WorldEmber 2021 Pledge

I pledge to write 10,000 words of worldbuilding during December!

Okay, so this is my first WorldEmber and also my very first World Anvil challenge. I'm sooo excited! I am really hoping to get to know my world better and explore all the corners and nooks. I missed NaNoWriMo but I won't miss this. Let's get into it!

Goal:

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My goal is to first learn how to work and write in World Anvil, as I didn't get to dive into it this deep before. Though I'm quite new to this and don't have any article on my page yet, I do have a lot in my mind, and I'm hoping to put it into words here.

Ideas:

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After getting to know the interface (which I'll probably be doing on the fly) I would like to write about some of these:

• Darkness - What is it? How does it work? How does it affect the people/world? Light vs. Darkness? Magic? Can you catch it? Does it possess you?
• Main circular/flower shaped cities shielded by "Light" - How were they constructed? Pros n cons? Communication between each other? Trading system? Source of "Light shield"? Population? Life outside these cities? Rope riding as alternative to streets?(there are still streets, just ropes are faster)
• The setting in general - Climate? Biomes? How is population scattered? Overall elevation? Fauna n flora? Languages? Finished map?
• Future calling rituals - How does it work? What is necessary? How accurate is it? Luminol + blood?
• Ground starlights/ Starberries - Why do they glow? Etymology? Significance to the people? Medical? How common? Where?
• Historical event - fight between archmage of Light and archmage of Darkness → Destruction of one of the Main cities - Why did they get the spells wrong? How was it so strong? Context? Causes? Consequences?
• Character - poor, shy, saves every possible thing -> collects weird stuff, quite tall and slim, apologizes all the time, counts everything that owns to the smallest bit, a bit over the place sometimes
• Darkborn - Who? How are they connected? They know everything that darkness saw. One thing? "Teleportation"?
• Seasons - Why are they named the way they are? What does it mean? Magical aspect?
• The mushroom village and its feasts - How often? What do they do? Don't collect shrooms for too long! What do they eat?
• Use “if this then what?” a lot

Prompts:

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Most of them are my own, some are from World Anvil ^-^

• Fortress with a temple on an island in the middle of a lake/river that is only accessible when the water is frozen - Why not boats? (Have to figure that out) - maybe some water creature?
• "Pitch black unknown" - How does it work that you always arrive there at night? How was it created? What is it? What is hidden under the Darkness?
• Magical explosion, casting a huge pressure wave that is so strong that it turns every place it passes by into silence. It pushes all the noises in front of itself, making a cacophony of every sound. Why did it happen? Maybe the fight of archmages above^ ? How does it work? Consequences? Pros n cons?
• "In indecisiveness lies the true power"
• Weather forecast of this world?
• You can somehow redefine when you were born to change what you can do, who you are...
• "May you not set as the Sun in the sky"
• Ice in the form of gas -> from geyser like structures (floats up-lighter than air) - freezing food, water, ... How do ppl use it?
• "Trash keepers"
• The lake of eternal ice
• Fire is like a child
• It is rude to have the same path as someone else
• Animal with inverted vision (sees at night as we'd see during the day, vice versa)
• Rope climbing fight/dance/ritual on the edge of a cliff
• This demon?
  
• This creature?
  
• Describe a geographic location beneath the surface – what can you find lurking there?
• Share some common idioms and phrases from a culture in your world.
• Describe a winter tradition that exists within one culture of your world. What is celebrated, and what’s involved in the festivities?
• Write about a special item used to keep track of time.
• What does the rainbow symbolize in a culture of your world?

Well, give me just a sec to light up my forge and grab my hammer, and I'm ready!