To answer the questions earlier about "Who is going to hand out assignments?" and "Who is going to edit this?"
Basically we are. I'm not sure the end product will be a "book" in the sense of a single pdf, or a "book" in the sense of a series of connected documents running from a table of contents on, say, project Redcap, out to people's blogs, theis thread, and other online venues. There's going to be disagreements, and we have no dispute resolution mechanism, so what will eventually happen is that the project will have internal options and variations. This isn't a terrible thing, so long as we know it is going to happen in advance and none of us get too upset when our version of, say, Frederick II, isn't the Definitive Edition, but just one of the editions which turns up.
I know people are looking for something like a Tribunal book: but remember, we are all volunteers here. We aren't going to get paid, get tax concessions, get boasting rights for being authors, or any of that. people are going to write for the joy of the work or not at all, and so that means we can't bang people on the head in the conventional way. That means the product is not going to look like a book, unless we get some top-level negotiating going on.
I'd also like to know what sort of "container" people are happy with, to use a term from someone earlier in the thread. Wiki? Blog? Webpage?
Pralix asked what order we wrote in...it varies. For some books I see a cool bit of mytho-geography and want it (Oleron) and for others I know there is going to be a Ceoris and go looking for a place to put it (there really is a town called Dragon's Nest next to where I put Ceoris). You can do it either way. The canonical covenants in Italy look to me like they were just kind of floated in from people's real-life games. There's nothing aboutm ost of them which ties them to their precise geography or history (Literatus aside).