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Aeno Michaelidh, a mystic and comparative linguist; the first conlanger in the Irtan Western world

    • Influenced by her missionary work in Southeast Asia
    • Writes groundbreaking works in historical linguistics (equivalent to our timeline's William Jones) and proposes Proto-Indo-Uralic
      • Unlike William Jones, Michaelidh is not surprised by Sanskrit's relation to Latin and Greek; she partly travels to Southeast Asia to verify her belief in a common ancestor for all human languages
    • Latinizes her name, originally of Medh Chêl origin, to Aenō, Aenōnis
    • Developed a multilevel conworld with resemblances to Dante
      • Rõktiap is the language of "heaven" in that world; its grammar is based on Michaelidh's idea of what the first human language was like (though the actual details were not a reconstruction); unlike Earthly languages Rõktiap doesn't evolve into descendants all that much (Sõiptram is an exception)
      • LOTR-style presentation of Earth languages in translation
    • Work was co-opted and tweaked/reinterpreted by Remonitionists