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The Characters page

The Characters page is the first sub-step of building your world — this is where your cast lives. Add the people who populate the book, see each one’s completeness at a glance, and open any of them to edit their profile. You need at least two characters (and one location) to move on; everything past that is up to you.

The Characters page: your cast list, the four ways to add, and a character’s profile.

What’s on this page

Your cast — a card per character with its completeness %, an on/off switch, an AI badge, and delete.
Four ways to add a character (below): by hand, the whole cast from your synopsis, one with AI, or from the Store.
A profile on the right — tabs plus “All Fields”, an avatar you can regenerate, and “Add to store”.
The sub-step rail (Characters · Locations · Items · Worlds · Cultures · Canon Facts) and a “Minimum to continue”.

How to use it

1Add at least two characters — use whichever method suits you (see below).
2Open each one and fill the core fields; you don’t have to fill everything.
3Mark your leads as POV characters, then move on to Locations.

You don’t have to fill everything

A character has many fields, but you never have to fill them all. A name, a look, an occupation, a main goal and a flaw are already enough to write a believable person. The completeness percentage (and the Core / Details / Depth read-out) is a guide, not a target — it simply rewards filling the high-impact fields first.

Reach for the deeper fields only when you want finer control over how a character reads — and especially on your point-of-view characters, which use far more of the profile than a background walk-on. The full field-by-field reference is one page down.

Four ways to add a character

You can build your cast however you like — mix and match these:

By hand

Press “+ character” and choose Manual to open a blank profile and write it yourself. Full control, no cost.

The whole cast, from your synopsis

“Regenerate characters from synopsis” (the button above the list) drafts a complete cast in one go, drawn from the synopsis you wrote earlier. It shows a quality tier(Bronze · Silver · Gold) and a coin cost before you commit — or runs on your own key (BYOK). The fastest way to a starting cast.

One character, with AI

Press “+ character” and choose AI Generate to generate a single character from a few parameters — handy for adding one more person without regenerating everyone. (More on this menu below.)

From the Store

Press “+ character” and choose From Store to browse ready-made characters and drop one straight into your project — then tweak it to fit.

Three of these live behind the “+ character” button, which opens a small menu:

The Create Character menu — Manual (free), From Store (free), AI Generate (12 coins) — The “+ character” menu: Manual (free) · From Store (free) · AI Generate (a small coin cost).

However a character arrives, it’s yours to edit — open it and change any field. Generated and store characters are just a head start, not a fixed result.

The AI character wizard

Choosing AI Generate opens a short wizard — you set a few parameters and the AI drafts the character, which you preview before adding.

The AI Generation: character wizard — Genre, Gender, Role (required), Archetype and Context/motivation (optional), a Generate button with a tier selector, and Back — The AI character wizard — three quick choices, two optional hints, then Generate.

Genre * — the world the character belongs to (defaults to your book’s genre).
Gender * — male, female, or other.
Role * — their part in the story — protagonist, antagonist, mentor, and so on.
Archetype (optional) — a shorthand to shape them — e.g. “veteran warrior, cunning merchant”.
Context / motivation (optional) — any extra details for the AI to work from.

The three starred fields are required; the two below them are optional. A quality tier(Bronze · Silver · Gold) and its coin cost sit under the Generate button before you commit — or run it on your own key (BYOK). When it finishes you get a preview: keep it with Add to project, try again with Regenerate, or step Back. Nothing is added until you accept it.

Improve a character with AI

Once a character exists, the ✦ AI button on its card fleshes it out — one click, and the AI fills in and deepens the profile from what you’ve already written, keeping your own details as the basis. It’s the quickest way to turn a sparse character into a full one.

The ✦ AI button appears while a character is still under-filled (below about 70% complete) — a nudge to round it out. Its coin cost shows on hover; press it as many times as you like, and edit anything it adds. (This improves an existing character — different from the wizard above, which creates a new one.)

The cast list & sub-steps

Characters are sub-step 1 of 6. Locations, Items, Worlds, Cultures and Canon Facts follow — only Characters and Locations have a minimum (2+ characters and 1+ location); the rest are optional. When you meet the minimum, you can move on.

Each character is a card with its completeness %, an on/off switch (turn a character off to keep it in the project but out of the writing), the ✦ AI improve button (above), and delete. Select a card to edit its profile on the right, regenerate its avatar, or Add to store to share it.