World Bible & Season Compendium

The Season World Bible — included with Premium

Every season has a hand-written companion to its world: the places the story moves through, the people who live there, the small rules of how the universe behaves. It is written in-world — as a chronicle of the setting rather than a wiki of plot points — so reading it never spoils where the branching story is headed. It is the reading you reach for when you want to sink further into the world between chapters.

Sample — illustrative, not actual Season 1 text

The Lantern Coast

The coast road is only ever busy at two times of year, and the rest of the season it belongs to the gulls and to whoever is willing to walk it. The villages along it keep a lamp burning at the harbour mouth — not for ships, the fishermen will tell you, but out of an older habit nobody is in a hurry to explain.

The two busy stretches are the herring run, when the whole coast smells of brine and woodsmoke and the inns put extra beds in the lofts, and the week of Lantern Night, when families who long ago moved inland come back to walk the road once in the dark. Between them the coast keeps its own slow time: tide, weather, and the long argument the sea has been having with the cliffs for as far back as anyone bothers to count.

The lamp is tended by the Harbour Watch, an unpaid rota that passes from house to house and is never written down anywhere a stranger could read it. There is one rule the whole coast agrees on without ever having argued about it: the flame is lit from the harbour, and it is never carried inland. Children learn this before they learn why, and most of them never learn why.

How the coast behaves

Fog here arrives with the turning tide rather than the wind, and sound travels strangely along the water — a voice at the harbour mouth carries clean to the Salt Market a mile off, while a shout from the cliff path reaches no one at all. The coast people treat this as ordinary weather. Visitors do not, which is usually how you tell the two apart before either says a word.

see also: Harbour Watch; the Salt Market; Lantern Night; the Keeper's Rota

(A real entry runs longer still — cross-linked people, places, and customs, several screens of it. This is a trimmed excerpt.)

The Season Compendium — included with Patron

Where the World Bible describes the world, the Compendium tracks the story. It is a living recap that updates as the season unfolds — roughly every six chapters — so you can catch up, follow the threads, and see how community votes shaped the path taken. It covers:

· Prose recap — what happened, in narrative form

· Character tracker — who changed, and how

· Mystery board — open questions and what has been answered

· Voting log — every branch the community chose

· Connections map — how the threads tie together

Sample — illustrative compendium entry

Mystery board · after Chapter 6

Six chapters in, the board stands like this. A question only moves from Open to Answered once the story — and the branch the community actually voted for — has settled it.

Open

· Who lights the harbour lamp now that the old keeper is gone?
· Why does the Salt Market close the day after Lantern Night, when no one will say what the day is for?
· Whose name is scratched off the Harbour Watch rota — and by whom?

Answered

· The note found in Chapter 4 was not a warning. The community's Chapter 5 vote — to follow the keeper's daughter rather than open the ledger — confirmed it was an invitation.
· The second set of prints on the cliff path (Chapter 2) belonged to the same person twice, a week apart, not to two people.

Newly raised in Chapter 6

· If the flame is never carried inland, what was burning on the moor road the night the inn stayed dark?

The full board also threads each line to the chapter and the vote that moved it — this is a trimmed excerpt of one section.