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**Using the Lorebook to Support Continuity**
The Lorebook is an essential part of establishing and maintaining the reality in which your story takes place. If you update the Lorebook with the following information, you’ll have a much more consistent result any time you generate a new chapter.
* Chapter Summaries
* Characters
* Components
*Chapter Summaries*
The Lorebook generates Chapter Summaries automatically in most cases. It remains one chapter behind the story’s chapters in this way: When you have written Chapter One, the summary box will be empty; when you prompt to generate Chapter Two, the summary box for Chapter One will be automatically filled.
You may auto-generate or manually fill the summary box for a chapter that appears blank in the Lorebook. It can be helpful to check any auto-generated summaries and manually add the plot points or character development events that are most important if they are not adequately covered by the summary.
To ensure the changes become part of the record the Lorebook holds, click the “update summary” button for each chapter after making additions or changes.
What this does:
The AI checks the chapter summaries even after it no longer remembers the specific content of previous chapters. With a limited “memory” for what has happened already, these summaries provide the framework for any history the AI uses as a reference for future text generations. Updating the Chapter Summaries ensures that your later chapters will more accurately reflect the events and growth established in earlier prompts and chapter generations.
*Characters*
The Lorebook keeps a list of your characters as they enter the story. At the beginning, it will have any characters you created or added during the initial prompt. If you’re using characters that are based on a Character Component, those Components will be referenced beside the relevant Character in your Lorebook. If characters are auto-generated during the story, they will appear in the Character list along with a brief description of the character as the AI imagined them. You can change the description of a character, add to it, or remove information at any time. Be sure that you click “update character” after making changes to save the details.
As your story progresses, character development will inevitably occur, to the perception of the creator or the reader, even if it is only a series of experiences the character has had during the story itself. To ensure that later chapters reflect this development accurately, check your Lorebook after each chapter and update it with any important developments that you want the AI to remember as it continues to generate new chapters.
Saving changes to a character in your Lorebook does NOT alter the permanent component on which the character is based. This allows you to use a Character Component in many stories and adjust it based on the individual story and situation each time.
Renaming a Character:
You can rename a character at any time. It requires a few steps to complete the process, and it is far easier to do this when only the first chapter has been written, but you could conceivably do this at any point. It is advisable to duplicate your story before you begin, just in case you encounter difficulties and wish to backtrack.
Here is how:
1. Go into the Lorebook to the Character list and alter the name of the character in the character name box. Change the name in the character’s description if it appears there. Click “Save Character.”
2. Open the first chapter in which the character appears. Select all text and choose “Rewrite.” Type instructions for the rewrite, such as “Replace all instances of Elara Voss with Emmersyn Cholmondeley. Change nothing else.” Ensure the newly generated text reflects the name correctly before Saving.
3. Regenerate or adjust the Lorebook Chapter Summary for the corresponding chapter to reflect the new name.
4. Continue doing this for all chapters in which that character appears or is discussed.
5. To be thorough, check your other character descriptions which might reference relationships with the character whose name is now different and update if needed.
Notes:
* You may need to refresh prompt suggestions after making and saving these changes in order to receive prompt suggestions that use the character’s new name, but going forward, you may use only the new name of the character instead of the old one.
* Changing the name of a character that is based on a Character Component uses the same process and does not alter the permanent Character Component that is referenced.
*Components*
The Components section of the Lorebook includes a list of the individual Components you have chosen for your story, aside from Character Components. This includes the Components you selected in your initial creation, as well as any Components you add in subsequent chapters prompts.
If you wish to make adjustments to the content or the application of a Component for the sake of an individual story, you may do so in this section of the Lorebook without altering the permanent Component. If you do make changes to the details of Component in the Lorebook, you should click “Save Component” on each one that you alter.
For maintaining continuity, you may want to periodically look at the list and remove Components that you don’t want used in future chapters so they do not trigger unintentionally.