Summer Camp 2025

It's been a while!

I've had to take a break from writing for a bit, and I'm craving to get back into building my world out for my books. I'm halfway through series planning, and in order to finish this, I need to have some specific things fleshed out. That means stubs. Lots of them.

I won't pretend to not be using this Summer Camp to get back into the swing of things, but that's kind of the whole point, isn't it?

Anyway, it's good to see you all again. Cheers to Summer Camp!

Theme 1: Nourishment

Nourishment is something a lot of us would say we lack nowadays. Be it access to good food, or proper health, or simply just the real enrichment each human needs to stay mentally healthy; we all are missing something. That's something that shows up in the worlds we create³, often in many different ways. There's something to be said for the common act of creation that nourishes us all.

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The Weaver nourishes them all to keep the story moving, and sometimes that nourishment pools in the folds of the Veil. Resources vanish in one area of the Cradles, and multiply in others, resulting in a careful dance of balance among the stars. So many lives are forever changed as the Magic shifts and moves, with a life of its own. Empires rise and fall, and people carry on.

There are so many methods of nourishment around the Woven Worlds, but I am going to choose to focus on the Magic system for this theme. There is so much left to flesh out, but now that I have the basic ideas I want to run with, I can actually start codifying it.

The Magic of Visctheria is taught in schools, certain groupings of Magic types that draw on particular focuses or strains of power. Each Magic user picks from those categories of Magic, and learns the skills enough to create their own style within that mode of use. There have been several cases of mixed Magic use, but never to any great success - in fact, usually the opposite.

by World Anvil

First Priority

World Meta

Stub Articles

Anduar
Abyssal House
Orbital Rings
Shosta
Beyond
Books of Magic
Sigil Circle
Security Locks
Carlathan Lace
Ley Gland
Viscan Order
Silver Brotherhood
Darkbreakers
Crescent Council
Vyktyr Strutheo
Silena
Icauria Soldenmarch
Ayda Northana
Antarah Rolfe

Full Articles

Godsent
Visctheria
Athos Repository
Moons of Visctheria
Countries of Visctheria
Adia
Visctherian Pantheon
Ghaotz
Spark
Shattering
Maritime Law
First Peace Treaty
Chronos
Warmongrel
Plague of the Xaagi Islands
Drakes
Arcanist
Zabralka's Island
Everian Creation Myth
Battlesong
Harot
Anduari
Clans of Priquish
Hilgor the High Flying
Deliah⁴²³²
Ascian Thaerdroth

Theme 2: Roots

I've never really placed much stock in roots. As someone who moved fourteen times before my thirteenth birthday, I never really got to dig into life until I found worldbuilding. I was able to create something that felt real and permanent¹ for the first time, and I became obsessed with building a world. This Summer Camp will mark a decade of work on that world, Visctheria. And of course, I started somewhere.

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thought! The intro was too abstract and wordy, and I felt it gave too much away. I realized my primer was never completed, and am redoing it from scratch... but now I also have to fix some CSS that I'm currently praying no one will notice. Lots to do!

Drives. However, most of the important ones have already been digitized, so my review of my published articles - and my many, many drafts - gave me the recap I needed to continue forward!

Theme 3: Metamorphosis

Change is constant and inevitable. There have been hundreds of versions of this world penned by dozens of versions of me, both growing over the last ten years. This universe, these characters and places, the stories, have all grown up with me. There is no current me without this world, and there is no version⁷ of this world without me in it. But that's what creation is sort of about, and I'm proud to see the changes affect everything.

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controlled by fear and prejudice. Betrayed by their geographical neighbors¹³ five hundred years ago, the borders are aggressive, the politics are fierce, and the characters are desperately loving in a time of hatred. There are no second chances in Everia, and everyone is rooting for their own team.

The characters are faced with countless challengers, intent on their demise as much as their success. They have no choice but to work together to survive, and bring an end to the religious conspiracy that holds the country in an iron grip.

Dark and gritty, fantastical but cosmically horrifying, the art style of Berserk - while not necessarily the story content - is a huge inspiration for how this story looks in my head. While this content isn't exactly new to me, I never finished it, so some of it is still unfamiliar. However, the art I see online is always hauntingly beautiful, simplistic, and gut-wrenching. It's the sort of energy I hope to create with this story.

Theme 4: Tomorrow

Nothing ever really goes to plan, does it? That certainly has been my experience with writing, and with life. Sometimes the story changes in a way you don't expect, things line up differently than they should, and you are forced to adapt. That's what tomorrow is for. Something didn't work, take a break and try again tomorrow¹⁶. There are only so many days that can be failures.

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The story of Everia and the seven heroes that save it effects the rest of the stories along the Visctherian timeline, and it could even be argued that the echoes reach all the way post-Impact. There's a lot that started here, and there's a lot that must occur for the Woven Worlds to follow their story.

Showcase channel to get my writing seen. That way my brain remembers to keep going, so I can keep getting the serotonin of showing off!