High Fantasy · Open Canon · CC BY 4.0
Elegor
A high-fantasy world built on four thousand years of documented history, an open canon, and the people who add to it.
The project
Elegor is open in two distinct ways
The world has a documented history, a growing canon, and an active community of contributors. There are two ways to be part of it.
Add to the canon
Every contributor creates a Voice: an in-world character through whose perspective their work is presented. Lore entries, historical records, species accounts, and geographic surveys submitted through a Voice earn a permanent place in the Compendium, attributed to the character who wrote them. The canon grows with each addition, and so does the record of who built it.
Create your own work
Elegor is also open as a setting. Stories, illustrations, tabletop RPG campaigns, games, and music built in this world can be published under any license the creator chooses. Works submitted to the Elegor Society can earn a seal that formally recognises their quality and their faithfulness to the canon. For many contributors, the Elegor record is a portfolio: credited creative work in a living setting.
What Elegor is
Three ideas at the core
These three commitments govern how Elegor is built, licensed, and shared. Everything else follows from them.
Open by design
Elegor is released under CC BY 4.0. The official canon is free to read, cite, and build upon. Derivative works may carry any license their creators choose, including all-rights-reserved. The only requirement is attribution.
A living canon
The Elegor Compendium is a growing, cross-referenced record of species, history, geography, institutions, and spellcraft, attested by the Voices of Elegor and curated by the Elegor Society.
Your work, credited
Every work made in the Elegor setting is presented through a Voice: an in-world character the creator owns. Contributions to the Compendium carry the Voice's name permanently. Works published independently can earn a seal that formally places them in the broader Elegor record.
Told From Within
Voices of Elegor
All material in the Compendium is attributed to a Voice of Elegor: a scholar, an adventurer, a bard, a painter, or another person who lives or once lived in this world. Voices record only what they can attest, and some truths stay beyond their reach.
Ipawu Vangiær
ARC Syndicate scholarDanegy Mussarav
73-year-old historian, author of We Who Came AfterGirhal Gian'Sheal
34-year-old field scholar from the Varietas Vitae SocietyFrom the Compendium
The lore of Elegor spans four thousand years
Worlds and the Rift
The Nexus Field connects countless worlds, running through the stone, the air, and every act of spellcraft of each. Elegor is one of them.
The peoples
Eight sapient species share Elegor's surface, with languages and histories that cross four thousand recorded years.
The Gods
The Gods of Elegor are known to mortals through theology, observation, and recorded contact. The Compendium presents them as their followers understand them.
Ages and aftermath
The Compendium tracks Elegor's history through its Ages, Epochs, and Periods. The Heresy War remains the event from which every modern chronicle measures.
The world is open. So is the canon.
Elegor is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Every story, illustration, or worldbuilding contribution made in this setting can carry any license the creator chooses; attribution is the only requirement. Contributions to the Compendium itself enter the official record permanently, attributed to the Voice who added them.