Lore & LilacWorld-building
A world that stays connected to the book
Profiles, relationships, family trees and maps that hang off the same story bible as your citations — so the map pin for the orchard knows which scenes happen there.
No AI involved Images are ones you upload; the studio doesn't generate pictures. World-building views never send text to an AI provider.
What you get
World-building, in detail
- Profiles with your own images for characters, places and objects
- A relationships graph with labelled connections, each able to cite the passage that shows it
- Family trees built from the relationships you record
- Maps: upload your map and pin places to it; each pin opens the place's entry
- Character voices: notes on how each person speaks, kept with their profile
- Every view links back to story-bible details and the passages they cite
How it works
In practice
Give it a face
Add a portrait, a sketch or a photo that inspired the place. It's yours; we don't generate images.
Draw the web
Record who is whose sister, rival or debtor. The graph and family tree follow from those records.
Pin the map
Upload a map and drop pins on it. Each pin is a place in your bible, with its scenes and citations.
Hear them
Keep notes on each character's voice and check a line of dialogue against them while you revise.
Where we draw the line
What it never does
- Generate portraits, maps or descriptions
- Make you fill in a hundred fields before you can write
- Publish your world anywhere — everything stays private to your account
These follow from our commitments. The studio never writes, suggests or rewrites your prose, anywhere.
Before you start
Questions writers ask
Can I use it for a big secondary world?
Yes, and the series workspace shares it across books. That said, it's designed for a novelist's world rather than a public wiki: there are no public pages or community features.
What image formats can I upload?
Common web formats such as JPEG, PNG and WebP. Images count towards your plan's storage.
Try world-building on your own draft
Import your draft from Word, Scrivener, RTF, EPUB or Markdown, or start on a blank page. The 14-day trial needs no card, and your book is exportable from the first word.