Follow along with my WorldEmber progress!

These resources will help you keep track of my progress through this month-long marathon challenge:

• Haly’s Official WE Progress Report — each participant gets a page that automatically collects their author information and all WE-eligible articles across all worlds into a single, shareable package.
• Haly’s WorldEmber on Argentii Index — an on-the-fly journal page and handy sidebar displaying only new Argentii WE-eligible articles.

Mid-Challenge Recap

Writing every day is a challenge! Writing and world-building every day is an even bigger challenge. Since WorldEmber began on Nov. 30th, I’ve not only written and published this newsletter every day, I have also written all of the articles listed below!

Why yes, it is quite the list! Thank you for noticing! I hope a few catch your interest. I’ve included a brief little piece of context about each article. Please, go; enjoy!

Airship - One of the primary means of transportation of people and goods.

Autumn Harvest Festival - The biggest festival and market gathering of the year, held annually Library Inn on Crossroads Island.

Axehead Mountains - The northern region of Argentii’s main island, Capitalla.

Capitalla - Argentii’s main island, once the center of the united lands.

Capitalla University of Arts and Literature - The world’s finest institute for everything beautiful, but especially known for churning out scribes, calligraphers, illuminators, and engravers.

Catacombs - The underground underworld where the wandering spirits of the dead are cured into their bones.

Crossroads Island Freewriting Meditation - Getting my bearings on what needs work; a loose sketch of ideas that needed development.

Crossroads Island Town - An important location; occupies a large portion of the Old Castle’s bailey.

Division River - A major transportation route between the north and south regions of Capitalla; the river in which Crossroads Island is situated.

Docker's Dining and Event Space - A mostly outdoor dining and event space; food vendors daily and available to rent for occasions.

Eastern Union - One of the two major government and economic powers.

Farmlands - A group of fertile islands, including Capitalla, responsible for providing most of Argentii’s food.

Goldstone - A volcanic rock found in the Axehead Mountains and from which Library Inn is built.

Honey Nut Bacon - Exactly what it says, includes the recipe!!

Icelands - The northern-most islands of Argentii, extending past the arctic line.

Night of Wandering Souls - Ring in the new year with the relics of your ancestors.

North Dock Tower - One of the formal entrances into the Old Castle.

North Docks - Includes the island’s only airship docking structure.

Shadelands - A group of tall, rocky, cliff-like islands in the east, includes Smouge.

Spur Blacklake's Murder - The legend of a (locally) famous ghost that wanders the North Dock Tower.

Storybard - Storybards are the most important members of society. Not just potentially, but actually.

Technomaniacal Contraption - It’s not steampunk without a source of nearly limitless power. And it’s not magipunk unless you distill blood for its magical essence.

Thistle Spider - Where does a female thistle spider sleep? Anywhere she wants.

Tilth - The Island of Glass. It does one thing: glass. It lacks water, even polluted water, and is ruled by a cult.

Tombs - Where the bones of the dead wait as they await processing.

United Royal Family of Argentii - From Tige and Talla to the surviving children of Darien and Ellia.

Western Empire - The other major player in Argentii’s political and economic struggles. Heavily reliant on technomaniacal contraptions.

Wrapping the Day

Which articles struck your attention? What areas of Argentii are you keen to know more about? Let me know in the comments! Getting feedback from y’all makes my heart soar!!

As I write this, I am sitting at 24,060 new words of world-building toward my 50,000-word goal. ALMOST HALFWAY THERE, BAY-BEE!!!