A series bible that doesn't lie
Every fact needs a source, a status and a date, or your bible slowly becomes a confident list of things that used to be true.
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Related glossary terms
- Series bibleA story bible that spans every book in a series, tracking facts, timelines and deliberate changes so later installments agree with earlier ones.
- Story bibleA reference collection recording the established facts of a novel, such as characters, places, objects, rules and timeline, so they stay consistent from chapter to chapter.
- RetconShort for retroactive continuity: deliberately changing an established fact of a story and adjusting everything that depended on it.
- Continuity errorAn inconsistency within a story, where a detail established in one passage contradicts the same detail somewhere else.
- Unreliable narratorA narrator whose account the reader learns to doubt, because of bias, self-deception, limited understanding or deliberate lies.