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Lesson 1: Get Started with Articles
Welcome to World Anvil, the home of your new world! In this get-started series of lessons (and videos!) you’ll learn everything you need to know to get started on World Anvil.
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World Anvil Beginner Tutorials
This mini-course of World Anvil tutorials for beginners takes you through all the core features of the World Anvil worldbuilding platform! From articles, to timelines, maps, secrets and customizing the way your world looks, follow this World Anvil course to become adept with the ultimate worldbuilding software in 6 lessons.
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You have your World Anvil account and you're ready to get creating... but how do you use World Anvil? You've come to the right place! This page is designed to teach you how to find help depending on your needs.
Lesson 2: The UI
Welcome to lesson 2 of the Get Started Wizard Guide. In this lesson, I’ll take you on a quick tour of the World Anvil UI!
Lesson 3: Customizing & Sharing Your World
Welcome to lesson 3 of the Get Started guide. As you learned last time, your world has a presentation mode, which is what it looks like to other people. In this lesson, we’re going to focus on customizing your world’s presentation mode, and sharing your world with other people.
Lesson 4: Getting Started with Timelines
Timelines are so useful for explaining the history of your regions, organizations, cities, and more! In this lesson, you’ll get started with World Anvil’s Timelines, walk through the interface, and create your first Historical Events and Eras!
Lesson 5: Getting Started with Maps
Interactive maps are a fantastic way to visualize the geography of your setting, and figure out the logistics of your stories! They’re also great for sharing your setting with others. In this lesson, you’ll learn the interactive maps interface, make your first map and pins, and get a taste of how far you can go with them.
Lesson 6: Getting Started with Secrets & Subscribers
In this final lesson of the Get Started Wizard series, I’m going to get you started with Secrets, Subscriber Groups & Co-Authors on World Anvil. This will allow you to choose exactly who sees which secret information.
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