Aruinnbith Roadmap: Where am I going?
What is my Roadmap?
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
Aruinnbith is in a weird place, I have old documents and files of half-finished notes, partially completed and forgotten websites, an old message board system that I can't even access anymore, and countless places I've completely forgotten. As such I've forgotten more about this world than I remember. That makes trying to get everything up on WA a bit of a challenge. I start writing one article and then I'm stuck with the purple button just adding empty article after empty article trying to get it all down before I forget again. This type of world building can't continue. A) I'm all over the place and will forget too much trying to get it down in one sitting, and B) there's no flow for a reader to have any idea what they're looking at or how to find it.
So I need a new way to organize my work and setting things up to make it interesting to read and continue naturally from one article to the next. This is where this road map and the meta analysis come in, to give me a place to start. The following sections will break down where I am, what needs major work, what I'm planning on covering in general and where I'm going in the future. Eventually I will be linking in this article and on the main page an updates page.
2022 Update: Life happened as it usually does, however, in this situation the biggest change is that I'm not working on shifting this into a homebrew world for a D&D campaign.
Where do I begin?
“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”I'm going to break Aruinnbith down in several main topics with side topics and branches here and there but these are the big ones that will be getting most of my attention for summer 2020.
Species
There are at least twelve sentient species on the planet (so far), some of them originated in other dimensions and came through, others are homegrown. They each have their own customs, roles, ideals, religions, culture mores and governments.
| Spring 2022 | Duadhain, Dwarven, Ra'kinga, and Ingylic'an |
| Summer 2022 | Vaelea, Gnomes, Aterine, and the Faernoe |
| Autumn 2022 | Dragons, Gnolls, and Centaurs. |
| Winter 2022 | Red Caps, Demons, Mermaids |
Geography
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even continents, little less than a year. Here's the breakdown for where I'm focusing, for now.
| Spring 2022 | Enia, Baurwich and Atora |
| Summer 2022 | Enela, Osiabyth |
| Autumn 2022 | Taebend, Skew Vrya |
Flora
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here are a wide variety of plants, vegetation, and fungi that grow naturally or unnaturally as the case maybe on Aruinnbith and it's Planes. I'll be focusing on various biomes throughout the year.
| Spring 2022 | Taiga (boreal Forest), temperate forest, temperate grassland, Fresh water and Fresh water Wetlands |
| Summer 2022 | Tundra, deserts, Savanna, Alpine, Marine Biomes |
| Autumn 2022 | Rainforest, Chaparal, coral, estuaries |
Fauna
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ummer 2020 will focus on the same Biomes in Flora, but with a special focus on the animals within these biomes. I will also include in both of these special mention of any supernatural creatures within each biome and their uses in both magical and mundane arts.
| Spring 2022 | Taiga, Temperate forest, Temperate grasslands, fresh water and fresh water wetlands |
| Summer 2022 | Tundra, desert, savanna, Alpine, Marine |
| Autumn 2022 | Rainforest, Chaparal, coral and Estuaries, |
Magic, Culture and Religion
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ith as many species as there are on Aruinnbith there are as many kinds of magic, and how they interact with the world. The magic worked on will follow the same species.
| Spring 2022 | Duadhain, Ingylic'an, Dwarven, Ra'kinga |
| Summer 2022 | Vaelea, Gnomes, Aterine, and the Faernoe |
| Autumn 2022 | Dragons, Gnolls, and Centaurs |
Economy and Currency
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ummer 2020 -- Economic systems present on Aruinnbith, how that interacts with governments and how wealth is distributed.
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