Compendium

The Compendium displays all entities you have access to in the realm. Entities are shown in a grid and can be filtered by type using the type selector, narrowing the view to characters, locations, organizations, items, events, establishments, or miscellaneous records.

Press Cmd+F (or Ctrl+F on Windows) to open the search popup and find entities by name. The search popup also surfaces a quick option to create a new entity if no match is found.

New entities can be created at any time from the Compendium header. The creation form opens in a side panel and requires a name and type. Description, notes, and access settings are optional.

Open an entity to view its full record. Anyone with the Collaborator role or above will see an edit button that opens the same form used during creation. Any field can be updated: name, type, description, notes, or access.

Changes to the name, type, description, aliases, and image, whether you made them or a gardener did, are recorded on the entity's History tab. If a description changes for the worse, you can restore an earlier version from there.

Entities can be deleted individually from the entity panel, or in bulk by selecting multiple entities and using the bulk action menu. Deleting an entity is permanent and removes its variants, its relationships, and its History.

Relationships connect two entities with a typed edge. They are displayed in the right panel of the entity view, grouped by category. Clicking a connected entity navigates directly to its record.

New relationships can be added from the entity panel by any Collaborator or above. Select a target entity, choose a relationship type, and set access. Relationships created automatically during sessions also appear here and can be edited or removed.

Adding, changing, or removing a relationship is recorded in the History of both entities it connects. Removing a relationship is not final: it can be restored from History with the same access it had before.

The background helpers that grow the compendium during play are called gardeners, and each can be turned on or off per realm.

For a full reference of available relationship types, see the Entities documentation.

Each entity and each relationship is independently access-controlled, per item rather than by role. Even the realm's creator only sees what they've been granted access to, though session-extracted content and manual reveals mean they typically see most of it. Anyone without access sees nothing until it's explicitly revealed to them.

On a public realm, Public to Realm items can also be seen by signed-in guests and your audience. See Public Compendium before publishing.

When the same entity exists under multiple records, they can be merged into one. Select the entities to merge, designate which one survives, and choose whether to consolidate notes, relationships, and access.

All variants and transcript references are updated automatically. For a full explanation of how merging works, see the Entities documentation.

The Compendium also tracks Quests: the party's hooks, goals, and rewards, each with its own step-by-step timeline. A quest's status follows its timeline automatically rather than being set by hand, and quests can be shared the same way as entities, either Public to Realm or with specific members.

For a full explanation of how quests work, see the Quests documentation.

The Compendium also contains a Notes section: freeform documents for Gamelord prep, lore, session recaps, or any knowledge your world needs to store. Notes are private to whoever created them by default and can be shared selectively with specific members or revealed to the whole realm at once.

For a full explanation of how notes work, see the Notes documentation.

For detailed format documentation and field reference, see Import / Export.