Connect lore and story

Your lorebook and your manuscript become far more useful once they know about each other. In this lesson you'll mention lore as you write, so every entry knows the scenes it appears in, and add relationships, so your lore knows how its people and places fit together.

What you'll do

• Mention characters and places while you write.
• Peek at an entry without leaving your scene.
• Link entries with relationships.
• Find the places you named someone but didn't mention them.

1. Mention lore while you write

In a scene, type @ followed by a few letters of a name. Suggestions appear above the keyboard: tap one, and the name becomes a link to that entry.

Mentions find "also known as" names too, so @Kaela finds Kaela Voss. If the name isn't in your lorebook yet, choose Create "…" and pick a category: the entry is made and mentioned in one go.

In your scene's markdown, a mention is an ordinary link with a lore: address, which is why it survives renames:

At her side, [@Oren](lore:brother-oren) said nothing for a mile.

Rename Brother Oren in the lorebook and every mention still points at him.

2. Peek at an entry

Tap a mention while you're reading (not typing) to see the entry's summary, details and relationships without leaving the scene. Open in lorebook takes you to its page; Open in new tab keeps your scene open beside it.

3. See where each entry appears

Every entry's page lists where it's Mentioned in, grouped by manuscript, with the passage around each mention. Below that, Unlinked mentions finds places where you typed the name as plain text: tap Link all to turn them into mentions at once.

Each manuscript also lists the Lore in this manuscript, so the cast of each book is a tap away.

4. Add relationships

Mentions say two things are connected. Relationships say how: Kaela is the student of Brother Oren, Oren is a member of the Cinder Choir, the Choir is located in Emberfall.

1. On an entry's page, under Relationships, tap Add.
2. Pick how they relate, such as Member of.
3. Search for the other entry and tap it.
4. Optionally add a Note, such as until the war, and save.

The other entry shows it from its side automatically: add "Student of Brother Oren" on Kaela's page and Oren's page shows "Mentor of Kaela". There's no need to add it twice.

Mythforge comes with parent and child, member, leader, ruler, location, owner, creator, mentor, sibling, spouse, ally and enemy. For anything your world invents, such as an oath, add Your kinds with a label for each side: Sworn to and Sworn by.

Try it

Next

With a cast, a setting and a first scene, it's time to plan the whole book: Plan your story.

Go deeper: The editor: mentions · The lorebook: lore in your scenes · Relationships