the Encyclopaedia Elyden! (Patreon)

EDIT: The October 2024 update is live, with loads of new entries, including information for all the states of the Ammashi Peninsula in the south west of Sammaea, as well as the states in the north east of Llachatul (Tisara, Anbattur, Loegress, Calbia, and Kommea). This edit sees the encyclopaedia reach a new milestone - over 1,410,000 words! (not that that's really a goal).

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This has been a real labour of love, and I've spent the last few months working on the formatting, and spelling, and making sure the links all work the way they should. The document is a fully hyperlinked PDF so you should easily be able to navigate from entry to entry, hopefully allowing you a relatively seamless way of exploring the world.

This will be available to all Patrons at the Acolyte tier and higher, and this post will be pinned to the top of the Patreon, I'll also link to it from my site. If you're not a patron, you can sign up for at least 1 month to gain access to the Encyclopaedia and my back catalogue of high-res and textless maps, though I do hope you stick around for longer to get to see updates as they go live!

The encyclopaedia will be a living document, in that I will be constantly adding to it and editing it as I produce more content. I will be updating the document in the pinned post every month or so, so that you always have access to an up-to-date version, so long as you're a patron at the Acolyte Tier or higher. 

It includes:
- over 1030 pages of letter/A4, including:
- over 28,000 individual fully hyperlinked encyclopaedia-style entries totalling 1,410,000 words
- over 275 nations (that's right...) With information regarding their rulers, politics, and territories. As I create more maps these sections will be further fleshed out
- over 100 religions
- over 350 organisations
- over 7,100 settlements, most of which have at least some information about them such as industries, interesting facts, rulers, and populations, amongst other details (this is one thing I really want to flesh out as I continue revising and adding to the encyclopaedia).
- over 3500 geographical features, from mountains to seas and supernatural features
- over 400 characters, ranging from rulers and generals to scientists, photographers, philosophers, heretics, explorers and cartographers (of course!)
- legends, history, dishes, drinks, poisons, diseases, military structures, and so so much more...

Though I've done my best to make sure the document is as polished as can be, I'm sure that there are spelling mistakes and typos that missed my scrutiny, as well as dead links or other issues. If you encounter any such issues while looking through the document, please do let me know and I'll update it right away.

Also, if there are any entries that you feel are too short, or need clarification, please let me know and I'll expand them as much as possible.

I've included some sample pages to give an idea of what the document looks like: