Chapter plans and scene defaults

A chapter can carry a status, point of view, location and date that its scenes follow unless they set their own.

A chapter can carry the plan its scenes follow: a Status, a Point of view, a Location and a date (When). A scene that sets none of its own takes the chapter's. For a book with one scene to a chapter, you set these once, on the chapter, and never open the scene's details to do it.

Set a chapter's plan

Open a manuscript, open the chapter, and choose Edit (or fill the same fields in when you add a Chapter). Below the title, synopsis and word target you'll find:

Field	What its scenes take from it
Status	Outline, Draft, Revised or Final. Leave it alone and the chapter sets none.
Point of view	The character the chapter is told through. Optional.
Location	Where it takes place, any lore entry (a place, usually). Optional.
When	The in-world date, in your world's calendar. Optional.

The chapter's own fields, and the note that its scenes take them — Editing a chapter: its scenes follow these unless they set their own

Change them here and every scene that follows the chapter follows, straight away. Nothing is copied into the scenes.

How a scene decides

For each of the four fields, a scene looks at itself first, then at its chapter:

A scene saves only the values you set on it. A scene whose chapter says Revised and whose own status you never touched stays Revised as long as the chapter does. Wherever Mythforge shows a scene's status, point of view, location or date (the manuscript's lists, the planner and corkboard, the filters, the timeline), it shows the value the scene follows.

See where a value comes from

Open a scene's details (… on a phone, the details panel beside the editor on a wide window). Under Status, Point of view, Location and When, a small note says where the value comes from, whenever the chapter sets that field:

From Chapter 1: Ten Thousand Lamps: the scene follows its chapter.
Differs from Chapter 1: Ten Thousand Lamps · Use chapter's: the scene sets its own value.

A scene that follows its chapter's status, POV and date, with its own location — The master's ledger takes its status, POV and date from its chapter, but sets its own location

If the chapter leaves a field empty there's no note: the scene just has whatever you give it.

Set a scene's own, or go back to the chapter's

To set a scene's own value, change the field in its details. The note changes to Differs from…, and the chapter and its other scenes are unaffected.
To hand it back, choose Use chapter's beside the note. The scene follows the chapter again, including any later change to it.
Clearing a Point of view or Location with its × also drops the scene's own value, so it follows the chapter again if the chapter has one.

Good to know

A scene with no status of its own, in a chapter with none, is a Draft.
Plot threads work the same way: a chapter's threads run through all its scenes, shown with a dashed outline on each scene. See Plot threads.
A character's age in a scene is worked out from the scene's date, so a chapter's When is enough. See Scene titles, paging and the manuscript menu.
Scenes from before chapters carried a plan keep the values they already had. Nothing changes until you set something on a chapter.