The Campaign Builder's Guild

Posted my first entry, The Abariad. I also post a copy here in a spoiler for your convenience. I'm assuming that we can treat any articles with names starting with 'the' as being alphabetically categorized by the first letter after the 'the'.

[spoiler=The Abariad]An ancient and obscure codex known in the occult circles by many names, but most commonly as the Abariad. It chronicles the queer and despotic reigns of the ur-kings of Abarion, that fabled city which some scholars believe to have cast it's accursed shadow upon the Plains of Gemen-Kol during archaic epochs beyond modern recall, but which certain disreputable sources interprete as a prophetic foretelling of terrors ahead in some unknown future.

Besides the endless litany of verses praising the strange and blasphemous deeds of the ur-kings and the lurid rites in fealty to their abominable gods, the opus is reputedly littered with scores of inscrutable riddles and lengthy passages invoking phantasmic vistas of otherwordly realms, simultaneously paradisiac and infernal in their character.

Most notoriously, secrets of awful and ineffable power are said to be wowen into that perplexing cascade of rime, craftily hidden but discernible to the keen eye of one who knows to search for it betwixt the lines. Where such temptation has led imprudent men to intense studies of this book over candle-lit hours into the night, a ghastly and disturbing influence has been observed to seep from those bedeviled pages into their very souls, transforming their personages in ways unwholesome.

Though each recorded case I have managed to enquire has been unique in the details of the apparent effect upon the reader, all have culminated in suicidal mania stemming from preternatural despair - as if the victim felt crushed beneath the burden of some dark revelation of incomprehensible enormity.

It is indeed fortuneous that few copies of the Abariad exist, as most civilized lands have wisely placed a strict ban upon it. A good thing too, that most of these surviving copies are likely to be classical translations in the old tongue of the Lumarians, no longer spoken or understood by people other than those of the scholastic vocation. But even this being so, I must doubt if it is well enough.

Through my past experiences scouring through various centres of learning and depositories of knowledge, I have regrettably witnessed the sorrowful state of librarianship to which much of the once-laudable scholarly world has fallen. Dusty and over-loaded shelves abound with time-worn, barely recognizable volumes, ill-organized and neglected. Demented old men who dare call themselves archivists are all too frequently unable to produce up-to-date catalogues of the contents of the very vaults they're tasked to maintain! With such audacious negligence, who knows what overlooked tomes lie forgotten amidst the myriad libraries of the world, awaiting accidental discovery by some impressionable young scholar who heeds not sound warnings about the dangers of forbidden knowledge?
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Yeah, I'd absolutely call that an A article.

Actually, you might want to change the article name to simply "Abariad", to make it easier for other articles to link to this one. (Otherwise, you'd have to say: "I was leafing through my copy of {{L|Abariad,_The|The Abariad}} the other day..." to get it to display correctly.)

I see you've set up your category page and everything. Fantastic.

Luminous I'll make another thread for Lexicon with all kinds of relevant links and official looking stuff. Which section of the forums should that be in?

Roleplaying forum, don't you think?

Say, for my Ab-Men article, how would I go about changing its title so that it has the hyphen. I didn't realize that was possible until I saw ghostman's link to ur-men.

Quote from: Light DragonSay, for my Ab-Men article, how would I go about changing its title so that it has the hyphen. I didn't realize that was possible until I saw ghostman's link to ur-men.

To retitle a page, go to that page and click the "Move" tab at the top. It will move the contents of that page to a blank page with the new title.

The old page will become a redirect page pointing to the new page.

Thank you. That worked.

Also, I couldn't help myself but I wanted to do a tie in with Ghostman's Abariad: http://www.thecbg.org/wiki/index.php?title=Aadamite It's a small nod, but one nonetheless.

Quote from: Luminous CrayonActually, you might want to change the article name to simply "Abariad", to make it easier for other articles to link to this one. (Otherwise, you'd have to say: "I was leafing through my copy of {{L|Abariad,_The|The Abariad}} the other day..." to get it to display correctly.)

I'm keeping the current article name, but I've set both "Abariad" and "The Abariad" to automatically redirect to it. That should ensure that links work without tweaking.