Summer Camp 2026 Index of Entries

I'm a completionist and a tiny voice in my head is telling me to write every prompt, but I'll probably stop at Diamond rather than trying to sweep the field. A handful of the prompts are stumping me.  

Week One Prompts, Love

   

A celebrity loved by all

  I'd like to write this eventually but I don't have any brain waves yet.   I like this prompt, but I have written up so many characters long ago that would qualify for this, my idea is running low on this. Past entries that would qualify are listed below.    

A tradition that celebrates love

  The "Sagotrath" or Wood Elf "Spring Release"   This was the first thing I wrote for Summer Camp 2026, and I'm pretty proud of this one. It's vaguely based on a story I heard about an old Inuit tradition.  

An item associated with a common hobby

  Dragon Dice   My friend and I speculated that First Age Dragons would probably like dice games. I filed this idea in the back of my head, and unearthed it to write for this prompt.  

A famous love story

  No idea yet, I'm not a particularly romantic person. In past WA events, I got out of my comfort zone wrote Gariela and Sandalius as a traditional love story. I wrote another somewhat cliched love story with a happier ending about a ass-kicking power couple, I can't find the link right now.   But I do like Papa-Wolf and Cub stories so I might try something with an unlikely adoption.  

A natural phenomenon associated with fertility

  I have a vague idea but it would be stretching the prompt to the very edge. I'm hoping I get a better brain wave later.  

A faction that employs questionable methods for the love of their people

  This was my second Summer Camp entry. I wrote about the Paladins long ago, but I opted to flesh out how they operate on the local level so I wrote about the Dragon Springs Paladins for Summer Camp 2026  

A job many children aspire to

  My first thought was priests and priestesses but I already wrote that one. Or knights, but I kind of already wrote that dispersed many articles, so I combined the two and wrote about holy warriors in Scarterra. I put a lot of polish on this one, because it's a core element of Scarterra's setting.  

The language of love in a culture of your world

  The prompt probably assumes romantic love, but I wrote about familial love. I had this part of Scarterra for a while, but the article fleshed it out and made it more specific. Elves versus satyrs family terms of endearment  

A useful substance known for its sticky properties

  maple syrup in Scarterra has a little bit of cultural resonance, so I wrote about it.  

A mysterious work of fiction that's spawned conspiracy theories

  An interesting theme, but it breaks my brain trying to write a piece of fiction within a fictional world.  

Week Three Prompts, Development

   

A city that grew out of the ashes of a ruin

  Scarterra already has a lot of these. I'm not sure where to go with this one now.  

A fruit that grows in an unlikely environment

  I'm really fond of Underdusk berries but I wrote that ages ago. My first couple ideas for this prompts were basically cheap knockoffs of underdusk berries, but eventually I thought "what about poison berries?" "What about magic poison berries." And I ended up writing shadow vines for Summer Camp 2026.  

A war that resulted in the expansion of a territory

  Scarterra already has a bunch of these, and I haven't always been a fan of the "military conflict" template. I'm not sure I've ever used the template outside of a WA contest.  

Write about the development of a vehicle

  The muses inspired me to write about a weird boondoggle ship. Ziven's Spear, the warship that never got to fight  

A disease that quickly becomes an epidemic

  After Covid, my enthusiasm to write about disease has gone down, I probably will skip this one.  

A prized fabric based on a plant fibre

  Last Worldember, my articles on various dyes were surprisingly well-received and my article wool in Scarterra was one of my most liked articles ever. So I can't pass up an opportunity to write about medieval inspired fashion.   In my variation research on medieval clothes, it seems linen under garments were very popular underneath wool layers, so linen seemed like an obvious article to write for this prompt.  

A profession that helps others develop

  I thought about "teacher" at first but that was too broad. Then I was going to go with "midwife" when I started writing it it morphed into a general article on non-magical physicians.  

A building that keeps being expanded over time

  I swear I've seen very similar prompt for Summer Camp 2025 "A building that hasn't been finished yet" so I wrote Kovenoth Palace Complex. My next idea is also palace related.   A few months ago, I ran an RPG adventure involving a heist on the Swynfaredian Royal Palace and I have assorted heist specific notes for that. It'd be easy enough to use that as a baseline to write about that, but a tiny voice in my head is telling me to do something non-palace related.  

A fictional character some believe to be real

  Writing a fictional character in a fictional setting gives me a headache. I may have to skip this one.   The Shadow Creeper is a fictional character that was accidentally willed into existence but I wrote about that ages ago.  

A body of water that hides a secret in its depths

  I had already written about The bloody storied history of Border Baronies Spot #11, but I was vague on the exact nature on the threat. Now I'm slightly less vague on because I know the threat to Spot #11 lives underground in the Hidden Sea of the Borderlands.   At some future point, I need to flesh out the monster. It'll be a tough balancing act. I want it to be deadly enough to a be a legendary threat, but not so powerful that a group of determined PCs can't defeat it.  

Week Three Prompts, History

   

A religion that no longer exists

  The very foundation of Scarterra's lore is based on my cosmology and the religious factions that spawn from it, so writing this prompt seems like a slam dunk, but it's hard for me to come up with a religious movement that is extinct. It'd be really to completely snuff out a religion in Scarterra entirely, but I suppose I could bend the prompt a bit and have a religion that brought to a tiny fraction of their peak numbers.  

A myth that inspired modern funerary traditions

  This should be relatively easy. I have a lot of snippets of funeral traditions in my various "ethnicity" articles. I just need to pick one of my favorites and expand on it.  

An ancient technology lost to time

  My friend says this should be super easy for Scarterra given that the current age of Scarterra is built on the ruins of mighty ancient civilizations as of now, I'm drawing a blank.  

A subculture seen as outdated by modern generations

  I have some vague ideas on this swirling about my head. Particularly if I go deep into the weeds and go on a breakaway culture from a larger ethnicity.  

A military unit known for its incompetence

  In general, I'm not a huge fan of the "military unit" template, but this prompt sounds too fun not to write.  

A controversial will that changed the course of history

  At my friend's suggestion, I wrote King Daketh's Last Royal Edict based on a previous article I wrote succession laws in the Elven Empire. I had the broad concept already, but I filled it in with names and details and more specific descriptions. Instead of "a past monarch" now I can say "King Daketh".  

A collector of "lost" things

  I like eccentric collectors, but I wish this used the "character" template rather than "rank/title" prompt. I may have to skip this one.  

An abandoned building shrouded in mystery

  I don't have an idea yet, but this is a fantasy staple, so it shouldn't be too hard to write.  

An object that looks edible but isn't

  No ideas yet, but this idea is too fun to not write.  

A fundamental law of the universe that most people misunderstand

  This should allow for a fun "peak behind the curtain" for Scarterra's metaphysics, but I want to write this carefully.