The lorebook

The Lorebook is your world's encyclopedia: characters, species, places, factions, events, artifacts and anything else you invent. It lives in its own tab in every world.

Add an entry

1. Open the Lorebook tab and choose + (New entry).
2. Give it a Name.
3. Choose a Category, such as a character or a place.
4. Optionally add:
   • Also known as: other names, titles or nicknames.
   • Tags: your own labels, for grouping entries across categories.
   • Summary: one line to jog your memory.
   • When, for an event: puts it on the timeline.

The entry's page then has room for much more: a picture, Details such as a character's age or a city's population, Dates for the timeline, and Relationships with other entries. See Lore details and pictures and Relationships.

Write notes

Each entry has notes, written in the same editor as your scenes. Use them for backstory, descriptions, secrets or anything else. You can mention other entries with @ there too, and add pictures, such as a map, with the Picture tool.

Find things

• Search at the top of the Lorebook matches names, including "also known as" names.
• Filter by category or by tag to narrow the list.
• Select a tag anywhere to see every entry with it, and any scenes tagged with it too.
• Search for the whole world (⌘ P or Ctrl P) also finds words inside notes, and pages by tag when you start with #. See Search, find and replace.
• On a wide window, the whole lorebook sits beside an entry's page, so you can move from entry to entry.

Make your own sections

Gather the entries you reach for most into sections of your own, such as "Main cast", "The Ember Cycle" or "Magic". They sit at the top of the Lorebook, and on a wide window at the top of the lorebook beside your pages. The lorebook itself stays as it is: an entry can be in any number of sections, and taking it out of one never deletes it.

1. Choose New section in the Lorebook and give it a Name.
2. Pin a page to add entries by hand. Pinned entries come first, in the order you put them.
3. Optionally, under Also gather, pick tags, categories or manuscripts, as many as you like in each row. An entry joins when it matches one of your picks in every row you use, and new entries join by themselves: for example, characters and factions tagged #house-varn or #house-orrin, or everyone mentioned in either of two books.

To pin an entry without opening the section, right-click it (long-press on a touch screen) and choose a section, or Pin to new section. Choose Edit beside a section's name to rename, change or delete it, or right-click the name to move it up or down. Sections are saved with the world, so they sync to your other devices.

Categories

Mythforge comes with a set of categories (Character, Species, Place, Faction, Event, Artifact and Page), each with its own icon and colour. Choose Categories (the sliders button) in the Lorebook to add your own, change their icon and colour, and choose the Fields each category's entries start with (see Lore details and pictures).

Worlds whose categories you've already changed keep them as they are: add Species or Event yourself under Categories if you'd like them. Older worlds that still have entries in Era keep that category too.

Lore in your scenes

Type @ in a scene to mention an entry (see The editor). Mentions connect your lore and your writing both ways:

• An entry's page lists everywhere it's Mentioned in, grouped by manuscript.
• Unlinked mentions finds places where you wrote the name as plain text, so you can turn them into mentions.
• A manuscript's page lists the Lore in this manuscript, so the people and places of each book are close at hand.
• Select a mention while you write to peek at the entry: its summary, details and relationships. On a wide window, choose Open beside to keep it open next to your scene.

Delete an entry

At the bottom of an entry's page, choose Delete entry, or right-click it (long-press on a touch screen) in the lorebook. It goes to Recently deleted for 30 days, so you can bring it back, mentions and relationships included.