Worldbuild

One canon, read by the chat and the page.

Register people, places and things once. The narrator, the brainstorming partner and the editor all read the same sheets. Every example on this page is Evenwell, the roleplay world Kallamo opens with.

Evenwell · 15 Duskmonth 62 YC

Eight kinds of canon

Each kind has its own colour, here and in the app.

CharactersRelationships seen from each side, inventory, portraits.Edwin Hale, Rue, Mother Thistle, Bram Holt

LocationsSized as Region, Area, Place or Spot, each inside the next.Arneth › Ordane › Evenwell › The Last Lantern

FactionsCommand, territory, roster, former members, stance.The Hearthwatch, Crown of Ordane, Ordane Road Guard

ItemsWeapons, tools, documents. Some hold pages you can read.Key to Room 5, The Faded Lute, Emberleaf Tonic

RacesPeoples a character belongs to, with starting values.Human

CreaturesA specific being or a whole species.The Hollowhart

EventsEach time it happened, who was there, what it changed.The Harvest Festival

SystemsLaws, magic systems, doctrines, currencies.None yet in Evenwell

A sheet and what its owner knows

Edwin Hale keeps the inn, and a few things to himself.

The sheet holds who someone is. The Knowledge tab holds what they know, believe and remember, in their own words. Secrets stay covered for anyone reading the sheet. The AI still reads them.

Edwin HaleAlive

Character · Human · 38 · born 11 Thawmonth 24 YC

Edwinthe innkeeper

AppearanceBroad and soft around the middle now, with thinning sandy hair, a short beard going grey, and big gentle hands. Always in an apron, always with a cloth over his shoulder.

PersonalityWarm, hardworking, and tired. He laughs easily and dodges every question about the past with a joke. He is fiercely loyal to the people under his roof, and carries a guilt he has never put into words.

sonWren Hale

the girl under my roofRue

brother in all but bloodHarrow Venn

old friend, now a strangerAldous Crane

founder, former member · 48–56 YCThe Hearthwatch

local toEvenwell

ownsKey to Room 5

Edwin HaleaboutHarrow Venn

Knowledge tab

knows · history

Harrow turned up at my father’s inn at fifteen with one boot and no money. I gave him a bowl of soup, and he stayed for twenty years.

knows · witness

The morning after we argued, Harrow’s cabin was empty and his bow was gone.

believes

secret

Edwin holds 22 statements in Evenwell. The covered ones are yours to find in play.

The world row

Time, rules and texts belong to the world.

Calendar · The Hearth Reckoning

Twelve months of thirty days, from Deepfrost to Longnight. Years count forward in the Years of the Crown and backward before it.

WinterSpringSummerAutumn

Today in Evenwell · 15 Duskmonth 62 YC

Rules · Skills

Every human has a small, forgotten gift. People call it a knack or luck, never magic.

Novice›Apprentice›Competent›Master

Texts inside the story

Pages written in the Writing Desk and kept inside an item. The AI reads them only when someone in the scene opens it.

Harrow’s Journal9 pages

The Torn Pages3 pages

Packages

A world travels as one file.

Evenwell ships inside Kallamo as a .klwb package. Yours can travel the same way: sheets, rules, calendar, images and the Knowledge you wrote. Importing shows what the file holds before anything is written.

evenwell.klwbpreview before import

Characters16

Locations24

Items13

Factions · races · creatures · events3 · 1 · 1 · 1

Knowledge statements291

Pages inside items12

Scene backgrounds4

Calendar and rulesincluded

What the story records during playstays behind