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Welcome to Amaranth Legacy! For nearly 10 years now, this community and its contents has served as the inspiration and hub of many worldbuilders and storytellers, and as such, has changed faces and functions many times.
If you're a new visitor, we welcome you with open arms, and hope you enjoy your stay here, and hope you wish to join our community, and engage with it any way you wish! And if you're a returning visitor, we welcome you back to our community, and hope you enjoy seeing our great decade-long legacy in full display!
If you are confused as to what the purpose of this community is, we hope that this FAQ page will be an all-encompassing go-to guide for the respected reader, so that they may get a better grasp as to what we're about, what we're here for, and how they can join!
General
What is Amaranth Legacy?
Amaranth Legacy is a community of worldbuilders, writers, and storytellers, all brought together to share writings, artwork, and ideas. We place emphasis on uploading to our site, as alternatives such as sharing in discord or on docs are, in our experience, a lot messier, not self-hosted, not nearly as customizable, riddled with ads, or generally not good for archiving and accessing information.
We have a place for all creatives. Some have joined with full projects ready to upload; others only started just as they found out about our community. We have resident visual artists and a dedicated portion of our community who is a critical audience, asking questions and engaging the works of others to help us improve. No matter the goal when joining, the community is a celebration of creativity and a place to host works we want to share (and you can too!).
If you're looking to make friends through this community, many of us are happy to meet you, too!
How does this site work?
There are many pages on this site with many different authors. Pages belonging to the same "universe" or "setting" are said to be in the same Scope. Some authors only collaborate in community-owned scopes and some have multiple.
Each scope has a header at the top of the page. This just shows the reader what scope the article is in. If you've noticed the different colors on different pages, scopes also define how the site looks and behaves! An author has near complete control over the appearance of their page. Other content hosts cannot hold a candle to us. (Tess, our site administrator, wrote multiple extensions allowing for such customability.) We have never had, do not have, and will never have any advertisements on this website. We cannot control what Fandom does for our platform there, and their egregious use of advertisements was one of our motivations for creating this website.
Anything that follows our rules is allowed.
You may contact us by:
- leaving a message in our website chat
- joining our Discord and messaging one of the Website Managers
- emailing staff@amaranth-legacy.community
What does our name mean?
"Amaranth," as you probably already can guess, doesn't usually refer to the color or the wheat in our community. Instead, Amaranth became a ubiquitous facet of our community, having spawned from being an inherent facet of Ambrosia, a setting that consists of half of the Imagindarium's Creation Scope. (currently being rebooted) Over time, it had became a word inherent to the community, and eventually, one for the very act of writing, becoming our conceptualization of the conception/action.
The name "Amaranth Legacy" originally came from an era of the community where we had only three Scopes–ones which still exist prominently as the Amaranth Succession. The connecting force was the changing form of Amaranth, and so we felt that "Amaranth Legacy" fit the community, as we wrote about Amaranth and the consequences of its changing existence.
As we broadened our community and implemented the Scope system, the name Amaranth Legacy took on another meaning, since we started conceptualizing Amaranth as the metanarrative force of canon authors hold over their work, and the act of creation itself. Thus, "Amaranth Legacy" refers to the work we put into giving our authors autonomy in their work and the legacy created by our community.
Website
What happened to the 100th Millennium Wiki?
In April 5th 2023, following community votes, we changed its name from "100th Millennium Wiki" to the "Amaranth Legacy Wiki." As we had focused on a setting split into three different Scopes, with the amorphous concept of "Amaranth," established by the continuity of Imagindarium's Creation as the connective tissue of the three.