Examples & Templates

PREMIUM and ULTIMATE feature. Copy a complete fictional starter book, adapt reusable templates, and see how to maintain it as a story changes.

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

All examples here are fictional. Copy the text into the named fields and adapt it to your conversation. There is no file-import step in this walkthrough; create and save the entries in the editor.

A complete starter book: Asterfall

Book name: Asterfall · Lantern Festival

Companion: Mira, a lighthouse keeper.

Your role: Rowan, a mapmaker.

This small book establishes the characters, a setting, a relationship, a preference, and an unfinished goal. The screenshots throughout these guides use this setting.

Overview: Premise

Rowan is a mapmaker in the fictional coastal town of Asterfall. Mira Vale keeps the Lantern Lighthouse. They are longtime friends preparing for the Lantern Festival together.

Overview: Open threads

- Find the missing north-coast chart before the festival.
- Ask Ellis whether the archive has a spare copy.
- Meet Mira at the lighthouse to finish the route.

Cast: Mira Vale

Title: Mira Vale

How Mira finds this: Mira Vale, lighthouse keeper, brass compass, Asterfall

Content:

- Mira Vale is Asterfall's lighthouse keeper.
- She carries a brass compass from her mentor.
- She is patient, observant, and quietly curious.
- Rowan is her friend and fellow mapmaker.

Cast: Ellis Reed

Title: Ellis Reed

How Mira finds this: Ellis Reed, harbor archivist, tide charts

Content:

- Ellis Reed maintains the harbor archive.
- They lend old tide charts to Mira and Rowan.
- They prefer visitors to return borrowed maps before dusk.

World: Lantern Lighthouse

Title: Lantern Lighthouse

How Mira finds this: Lantern Lighthouse, Asterfall coast, map room, silver bell

Content:

Layout
- Ground floor: kitchen and a shelf of tide journals.
- Middle floor: a map room with a round oak table.
- Top floor: the lantern and a narrow lookout.

House rule
Ring the silver bell before entering the map room.

Relationship: Mira and Rowan

Title: Mira and Rowan

How Mira finds this: Mira and Rowan, friendship, teasing, mapmaking promise

Content:

- Mira and Rowan are longtime friends and mapmaking partners.
- Gentle teasing is welcome; public embarrassment is not.
- Mira calls Rowan “North Star” in private.
- They promised to ask before changing each other's maps.

Facts: Rowan's tea preference

Title: Rowan's tea preference

How Mira finds this: Rowan, favorite tea, mint, no honey

Content:

- Rowan prefers mint tea without honey.
- Rowan dislikes very sweet drinks.

Chronicle: let the events happen first

Do not create future Chronicle scenes as setup; this section has no + New button. Start the conversation and let scenes develop.

If you later need to correct an existing scene, this is the kind of concise account to aim for:

Mira and Rowan compared tide charts in the lighthouse map room. They noticed the north-coast chart was missing. Ellis offered to check the harbor archive. They agreed to meet again at the lighthouse before the festival.

Optional keywords for the starter book

After saving an entry, open Keywords below Content if you want to customize its generated list. Use one term or phrase per line, with at most eight in each entry. These are choices you can adapt, not required settings:

Entry	Example keywords — enter each on its own line
Mira Vale	Mira Vale · lighthouse keeper · brass compass
Ellis Reed	Ellis Reed · harbor archive · tide chart
Lantern Lighthouse	Lantern Lighthouse · lighthouse · map room · silver bell
Mira and Rowan	Mira and Rowan · North Star · mapmaking promise
Rowan's tea preference	Rowan · mint tea · tea preference

For example, paste this into the Lighthouse entry's Keywords dialog and select its Save button:

Lantern Lighthouse
lighthouse
map room
silver bell

Common English singular and plural forms match automatically, so map room also covers map rooms without another line.

A saved custom list stays in place when Content changes. If the subjects or names change, update the list yourself. Managing keywords explains this separately from the title, description, and Content fields.

Maintain the book after a scene

Suppose Ellis finds the chart and Rowan agrees to return it after the festival:

Part of the book	What to change
Open threads	Remove “find the missing chart” and “ask Ellis.” Add “Return the borrowed chart to Ellis after the festival.”
Chronicle	Check that the discovery and agreement are recorded accurately when the scene appears.
World	Update only if you learned something lasting about the archive or chart.
Relationship	Update only if the exchange established a lasting agreement or changed the relationship.
Facts	Correct a specific detail if it changed; do not duplicate the entire scene.
Custom keywords	Review the lists on changed entries. Replace outdated names or terms and save each list in its Keywords dialog.

One event does not require editing every section. Change only what it actually affects.

Adapt the structure to everyday conversations

A book does not need a fictional world or dramatic storyline. For an everyday-style example with fictional people:

Part	Example
Premise	Taylor and Jules are friends who chat about creative projects and daily routines.
Cast	Casey is Taylor's friend from the community garden.
World	The Corner Studio is a shared workspace with a quiet room upstairs.
Relationship	Taylor likes encouragement and prefers direct, gentle feedback on unfinished work.
Facts	Taylor enjoys sketching birds and prefers unsweetened tea.
Open threads	Ask Jules for feedback on the next sketchbook page.
Chronicle	An account of a conversation about finishing the first page.

Keep only the sections that help your actual conversations. There is no requirement to invent background material to fill a book.

Reusable field templates

Replace every bracketed item before saving. These are writing aids, not special commands.

Person

Title: [Person's name]
Description: [Name], [role], [distinctive subject]

Content:
- [Name] is [role and relevant background].
- [Name] is recognizable by [useful stable detail].
- [Name] is connected to [other person] through [connection].

Place or setting rule

Title: [Place or rule name]
Description: [Place], [location or setting], [key features]

Content:
- [Where it is and what it is for.]
- [Important layout or capabilities.]
- [Rule, condition, and any relevant exception.]

Relationship

Title: [Person A] and [Person B]
Description: [Names], [relationship], [main dynamic]

Content:
- [Current established relationship.]
- [Preferred tone or style of interaction.]
- [Boundary or ongoing agreement.]

Fact

Title: [Subject and topic]
Description: [Subject], [specific topic], [useful terms]

Content:
[One clear statement, with a small number of related details if needed.]

Open thread

[Who] still needs to [action] before/after [relevant condition].

Final check before you start

Make sure your descriptions identify the right subjects, the Content contains the actual details, and current information does not contradict itself. Save each entry, confirm the chat uses this book, and begin the conversation.

Use reviewing changes to keep the book accurate as it grows.