Contributor Guide

Contributor Guide

This page explains how to contribute to Duela.

Duela is a shared fantasy world. Contributors may write stories, create characters, develop regions, expand cultures, invent monsters, build branches, and improve reference pages.

Start here

New contributors should read:

• What is Duela?
• Writing in Duela
• Canon Structure
• Story Status
• Branching Guide
• License and Attribution
• Community Rules

What you can create

Contributors may create:

• Stories
• Characters
• Nations
• Cities
• Villages
• Gods
• Cultures
• Magical traditions
• Monsters
• Factions
• Branches from existing stories

Most of Duela is open territory.

What you should be careful with

Do not casually rewrite:

• The Essence
• The System
• Old God
• Bubble Theory
• Hauru
• Major established nations
• Major established gods
• Existing stories by other contributors

If you want to make a major change, mark it clearly as a branch or discuss it first.

Posting a story

A basic story page should include:

• Title
• Short description
• Status
• Story text
• Branches from this story
• Related pages
• Categories

Use Stories for the current story index.

Branching from a story

A branch should:

• Credit the original story
• Link back to the original story
• State that it is a branch
• Avoid pretending to replace the original

Categories

Add useful categories to pages.

Examples:

[[Category:Stories]]
[[Category:Vampires]]
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Nations]]
[[Category:Gods]]
[[Category:Magic]]

Principle

Write your part of the world clearly enough that others can build from it.