Ill Bethisad

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Ill Bethisad is a collaborative alternate history project which had 58 active participants as of March 2021^[update].^[1] Originally created by Andrew Smith from New Zealand,^[2] it was initiated in 1997 as the Brithenig Project. It can be characterized as an instance of the subgenre of steampunk. Ill Bethisad has a largely encyclopedic character, consisting of constructed languages, written histories, timelines, news items, maps, flags and other images, short movies, descriptions of cultures, religions and technologies, as well as short stories.