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Worldbuilding: characters, locations and maps

Characters, locations and maps of your world as linked entries: characters and their relationships, factions, maps with pins, calendars, travel times and units of measurement.

  • Character management

    Under “Characters” you manage all the characters of your project with profile, relationships and appearances.

  • Locations and geography

    Under “Locations” you manage places with a hierarchy, map pins and travel times to other locations.

  • Maps and pins

    Under “Maps” you create map images with a scale and see location pins and your characters’ markers on them.

  • Calendars and world time

    World time is the shared time axis of your world; a calendar only displays it in readable form.

  • Character relationships

    A relationship connects two characters with type, intensity and direction and applies from a point in the story.

  • Character timeline

    On a character’s detail page you record what they know, can do and experience, in world time.

  • Factions and organizations

    Under “Factions” you manage groups, their members and their relationships to each other, each with a time entry.

  • Managing units of measurement

    Units of measurement define how you state map scales and travel speeds. The meter is the base.

  • Means of transport and travel times

    With means of transport and travel speeds, Illumentis checks whether a character can reach the destination in time.

  • Relationship graph over time

    A slider across the chapters shows the state of relationships at every point in your story.