Wanted: Topics for April

This is the voting post for April's articles.

Please choose one topic from each of the two lists below, and reply with the respective letter and number of your two chosen topics in the comments below. Voting ends on 11:59 PM PST on March 21st.

Topics marked with the asterisk (*) have been chosen by backers at the $10-a-month tier. They will be available for voting this month only, unless they are suggested again for May.

Since there weren't any suggestions for new topics for A Creator's Guide to Writing and Worldbuilding, I've brought back some of the previously suggested topics which came up over the course of the past year, so feel free to vote on those as well.

Please reply with your choices in the comments below.

A Soldier's Guide to the Infinite Sea

A) Trade and Commerce: A description of the major trade routes in the Infinite Sea, as well as an overview of which power imports and exports what, and how this shapes their foreign policy.

B) Garing, Gutierrez, and Truscott - A History: A brief history of GG&T, from its humble beginnings during the Petty Kingdoms era, through its establishment as a major armsmaking firm during the Wars of Unification, to its current status as the Unified Kingdom's largest gunmaker.

C) Antagia's Rebellion: An overview of the last years of the Octovian Empire, the rising of the houses of Antagia and Khorobirit, and the final fall of the Heirs of Saint Stanislaus.

D) The Saintly Martyrs: An overview of the worship of the Saints in the Northern Kingdoms, including biographies of selected Sainted Martyrs, iconography, and cosmology.

E) The Curtain of Storms - A Primer: Very little is known about the Curtain of Storms, mostly because there have been no successful attempts to explore it. This pamphlet, printed by the Halford Foundation, ties together shards of fact with webs of speculation, but that is more than what most can offer.

F) Old Calligia - What We Know: The Kian poet J'eanne Lieux once said that "The only thing we know about Old Calligia are the lies". While not entirely true, very little of the long-gone northern realm has survived. This essay from the University of San'heu attempts to put together the pieces.

G) Warfare Then and Now: A relatively broad overview of the history of war and warfare in the Infinite Sea, taken from a part of a Callindrian children's book.

H) Edmund Garing, In His Own Words: An autobiographical account of the junior partner of GG&T, edited by the Countess of Welles for her report on the War in Antar.

I) Instructions to Traders and Travellers (Pt 3): The third part of a series of pamphlets issued by the Takaran Ministry of Barbarian Affairs, this one covering some of the minor powers in the Infinite Sea, including Azulae, Callindria, and Rathkurin.

J) A Selection of the Unified Kingdom's Noble Houses: Consisting of entries from Fernandescourt's Great Armourial, this article would offer short histories and profiles of relatively minor baronial houses, much like that of the player character of the Dragoon Saga.

K) Clerks and Commoners: Selections from a children's book written for the scions of the Tierran nobility, meant as their first real education in the classes and dynamics of the Baneless classes.

L) Intelligence Assessment - the 4th Duke of Cunaris: An Imperial Intelligence dossier collating basic information about Sir Johannes d'al Findlay, 4th Duke of Cunaris.

M) Tierra - Her Peoples and History: A "brief" overview of Tierra's ethnic groups, and how they have influenced Tierran history since the days of first settlement.

N) A Report on Tutors and Tutelage: Commissioned by the Royal University of Aetoria, this report investigates the education baneblooded children receive before they are admitted to the University itself.

P) A Call to Arms to the Faithful of the Tree: A religious tract summarising the worship of the Tree of Life, and calling for a renewed age of religious devotion in an age of Takaran secularism.

Q) The Compleat Knight: A somewhat tongue-in-cheek guide to the behaviours expected of a Knight of the Red.

R) The Senior Service: A rather self-serving pamphlet extolling the virtues of the Royal Tierran Navy in the context of the army's new prominence following the Dozen Years' War.

*S) An Explanation to the Callindrian Envoy: A description of the ranks of the Tierran Peerage and the general strata of Tierran society and how they relate to each other, addressed to an unfortunate Callindrian diplomat.

*T) Addendum - Mechanical Developments in the Northern War: A series of notes by the Kian Ministry of Planning regarding technological developments resulting from the War in Antar.

*U) On the Use of the Bane as an Implement of Healing: An overview of the mechanics of banehealing, and how it's used by the Orders of the Blue.

*V) The Accounting of Valery, Serf: A dictated accounting of the battle of Blogia, by one of Prince Khorobirit's serf levies.

*W) The Records of the Viceroy of Kastellia: Excerpts from the official records of a senior M'hidyossi official, immediately prior to the outbreak of the civil war.

An Adventurer's Guide to the Fledgling Realms  

1) The Last of the Black-Clad, Pt 3: Another account from one of the survivors of Milius Black-Clad's bandit army.

*2) Sex Work in the Fledgling Realms: How does the oldest profession function in the Fledgling Realms?

*3) Feast Days of the Concordat: A list of major holidays in the Concordat.  

*4) Hey, Remember That Time We Killed a Dragon?: A transcript of the Baroness of Sonnemerci's rather... disorganised verbal retelling of a particular episode on her past adventures with Leofric, Duke of Kendrickstone.

A Creator's Guide to Writing and Worldbuilding

A1) Building a Series: Say you have ambitions beyond your current work. Say you want to plan and write a series. How do you build your setting over the course of multiple installments?

A2) Using Genre Conventions: Every genre comes with its own traditions and conventions. Some of them can be helpful, others... less so. How do you tell the former from the latter?