The Chronicler's Primer
A short guide to what everything here means, and what we are building together.
Kalidale is a world that one person created: its own characters, houses, history and lore. This site is not where that world was made, and it is not run by its creator.
What this archive does is gather everything we can find about Kalidale into one place — the characters and the families they belong to, the world lore, and the conversations members have about it. The aim is a full, tidy record of the world rather than a pile of scattered notes, so that anyone curious can walk in and find the answer.
This is a fan-made archive. It is unofficial, nothing here is official canon, and where the original source and our notes disagree, the original source is right.
A player character
Someone's own hero — the figure they play and write about. A player character gets a full page of their own: portrait and artwork, title, an Order, a written story, and a place where other members can comment and react. They show up in Characters.
A relative in a family tree
Everyone else in a bloodline: parents, grandparents, siblings, cousins, spouses. They give a house its history and depth, but they don't carry a full character page and they don't crowd the Characters list. If a relative later becomes someone's played hero, they can be raised to a player character.
Start a tree for your character's house and add their kin. You can drag a line between two cards to say who is a parent, a child or a sibling. Aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents work themselves out from those links — you never have to name them.
Marriages usually just need a name typed in. If the partner already exists in the archive, you can link them instead, and then that person belongs to two houses: the one they were born into and the one they married into. You can also pick two characters and ask how they are related.
Guardians of relics and important sites
Special Ops and Vanguard Scouts
Red OrderFront-line marines
Healers and magic tinkerers
Tacticians, leaders, and organizers
Rangers and Scouts
Logistics, Naval and Air operators, inventors
The rank and file of the Armed Forces of Kalidale
A character does not need an Order — leave it empty if it doesn't fit them.
- Forum conversations and replies
- Comments and reactions on anything
- Relatives you add inside your own family tree
- A new player character
- A new family tree
- A new world lore page
- Raising a relative to a player character
- Changes to a character that is already in the archive
You can edit your own characters whenever you like; the changes are shown to the archivist side by side before they go live.
Write about other people's characters with respect, and ask before tying your bloodline into theirs. Reactions are there to cheer each other on.
If something is rude or out of place, use the report button on it and write a short reason. Reports go straight to the archivist — nobody else sees them.