https://seligon.conlang.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Welcome_to_The_Seligonian%21Welcome to The Seligonian! - Revision history2026-04-08T04:05:58ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.36.1https://seligon.conlang.org/index.php?title=Welcome_to_The_Seligonian!&diff=797&oldid=prevMichaelmgoessler at 14:14, 15 April 20232023-04-15T14:14:36Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''The Seligonian'' is an, at the moment brief but as time passes on hopefully more and more comprehensive, introduction to my conworld, focussing on its main continent, Elondor, and its languages and cultures. The world is a world not unlike ours, with a sun and a moon, plants, animals, and humans (mostly?) like we know them. There might be gods, somewhere on a plane, not forgotten, but inaccessible to any mortal soul; and perhaps, but only perhaps, there is even some kind of magic.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''The Seligonian'' is an, at the moment brief but as time passes on hopefully more and more comprehensive, introduction to my conworld, focussing on its main continent, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Elondor<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, and its <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Languages|</ins>languages<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Ethnographic Outline|</ins>cultures<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>. The world is a world not unlike ours, with a sun and a moon, plants, animals, and humans (mostly?) like we know them. There might be gods, somewhere on a plane, not forgotten, but inaccessible to any mortal soul; and perhaps, but only perhaps, there is even some kind of magic.</div></td></tr>
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