Well, dang. So much for getting a new news post up every week. It's been just over a month since my last post. Sorry; I've had a lot to deal with and a lot to put in order, and I guess I sort of lost track of time. Also, I'm a horrible procrastinator.
Seriously, though, I'm trying to get into a regular routine of updates, and I'm... clearly not there yet. But I guess I can't expect it to happen overnight. Or... over two months, apparently. Anyway, I'm really going to try not to miss another week after this.
Regardless, despite the lack of news posts, we have posted a few new articles on the Wongery. But I've also glanced back at a few of the old articles just... for the heck of it, I guess? And I found out I'd... apparently made a few continuity errors.
(Also, I think I'm using too many ellipses. Sorry.)
One of my goals before the hard launch this December, besides having a lot of new articles—and revamping the World of the Week, and adding a logo to the site, and other site layout changes, and... I have a lot of goals—has been to rewrite old articles, especially the oldest articles in the site that were far too short and sketchy. And so to start with, as mentioned in a previous news post, I updated the first article that was ever posted to the site, the one on the world of Dadauar. I greatly expanded the article, and in doing so I added a lot more information, and specified some things I hadn't specified berfore.
Or at least I thought I hadn't specified those things before. Turns out I had. Whoops.
I did check some old articles to make sure I hadn't already defined these details. But apparently I didn't check the right articles. So now I'm left with some contradictions. The article on Dadauar says the oldest modern onirarchy was Hsün. But the article on the Drithidian calendar (which I guess I hadn't thought to check) says it was Radess. Also, the Dadauar article says the calendar's years are numbered from Hsün's founding, while the article on the Drithidian calendar says they're numbered not from the founding of the first onirarchy but of Drithidiach... and they give different values for the current year, too (2845 vs. 2789). I had decided that at some point in Dadauar's history a god had destroyed an onirarch and had in turn been destroyed by the other onirarchs, but I didn't think I'd named the god and the onirarchy in question, so I went ahead and wrote that the god Nuropus destroyed the president of Alfenane. Except that I had written in the article on the Soul War that the god Urudai destroyed the president of Mamlaas. Oops.
In one way, I guess these mistakes aren't surprising. Those articles on the Drithidian calendar and the Soul War I wrote thirteen years ago; I suppose it's not unusual that I can't remember everything I wrote that long ago. On the other hand, it's not like there's all that much to keep track of yet; in those thirteen years we've only managed a measly few hundred articles. I should have been more careful, and I will in the future. Right now, before our hard launch, continuity errors like this don't really matter, as long as they're corrected prior to that event; nobody is yet basing any stories or games on the information here, and nobody would even know about the mistake if I didn't point it out here, or unless they decided to assiduously search the articles' histories for some reason. But after the hard launch, if the Wongery gets the readership I hope it does, then those mistakes will matter, and I'll have to be more careful to avoid them in the future.
As for this particular matter, I think I'll go with the version in the Dadauar revision, except for the part about the calendar's start year—honestly, having it based on the founding of Drithidiach makes more sense. But I won't worry about changing them just now. The articles on the Drithidian calendar and the Soul War are due to be rewritten and expanded too, hopefully well before the hard launch, and I'll deal with resolving the contradictions then.
Anyway, I've got to get back on the wagon and posting every week, so... I'll try to get another news post up before next weekend. And of course I'll try to get a lot more new articles up before then, too...