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Licensing and attribution

The official Elegor canon is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), free to use in any form and for any purpose. Attribution is the only requirement.

What CC BY 4.0 means in plain language

The license grants two freedoms: Share (copy and redistribute in any medium or format) and Adapt (remix, transform, and build upon for any purpose, including commercial). One condition applies.

• Attribution: you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, provided it does not suggest the licensor endorses you or your use.

Your derivative work carries whatever license you choose, including all-rights-reserved copyright. A story, game, illustration, or software project built on Elegor is yours to license freely. The CC BY 4.0 obligation applies only to the original Elegor canon material you incorporate or reference.

What qualifies as "official Elegor canon"

Official canon is any material published under the Elegor name by the Elegor Society, by Davide Ravasi, or by Riccardo Ravasi: this includes Compendium entries, Chapters, foundational lore documents, and Elegor Official badge works. Community contributions that have been accepted and published in the Compendium as Pioneering canon are also covered, attributed to the contributor's Narrator.

Community works carrying an Inspired, Hallmarked, or Pioneering badge that have not yet been integrated into the Compendium remain under the license their creator chose.

Attribution template

Use this template when crediting Elegor canon in your work. Adapt the phrasing to fit your medium (a game credits screen, a book acknowledgements page, a website footer, or a metadata field all work).

Based on Elegor (https://elegor.world), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Original creators: Davide Ravasi and Riccardo Ravasi. Canon and badges curated by the Elegor Society.

If you are using material attributed to a specific Narrator (a Compendium entry authored by Ipawu Vangiær, for instance), you may credit the Narrator alongside the project attribution. The project-level attribution (above) is always required; the Narrator credit is a courtesy.

Derivative works and your own license

You retain full copyright over your original creative work. The badge system, the Compendium, and the Elegor Society make no claim on the intellectual property you create. When you submit a work for badge review, you are requesting recognition, not transferring rights. Your work remains yours.

If your Pioneering contribution is accepted into the Compendium as canon, the specific elements that become part of the canon (a character, a location, a spell tradition) are then covered by CC BY 4.0 as part of the official corpus. Your original creative work (the story, illustration, or other piece from which those elements were drawn) remains under your chosen license.

Questions and edge cases

Creative licensing can raise unexpected questions. If you are unsure whether your intended use requires attribution, whether your adaptation is permissible, or how to handle a specific edge case, reach out to the Elegor Society. The goal is to make attribution straightforward, not to create legal barriers to creative work.