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Sire de Joinville (Jean de Joinville) by Alphonse de Neuville

Rec: 'Chronicler' - Free, offline worldbuilding tool for writers and GMs

I've been using this program for a couple of weeks now, and it's proven absolutely invaluable while pre-writing my current longfic, so I wanted to recommend it here.

Chronicler is a free wiki-style program that lives on your computer. There are no subscriptions and no reliance on the cloud; it's all local to you. It's a single-dev labour of love, and - while there will eventually be a one-time-purchase 'Pro' version of the program, with some 'nice to haves' added (dynamic family trees, interactive maps you can drop pins onto, timelines with the ability to create your own calendars for them, etc) - the dev has promised that the core product will always be free.

And, honestly, it's brilliant. Really easy to pick up, and the dev has created some walkthroughs on how to use it, here on YouTube. (Start with the earliest video, to get an idea of what the program can do.)

Below is a screenshot (with text and images redacted, because this story is still in progress and not ready to be released yet!) of how I'm using it:

That's just one of my character sheets. And that's not the only visual style for it, either. You can also customise fonts, etc. Want a neon SciFi look? You got it. Medieval scribe look and fonts? You got it.

There's also a very active Discord server, where people are sharing templates and chatting generally about worldbuilding.

I can't recommend this program enough. I have a ton of notes and worldbuilding for this story (even the backstory has backstory!) and it was honestly starting to feel a bit overwhelming. Chronicler has helped me to get everything sorted out, and I wanted to share it here.

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Chronicler is an awesome tool for people who want to build a wiki-style archive locally (offline, no cookies, no AI art) and these past weeks (months?) there's been a "find a mascot" contest. I'm not delusional enough to think my little guy will win, especially since this drawing is hurried and technically isn't even finished - but the deadline is tonight and it's a quarter to 2 AM, so here's my entry :o)

#chronicler #chronicler mascot #original characters #(sorta)#rpg #miscellaneous drawings

More Name of the Wind doodles! I am CHUGGING thru this book im hooked fr, Kvothe needs a hug on god

#kingkiller chronicle #the name of the wind #fanart #denna #bast #kvothe #chronicler

Arabella, could you tell us more about your Mistress?

Arabella: sure, my mistress, mistress Roxanna, is a chronicler. She's kinda of an intimidating woman, though in this world it's what you need to survive, but I see that sharp exterior she is kind and fair. Compared to anyone I could of had as a master.... She's the best I could I had and I wouldn't replace her for the world. We don't share a master and dancer relationship we are more alike friends than anything, we both struggled to get to where we were today. I mean we started out with not alot of money she had used all her savings to purchase me, it was a gamble. A risk, but one she was willing to take.

She owned a dancing studio in some smaller city, was a failing business unfortunately, though that's when she decided to purchase me and looked more into Mudokon ballet. Playing more with what was popular amongst the upper classes, playing into their interests but somehow standing out from it. I'm not exactly your typical Mudokon dancer, I don't particularly fit the usual beauty standard within the industry, but that's exactly why Roxanna chose me. Also because she thought I was rather pretty, she thought I was beautiful.

But yeah we started working together to work out way up the ladder slowly building a work force as we went, till we had basically the whole company or business I guess we have today. We travel around doing shows, along with hosting shows for other in our own airship. Some folk rent our halls out for various reasons too, so we make mulah in a couple different ways now. So mistress Roxanna is I suppose also the owner of Devine Defy, or something just refer to the business as The Devine usually that's how they refer to the AirShip though.

Roxanna treats all of us as equals regardless of what we are, the environment on the airship is... Different from the outside world. Sometimes it can give me whiplash to see how different things are from my now home, but I'm thankful we have a community on the airship. One in which we all thrive and it's thanks to Roxanna, delight of a woman... Though I wouldn't want to get on her bad side. She's roughed some folk up pretty bad and I'm sure she would happily do it again. She keeps those nails sharpened for a reason.

( ps the sketch in the ref the dialogue is

Roxanna: I really shouldn't endorse this darling

Arabella: eh

Roxanna: IAN...

She's kinda just scolding him slightly for smoking especially from her own cigarette holder, also Ian is a name Arabella goes by.)