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    Characters Connections

    I was trying to connect the characters, but do not have an option for Grandparents or Great Grandparents. Is this an option going forward, or even Other, and the user can type the appropriate …

    Shipped World building Low e-r-williams
    From the Alhora team

    Both, as it turns out — the specific one you asked for and the general one.

    Grandparent of and grandchild of are now in the list, alongside parent, child, sibling and the rest.

    And because you were right that we'll never have a list long enough, there's now "something else…" at the bottom of the connection types. Choose it and you get a box to write the connection in your own words — mentor of, rival of, old friend of, sworn to, whatever your world actually needs. Your wording is what shows on both characters' pages and on the graph, not a generic label.

    Great-grandparent I deliberately didn't add as a fixed type, because that road has no end — great-great-, and so on. Write it in the box and it reads exactly as you typed it.

    Shipped in v1.28.0
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    Images in World Building

    Allow to insert images in the content of the wiki, like images or charts or tables, etc.

    Shipped World building Low cat-cn
    From the Alhora team

    Shipped, and it was closer than I realised when I first replied.

    I told you images and tables inside the article text weren't supported. That was half wrong: the article had understood pictures and tables for a while — but only if you knew the syntax to type, and nothing anywhere told you that. A feature you can't find is a feature you don't have, so I'm counting that as my mistake rather than yours.

    In 1.28.0 there's a "Put in a picture" button above the article. Click it, choose your image, and it's brought into your world's own folder and written in wherever your cursor was — as its own paragraph, so it never tears the sentence you were in the middle of. The hint beside it now also tells you that rows of pipe-separated cells make a table, which they always did.

    So: images and tables in article bodies, both there, both reachable without knowing any syntax. Your one portrait image per entry is unchanged, sitting at the top as it always has.

    Charts are still the open question, and I meant it when I asked. Timelines, relationships and statistics each pull in a completely different direction, and I'd rather build the one you'd actually use than a generic chart tool that does none of them well. If you get a minute, tell me what you'd want to chart — [email protected], or just here.

    Shipped in v1.28.0
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    Backlinks and Tags

    How to use backlinks and tags in world building?

    Shipped World building High fd22
    From the Alhora team

    Happy to walk you through it!

    Backlinks: while you're writing, type @ and pick a World page. That
    creates the link, and from then on the page keeps a running list of
    everywhere it's been mentioned — you can click straight through to the
    passage. Nothing you link ever shows up in your PDF or EPUB; it's
    private scaffolding.

    Tags: open any World page and add them in the tag field. They're your
    own filing system, so use whatever makes sense to you — #nobility,
    #act-two, #needs-a-name. The reader view shows them under the title.

    The nice part is you don't have to plan any of it. Link as you go and
    the web builds itself.

    Shipped in v1.25.0