back Dasher
36	Person	A Character who excels in manipulating others	Armun the Miser	Marshall Linor're
37	Document	An important public address from one person to many	Mark of Exile	The Northern Pact
38	Building	A landmark associated with communication	Nejek'ken Governor's Mansion	The Waimana Array Center
39	Person	A character who prefers to lurk in the shadoes	Ravyzza the Vicious	Rufus
40	Condition	A "negative" condition that has hidden advantages	Therianthropic Psychosis	Mintworm Infection
41	Organization	An org dedicated to keeping a secret from the public	The Heartbeat Society	Sisters of Regret
42	Condition	A myth or truth about the creation of the universe	The Truth of the Sovereigns	Surrender to Murder

Ademal Summercamp 2023 Cert by World Anvil

Barron Summercamp 2023 Cert by World Anvil

The Four Themes

Power

Power within Ethnis is centralized within the Banners, and favors the Monolithic, the Psiolic, and the incredibly wealthy.

The Powers

• Bannerheads: The names known all across the firmament—The Somnolent, the Pact Council the Directoriate. Through a combination of nomination and force they've risen to the top of the Ethnis great power structures, and sit upon them as commanders and guides.
• Monoliths: The living gods. Though they may rise from any class, the phenomenon favors those whose life affords them time to meditate upon their skills. They are the springs from which magic flows, and the State always wants a say in how their power is used.
• Psiolic: The power of the Psiolic rarely spreads beyond the sphere of the domestic until they transcend into becoming a Monolith, but that aspiration encourages them to question the status quo only to improve circumstances for Monoliths, rather than for their communities.

Frontier

The frontiers are the Outer Worlds — those worlds which have been lost and the worlds far beyond which have yet to be found.

The Frontiers

• Reclamation: The Lacuna closed the WayHall and shattered the vast domains of the Banners into a thousand points of light, slowly burning out. Now, the Reclamation has come. It is time to get out there and find them, perhaps even before their original owners do...
• Discovery: There are new machines yet to be invented and new sciences yet to be expressed. Everywhere you look, you can find something to be done and someone asking you to do it. To what will you devote yourself? How will your findings change you.
• Inwards: In all the strenge ways in which the material realm intersects the metaphysical, there's enough yet to learn to fill a million library ships Some say that there are other realms to discover—windows and doors into worlds hitherto unseen.

Relics

Although the Lacuna was not enough to send the Hub worlds back to the stone age, the amount of progress lost to it has been a wound to all worlds. This history is fervently sought.

Sought Relics

• Affinities are objects with supernatural capabilities and a will of their own. The longer they exist, the more powerful and willful they become. Some are smart enough to be considered Sophontic. Some are far smarter than that.
• Lost Knowledge Medicine, science, tech, magic. What once was known may still be written down and waiting to be discovered again, and yesterday's machines can be modernized by the distinguished engineer.
• Indices are the keys to the Wayhall. It is unclear at present what causes an Index to appear to somone, but it is a reliable inevitability on any world with unopened Waypoints.

Communication

Communication within Ethnis a complex hive of networks and technologies workin in tandem to facilitate private and public channels of communication.

Important Communications

• Aethernet: While Ethnis enjoys the benefit of ansibel technology for instantaneous communication, it has its weaknesses in a reliance on magic and infrastructural requirements—nobody is carrying it on a small WayShip just barely scraping within the bounds of its weight class.
• Radio: Satellites and towers are reliable, and from the backbone of communications along the Outer Worlds. They often center around Aethernet connections as a means to transmit important data from one network to another.
• CommLink: The platforms work both as client-server and peer-to-peer, allowing connection with networks and devices alike. They are a necessary tool for anyone, and take a variety of shapes and utilities.

Ademal

Hello campers! I have emerged from my cave to join you for summercamp! I'm going to do every single prompt and I'm going to do my best to make them related to one of the six articles below. We'll see ow well I do, considering how my brain can get when it's time to focus!

Like school taught me, I'm better at tests than I am at homework, so a lot of my worldbuilding is likely to happen during the streams!

Adventures

Lore

Barron

Summercamp's back, baby! It's a great time for me to remind myself that just getting out articles is fun in it's own right. Usually my practice is to get the articles done, and then go back and revisit my favorites. I'm stoked for streaming again!

— Barron

Guide to Jhoutai

Explore an alien world through it's natural splendor, unique habitats, and its innumerable dangers. This Zine is the product of a bold and brave Ireheart by the name of Isaac "Fuzzy-lips" Lombard, who spent years traveling through Jhoutai with a camera, a powerfist, and a unwavering goal to show the world his findings.

He will take you into the depths of the Corralum, through the unending glaciers of the north, into the choking super jungle that is the Nege, and more!

My Zine in progress will be a huge part of my Summer Camp. Two birds, one stone!

Writing out some articles about expeditions into the wilds, survivalists tales, will be fun for summer camp if the prompts are good for it!

There's no shortage of species articles, so this one will be easy. I also think I can fit in some Myths, Materials, and all that good stuff with some creative prompt bending!

Many of the creatures in Ethnis will have a story to tell beyond their mere appearance or methods of murder. Many will have tie ins with the populace, be it hostile or symbiotic.

Isaac Lombard

Summercamp will be a great time to flesh out Isaac Lombard, who is the 'protaginist' of the Jhoutai Zine. History, family, organizations he may be apart of. A lot of lore to explore in a new persons story so I'm excited to dive in!

Gruesome Endings, New Beginnings

Gruesome Endings, New Beginnings is my First Novella set within the Ethnis Universe! It's already drafted but I would love to be able to document more about the characters and their world. I already did quite a few of them during World Ember.

One things for sure there, there's always more to write! So if any prompts fit, it'll be written!

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