Summer Camp 2026, 33 out of 40 prompts completed

I needed 32 prompts to get the diamond, I wrote 33. Of the seven prompts I didn't write. My top five most memorable articles are below.          

Week One Prompts, Love

 

A celebrity loved by all

    I do not know whether or not Drannor will become plot relevant, but he was fun to write about regardless.  

A tradition that celebrates love

    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

    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

  I left his prompt unfullfilled. I wrote a few love stories in past Worldembers or Summer Camp, but that's not my favorite thing to write about it. I thought about an unconventional love story, like a parent and adopted child, but the muses didn't visit me on this topic.  

A natural phenomenon associated with fertility

    I don't like to neglect Scaraqua too much so I wrote this little article.  

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 a localized group of them 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. 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.  

A useful substance known for its sticky properties

    Maple syrup has a little bit of cultural resonance in Scarterra, 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 Two Prompts, Growth

 

A city that grew out of the ashes of a ruin

    This is the capital of land of Kahdisteria (where the Scarterran dark elves live). For me, this is a good baseline for developing Kahdisteria more in the future, but in this article feels a little dry and textbook as of yet.  

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 inventing shadow vines for Summer Camp 2026.  

A war that resulted in the expansion of a territory

    A lighter tone than usual for 3rd person narration. I need to figure out a way to add a Scarterran narrator.  

Write about the development of a vehicle

    The muses inspired me to write about a weird boondoggle ship.  

A disease that quickly becomes an epidemic

  After Covid, my enthusiasm to write about disease has gone down, I chose not to write 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 all non-magical physicians.  

A building that keeps being expanded over time

    I wrote this towards the very end of Summer Camp, it might have tell-tale signs of being rushed.  

A fictional character some believe to be real

  Writing a fictional character in a fictional setting gives me a headache. I opted 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 salty water.   At some future point, I need to flesh out the monster a lot more. 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, Loss

 

A religion that no longer exists

    I can only refrain from writing about cannibal mutants for so long.  

A myth that inspired modern funerary traditions

    Expanding on lore I made for the Tiamalan kobolds. I also renamed them Renescorin kobolds to put some distance between Scarterran kobolds and Tiamat worship D&D kobolds.  

An ancient technology lost to time

    I wasn't sure if I wanted to include this as a setting element or not but the Rule of Cool and my friend's encouragement got me off the fence.  

A subculture seen as outdated by modern generations

    I actually came up with this as a mental tangent from pondering the city prompt.  

A military unit known for its incompetence

  This was a fun prompt, and I wanted to write something for it, but I ran out of time.  

A controversial will that changed the course of history

    At my friend's suggestion, I wrote this 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 really stretched the prompt to the limit on this one, but at least it's plot relevant to my world.  

An abandoned building shrouded in mystery

  I thought this should be easy to write about in a fantasy setting, but all the ideas I had were kind of lame, so I didn't do this prompt.  

An object that looks edible but isn't

    I wouldn't have written this one without a prompt, but I had fund doing it? Well Beltaine Bells be referenced in something else later? I don't know.  

A fundamental law of the universe that most people misunderstand

    A little esoteric, but it's an idea that was rattling around my head.  

Week Four, Family

 

A species with a intriguing symbiotic relationship

  I like this prompt, but I have lots of past articles like this already. That well of inspiration might be running dry.  

A character known as the font of a bloodline

    I've had House Selwyth as an institutional antagonist (well the sidekick house to the main villains) in my ongoing RPG campaign but I haven't put much thought about the houses original creation until now.  

An influential family or dynasty

    I already wrote a lot of articles that would this prompt, so I didn't have a lot of virgin territory to write, so I had to flesh out one of my lesser noble families.  

A celebration involving non-blood family

    I had fun writing this. Scarterran holidays is almost a bottomless well of inspiration for article prompts.  

An instrument used in family celebrations

    Not my normal wheelhouse, but an interesting prompt and I have kobolds on the brain so I asked chat GPT what wind instruments could hypothetically be played with a lizard snout.  

A small town that keeps to itself

    This might be a useful setting for the RPG campaign I'm running and this is the first province write-up I've done based on this informative video.  

An archipelago considered a "family" of islands

    Last minute entry. I'll probably do some editing post-Summer Camp. I have some illustrations of Mondarian dwarves in the pipeline but they won't be ready until August.  

A congenital condition

    Not a giant article or a particularly ground breaking one, but I was thinking of adding a flightless kalazotz oracle character later.  

A public front used by a criminal organization

    I've been working on fleshing out Swynfaredia's mafia, so I might as well give them a fancy restaurant to hang out at.  

An invention that connected distant lands

    This idea was rattling around my head as a MAYBE for most of Summer Camp 2026. I kind of wrote it up at the last minute. I'll probably need to revisit this and revise and improve on the article later.