How to Contribute

Anyone can contribute to Ingokai! We accept all kinds of creative works, including short stories, novels, artwork, music, timelines of events, and articles to add to the wiki. Ingokai was designed for anyone to be able to contribute to it, so don't be shy about contacting us at [email protected].

Submission Guidelines

Ingokai is, by design, a world rich with varying perspectives. Just as history is discovered through primary sources that may be innacurate or even contradictory, so too in Ingokai can individual sources offer conflicting perspectives on an event. It is in the spirit of Ingokai to leave such discrepancies up to the reader to decide for himself, rather than to clear them up with an authoritative statement from the Author's Pen. Individual contributors are free to have headcanons of their own and even to write articles that support that interpretation, but even so there should be left room for alternate interpretations.
Because of this it is the default assumption that all sources, all articles, and all works set in Ingokai are but one interpretation of events. This leaves room for other contributors to make their own mark on Ingokai by offering a fresh perspective on the same facts. With this goal in mind, we have developed the following set of guidelines for submissions:

List of Guidelines

1. Submissions to Ingokai should add new content. This can be adding a paragraph to an existing article or adding a new article, as well as adding to or creating timelines. Works such as poems, short stories, artwork, or music are always considered new content unless they are copies of another person's work.
2. Avoid Contradictions. While alternate perspectives are encouraged, attempting to erase or upstage another contributor's work is never allowed. For example, if another contributor wrote an article about the War of the Tigress, then it would not be allowable to write an article stating that the war never occurred at all. (However, it would be perfectly admissible to create an organization that claims that the war never existed. This allows the reader to draw his own conclusions on the matter.)
3. Allow for the possibility of reinterpretation. While the default assumption concerning Ingokai is that everything is subject to some interpretation, it is possible to write an article in such a way that makes reinterpretation difficult. Contributors are encouraged to be proactive about the perspectives within their articles, deliberately leaving the door open for alternate views or even proffering some within the article itself.
4. Write from a limited perspective. It is highly recommended (though not required) that contributors write articles from an in-universe perspective that would naturally be limited. Examples of this would be writing about a religion from the perspective of a well-educated teacher of that religion, or writing about a war from the perspective of an archaeologist who found several important artifacts that revealed its existence. It is especially encouraged to write articles as if they were secondary or tertiary sources, as if they were textbooks on magic or dissertations on political philosophy.

Any questions about these guidelines can be sent to [email protected].

Submission Form

The submission form below is to help us evaluate your work faster and to add it to the wiki more easily. It is more of a guideline than a rule, but please be as descriptive and communicative as possible. The more information we have, the easier it will be to display your contributions as you would like them to be displayed.

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Title
Contributor (The name you want to be known by)
Submission Type – Article, Timeline, Short Story, Chapter, Poem, Artwork, Music
(Note: If a poem, illustration, book, etc. exists in universe then mark your submission as an article.)
For Articles, fill out as many of these short snippets as you can. Please add any other information that you think should belong here.

• Article type – Document, Person, Place, etc.
• Relevant Dates – date founded, date destroyed, date discovered, etc.
• Location – can be a specific place, an organization, a culture, etc.
• Associated People or Groups – authors, owners, influential figures, rulers, etc.
• Pronunciation guide, if needed
• Related Articles

For non-text submissions, please note in this document the name and filetype of your submission.
Text: put the main body of the text here. For chapters and stories, please add any headings, titles, or formatting that you deem necessary. For articles, do not worry about headings. The team of Curators will sort all of the information under its proper heading. Any commentary within your document that is not part of the text to be published should be highlighted. This is the place for instructions about formatting, what to put in a footnote, etc.
For Timelines, please format your events in the following way:

1. Event Name. Type of event {battle, coronation, disaster, whatever}. (Date, using years before or after the fall of Coyriret).
   Short Paragraph describing event. Please include all of the information that you can and avoid flowery descriptions or filler. (If you’d like to be more descriptive, you can send your detailed descriptions in a separate article about that event.)
2. Name of Event. Type. (Date)
   Short Paragraph
3. Name of Event. Type. (Date)
   Short Paragraph

If your article is about an artistic work that exists in-universe and you have a full copy of said work, please attach it as a separate file to the email. At the bottom of this page, put the name of the attached file along with the in-universe name of the work.

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The Ingokai Curators reserve the right to refuse to publish any contribution for any reason. All work remains the property of the contributors who created it. By using content from this wiki or submitting your work to be included within Ingokai, you agree to allow other writers to use it in derivative works. If you would like your work removed for any reason, send a request to [email protected]. Note that if other contributors have created work based of of characters, locations, or other material that you have submitted, those works will not be removed.