Characters

The Characters view is your cast list. Each character gets a sheet that combines quick-reference metadata with room for as much background prose as you want to write.

What a character sheet holds

• Name: the character's primary name.
• Role: their role in the story (protagonist, antagonist, supporting, etc.).
• Summary: a short one-line description for quick scanning in the roster.
• Aliases: other names the character goes by (nicknames, titles, cover identities). Each alias is tracked individually.
• Relationships: links to other characters (see below).
• Background & notes: a full rich-text area for backstory, arc, motivations, and anything else, edited just like the main editor.

Relationships

You can define relationships between characters, each with:

• The other character it connects to
• A type (e.g. sibling, rival, mentor, love interest)
• A description of the relationship

Relationships are cross-referenced: when you view a character, you see not only the relationships you defined from that character, but also relationships that other characters defined pointing to them. This gives you a complete picture of how each character sits in the web of your cast without having to duplicate entries.

Working with the roster

The Characters view presents your cast as a browsable list with detail sheets. Add, edit, and remove characters as your story grows.

Integration with other features

• Spell check & Glossary: every character name and alias is automatically added to your project's Glossary and to the spell-check dictionary, so proper nouns are never flagged as misspellings. See Glossary for how the auto-sync works.
• Plots: plot threads can reference the characters involved in them.

How characters are stored

All character metadata lives in one file, with each character's long-form background in its own Markdown file:

characters/
  characters.yaml          # names, roles, aliases, relationships, summaries
  <character-id>.md        # background, arc, and notes