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Project Pontragolia
The intentions for 'Project Pontragolia' have been various over the years, circling the concept of inventing and populating world realistic but very different from our own. This mixed, stop-start history has culminated now in stories. A set of stories about the people, the places, the events, myths and legends of this place, Pontragolia. With an outline imagined, Pontragolia is finally being given solidity. An anthology, filling the void, building up the scaffold, constructing from the ground up. This is the idea.

To go along with this, there needs to be a record of what that void currently contains, a single place stitching together the characters, places, cultural tendencies. So I can keep track of everything, really. And there has to be something else: a sketchpad. A spot to throw in thoughts so that they can be developed later.

The end result is this wiki: semi-coherent concepts for use in the past, now or the future. Half-baked ideas filling gaps between full-baked and the odd over-baked. This place will be a mess for a long time, so bear with me.

Why?
Project Pontragolia is an example of a pastime called worldbuilding. This, the 'construction' of a setting, environment, country or entire planet, is more commonly done than many people may think, and for a variety of reasons. For some, it is simply a form of entertainment - an excuse to be creative and a way to engage the mind. For others, it is a tool for writing or game design, or any other activity in which a fictional setting must be thought up. A few just think they can do a better job than whatever we're stuck with.

What is Pontragolia?
Currently, Pontragolia acts as the setting for a set of stories still to be written. Is it strictly-speaking a near-contiguous supercontinent sat on the surface of a planet called Pontret. It is home to many peoples of many nations of many regions, each one of which has a ludicrously complex story if only there was time to tell it.

Pontragolia generally sits somewhere before the Age of Steam and Industry on the developmental timeline, though they have made their own little advancements. Just because the idea hasn't occurred to keep an explosion in a box and push things around with it doesn't mean the people of Pontragolia are backward.

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