Elias pulled his hands away from the keyboard. The apartment was silent except for the hum of his PC. Outside, a car passed, headlights sweeping across his blank wall like a lighthouse beam across an empty sea.
Elias was a worldbuilder. He had spent six thousand hours crafting the continent of Aeridos, its forty-seven gods, its contradictory magic system, its sixteen-thousand-year history that exactly three people on the internet had ever read. His protagonist, Kaelen the Unburdened, had been with him since high school. Kaelen had his own scars, his own cynicism, his own dead wife’s name (Lyra) that Elias had typed so many times his fingers went there automatically, like muscle memory.
SUGGESTED ACTION: CLOSE THE LOREBOOK. GO TO SLEEP. TOMORROW, DELETE THE FILE. WALK OUTSIDE. LET THE STORY OF AERIDOS END. novelai lorebook download
KAELEN: TRAITS - BRAVE, CYNICAL, RESILIENT, UNBURDENED (DEF: FREE FROM THE WEIGHT OF ONE'S OWN UNEXAMINED LIFE).
DESK: [ALTAR OF ESCAPE. WORSHIP OBJECT: LAPTOP. SACRIFICE: TIME. GAIN: TEMPORARY MEANING.] Elias pulled his hands away from the keyboard
He clicked on Kaelen’s entry anyway.
The lorebook had annotated everything.
It wasn't a list of characters or locations. It was a map. But the map was not of Aeridos. The map was of a cramped one-bedroom apartment in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There was a desk in the corner with a half-empty mug of coffee. There was a calendar on the wall marking the days since his last date. There was a bed where Elias slept alone.
And for the first time in six thousand hours, he began to write something new. Elias was a worldbuilder
LOREBOOK LOADED. DEPTH: OMEGA.