For Worldember. I wrote an overview article for how feudal rulers in Scarterra deal wit the fact that nine powerful priesthoods all wanting different things and making political demands and able to essentially wield miracles on command.
Then I wrote a child article for all nine of Scarterra's priesthoods on THEIR strategies for dealing with kings and queens. For Stubuary 2026, I gave ALL TEN articles in this series a thorough polishing.
Lots of proofreading, lots of pictures, adding POV quotes, more dynamic formatting and even a dash of coding to make the visuals scroll a bit better. Everything I could think of to make it worthy of being a major tentpole of Scarterra's lore.
Give the other Stubuary entries some love too
#Stubuary2026
#Worldember2025
#Unofficialchallenge
#Worldember2025
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WHERE HAVE I BEEN?
Hello everyone,
I'm sure that you noticed a lack of updates from me here (apart from me being semi-active on the WA discord) recently after the conclusion of #WorldEmber2025 There are a few reasons for this.
The first reason being that I've simply been in recovery after #WorldEmber. I have been using most of January to restore my creative juices after being in literal overdrive last month, reaching above 10,000 words. Plus the editing and final checks for every entry before #WorldEmber concluded demanded much of my attention. At this point, I'm starting to get back into the normal flow of my creativity so I'll likely start posting more often soon.
The second reason is more recent as my home state of North Carolina was one of the states hit by a major winter storm named Winter Storm Fern. The last two days have seen parts of NC getting varying amounts of snow and ice. I kinda had to prepare for that. Ironically, this also turned out to be a blessing in disguise as I needed a nice background for my entry into the Beautiful People contest. As of this post, there is still much snow and ice at my home but it is melting (albeit slower than expected).
The third reason is connected to the first one: I wanted to avoid burning myself out so I backed up from creating anything for a time. As many of you know, burnout can really hinder the creative process and I made it a point of stopping so I wouldn't be running on fumes creatively. New ideas are forming in my mind again so I feel that I have managed to avoid major burnout.
Those are the main reasons for me not posting anything major here. I also have not forgotten about posting more of my artwork here. That will be occurring again soon.
Have a good day everyone!
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The Wailing Cracker is a horrible weapon carried by the Silent Men of corporate security, black operatives, illicit mercenaries, and (very rarely) street gangs.
#WorldEmber2025 #SharetheLove #worldember #anvilspace #sciencefiction #cyberpunk #modernsciencefiction #militarysciencefiction
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Just posted a wrap of my Worldember 2025. Managed to get to 25K for the first time, so pretty happy with that. If you're looking for something to read in Jan, i hope you find some inspiration in here.
And, please, send me links to your favourites in the comments so I can do a bit of reading too :-)
Happy 2026 everyone!
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Explore one of the Three Beast Nations of the continent of Tushora: The Scalia Union!
#beast #nation #country #tribe #fantasy #WorldEmber #WorldEmber2025
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I 've done it people! Ten thousand five hundred words in six days. Always write your numbers in full text :D
A lot of new stories have found their way into Dolvareth, some of them waiting patiently for months to be written at last.
I hope you enjoy all of them
Here's a list:
The Epitaph of an Insignificant (prose)
Red Fever (condition)
Vielovarie Sielanthi (military formation)
Old Dorianic (language)
Fiorlond (settlement)
Nexus of Magic (law)
Malljule the bard (character)
The Tale of The Lost City (myth)
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Learn about another of the nations of Tushora: The Creuland Kingdom.
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In the last week or so of Worldember, I've managed to reach my 25K stretch goal, helped mainly by my chonky 7K word plot article - a new adventure in my Talon's Rising campaign that centres on the intrigue around Camp Thrifty. Also included a few smaller articles fleshing out some of the details.
Check out my progress and other articles at https://www.worldanvil.com/community/challenge/worldember-2025/homepage/Ononomad
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Quick profession done up
Quickly done this profession for World Ember 2025. Didn't think I'd have this done to be honest. But here goes:
"What a disgusting job those guys do"
#worldember2025
"What a disgusting job those guys do"
#worldember2025
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NATIONS OF TUSHORA: EYFRA COMMONWEALTH
Hello everyone!
Here is another nation that is found within the lands of Tushora: The Eyfra Commonwealth. Read more about this Republic nation:
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THE NATIONS OF TUSHORA
Hello everyone,
As #WorldEmber2025 reaches the final countdown, I've decided to share more of the other half of my world. This time the nations of Tushora. Starring with the Creshona Union.
CRESHONA UNION:
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Hello beautiful people.
I missed you all, and I missed writing.
So I decided to take part in #WorldEmber2025, right at the last possible moment.
Since I had quite a distance to cover, I ended up writing a rather large piece.
A small warning though: it leans toward the heavier end of the emotional spectrum, so keep that in mind if you are aiming for a cheerful holiday mood.
Check it out here.
Hope you enjoy it! It's my new favorite.
Cheers!
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Got a Geographic Location done!!!
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A rather creepy one.
Quickly put this one together but chances are, might or might not get any votes for it.
"Ugg, what is that below your skin?"
#worldember2025
"Ugg, what is that below your skin?"
#worldember2025
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Quick one here
Quickly put together the following for an entry.
"Is that a goblin?.... Wait it's not!!"
#worldember2025
"Is that a goblin?.... Wait it's not!!"
#worldember2025
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Quickly put together another
I've put together another quickly enough here. A special type of stone to try to fill out some of the other articles in the world.
"I feel as if I'm fading away around that stone"
#worldember2025
"I feel as if I'm fading away around that stone"
#worldember2025
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https://www.worldanvil.com/w/augmented-valor-wordsmithsteve/a/mfns-nyasaland-sar-51-vehicle
Updated the Mars Federation Naval Ship Nyasaland's article and hotlinked to Eve's story in Cryostasis Widow Five Centuries Gone.
Chapter 7 of Shadows of Eros drops December 28, 2025.
Merry Christmas.
#WorldEmber #WorldEmber2025 #SharetheLove #AnvilSpace #cyberpunk #cyberpunknoir #sciencefiction #scifi #augmentedvalor #Mars #MerryChristmas
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The Archives Open to the Sea | Raven & Quill #4
The static silence of the Omnium is behind us. This week, we hit the open ocean.
Chapter 2: In the Wolf's Shadow is LIVE.
In this chapter, we step aboard the HMS Sea Wolf with Talathis Dawntreader. He is a pilot who steers not by the compass, but by the "Howl"—the acoustic song of the ship's rigging when it hits harmonic resonance.
New Lore: The "Race-Built" Frigate Alongside the chapter, I’ve released a deep-dive article on the Sea Wolf itself. I tackled a specific worldbuilding challenge: How do you have advanced naval combat in a fantasy world without making gunpowder ubiquitous? The answer involved "Aeolian Rigging," Klash-kal alchemy, and a hull built to deceive.
Come check out the specs and let me know what you think of "Flintlock Fantasy" without the flintlocks!
Read Raven & Quill #4
Read Chapter 2
Learn about Talathis Dawntreader
Inspect the Sea Wolf
“She looks like a wolf sitting among swans.”
The Sea Wolf on patrol somewhere in the Eleysian Islands. by Val Saraven
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My #WorldEmber2025 pledge is going great, I only need to add 1079 more words to my #fantasy world!
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Managed to create the following
Thought I'd create a place to allow underwater exploration for my players, and a possible session for them down the road,
Is that a giant barnacle?
#worldember2025
Is that a giant barnacle?
#worldember2025
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And another appears
Quickly done up this wee one. Slightly humorous but may have potential:
Whose that lady in the window? And why is she farting so much?
#worldember2025
Whose that lady in the window? And why is she farting so much?
#worldember2025
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Managed to get another done
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IT LIVES! The WorldEmber Leaderboard is Live!
It's one of my favourite times of the month, the first leaderboard update of WorldEmber.
Put the leader part of it aside though, the really awesome thing about this is that it's the most dense collection of awesome worldbuilding we get all year! All of it brand new too, so you know you're checking out an active world. What better way to find a new favourite?
In this post I'll share three of my favourites thus far, and let you know how to get your articles up on the leaderboard! Feel free to comment and share your own favourites with the rest of us, I'd love to see it!
How awesome is the worldbuilding?
Beyond awesome, my favourites thus far is Burn by Those2Nerds (Rin), Saltwalkers: Arks of the Wasteland by ThePinkGm (Lou), and The Eternal Scales by Qurilion.
If you love cyberpunk or sci fi, you'll be as fascinated by Burn as I am. It's an info-hazard virus that deletes the minds of virtual intelligences, and they're scared. As much as a virtual intelligence gets scared. Read it by clicking here!
Saltwalkers: Arks of the Wasteland is an absolute beast of an article about some absolute beasts, these massive apocalyptic armadillo-like creatures that wander the salt planes of Mornvahl. People eke out a living on their backs, constantly moving as they shed their skin. Read all about them here!
And then things get biblical in Heroic Eve: The New Eden. Qurilions new setting recontextualizes just how horrifying some of those biblical quotes are, by writing a world where Eve straight up murders god, and he splits into horrifying demiurges. The Eternal Scales is one of them, and it's so delightfully messed up. Click here to read it!
How to get on the leaderboard!
Wanna see your own articles on the leaderboard? You'll need to write a new article, give it a cool title, and get it to at least five likes. If that seems impossible, I'll show you some great ways of sharing your article to get it on the playing field.
- Make sure the article has a header, and hit "add to recent" and you might find it on the discovery feed.
- If it's at least 300 words, you can submit it to one of the special categories! You can only submit one article for each template, so pick your favourite. If you don't want to compete, you can unsubmit it later.
- Join the World Anvil discord, and share it in the worldember channel and the showcase channel!
- Make a community post about your article!
- Leave a comment on this post with a link to your article!
WorldEmber is a great time to make some worldbuilding friends, go read and enjoy, and as you participate in the community you'll find that a few people will be curious what you're making.
Come Comment Caroling!
I also welcome you to join me in Comment Caroling, which is just a cute word for leaving comments during this event. It comes with an extra special unofficial badge drawn by me, which you can add to your signature.
copy the tiny badge with the bb code img:5026791, or the big badge with img:5026772
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I didn't know what I was going to do for #WorldEmber2025 until I thought about just going through the #DungeonsAndDragons Player's Handbook and doing my own take of each races I find there!!
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First one done.
First one done, hopping to get plenty more done over the coming weeks:
"What a silver-tonged liar that one
#worldember2025
"What a silver-tonged liar that one
#worldember2025
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The Kasani Tribe, or simply Kasani, are a Dynami tribe of Human & Beast Dynami who operate over the Eyfra Commonwealth, the southern domains of the Royal Gaelia Alliance, and one-third of the Beast Kingdoms.....
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Meet the Dynami the Empowered Tribe who are the Lord Protectors of their dominions. #WorldEmber #WorldEmber2025
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World Ember 2025
World Ember 2025
Hi everyone! I'll be working on a world for WE25, with a story set directly after an apocalypse showing the survivors trying to understand what's happening and to adapt. You can read more about it and my plans in my WE homework: #WorldEmber2025 #WE2025 #SienceFantasy #SienceFiction
Hi everyone! I'll be working on a world for WE25, with a story set directly after an apocalypse showing the survivors trying to understand what's happening and to adapt. You can read more about it and my plans in my WE homework: #WorldEmber2025 #WE2025 #SienceFantasy #SienceFiction
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All prepped for WorldEmber! Eager, nervous, excited. Lots of ideas on the plate, great friends behind me (big shouts to my accountability buddies Mochimanoban and Nulcheck !), and hype all around!
Let's see what fabulous things we all create together this month!
#WorldEmber #TheOwlworks #Malkora #AyunSovos #Fantasy #WE2025 #WorldEmber2025
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I've been busily adding my cyberpunk noir science fiction world here on WA. The Red Dragons are the largest criminal syndicate on Chendiuria. Aditi "Adi" Nizhóní Peshlakai , my former Colonial Fleet Marine Myrmidon MC, has delt with the Red Dragons in the past.
I'm looking forward to WorldEmber 2025 and plan to focus on geography. I've got quite a list of articles I want to write.
I'm doing really well with NovelEmber. I am currently at 31,742 words, and I am contemplating perhaps increasing the challenge to 100k words if I can figure out how to do that on PWA.
For the foreseeable future, I am posting a chapter each Sunday. I am alternating between two stories set in my Augmented Valor world. One story features Adi and Shadows of Eros; the other story takes place about 70 years before Adi's time.
#SharetheLove #NovelEmber #anvilspace #WorldEmber2025 #cyberpunk #sciencefiction #spaceopera
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WorldEmber is coming... here's what I've got planned!
I'm super excited for WorldEmber this year, it's the first year I plan to focus on a side-world. The A to Zoo is a joy to work on, but I've not felt inspired to work on it in a long time. A recent overhaul has kickstarted my motivation for the project again, and so I'm planning on carrying that straight into WorldEmber!
But enough about me, I'm really making this journal post to share some pledges from worlds I'm super excited to see more of this WorldEmber.
Firstly, we have Blue Fairy, who is focusing on the aquatic continent Ulűri̋qi̋. I really love aquatic worldbuilding and I'm super excited to see Blue's beautiful art shine through her articles. Elaqitan is a superb world and I really encourage people to check it out!
Elaqitan is also at 99 followers, will you be the lucky No. 100?
My next prep article is by Those2nerds, who plans to work on wow that's a lot of stars. wowtalos is one of my favourite worlds, with its worldbuilding on people, politics, and the connections they form.
They plan on writing important articles, and I've got my fingers crossed we get to read more planet-related articles. Please check out wowtalos and this prep article!
SanZera will always have a special place in my heart, as one of the first worlds I found on WA. I love the human made art made by Aster, it's so colourful and precious and sdnsjdnsjdnaj I love it so much. Please check out this world if you love awesome glowing animals!
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WorldEmber is coming!
I am so excited for WorldEmber this year! I'm happy with what I've gotten done this year, but I could've done more. I could always do more. I keep telling myself that, but I have to remember that this year I've started my first full time job, a volunteer placement at a zoo (alongside another a sanctuary), I no longer live with parents, so I have less and less time and money to myself.
I'm really excited to end this year on a high note. I've spent a lot of October working hard behind the scenes on overhauling the A to Zoo, once again. This time I'm settling on what I've got.
It's been my dream, ever since I was a child, to own a zoo. It's incredibly unrealistic, but nevertheless I used to dream of it all the time. In fact, there are still drafted plans of enclosures tucked away in a box in my attic somewhere. It occurred to me at some point this year that I possess all of the abilities to make my own zoo... except it'd be entirely digital. But that's better than nothing!
So here we are, my fourth (?) overhaul of the A to Zoo. The homepage is fresh and looking better than ever, I have overhauled navigation of this world, and overall I'm just aiming for it to resemble a real zoo website as much as possible. Expect tickets pages, staff/volunteer hiring pages, and a bunch of other exciting pages throughout November, to really bring this vision to life.
If you've made it this far, thank you so much for reading. I love World Anvil, and I'm loving this new UI update. I've been very vocal about my dislike of modals and pop-ups, and you know what, I still stand by that. I am still not a fan of the community modal in particular, and I'm more than happy to admit that. I think it's important to be honest about your thoughts on these updates. But be polite. I've not been polite in the past and it got me nowhere. It came from a place of anger, but also a place of love. I love World Anvil so much, it angered me to think I'd struggle to use the site, and I unfairly took some of that out on the Team. Admitting that is my way of moving past it.
But I went into this Athena update with a positive attitude, and I've been loving it. There are still things I'm not a fan of, but I've sent polite feedback to the team and some of my suggestions have even been implemented! Please be polite. the World Anvil Team is a small but passionate one. Yes, it's questionable, releasing intentionally unfinished updates to the entire site in the hopes of people sending polite feedback, but it's not nice to be rude. They are trying their absolute best, and doing one hell of a job. I can't imagine how stressful managing an entire website must be.
I ought to stop rambling on now, so once again, thank you for reading this! I'm going to take November to relax a little after a busy October. Reflect on my journey as a worldbuilder, see how I can improve on myself and my abilities. Love you all!
#mochievements #challenge #WorldEmber #WorldEmber2025 #WorldEmberPrep
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New Year's Resolutions 2026
Start this year with achievable creative resolutions by learning from your fellow worldbuilders!
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