Summercamp 2021 Pledge

Copper or rust!

— some clever anvilite

Summercamp 2020 is a worldbuilding challenge throughout July. 31 Prompts will be released following the schedule below.

• Thursday 1st July: Copper Prompt reveal (prompts 1-10)
• Saturday 10th July: Silver Prompt reveal (prompts 11-20)
• Tuesday 20th July: Gold Prompt reveal (prompts 21-30)
• Friday 30th July: Diamond Prompt reveal (prompt 31!)

I will be using these prompts to develop the Morning Realm, the world for my current DnD campaign. My goal is not to complete all the prompts, but to have fun doing as many as possible! Alongside the Worldanvil discord community I think it'll be a blast. If things get rough, I trust that they'll be there to commiserate or encourage me, whatever needs doing.

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Focus Area

Listed by number of priority, the areas I would like to focus on are as follows.

1. My Must Write List. These are the articles that are desperately needed to give context to the world, but that I've been procrastinating.

2. The Capital of the Castellan Kingdoms. My campaign is set in the Capital, so of all the areas in my world, it's the one with the most value for effort.

3. My own amusement! If an article would bring me joy to write, but doesn't fit what I've put here, then bugger it, I'll write it anyway!

Questions to ask myself when the prompts are revealed

• What are my immediate ideas?
• Can I answer this prompt and cross something off of my Must Write List?
• If not, can I make one of those work in the Castellan Capital?
• If not, is one of my ideas something fun I'm itching to write?
• If I don't get any ideas, are other people working on them and doing something neat?

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Preparing for Summercamp

The goal of this preparation is to have as few other things to worry about as possible during Summercamp.

Organization

An organized wiki is a happy wiki. In pursuit of a happy wiki, I'm taking World Anvils advice and getting my hens all in a row. World Anvil recommended we prepare the images we know we'll need, that we up our article design to guide readers, and that we organize our categories. I work hard to make sure my articles are formatted clearly, so much so that I had already written a style guide just before we were given this assignment! Still, there's always work to be done.
For the sake of my own sanity, I will put no pressure on myself to complete all my desired images within this week, or even before Summercamp.
Write the Style Guide and Pledge Document

Categories
Rearrange the existing categories
Add the categories I know I'll need
Add icons from FA or RA to all published articles
Clean up article names according to the Style Guide

Images
Create a .psd for header images
Remake noble emblems in Armoria
Draw a map of the Capital
Landscape Images
The Castle
Castellite lower class fashion
Castellite middle class fashion
Castellite upper class fashion

Other Work
Move Table of Contents so they are consistent across articles
BB Code Repository

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Finished Work

Recategorization

Prior to the Great Recategorization there were four somewhat shoddily named categories (Sociology, Theology, Geography and Templates.) Only some categories had icons and there was no overarching theme. To improve this a list was written with all the current articles and articles I knew I wanted in the future. For additional inspiration I looked at how other World Anvils structured theirs, as well as how the DnD Campaign books. After some consideration, I ended with the following structure.
I also went through and decided which Font Awesome Icons I wanted to use, and added a table with the icon codes and what they represent to my Style Guide.

Article Templates

Templates are a great way to speed up the creation of articles, provided they'd all require the same base. I used this method when creating the pages for my Provinces and my Noble Houses. These templates have since been deleted to save space, as I won't be adding more.

Images

As an artist it's easy to feel like I should illustrate everything myself. As it turns out, that doesn't go well with chronic fatigue and a tendency towards perfectionism. I had to face myself midway through this weeks prep and admit defeat. A fully illustrated map and multiple landscapes just wasn't going to happen in a week. Instead I allowed myself to find public domain art instead, and focused on making sure it was all fully credited. The images I've found are uploaded in a galley below.

Placeholder Images

I created two placeholder images for character pages, one for male and one for female characters. These are inspired by the silhouette cameos that were popular during the victorian era.

Placeholder Man by Annie Stein

Placeholder Woman by Annie Stein

I also used Watabou's medieval city generator to generate a city map, which I illustrated and tidied up in photoshop. I also did the same for a map of the continent, using Azgaar's fantasy map generator.

Map of the Castellan Capitol

Castellan Capitol

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Map of the Morning Realm

The Morning Realm

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See also

Resources

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	Links
Resources	Primer • Style Guide

Table of Contents

1. Focus Area
2. Preparing for Summercamp
3. Finished Work

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The Must Write List

Main ethnicities
Dwarves
Elves
Humans
Halflings
Lizardfolk
Bordering Nations
Lichen Marches
Courdonne
Argosian Empire
Theocracy of Krorus
Storest
Languages
Imperial Common
Dwarvish
Elvish
Chthonic
The Planes
The Dream / World Dawn

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Discount Badges

by Annie Stein

Discount I Tried Badge

by Annie Stein