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PEOPLE
DEVELOPMENT
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If you're a
member of the Santharian Dream and would like to add stuff to our People section,
please post in the People
section of the Santharian Development Message Board. People will then
comment on your new addition and if the entry is approved it will eventually
move to the site in one of the coming updates.
However, in order to design people, whether they are
kings, poets, mages, philosophers, heroes
etc. for the Santharian
Compendium the following necessary sections need to be covered. If you still
aren't sure what you should put in certain sections, please read
through some entries first and see how others have done
their entries.
How to write names
If you describe something, always write the first letter of the thing/being and
in this case the person's full name including a possible title or surname in capitalized form (e.g. "Thar
the Great", "King Redbeard", "Captain Dimeye Beringstin") throughout the
entry. On the other hand always use lowercase letters if you mention other
things/beings which are mentioned within the entry ("dragonfly", "ranlesh" or
"black rose").
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Keep it as Santharian as possible
Also try to make your people as unique "Santharian" as possible. Try
to use names which represent the culture they come from, not simply random,
exchangeable names. Also if you describe a person there should be a reason why
this man or woman got his/her own entry in the
Compendium, so try to make
clear why this person has become such a celebrity.
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Appearance (Optional)
Please give a description of the person. The more accurate the better, as this
may also help artists to draw a good pic from this information
later on. A description of a persons's
appearance is not always necessary, depending on the type of person you want to
describe in the entry.
Personality (Optional)
Add all personality traits of a person here, which you deem important to be
included in the entry. Mention whether this person has a humorous character, is
stern, determined or hot-tempered - or everything at the same time. What does
he/she do, like? - Whatever helps to define the individuality of the person
should be put in here. Like the Appearance section this
section is not always necessary, depending on the type of person you want
to describe. However, usually a Personality or Appearance
section often is very helpful to have.
Biography
Write in detail where the person grew up, which education he/she got etc. Just
mention all important incidents in the persons life, and as often as possible:
Try to add dates which make the entry more accurate from the historical point of
view. You don't really need to go into all the exact details
- at least the entry should also be an interesting read, eh?
Mandatory as well to be included: What is
very important is that you add short captions in front of paragraphs (if
possible with dates), whenever you move on to a new event in the person's life.
Examples:
1598 - Mysterious
Birth. Dalmac was conceived and born in the little town of Chaun, on the
edge of the Vontron Forest (near the Ximaxian peninsula, just north-west of
Horth), to a wealthy farmer, Martyn Brandivere, and his wisewoman wife, Jennet.
etc.
1605 - Dalmac's Childhood. Thanks to Jennet’s
written account, and the reminiscences of various ancient wisewife cronies of
hers, we have some notes on Dalmac’s earliest days. etc.
This way the reader can skim through the entry and find information he/she seeks
much easier by looking at the captions only. The more meaningful the paragraph
captions, the better the organizarion and the more efficiently a reader can
retrieve information.
Importance
At the final
section of the entry you can/should try to talk a bit about the general
importance of the celebrity, e.g. if you describe a king you can describe how
his people liked him, which impact all the things he did were for later
generations he did, if there exist some kind of lore or anecdotes etc.
Picture (optional)
Also try to find a pic perhaps for the person you describe in the
Resources Forum. You can
also go to the
Resources Forum first of
course, decide that a certain pic would make a good entry and start your entry
according to the pic (but you should check back first on the Forum if the pic
isn't already reserved for someone else).
If you
follow these guidelines I'm sure developing People is much easier and will produce better results. - Happy developing!
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