Seventh Sanctum
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Seventh Sanctum (sometimes just SS) is a website run by Steven Savage (also known as XWayfarer, or simply X). It is a collection of random generators or randomizers and name generators that create random names, items, and even full descriptions of characters. There are generators for everything from spells and pirate ship names, to entire story plots and characters. Many of the generators are oriented towards science fiction, fantasy and anime, and are directed towards artists, writers, and role-playing gamers. It is one of the largest single collections of random generation tools on the Internet.
Writer's Digest named Seventh Sanctum one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers for 2006. [1]
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[edit] History of the Website
1999 - Site created as subsite of domain. Incorporated past JavaScript generator for Superhero Names, and one for anime attacks. Initially spawned after commentary that attacks in anime often sounded randomly generated. Site expanded continuously.
2000-2001: The site moved from JavaScript to PHP.
2004 - Site moved to top-level of domain.
2005 - First random contest started.
[edit] Generators
There are over a hundred and forty generators which fall into the following seventeen categories. There are also examples from each category.
- Anime/Manga - including "Catgirl Generator" and "Battle Aura Generator"
- Art - including "Sword Generator" and "Dragon Description Generator"
- Beings - including "Dragonling Generator" and "Legendary Creature Generator"
- Characters - including "Deity Generator" and "Super Ninja Generator"
- Combat - including "Fantasy Military Unit Generator" and "Wrestling Move Generator"
- Darkness/Evil - including "Vampire Namer" and "Dark Ritual Generator"
- Equipment - including "Quest Item Generator" and "Currency Generator"
- Humour - including "Wacky Class Generator" and "Evil Animal Minion Generator"
- Magic - including "Magic Item Generator" and "Outer Plane Generator"
- Media/Fandom - including "Crossover Generator" and "Digimon Generator"
- Names - including "Weird Name Generator" and "Greek Namer"
- Organizations - including "Government Title Generator" and "Sentai Team Name Generator"
- Setting - including "Landscape Generator" and "Tavern Generator"
- Superheroes/Sentai - including "Silly Superhero Name Generator" and "Sentai Story Generator"
- Skills/Abilities/Traits - including "Mood Generator" and "Anime Power Generator"
- Technology - including "IT Department Generator" and "Space Phenomena Generator"
- Writing - including "Quick Story Idea Generator" and "What-if-inator"
[edit] Community
Part of the Sanctum, as it is known to users, centres on the forum (Seventh Sanctum Sector), where users of the generators gather to talk. Most of the users are of a creative bent, be they poets, writers or artists. A great deal of users are also players of role-playing games. The forum has about 150 members, but only 20 are regular posters.
The forum even has a running joke, and refers on a semi-regular basis to demonic stuffed felines or DSFs. These are small, cute but evil cats with brilliant green eyes and black or navy blue fur. They supposedly constrict one's writing ability with the aid of a Writer's Block.
The forum members are also now engaged in a communal world building project and are creating a planet (named Xothu) from scratch with some standard fantasy races (such as dwarves) but also new races as well (such as lilithians and jellicles).
