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Your characters and your map are pictures of your story. Some of what you set there is given to the chapter writer and checked; some of it is there to look right. This list says which is which, for every control.
In your story
The writer is given it, or every chapter is checked against it.Not in your story yet
Saved with your world, not sent to the writer yet. We are wiring these in.Looks only
Drawn for you; the writer never sees it.| What you set | Reaches your story | What the writer gets | How a chapter is held to it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hair colour | In your story | The colour, as a permanent trait the chapter must keep | Every chapter: deterministic colour check plus the consistency check |
| Eye colour | In your story | The colour, as a permanent trait the chapter must keep | Every chapter: deterministic colour check plus the consistency check |
| Skin tone | In your story | The skin tone, as a fixed trait | Every chapter, by the AI drift check only |
| Hair style | In your story | The style, labelled permanent | Only when you lock the trait |
| Face shape | In your story | The face shape | Only when you lock the trait |
| Build | In your story | The build | Only when you lock the trait |
| Outfit (preset or your own words) | In your story | Your outfit words, or the preset name | Only when you lock the trait |
| Outfit colour | In your story | The colour word | Only when you lock the trait |
| Accessories | In your story | The accessories you picked | Only when you lock the trait |
| Physical description text | In your story | Your description, every chapter | Required details are scanned for; consistency check |
| A trait that changes at chapter N | In your story | Decides which value the writer gets for each chapter | Drift checks use the value as of the chapter |
| Portrait art style | Looks only | -- | -- |
| Portrait background scene | Looks only | -- | -- |
| Outfit decoration (emblem, drawing, image) | Looks only | -- | -- |
| AI portrait image | Looks only | -- | -- |
| What you set | Reaches your story | What the writer gets | How a chapter is held to it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Select / move a pin | Looks only | -- | -- |
| Location tool (a place) | In your story | Name, type and description, in chapters whose outline names the place (top 3) | Places the outline names must appear in the chapter |
| Path tool (road, river, trade route) | Not in your story yet | -- | -- |
| Territory tool (kingdom, region, border) | Not in your story yet | -- | -- |
| Brush (paint) | Looks only | -- | -- |
| Land (landmass) | Looks only | -- | -- |
| Pattern fill (marsh, desert, sea) | Looks only | -- | -- |
| Stamp (icon, your drawing, imported image) | Looks only | -- | -- |
| Label (text along a line) | Looks only | -- | -- |
| Eraser | Looks only | -- | -- |
| Chapter ranges on layers, roads and borders | Looks only | -- | -- |
| Where each character is at each chapter | Looks only | -- | -- |
| Map background, theme and motion | Looks only | -- | -- |
| What you set | Reaches your story | What the writer gets | How a chapter is held to it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your Rules (World tab) | In your story | Every rule, at the top of the prompt, ranked above everything else | Every chapter after writing: rewritten on a break, then held or flagged with the passage quoted |
| Story boundaries (Style tab) | In your story | Your forbidden and required lists, at the top of the prompt (or your genre's, if you set none) | Every chapter after writing, by pattern and AI checks |
| World Builder: Magic, Cultures, Technology, Rules, Custom Notes | In your story | Your text, at the top of the prompt, every chapter | -- |
| World Builder: Geography, History & Lore | Not in your story yet | -- | -- |
| Generated world (setting, atmosphere, period) | In your story | The setting summary | -- |
| Factions | In your story | Goals and standing as facts; members through their characters | -- |
| Place notes, secrets and tags | In your story | Sent as facts about the place | -- |
| Timeline events | In your story | Event names | -- |