SUMMER CAMP 2026: AETHERMARCH

Aethermarch | Summer Camp Homework & Pledge

"I have observed, in my many years of scholarship, that the world does not wait for the scholar to be ready. One must simply begin writing."

— G.C.P.S.A., Institutiones Aethermarchae, Praefatio

The Pledge

I pledge to achieve the DIAMOND badge during July 2026, completing 32 prompts to expand and deepen the world of Aethermarch.

What is Aethermarch?

Aethermarch is a richly detailed tabletop RPG campaign setting. Nine civilisations, displaced from their home worlds by dimensional rift events called Permutatios, now coexist on a shared continent in a Roman-dominated world. Ancient empires, giant archipelagos, elvish havens, dwarven holds, halfling harbours, and the ever-present threat of Rift XIII. One world. Nine peoples. Infinite complications.

Goals for Summer Camp 2026

Beyond the Diamond badge, Summer Camp 2026 is an opportunity to push Aethermarch forward in some meaningful ways:

• Fill the gaps. Several civilisations still have incomplete geographic and settlement coverage. Summer Camp prompts will be mapped to whatever regions still need work, filling out the inhabited world article by article.
• Deepen the NPC web. Aethermarch runs on interconnected characters who each hold one piece of a larger picture. Every prompt is an opportunity to add another node to that network, with each new NPC placed carefully so their knowledge edges toward an unseen convergence.
• Strengthen the Rift XIII thread. The central crisis of the active campaign arc deserves richer background material. Prompts touching on history, locations, organisations, and phenomena will be bent toward this thread where possible.
• Write for players. At least some of this month's output should be genuinely player-facing — material that could sit in front of a table without needing a GM filter.
• Complete the correction pass. Certain earlier articles still carry outdated information from earlier drafts. Summer Camp is a good forcing function to close those gaps and ensure consistency across the world.

 

"Thirty-two articles. In my youth I wrote thirty-two articles before breakfast. Of course, I was considerably younger then, and the Permutatios had not yet given me quite so much to write about."

— G.C.P.S.A., attr.

Weekly Homework

World Anvil's Summer Camp Prep runs throughout June, with weekly homework assignments to get world and worldbuilder ready. Each week's work is documented in the sub-pages linked below.