QEDCharacter
The character page - a wiki entry for a person in your story, with a declared infobox the engine checks.
Character
A character page is the wiki entry for a person in your story. The top is a declared infobox of facts the engine measures against - status, voice, arc, authority. Everything below is free prose for you and your collaborators.
What to fill in
Frontmatter
---
id: mara-voss
name: Mara Voss
kind: character
status: active # active · deceased · missing · unknown
phase: draft # draft · developing · canon · archived
---id is the stable anchor referenced by scenes. status is in-world state. phase is editorial
maturity - how settled this page is.
Core sections
| Section | What goes here |
|---|---|
| Profile | Role, status, age, occupation, affiliation |
| Appearance | What people notice first |
| Personality | What they want, what they hide |
| Background | What shaped them before page one |
| Notes | Anything else worth remembering |
Optional sections
| Section | What goes here |
|---|---|
| Voice | How they speak - style, quirks, sample lines |
| Arc | Goal, wound, obstacle, lie, truth |
| Relationships | Who they're connected to - use @name to link other pages |
| Secrets | Hidden truth (spoiler-scoped - author + engine only, excluded from shares) |
Why the infobox matters
Three hundred pages apart, you wrote that your stoic detective "never raises her voice" - and then
gave her a shouting match. You will not catch that; the scenes are weeks apart in your memory. The
declared fields are the fixed point the engine measures against: the never raises her voice in
Voice.quirks is what lets it notice the chapter-nine contradiction and ask whether it's a slip or
the moment she finally breaks.
The Secrets section
The ## Secrets section is spoiler-scoped. Write the hidden truth here - the real motive, the
cover identity, what they're concealing. The engine reads it for coherence but never surfaces it to
readers. When a scene contradicts a character's public facts in a way that the Secrets section
explains, the engine reads that as your deception working, not incoherence.
## Secrets
Mara falsified the ledger herself. She knows the cargo never existed.
The investigation she's running is a deflection from her own role.Adding a character
Open the World workspace hover Characters in the sidebar click +. The app scaffolds the frontmatter and core sections. Fill in what you know; leave the rest as stubs.