Relations: Connect Your World

Article Metadata
Category	Lorebook
Difficulty	Beginner
Target OS	Windows · macOS (coming soon)
Summary	Link any element to any other, and see the link on both sides.

Relations connect your lore. A character’s Home is a location. A sword’s Owner is a character. A rebel faction Opposes an empire’s religion. Any element can link to any other, of any type.

Add a relation

1. Open an element → click its Relations tab.
2. Click + Add first relation (or + Add relation if it already has some).
3. Click Element → choose what to link to. Type to search.
4. Under Relationship, choose how this element relates to the one you picked, or click + Custom and type your own.
5. Optional: add Details, a short line of context (for example, “Fled at sixteen and never went back”).
6. Click Add relation.

The relationship choices depend on the type of element you’re linking to:

Linking to a…	Choices
Character	Family, Ally, Rival, Mentor, Romantic, Ruler, Creator, Member, Resident, Owner
Location	Home, Territory, Ally, Enemy, Born In, Founded, Part Of
Object	Owns, Created, Seeks, Guards, Lost, Symbol Of
Concept	Believes, Practices, Founded, Opposes, Bound By, Member Of

Links appear on both sides

When you link Mara to Ravenhold as her Home, Ravenhold’s Relations tab gets a card for Mara too. That card starts with a dashed Add Type… label, because only you know how Ravenhold sees Mara.

Click Add Type… on Ravenhold’s card and choose, say, Resident. Each side describes the relationship from its own point of view.

Edit a relation

• Change the relationship: click its label on the card → choose a new one. For a custom label, type it and press Enter.
• Change the details: click the details line → edit → press Enter. Press Esc to cancel.

Open a linked element

Click the element’s name, portrait, or the › arrow on its card. You jump straight to its Lorebook sheet. Press Alt + ← (macOS: Cmd + [) to come back.

Remove a relation

1. Hover over the card → click ×.
2. Confirm.

Removing a relation removes it from both elements, including each side’s details.

See relations at a glance

Every element’s Overview tab has a Relations Snapshot listing its connections. Click any name to jump to it. To add or change relations, use the Relations tab.

Tips

• Factions and memberships: make the faction a Concept, then link each member to it with Member Of.
• Rulers: on the location’s Relations tab, link the character and choose Ruler, rather than typing the ruler’s name into a field. The link stays correct if you rename the character.