WIP Update – 15 Mar 25
I just did work in the WttW peripheral materials today, mostly writing encyclopedia entries and working on the Player’s Guide. I didn’t add to the family tree of the High Kings beyond adding King Alasdair III’s bastard Iskander. One of the big things I was working on was heraldry as it relates to Adventuring Companies. You see, when an Adventuring Company is founded, they get a color based on the Patron of the founding Captain and a heraldic beast based on their Job. A bit of a spoiler, but later in the series, Pawel will end up forming his own Adventuring Company called the Cyan Wyverns, but while Pawel and company hail from 21st Century Earth, the word “cyan”, which only dates back to 1889, doesn’t quite fit in the medieval stasis of the World. I was doing some research into heraldry and ended up reworking some of the stuff I’d already written, basically reassigning all the colors I’d originally attributed to the Twelve. I decided that the modern parlance of the Players would be influencing the World but that traditions would still hold. In other words, the color officially attributed to Thoros, Pawel’s Patron, is bleu-céleste (sky blue) which more or less maps to cyan, so in the official Guild records, the color will be listed as bleu-céleste and glossed as cyan, thus fixing the issue. I also doing some similar work to account for modern gaming terminology and devices like the Player Slate (basically a magical tablet PC), having their introduction parallel their appearance in Earth.
There’s plenty more to do, to the point that I wonder if I’ll be adding background details even after the current five planned books are finished. (It’s quite likely.) I’d also like to start thinking about putting some work into the wiki. It’d be nice to get it up and going. We’ll see what I can get into. Stay tuned.
Tags: Else Arc, Welcome to the World, WIP Update, WttW
Else Arc, Welcome to the World, WIP Update | James Carmack | 16 March 2025 |
