Cast

PREMIUM and ULTIMATE feature. Build clear entries for recurring people, companions, pets, and other characters.

Available on PREMIUM and ULTIMATE. Lorebooks are included for all subscribers on these plans. On FREE, your companions use the Memory System.

Use Cast for who someone is. A Cast entry gives a recurring person or animal a recognizable identity that stays consistent across scenes.

Good candidates include your companion, your roleplay identity, a friend, a relative, a colleague, a neighbor, or a pet. You do not need an entry for every person briefly mentioned.

Mira's entry concentrates on her identity. Its highlighted pin and lock have separate purposes.

What belongs here

Detail	Example
Name and relevant role	Ellis Reed is the harbor archivist.
Stable appearance or identifying item	Mira carries a brass compass from her mentor.
Consistent traits	Mira is patient, observant, and quietly curious.
Relevant background	Ellis has maintained the town's tide-chart collection for years.
Connection needed to recognize the person	Rowan is Mira's friend and fellow mapmaker.
A pet's identity and habits	Pip is a gray cat who naps beside the map-room stove.

Use a name instead of an unexplained “he,” “she,” or “they,” especially in books with several characters. Distinguish similarly named people in the title or description.

Create a Cast entry

1. Open Cast and select + New.

2. Use the person's name as the title.

3. In How [companion] finds this, name the person and their distinguishing role.

4. Add a few stable details in Content.

5. Select Save.

Title: Ellis Reed

Description: Ellis Reed, harbor archivist, tide charts

Content:

- Ellis Reed maintains the harbor archive in Asterfall.
- They lend old tide charts to Mira and Rowan.
- They prefer visitors to return borrowed maps before dusk.
- They are methodical and enjoy explaining the history of unusual maps.

What belongs somewhere else

• World: where Ellis works and how the archive is arranged.

• Relationship: the trust, boundaries, or promises between Ellis and Rowan.

• Facts: a small specific preference, when it deserves its own entry.

• Chronicle: what Ellis did during a particular visit.

• Open threads: a question Ellis has promised to answer.

A short relationship cue in Cast is useful for identification. Keep the full evolving dynamic in Relationship so you have one clear place to update it.

Keep identities current

Edit the existing Cast entry when you correct a name, learn an established background detail, or intentionally change a character's ongoing role. Creating a second entry for the same person can leave conflicting identities in the book.

Separate stable traits from today's mood. “Mira is generally patient” is a useful Cast detail. “Mira is frustrated because the chart is missing” usually belongs to the current situation or an event.

A lorebook entry does not replace the companion's separate character-creation settings. Use Custom Characters for the underlying character profile and Cast for continuity within this book.

Pin or lock it?

Pin a short core identity entry if you want it consistently available. Lock it if you want to prevent your companion from changing that established identity. You can use either control independently; pins and locks explains both.

Before saving, check: can a reader identify the person, distinguish them from the other cast members, and understand why they matter without reading the whole chat?