Character Creation Tutorial

Welcome to this tutorial on creating a character within the wiki of The Oathbreakers.

The first requirement for this is for you to be a member of The Oathbreakers Elder Scrolls Online Roleplaying Guild. If you aren't, you're on the wrong page and should probably turn back!

The second is for you to have a Fandom account and be logged in, if you aren't then you won't be able to create or edit pages.

## Creating a new page

Provided you have followed the above requirements it's now time to create a new page.

On the top right corner of the Wiki screen you should see a collection of buttons one of which has 3 vertical dots

Mousing over this icon or clicking on it produces a dropdown menu from which you can select "Add New Page".

From this you will be taken to a screen where you can title your new page. Simply give it the name of the character you wish to create and click "Next". You will then be taken to the page where you can create your character.

## Info Box

First thing's first, let's create an info box to summarise your character.

At the top of the text box towards the right you should see a button that says "INSERT". Click it to bring up a dropdown menu, then select Infobox. This will bring up a prompt full of templates for the Infobox, select "-Oathbreakers Character Template".

In the next prompt fill in any information required for your character. Don't worry about filling every box, if you leave one empty, it will not show up in the end product.

If a box requires multiple entries (Such as Relatives) Please put each new entry on a new line.

If there are more than two entries every line except the first and last must end in the following: <br>

If an entry references a place or character that has its own wiki page (on this wiki or the Elder Scrolls wiki) or will soon have its own wiki page you can create links to those pages, but we'll cover that later.

### Formatting Some Entries

When you are entering a group your character was previously affiliated with but no longer is, please put (Former) after their name.

When you are referencing relatives, please put their connection to the character, and potential relevant status in parenthesis after their name. E.G; Weyrin (Brother, Deceased).

When entering dates, please use the following format: 12th of Frostfall, 2E 588

When entering height, please use the following format: 6 ft. 5 in.

When entering the age of a dead character, please enter the age they were when they died.

When adding an image to the Infobox you cannot use a link, you must use the name of an image that has been uploaded to this wiki already, I will cover how to do this in a later step.

### Linking To Other Pages

Anyone who has spent time on Wikipedia and Fandom wikis knows that navigating from page to page is often made easier due to pages all being linked, as great as it would be, this is not an automatic process. Linking is a little different between Infoboxes and the main text.

Linking to a page in the infobox is pretty easy, the format is like this:

[https://the-oathbreakers.fandom.com/wiki/Sorik\_Tolvar Sorik]

Square brackets with the link followed by the text you want displayed which carries the link

Using that format will create this in the final product:

Sorik

### Adding images to the info box

After following the steps below to upload your images to the Wiki simply type in the file name with the extension (e.g. Placeholder.png) in the Image field when setting up your Infobox.

### Editing your Infobox after completing it

If you have made a mistake or wish to add more details to an info box after it has been finished, you can go to the page you wish to edit, press edit in the top right to enter the visual editor and click on the info box which will bring up a prompt allowing you to edit it.

## Uploading Images to the Wiki

To upload your own images to the wiki look to the top left of your page where you should see a button labelled "Explore". Open up the dropdown and go to "Images" at the bottom of the drop down. From the page you have opened you should see a bottom in the top right to "Add New Image". Please only upload images appropriate to the Wiki and its contents. When you upload an image you can click "More Options" to change the name of the image once it has been uploaded to the site, try to remember the image's file name as referencing it elsewhere in the wiki requires usage of the file name.

## The Main body of the text

Now we have covered info boxes we can get to the main meat of the character page, the body text.

This text must be split up into segments to keep it more organised and easy to navigate. To create a new segment simply give it a new heading, the table of contents is automatically generated from these headings.

To create a heading, in the top left of the text box on the page edit screen you will see "Paragraph". Clicking this will bring up a dropdown menu where you can select your heading type.

"Heading" should be used for the following categories (In this order):

1. Appearance
2. Personality
3. Background
4. Abilities and Skills

Inside some of these headings can be sub-headings (selected the same way headings are), This helps us divide a block of text into more manageable chunks. **Note: When adding sub-headings it does not switch back to Paragraph text automatically when moving to a new line, this has to be done manually.**

The background heading should be divided into the following:

* Backstory - this is the story of your character before they encountered the Oathbreakers or before they became a part of active roleplay scenarios
* History - this is the character's full history with the oathbreakers, whether it's for them or against them.

These two divisions should be titled using Sub-heading 1, In "History" whenever the beginning of an Arc occurs, it should be noted by providing the title of that arc as a sub-heading 2

so "History" would flow something like this:

events before arc 1

***Title of arc 1***

events during atc 1

events before arc 2

***title of arc 2***

*events during arc 2*

Finally "Abilities and Skills" should contain the following segments titled using "Sub-Heading 1"

* Stats - the stat block stating your modifiers for Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence and Personality
* Combat Skills - whether, magical or bestowed by a curse, these are the abilities you fight with
* Non-Combat Skills - Everyone has skills they use outside of combat, this is where you can create descriptions of them.

Within these segments, simply use **Bold** text to title each of the abilities then write a description, using more subheadings would clog up the table of contents.

### Adding Links to the main body

This is somewhat easier than the infobox, simply highlight the word you want to add a link to, click the button that looks like two chain links (3 buttons ot the left of the "Insert" button) and paste the link into the box or search for pages on this wiki to link to.

If a character with their own page is mentioned multiple times, you only need to link to them once, preferably the first time they are mentioned. If you want to link to them every time the character is mentioned you can but it's a lot of work and consistency is key.

### Adding images to main body text

Two buttons to the left of the "Insert" button, next to the link button is a "Media" button which you can use to upload your own images however this system doesn't always work. In this instance, if you have already uploaded an image and want it on your page, go to the very top right of your editor window and change from visual editor to source editor. this may seem scary at first but it's nothing to worry about. Find the place you want to add your image and add the following text: [[File:Image.jpg]] (obviously replacing Image.jpg with the file name of the image you wish to use) After this you can switch back to the visual editor to move the image around, resize it and get it to fit with the rest of your page.

## Categories

Wiki has a system in which case pages are divided into categories in order to help page sorting easier. When not in Edit mode, go to the bottom of your entry where you should find "Categories" on the bar to expand it and then click "Add Category". All characters should have the "Character" category, crewmembers of the Oathbreakers should have the "Crew Member" category, officers should have the "Officer" category and people who come from outside groups should be listed as "People of Interest".

Note that this tutorial doesn't just apply to played characters but to NPCs too.

## Example

Understandably this is a lot to take in. If you would like to see an example of all of this in action head to this page: Example Character

I would ask that while you may open this character in the editor to take a look at the formatting, please do not actually edit the page.