WorldEmber 2020

Introduction

In preparation for the 2020 WorldEmber challenge, with this document, I'm setting the goal to write a minimum of 10,000 words of public worldbuilding in the month of December.

Goals

While the minimum requirement for the WorldEmber challenge is 10,000 words, I would like to take this opportunity to make up for writing time I lost during National Novel-Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). To that end, my ultimate goal is write anywhere from 25,000 to 50,000 words during the month of December.
The content of my writing during WorldEmber 2020 will fall into several categories, but will largely center around equipment and vehicles found in the Manifold Sky setting, as well as a few pivotal characters who will ultimately show up in stories within The Garbage Man's story arc. I would like to have enough notes at the end of this challenge to fully flesh out a novel and/or campaign settin book to be written in the coming months.
Finally, during this time, I would like to learn how to make use of statblocks tables to spruce up my articles.

In truth, because the WorldEmber goal meter only registers public content, my actual word count goal will have to be a minimum of 15,000 and should fall within the 50,000 word range with all hidden content included. This is because, as an additional goal, I want to take this time to include the role-playing game statistics for any article I create during this month for which they would be relevant. However, as these statistics will be for the BCGR tabletop roleplaying system currently in development, these portions will be Patreon patron-exclusive.
If you are in the patron-exclusive group, you will see these statistics in callout boxes like this. If you would be interested in seeing them, consider supporting me on Patreon today!

Categories

The articles I will be writing for WorldEmber 2020 will fall into the following categories. This list is just a source of ideas and should not be considered exhaustive - it may expand as I discover gaps in the worldbuilding to be filled, some might get removed due to being done too early, and some might never get done in time. As each article is completed, I will add functional text or block links to keep track of my progress. The categories are:

Vehicles:

Auto-Armor:

• PM "Paladin" Main Battle Auto-Armor (vehicle)
• KF "Knave" Fast Attack Auto-Armor (vehicle)
• (Verdial main auto-armor) (vehicle)
• (Rostran main auto-armor) (vehicle)
• ("Archangel" Auburn Aerotech automated auto-armor) (vehicle)

Armored Cavalry:

• (Voxelian main battle tank)(vehicle)
• (Coalition main battle tain)(vehicle)
• ANF-1 "Angler Fish" Amphibious Special Duty Tank (vehicle)

Aerodyne:

• (Voxelian fighter)(vehicle)
• (Voxelian bomber)(vehicle)
• (Coalition fighter)(vehicle)
• (Coalition bomber)(vehicle)

Aerostat:

• (Voxelian combat airship)(vehicle)
• (Coalition combat airship)(vehicle)
• (MCS combat airship)(vehicle)
• (RAC combat airship)(vehicle)
• (Petalcap Vale combat airship)(vehicle)
• (generic passenger liner)(vehicle)

Locations

Rostran/Ovinex Locations:

• Eudoxia (settlement)- Rostran industrial center
• M'bekt (settlement)- Ovinex shepherd town
• Olingarn (settlement)- Rostran town
• (largest ovinex settlement)
• Still Atoll (settlement)- Hermitage Island Fellowship island with a unique infrastructure project
• Bottletown (settlement) - Hermitage Island Fellowship town built inside enormous geodesic sphere terrarium

Human Locations:

• Vivaldi Peak (settlement)- capital of the Commonwealth of C
• (Free Faces League town)(settlement)
• (Craterhold town)(settlement)
• The Tartagloam Palms - 125 Hands hideout (building)

Verdial Locations:

• Bamboo & Brass Resort (settlement) - hotspring resident spa & Verdant Order hideout (settlement/building)
• (Remote verdial town) (settlement)

Other Locations:

• (Biocosmist monastery) (building)
• Clothier's Anomaly (geography) - a massive unknown object of cloth-like consistency found in Distal/Western ocean.
• Bleaker's Void (geography) - Distal H near commissure to E, a series of intensely sloped spires surrounded by deep, dark voids almost all the way to the microgravity layer. Visitors disappear without a trace.
• Additional Spatial Dimensions (natural law) - an expanded explaination of how spatial dimensions are arranged in the Manifold Sky

Characters/NPCs

• (125 hands agent)(character)

• (Bard-Recursant spy)(character)

• Eline Messer (character)

Factions

• Eudoxia Chemical Group (organization)
• Rostrax Aerostat & Aerodyne (organization)

• League Dieseltech Armory (organization)
• Medial Works Equipment Company (organization)

• Auburn Aerotech (organization)

Other

• The Ballad of Both Barrels (document) - a folk song about a mysterious vigilante avenger in the cowboy days of Medial C
• Woolstrike (condition) - a contagious skin disease similar to orf that started among the ovinex and then spread to Rostrans. Victims temporarily lose wool/body hair in affected area.
• Old Voxelian (ethnicity) - the pre-history culture of Voxelia; currently a stub
• Low Rostran - the culture of Rostrans who live closer to the shore; currently a stub
• Forma Rot (condition) - a rapidly-progressing neurodegenerative disease spread by an unknown vector; currently a stub
• Slapdashery (profession) - a form of machine craftsmanship and, arguably, an art movement characterized by the radical embrace of recycled materials
• Endurastahl (material) - an extremely durable steel alloy created by Medial Works
• Dimensional Shift (spell) - a formalized explaination of The Garbage Man's powers
• Absinthite (material) - residue left behind by Dimensional Push

Imagery for WorldEmber 2020

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From the unfinished novella "To Not Be Still Atoll"

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WorldEmber Articles Completed by Type:

• Club 105 (building)*
• The Tartagloam Palms (building)
• Court of Liars (building)
• Creator (character)
• Eline Messer (character)
• Ixaumosana (character)
• Spirit of the Black Bird (character)
• Verdialization (condition)
• Forma Rot (condition)*
• Woolstrike (condition)*
• Codex Biocosmia (document)
• Hymns of the World-Forger (document)
• The Imperial Canon (document)
• Johny Hardball (document)
• Kid Citrus (document)
• Universal Artifice (document)
• My Graceful Island Crane (document)*
• The Mortal Tourney (document)
• Cobalt Rostran (ethnicity)
• Low Rostran (ethnicity)
• A Taxonomy of Sentient Species in the Manifold Sky (generic)
• Bleaker's Void (geography)*
• Caldera Red (item)
• Djet (item)
• Elledjet (item)
• "Salamander" Exhaust Whip (item)
• GasKIT (language)
• Absinthite (material)
• Megaxylem Latex (material)
• Coalition Defense Forces (military)
• Grand Army of Voxelia (military)
• Hand of the Order (military)
• Rostran Archipelago Confederacy Marine Forces (military)
• The Ballad of Both Barrels (myth)
• The Horror Dusk Homunculi (myth)
• Red Velvet Association (nation)
• Additional Spatial Dimensions (natural law)
• Servant of Ironies (profession)
• Slapdashery (profession)
• Hierophant (rank)
• Djet Kazh (ritual)
• Elderhood Rite (ritual)
• Ritual Sigil (ritual)
• Vyozha Variants (ritual)
• Bamboo & Brass Resort (settlement)
• Bottletown (settlement)
• Eudoxia (settlement)
• Eusiormapu (settlement)
• Still Atoll (settlement)*
• Vivaldi Peak (settlement)
• Caudal Lichen (species)
• Megaxylem (species)
• Shardleaf (species)
• Dimensional Shift (spell)
• Agri-mine (technology)
• Fuel Biosynthesis (technology)
• BF-6 "Fortress" Mobile Stronghold Auto-Armor (vehicle)]
• KF "Knave" Fast Attack Auto-Armor (vehicle)
• PM "Paladin" Main Battle Auto-Armor (vehicle)
• ANF-1 "Angler Fish" Amphibious Special Duty Tank (vehicle)
• Sandsail (vehicle)

*This article counted towards the official WorldEmber 2020 counter, but was published 11/30/20 local time.