Anonymous
Not logged in
Talk
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Guild of Archivists
Search
Editing
Unwritten: System Reference Document/The Great Art of Writing
(section)
From Guild of Archivists
Namespaces
Page
Discussion
More
More
Page actions
Read
Edit
History
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Age Theme=== Every Age has a theme. This is like the High Concept for characters. It encompasses the basics of the Age and what the writer was trying to accomplish when they were developing it. Like a High Concept, the Age’s theme is not the end-all-be-all of the Age. However, it provides a touchstone for the rest of the details. Themes will generally fall into two different types: environments and principles. Environments are aspects that describe the physical nature of the Age. The scope of an environmental theme will vary according to the nature of the aspect. Humid and Murky Swamps might be just what is in the ‘Written’ parts of an Age, or it might be the entire planet. An aspect like A Planet of Rolling Dunes Driven by the Wind would be less ambiguous. Principles are descriptions of the underlying forces at work. These may govern geological or cosmological forces. For example, aspects like Cataclysmic Natural Forces could describe an Age full of volcanoes, earthquakes and raging storms. Alternatively, a principle as a theme may indicate design principles that the writer was using as a guide for the Age. An Age designed to be an example of ecological interdependence might have a theme of All Life Depends on Each Other, while an Age written to be a source of resources may have a theme of Endless Natural Abundance. ====Other Age Aspects==== Besides the theme, an Age can have other additional aspects that embody important details about an Age. * Important Natural Features * Unusual Flora or Fauna * Notable Resources * Indigenous Populations * Key Settlements or Installations
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Guild of Archivists may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
GoArch:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Navigation
Navigation
Main Page
Random page
Categories
All pages
Recent changes
Resources
Dictionaries
Reference material
Utilities
Community
Forums
Jalak Game Directory
Projects
Apocrypha
Unexplored Branches
All projects
Contribute
Stubs
Wanted
Cleanup
Dead ends
Image requested
Help
Help
Guide
Policies
Wiki tools
Wiki tools
Special pages
Page values
Page tools
Page tools
User page tools
More
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Page logs