How to write an article for a Player Character

Work in Progress!

On this page serves as a tutorial on how to write your own page for a Character.

Lets start!

## **Step 1: Name of the page**

The Name of the page is usually the same name as the call name of your character.

Type *https://old-endings-new-beginnings.fandom.com/wiki/**Your Character's name*** in the addressfield of your browser.

*Example:* For Ba-Dancer you have to type: *https://old-endings-new-beginnings.fandom.com/wiki/***Ba-Dancer**.

*Example:* For Lingering Fangs, who has a blanc in his name, you have to type: *https://old-endings-new-beginnings.fandom.com/wiki/***Lingering\_Fangs**

## **Step 2: Editing mode**

In this Wiki there are two different modes to edit. There's the edit mode and there is the source mode. I strongly recomment the source mode, because you have more control in what you do. This whole tutorial is for editing in source.

Click *Edit Source* like in the pictures below.

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## **Step 3: General format commands**

There are a few easy commands in the source that are very important for you to know:

**Bold writing**

To write in Bold, you need to put *'''* around the word or sentence that you want to be bold.

*Example:* *'''This is a sentence in Bold'''* will be shown as
**This is a sentence in Bold**

**Cursive writing**

To write in cursive, you need to put *''* around the word or sentence that you want to be cursive.

*Example:* *''I'm a sentence in cursive.''* will be shown as
*I'm a sentence in cursive.*

**Underlining**

To underline a sentence, you need to put *<u></u>* around the word or sentence that you want to be underlined.

*Example:* *<u>This is an underlined scentence.</u>* will be shown as
This is an underlined scentence.

**Paragraph / line break**

If you want to have a line break or a blank line, *<br />* is the command you need. This forces the text to the next line. Line breaks you do with the Enter-key on your keyboard will not be shown properly in the final article. So use <br />.

*Example:* *This<br />is<br />absolutely<br /><br />fine.* will be shown as
This
is
absolutely

fine.

**Internal Links**

Since this is a Wiki, you often want to link other pages in this Wiki. Maybe you want to have a link to your pack page on your character; maybe you want a link to another NPC. This is how you do that:

Type *[[]]* around the page name you want to link to.

*Example: If you want to link to the Pack called Eagle's Talons, you have to type [[Eagle's Talons]]. It will show like this:*
Eagle's Talons

Sometimes the link of the page does not say, what you want to say. Maybe the Name of the page is **Ba-Dancer**, but you need **Ba-Dancer's**  in your link. Maybe you want to refer to a character in another name, like **Marie Dominique** instead of the name of the page **Salue-Le-Patron**.

No problem! Type [[pagename|your text]] and it will work, too!

*Example: Let's call Salue in her homid name. That's [[Salue-Le-Patron|Marie Dominique]]. It will show like this:*
Marie Dominique

**Scripts**

Scipts are a small input commands that do special displays. There are a few scripts for this Wiki - if you need more, talk to Chris on the Discordserver.

The scripts you will likely need most are the Auspice and Tribe script. It's easy: You write your Auspice/Tribe in {{}} and it will display as Text with an icon in front of it!

*Example: Silver Fangs write {{Silver Fangs}} and it shows as  Silver Fangs. For Theurge write {{Theurge}} and it shows as  Theurge.*
You can find all texts with icons in the Templatelist.

## **Step 4: Infobox**

Every Person, pack, sept or spirit has an infobox in the right upper corner. Hard data in one glance. Your article needs that, too.

It's pretty easy. Copy and paste the text in the grey box in your character article on top.

```
{{Garou
}}

```

Now you have to fill your data in.

**Important: Keep it short!** We don't want to have your character's story in the infobox. You can put the story in the article itself.

Let me tell you how to fill out this box. Oh, and if you can't or don't want to tell something, just leave the space blanc! It will not show up later. Scripts, Internal links and <br /> will work in the Infobox.

* **Charactername**: Name of your character. If you don't type anything here it will choose the name of the article page
* **picture**: Here you can insert a picture of your character: `Picturename.jpg` or `Picturename.png` are okay. *Keep in mind:* Do not use copyright protected images! Please use clear and distinguishable names.

*Main Data*

* **Breed**: Character's breed.
* **Auspice**: Character's auspice. Please use the Auspice script from Step 3.
* **Tribe**: Character's Tribe. Please use use the Tribe script from Step 3.
* **Camp**: Tribal Camp the character connects with, if the character has a camp at all.

*Personal Data*

* **Deed Name**: Character's deed name if there is one. you can put as many names as you want, just put <br /> between them.
* **Homid Name**: Character's homid name if the homid name is known and is another name than how the character is called.
* **Age**: Real age of the character. It's also okay to write *old*, *young* or any other describtive word.
* **Visual Age**: How old the character looks in other's eyes. This is more important for Lupus and Metis who usually look older in homid, than they are.
* **Gender**: Character's sex, gender and/or pronouns;
* **Teacher**: If the character had a teacher, here's the place;

*Association*:

* **Pack**: The pack to which the character belongs;
* **Sept**: The sept to which the character belongs;
* **Rank**: Character's rank and/or sept position;
* **Partner**: The character has a partner? Please insert here;

## **Step 5: The Article itself**

In true Wiki form, articles usually start with a very, very short summary of the person. Just two or three sentence.

After that you can make chapters about everything you want.

Need some ideas?

* Write a text description about the looks of your character
* Tell about the Background of your character. Where are they from? How were they raised?
* Write about their belongings or spirit compagnions
* What does your character like or dislike
* Be inspired by checking out the pages of other Player Characters.

## **Step 6: Headlines and colourful text**

Paragraphs structure an article. You can make a headline for a parapraph using *=* surrounding the text.

*Example:*
*=This is a big headline=*
*==This is a moderate headline==*
*===This is a small headline===*
It looks like this:

Of course, there's a way to customise your headlines - or any text for that matter - even more! You take control!

The command looks like this: <span style="color: #RGB Code of the colour you wish; font-family: Arial; font-size:the text size in px; ">Your text goes here</span>.

*Example: <span style="color: #199AE5; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">I'm a blue text!</span>*

*will look like*

I'm a blue text!

The general format commants from Step 3 are working on this text.

## **Step 7: Tabber**

The tabber is a small tool to organise information in your article. It's like an index card you can switch with an easy click.

The command looks like this

```
<tabber>
Caption 1=
Text Card 1
Caption 2=
Text about Caption 2
Another caption=
You can do more cards, too.
</tabber>

```

and the finished product will be:

* Caption 1
* Caption 2
* Another caption

Text Card 1

Text about Caption 2

You can do more cards, too.

Of course, formatting works in the tabs. You can be as colourful and creative in the tabber as you whish.

## **Step 8: Index Cards**

Sometimes you don't get everything in one article.
That's okay, you can use multible pages in the same article. Like in this article.

It's quite easy:

Write the following codes on the top of your article. Even above the Infobox.

{{Karteikarten Anfang

}}

Here are some examples for that.

After you saved your article, you'll be able to click on the index card to create the new pages. Put the exact same code you used on the main page of your article also at the beginning of the other pages. Only then you can see the index cards on every card.

## **Step 9: Collabsible Text**

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