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Worldember 2025 is here!


Worldember is upon this, and this is the time of year where I write random articles like a madman for the whole month of December.

My Worldember page is here.
The leaderboard page is here.

As of the writing of this post, I'm about 14,300 words in. I only need to write 10,000 words to get a badge and 50,000 to get the top level badge. In past years, I've run between 80,000 and 100,000 words and usually land somewhere between 8 and 12 on the leaderboard.

I am currently in 18th place (pathetic!), and they only keep track of the top ten for number of articles, and I'm not even close to tenth place. but I'm focusing more on quality of words than quantity of words. And I'm putting in more pictures and quotes and doing a better job proofreading (which often means trimming redundant passages which hurts my word count).

My new approach seems to be working. I'm getting more "likes" than I ever have before. I'm currently 20th for most likes. I've never even made the top 100 before. I'm currently on four subcategories for most liked articles. The subcategories are based on template and I'm on the board for the species, tradition, material, and title. Something that's never happened before either.

I'm getting new subscribers too. So my quality based approach is working. That said, if I can do quality and quantity.

Capes as signifiers of status in Fumaya is one of my earliest articles written this season and is my best received so far.

I might actually win the subcategory for titles with moon-brightened leaders. This is my second-best received article, but I have a lot of fewer writers competing in this category.

My personal favorite, is midnight mushrooms, is my personal favorite and also seems well received. Though this is in the species category which is normally the second most written category besides "characters". I have written several character bios, so far, but none of them stand apart in my mind as head and shoulders above the rest of my articles, so I haven't entered that category yet and might not do so.

 

I am writing articles in themed sets.


Zarthus Morality Plays


Phidas Morality Plays


Greymoria Morality Plays

I have nine deities and ten priesthoods and all of them occasionally run plays but these are the three groups that put a lot of effort into their theatrical productions.

I also am writing a lot of articles about clothing and fashion but that's still a work in progress.

 

Scalenex moonlights as a Deviant

The website DeviantArt is not a perfect website. It has more deviants and less artists than I prefer, but I keep an eye on it. I did find two spectacular artists who I have hired via DeviantArt.

Perhaps I am becoming part of the problem, but I figured if most of DeviantArt is AI art and I am making my own AI art in increasing quantities, I might as well start debuting Scarterra stuff on DeviantArt and MAYBE it will create an uptick of traffic for Scarterra.com

I'm making the AI art anyway, so I might as well get maximum use of it, labeling it as AI art, I'm going to fraudulently pass AI art as human art.

It turns out, pictures of attractive women get more engagement on Deviant than pictures of anything else. Who knew?

15 likes
(generic bard to add a visual to an article about musicians, I might give her a name and backstory later)

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2 likes

Ifan is a minor character in my main RPG campaign.

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I like both pictures. In any event Midjourney 7 is letting me make more detailed Scarterran characters and I can put in very specific parameters and usually get one I want, skin color, hair color, hair texture, eye color, detailed clothing description, etc.

I am not sure if my DeviantArt account will yield dividends, as I've only just begun. I've only put up a small percentage of my AI art on it thus far. Every picture as a plug for www.scarterra.com on it.

My DeviantArt page is here.

 

Worldember is over.

The totality of my Worldember articles can be seen here.

I wrote less than in previous Worldembers, but I had more views and more likes than I ever had before, so that's a win. I hit the leaderboard ten times, rather than my usual two.

I kind of wrote a few clothing articles as a lark, but they got a far more positive reception than I anticipated, so I created a whole section on my website specifically for clothes and fashion which I plan to keep adding to.

The Flag of the Maw is an article I made that was well received. It's also a rarity among my works in that it's relatively short, and I got a very nice GIF for it.

I came up with a new spell called Memory's Visage that I'm proud of and it's one of the top liked in that category (sadly there is no prize for that category).

For fans of puns.

I try to write at least one reindeer related article every December. This one has a GIF

2026 Incremental Improvements.

In 2025, World Anvil gained a bunch of icon options. I didn't pay much attention to it before, but last week I put icons on all my Table of Content categories and subcategories and a large portion of my core articles. It shows up on computers, and it SOMETIMES shows up on smartphones. I'm not sure why it shows up on some Smartphones and not others. Figuring out how to improve website interface for smartphones is on my to-do list.

So I have increased the volume of illustrations in my articles, both old and new. I haven't paid much attention to the size of my pictures. Sometimes large pictures slow down the load time of an article. Less commonly, small pictures get stretched out and look a bit pixely.

I'm going to try to convert all my art to jpegs and then use editing software to adjust the size and shape of my pictures to make it load smoother. An ambitious project, but a time consuming one.

 

As is anything worthwhile.