Lesson 1 of 9
Your first world
Create a world, give it a name and a colour, and find your way around it.
Every story in Mythforge lives in a world: one setting, with all the books you write in it and all the lore that makes it feel real. In this first lesson you'll create a world and learn your way around it. It takes about five minutes.
Throughout the course, the screenshots follow an example world, The Ashen Reach: a kingdom that burns its past to keep the dark at bay. Make your own world as you go, or borrow ours.
What you'll do
- Create a world with a name and a tagline.
- Find your way around its tabs.
- Learn where Mythforge keeps your writing.
1. Open your library
Open Mythforge in your browser. There's nothing to install and no account to create. You land in your Library, the list of your worlds. It starts empty.
2. Create a world
- Tap + (New world) at the top of the Library.
- Type a Name, such as The Ashen Reach.
- Add a Tagline: one line that captures the world. It's optional, but it's a good test of what your setting is really about.
- Tap Create.
The world opens on its Home tab.
3. Find your way around
A world has three main places, along the bottom on a phone or in the sidebar on a wider window:
| Tab | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Home | Where you left off, your writing stats and a way to the timeline. |
| Manuscripts | Your books and stories set in this world. |
| Lorebook | Characters, places, species, factions and everything else you invent. |
On a laptop or tablet the same world has a sidebar, so every part of it is a click away:
To rename the world or change its tagline later, open World details from the … button on Home.
4. Know where your writing lives
Mythforge has no servers holding your words. Your library is kept on your device as plain markdown files: one per scene, lore entry and book. A scene on disk looks like this:
---
title: Ashfall at dawn
order: 1
status: revised
synopsis: Kaela leaves Emberfall and walks south into the Salt Marches.
pov: kaela-voss
updatedAt: 2026-10-02T21:14:00.000Z
---
The ash came down soft as moth wings the morning [@Kaela](lore:kaela-voss)
left [@Emberfall](lore:emberfall).
That means your writing stays readable in any text editor, now and in twenty years. It also means it's up to you to keep a copy safe. You'll set that up in the last lesson. If you'd rather do it today, see Backups.
Try it
Next
In the next lesson you'll start a book in your world and write its first scene: Your first manuscript.
Go deeper: Getting started · Install the app · Where your writing lives