Novel Vault Starter

---
type: scene
summary:
pov:
place:
chapter:
act:
order:
goal:
conflict:
outcome:
status: draft
---
%%
summary: one sentence on who does what. The Scenes table lists these in order, so together they read as your outline.
goal: what the point-of-view character wants by the end of the scene. Make it specific enough that you could tell whether they got it.
conflict: who or what stops them, and how.
outcome: whether they got it, and what's better or worse for them now.
order: number scenes by tens (10, 20, 30), so you can slip a new scene between two others without renumbering.
%%

---
type: character
role:
age:
first-appearance:
status: alive
aliases:
---
*Type your answer over each italic line. Start with Concept and whatever you already know, and leave the rest until the story needs it. If you get stuck on a part, [[Where to Learn More]] lists Loreteller pages that can help.*
## Concept
*Who is this person, and what sets them apart from everyone else in the story? Say it in one sentence a stranger could repeat.*
## Appearance
*Pick the two or three details you'll mention more than once, so readers know them on sight. What do their clothes tell a stranger about their money or their work?*
## Relationships
*Give each person a line. Link to their note, then say what this character wants from them and what stops them from asking.*
- [[]]
## Psychology
### Values
*Name up to three things they'd suffer for. When two of them collide, which one loses?*
### Wound
*What happened, how old were they, and who was there? What did they decide about people afterward?*
### Defenses
*When something reminds them of the wound, what do they do? Take control, pull away, put on a front, or put someone else's needs first? Who sets it off most often?*
## Expression
### Personality
*How do they act on an ordinary day, when nothing's at stake? Loud or quiet, careful or quick, warm or cool with strangers? What changes when they're with someone they trust?*
### Strengths
*What can they do better than anyone else in the cast? What can't they do without help?*
### Role
*What do the people around them count on them for? Care, the truth, keeping things running, tearing things down, or leading the way somewhere new? (This isn't the role field at the top, which is for protagonist, antagonist, supporting or minor.)*
## Trajectory
### Flaws
*Write the flaw down twice, once in your own words and once in the words they'd use to defend it. What's the scene where it costs them most?*
### Lens
*What do they rely on to decide what's true? Evidence, reasoning, instinct, the word of people they respect, their own experience, or something else? Who in the cast relies on something different?*
### Catalyst
*What breaks their normal life? Something that happens, something they find out, or a change in themselves? What's the first thing they try to get things back the way they were?*
### Arc
*What do they want at the start, and what do they turn out to need? What does it cost them to get it, or to fail?*
## Scenes
```base
filters:
  and:
    - 'type == "scene"'
    - file.hasLink(this.file)
views:
  - type: table
    name: Scenes with this character
    groupBy:
      property: chapter
      direction: ASC
    order:
      - file.name
      - summary
      - pov
      - place
      - status
    sort:
      - property: order
        direction: ASC
```

---
type: location
kind:
region:
---
*For kind, say what sort of place this is, like a city, a village, a forest or a ship. The places table in [[Series Bible]] groups places by region, so set region to the larger area it's part of.*
## What a visitor notices first

## Who holds power here

## What the story needs from it

## Scenes
```base
filters:
  and:
    - 'type == "scene"'
    - place == this
views:
  - type: table
    name: Scenes set here
    groupBy:
      property: chapter
      direction: ASC
    order:
      - file.name
      - summary
      - pov
      - status
    sort:
      - property: order
        direction: ASC
```

---
type: people
---
*Make one of these for each people or nation in your story. Under each domain are its four parts from 16 Domains of Worldbuilding. Fill in the domains your story depends on most, and give the rest a line each.*
## Livelihood
### Resources
*Made Goods, Natural Goods, Energy, Scarcity*
### Infrastructure
*Transportation, Communication, Public Services, Health*
### Settlements
*Founding, Layout, Population, Borders*
### Economics
*Commerce, Wealth, Currency, Professions*
## Society
### Politics
*Power, Process, Law, Diplomacy*
### Class
*Stratification, Status, Mobility, Discrimination*
### Affiliation
*Family, Factions, Identity, Warfare*
### History
*Epochs, Rise and Fall, Turning Points, Lore*
## Culture
### Religion
*Teachings, Practice, Clergy, Heresy*
### Values
*Legacies, Ethics, Priorities, Knowledge*
### Customs
*Tradition, Language, Life Stages, Taboo*
### Daily Life
*Food, Dress, Homes, Arts and Leisure*

---
type: faction
kind:
---
*For kind, pick whichever of these twelve fits best: Guild, Order, Syndicate, Church, Crown, Cabal, Movement, House, Company, Academy, Tribe or Legion.*
## Wants now
*Something it could win or lose before the story's over.*
## How it gets what it wants

## Who inside it disagrees, and why

## What it does if nobody stops it

---
type: magic
---
*The first four headings come from the Magic System Checklist. Under Accessibility, say where the magic comes from and who can use it. Under Cost, what using it takes. Under Effect, what it can and can't do. Under Acceptance, how ordinary people and the law treat it.*
## Accessibility

## Cost

## Effect

## Acceptance

## What the story needs from it
*Which limit or cost does your plot depend on, and what's the first scene where it causes trouble?*

---
type: event
when:
order:
people:
place:
---
*In the when field, write the date the way your story gives it, in any calendar. The timeline in [[Series Bible]] sorts events by order, so give each event an order number, such as the year. For people and place, type `[[` and pick a note.*
## What changed because of it

*You never type into these tables. Make a note from a template, fill in its properties, and it shows up in the right table by itself.*
## Scenes
```base
filters:
  and:
    - file.ext == "md"
    - or:
        - file.inFolder("Manuscript")
        - 'type == "scene"'
    - not:
        - file.inFolder("Templates")
views:
  - type: table
    name: Scenes in book order
    groupBy:
      property: act
      direction: ASC
    order:
      - file.name
      - chapter
      - summary
      - pov
      - place
      - status
    sort:
      - property: chapter
        direction: ASC
      - property: order
        direction: ASC
```
## Cast
```base
filters:
  and:
    - file.ext == "md"
    - or:
        - file.inFolder("Characters")
        - 'type == "character"'
    - not:
        - file.inFolder("Templates")
views:
  - type: table
    name: Cast by role
    groupBy:
      property: role
      direction: ASC
    order:
      - file.name
      - age
      - first-appearance
      - status
    sort:
      - property: first-appearance
        direction: ASC
```
## Places
```base
filters:
  and:
    - file.ext == "md"
    - or:
        - file.inFolder("Worldbuilding/Locations")
        - 'type == "location"'
    - not:
        - file.inFolder("Templates")
views:
  - type: table
    name: Places by region
    groupBy:
      property: region
      direction: ASC
    order:
      - file.name
      - kind
    sort:
      - property: file.name
        direction: ASC
```
## Timeline
```base
filters:
  and:
    - file.ext == "md"
    - or:
        - file.inFolder("Worldbuilding/History")
        - file.inFolder("Plot/Timeline")
        - 'type == "event"'
    - not:
        - file.inFolder("Templates")
views:
  - type: table
    name: Events in order
    order:
      - file.name
      - when
      - people
      - place
    sort:
      - property: order
        direction: ASC
```

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## What I figured out

## What's stuck