WorldEmber 2023

The list of the articles I wrote during WE 2023. I wrote them in 2 worlds:

Imperial Soulmates: a futuristic sci-fi fantasy world with lots of fun magitechs

Dark Lord Seduction Plan: a fantasy world with the main character being one of the evil Dark mages; the articles are flyers written from an in-world POV.

See the next section for more details about these worlds.

List of articles written for WE 2023

See the for my favourite articles

Wolrd of Imperial Soulmates

Magitechs

Basis of the magic system

The science of solarpunk magic and ongoing challenges: Natural law - an overview of my magic system

Enchanting: Spell - the actual magic that gives objects new properties

Runic diagrams: Item - using maths and runes to create a system that can anchor enchantments

Mineral vs organic magitech : Technology - a presentation of the basis of my solarpunk magic system, with magic-anchoring plants.

Magic reservoirs: Technology - poor people fuelling reservoirs that store magic so that it can be used by mass production machines

Examples of organic magitechs:

Communication hub: Technology - a variation of internet, anchored in the mycelium of a gigantic fungi!

Fixed wards, clothes wards, and portable wards: Technology - my ward system and how they protect houses and keep clothes cleaned

Adjustable house technology: Technology - rooms can change place in a house, so no need for stairs or corridors!

Herbonumenology—healing with magic-anchoring plants and fungi: Technology - using magic-anchoring plants in healing

Flying carriages: Vehicles - vehicles flying thanks to a magic-anchoring moss

Examples of magic-anchoring plants

Domi moss—the carnivorous household moss: Species - an example of plant that anchor magic

Lime wood in magical artefacts: Material - using living magic-anchoring trees or wood planks in your house

Culture

Wall painting competition

Imperial citizens: Ethnicity - a presentation of the culture of my empire, with a focus on taboo, fashion and leisure activities (including painting the walls of your building with your neighbours)

Old Malik: Character - the leader of the building where my main character lives and a fierce competitor in neighbouring wall painting

Winners of the neighbourhood wall painting competition : Rank - a presentation of the competition with a focus on what's happening in my main character's town

Random articles

Courtship rituals: Tradition - how the existence of soulmates has influenced ways to show your devotion to someone

The imperial curse—the ultimate judgment on traitors: Condition - an example of a legal curse cast by a judge and of its consequences

Overview of the professions in the Empire: Profession - a quick presentation of the most important profession in the empire, the training required, and how they're viewed by society

The imperial palace: Building - the palace of the emperor and how it integrates the latest organic magitech

History and current conflicts

The Empire Renewal: Myth - a children tale explaining how the city-state of Arboise was razed up but rose again to conquer the world

The Twelfth Sannian War: Conflict - the last war with Sanne and how this is setting up for a new conflict

The Sannian kidnapping announcement : Document - the reaction of Sanne to the last conflict! Kidnapping the Arboisian emperor and sending Arboise a taunting message

Geography of the Empire of Arboise: Geography - a map! showing how Arboise is slowly conquering the entire world

Arboise—Capital of the Empire: Settlement - the city state that rose to conquer the world!

The imperial guards: Military formation - the guard supposed to protect the emperor and the tensions between them

World of Dark Lord Seduction Plan

Random articles

Golden pricker : Species - a flyer from the city council begging people to treat the birds well even if they're assholes

The lost Snowflake kitten : Character - a little menace of a kitten that has been found in the Dark Lord's manor, and the bets that his lieutenants are making regarding his reaction when he will discover the kitten

The University of Brauchat: Organisation - a presentation of the uni and its hands-on no-theory values and why you better enrol if you want a successful career

Plans for WE 2023

Write 10k words minimum and see if I can reach 25k words without too much effort, but focus on relaxing after Nanowrimo, enjoying holidays with my family, and having fun with WE.

Area of focus for WE

World 1

For now my plans is to mainly focus on my world of Imperial Soulmates.
This is still a relatively young world I created at the start of this year so that I could worldbuild on paper during a stressful time in my life and not make any effort to make anything good enough to be shared. I've started to clean up and publish some of my notes but there is still a lot of work to do with that and a lot of unexplored area.
I think this will be the best way for me to keep the challenged chill and relax after Nanowrimo and while spending the holidays with my family.
In particular, I have a lots of plan about continuing to develop the weird scifi-fantasy and solarpunk technologies and how this has impacted the culture!

List of articles to write

Character: develop some enemies for the plot

Technology: healing and food (food has magic in it and so healing properties)

Material: materials used to make magical artefacts

Technology: organic vs metallic magitech

Technology: technologies without magic

Technology: magic reservoir

Technology: wards

Technology: flying vehicles

Technology: robot/programmed magic

Technology: communication hub (with fungi! I need to write that article for Emy :D)

Technology: adjustable houses

Landmark: the imperial palace (where the novel takes place)

Settlement: the capital

Organisation: region where MC's family rules

Settlement: place where MC lives before the start of the novel

Location: geography of the empire (generic article to present the empire)

Ritual: society (generic presentation about the most important social characteristics)

Ritual: leisure (a paragraph each on a few fun activities)

Profession: profession summary (a paragraph each on what's the job and how prestigious it is, to give another overview of society)

World 2

I'm also keeping my world of Dark Lord Seduction Plan in reserve in case I want to do something a bit different at some point. The world is well developed, since I've been working in this world during WE 2022 and SC 2023, and the style I use for my articles there is more complex and requires more thinking and effort. However, since I'm writing the first draft of the novel in November, I'm already having a list of new articles to write.
In particular, I have a big list of new characters that will need some short or medium length articles to present them, and using WE would be a good way to motivate me to get this done and not keep all those character notes private like I usually do.
Other homework: I've updated the world homepage and the categroy pages.

List of articles to write

Character: Jean Lannoie (colleague at the rune guild, the Light Lord's favourite)

Character: Norine (colleague at the rune guild, the nice excited one)

Character: Lanton (colleague at the rune guild, the bitchy one)

Character: 2 Royenne young girls (tutored by Alina)

Character: Marie (a teacher at one of the university, dislikes Alina)

Character: King Stanislas

Character: the deceased crown prince (dead during a duel and used as a political point to argue for demilitarisation)

Character: Louis Nayer (Dark Lord's secretary)

Character: Lord Merin (Light mage arguing for demilitarisation)

Character: Lerauche (dead rune academician, often quoted)

Characters: Alina's parents and her grandmother (the family's matriarch)

Character: the Ashenfaures and Christophe (Alina's fiancé the "mysteriously" ends up in a coma...)

Character: Minister of Defense Xanon (no idea what I'm going to do with him yet)

Character: Journalist Rémi Dumand (write political opinion pieces)

Character: Journalist Jeanne Longue (write a gossip column)

Character: A cute and very affectionate kitten! That belongs to a secret character

Ritual: list of calendar and ritual celebrations

Technology: intent-based magic

Technology: miraculous cure-all

Technology: Illénian battle staff

Species: A random bird species I need for the descrioption of a street. This will also be for Mochi's species challenge

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