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Set up & Use Lore

Build your course's Lore (a kingdom, a cosmic Force, and an eight-companion cast), shared by every unit in the House and editable at any time.

Role: House owner or Editor

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Lore wraps your course in a narrative — so the content feels like an adventure instead of a worksheet. Lore holds three things: the kingdom (its name and its sovereign), the cosmic Force that runs through it (a name plus two opposed aspects), and the cast: a party of eight companions.

Lore belongs to the House (the course), and every Campaign (unit) inside that course shares it. It describes where a story happens, never what happens: the what — the story type, tone, and central conflict — lives on each unit’s Quest, authored in the campaign sheet. One realm, many arcs.

Lore is also optional. A course with no Lore authored plays in the Default world, where the AI supplies a generic setting and cast and the Quest alone drives generation. Authoring Lore overrides that default.

Lore holds no villain

The Force is a dual principle, not good-versus-evil, and Lore deliberately carries no antagonist. The Boss belongs to a campaign’s Quest and each Mob to a path — they’re what twist the Force’s balance at their own scale (Force ⊃ Boss ⊃ Mob). So one course’s Lore backs every unit in it, each with an entirely different villain.

There is no Lore library

Lore is edited in place, on the course — there is no separate library to manage and nothing to link. Duplicating a course copies its Lore by value, so editing one course’s Lore touches that course alone.

Author your course’s Lore

  1. Open the course's Lore

    Open your House (course). The title’s GM Actions menu (the construction icon) offers Edit Lore. On a course still playing in the Default world, the action reads Author Lore instead.

    The course page also carries a read-only door: Explore “<Kingdom>”’s Lore & Characters opens the Lore the way a student meets it — the opening passage, then all eight companions with their roles, and keeps Edit Lore in its bottom corner.

    The course's Lore dialog showing the kingdom passage, the companions with their roles, and the Edit Lore action
    The read-only Lore door, with Edit Lore in the corner.verified @ 2f427ecbd

    Authoring is Guided only: an inline mad-lib composes the Lore from single-word blanks, first for the kingdom and Force as one untitled opening passage, then for The Party: the eight companions, each with its own set of typed blanks. Tap any highlighted word to change it. There’s no fill-it-for-me shortcut; every blank ships with a sensible default, so a Lore is already valid the moment you open it and you only edit what you care about.

    The Lore editor composes the Lore from inline blanks.verified @ 2f427ecbd

    The editor opens straight into the blanks under The Lore; there is no freeform mode to switch to.

  2. Save the Lore

    Save. It is stored on the course itself and takes effect immediately for every unit in it — there is nothing further to attach.

Change Lore later

  1. Edit the course's Lore

    Edit Lore opens the editor on what’s already there, from the title’s GM Actions menu or from the Lore door’s corner button. The change applies to the whole course the moment you save, and to no other course.

    Nothing to sync

    There are no templates and therefore nothing to sync. The older “Sync from Template” action and its staleness indicator were removed along with the shared-world model — if you see them referenced anywhere, that reference is stale.

Ownership & access

Editing a course’s Lore requires edit rights on that House — the same gate as editing the course itself, which is its owner plus any Editor collaborator (see Invite collaborators). Some server messages still say world, the internal name for Lore. Authoring Lore is open to every plan; the AI Wizard, which draws on it when it generates, is a Patron feature.