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Wanted: Topics for May
🕑 Added 2024-04-09 17:24:13 +0000 UTCPlease choose one topic from each of the lists below, and reply with the respective letter and number of your chosen topics in the comments below.
Voting will go until April 23rd, 11:59 PM (Pacific Time). This month's articles were a bit late, so I'm adding some extra time to the counter.
Topics marked with the asterisk (*) have been chosen by backers at the $10-a-month tier. They will be available for voting this month only, unless they are suggested again for June.
Please reply with your choices in the comments below.
A Soldier's Guide to the Infinite Sea
A) Garing, Gutierrez, and Truscott - A History: A brief history of GG&T, from its humble beginnings during the Petty Kingdoms era, through its establishment as a major armsmaking firm during the Wars of Unification, to its current status as the Unified Kingdom's largest gunmaker.
B) The Saintly Martyrs: An overview of the worship of the Saints in the Northern Kingdoms, including biographies of selected Sainted Martyrs, iconography, and cosmology.
C) Old Calligia - What We Know: The Kian poet J'eanne Lieux once said that "The only thing we know about Old Calligia are the lies". While not entirely true, very little of the long-gone northern realm has survived. This essay from the University of San'heu attempts to put together the pieces.
D) Warfare Then and Now: A relatively broad overview of the history of war and warfare in the Infinite Sea, taken from a part of a Callindrian children's book.
E) Edmund Garing, In His Own Words: An autobiographical account of the junior partner of GG&T, edited by the Countess of Welles for her report on the War in Antar.
F) Clerks and Commoners: Selections from a children's book written for the scions of the Tierran nobility, meant as their first real education in the classes and dynamics of the Baneless classes.
G) A Report on Tutors and Tutelage: Commissioned by the Royal University of Aetoria, this report investigates the education baneblooded children receive before they are admitted to the University itself.
H) A Call to Arms to the Faithful of the Tree: A religious tract summarising the worship of the Tree of Life, and calling for a renewed age of religious devotion in an age of Takaran secularism.
I) The Compleat Knight: A somewhat tongue-in-cheek guide to the behaviours expected of a Knight of the Red.
J) The Senior Service: A rather self-serving pamphlet extolling the virtues of the Royal Tierran Navy in the context of the army's new prominence following the Dozen Years' War.
L) Notes on a Crisis Pt 2: More collected notes from Queen Isobel's private correspondence, dealing with the fallout of her use of the royal veto.
M) A Record of the Great War in the North-West Pt 3: Having moved from the "Near West" to the "North West", our intrepid bureaucrat reaches what would later become the island of Warburton, where he gets a first-hand look at naval operations.
*N) From the Papers of Princess Khorobirit: A series of notes from the private correspondence of Anna, Princess Khorobirit, regarding the characteristics of the various regiments of Tierran cavalry.
*O) Stories of the Grey Riders: A collection of tales and rumours circulating amongst the Antari peasantry and nobility, regarding the Tierran Royal Dragoons.
*P) Regarding the Disposition of the Fleet: A report regarding the force levels of the Royal Tierran Navy, prior to the outbreak of the civil war.
*Q) The Journal of Petty Officer Alvarez, RTN: A journal recovered from the wreck of HMS Rendower, detailing the events of her ill-fated final voyage.
*R) The Sketches of a Portraitist: A collection of rough sketches of the current leaders and crowned heads of the Infinite Sea.
*S) On The Treatment of the Blood: A few brief testimonials from Banebloods in places where their blood does not automatically render them nobility
*T) Excerpts from the History of the Callindrian Kingdom: Banned by the Orodini following their return to power, Marchesa Vittorio di Malacresta's History of the Callindrian Kingdom is still considered one of the best sources on the kingdom's early history, including the events of its foundation during the Third Great War, as detailed here.
An Adventurer's Guide to the Fledgling Realms
1) On Creeds and Cults Pt 3: Folk traditions, cults, and other "marginal" belief systems throughout the Concordat.
2) The Most Depraved Sicko I Have Ever Met Pt 2: Before he became Baron of Aldersrill, Baron Maximilian (not yet known as 'the Lewd') was Lord of Helmcrest. Before he was driven out of Helmcrest by an angry mob, he had dinner with Mundy of Bridgeport. Hilarity ensued.
A Creator's Guide to Writing and Worldbuilding
A1) Using Genre Conventions: Every genre comes with its own traditions and conventions. Some of them can be helpful, others... less so. How do you tell the former from the latter?
A2) Scale Modelling a City: The size of population centres are constrained by terrain, technology, societal norms, and the force of history, let me explain how you can use those things to make your fictional cities more realistically sized.
*A3) On Insurgencies: Congratulations, your home is under enemy occupation. How do you make it not under enemy occupation anymore?
Comments
Paul Wang
I guess I'll flip a coin then.
Paul Wang
Looks like Sketches and Insurgencies win, but we've got a tie with the topic for the Adventurer's Guide article (if I've counted right). I'm going to open up voting again for that column (and that column only) for the next 48 hours, so someone who hasn't voted yet can cast a tiebreaker vote. If you want to do that, reply to this comment.
Javier Ricaurte
L - 2 - A3
Georgios Telios
R,A3
Paul Raich
R,2, A2
