Panels

The census, and the fastest way to find one person. Each row gives a character's name, level, class and where they are standing, with a coloured dot for what they are doing.

Controls

• Find by name — the search box. / jumps into it from anywhere.
• Notable — real players, paused bots, and anyone inside an instance. The default.
• On this map — everyone on the continent you are looking at.
• In combat — everyone fighting at this instant.
• Dead — everyone awaiting a resurrection.
• Everyone — all nine hundred-odd, alphabetically.

Each chip carries a live count, so the filter row doubles as a summary of the realm. Lists cap at 150 rows and say how many more there are.

Clicking a row opens that character in the inspector, switches the map to their continent, and pans to them.

Characters find each other and travel together without being told to. This panel lists every group currently formed, who is in it, where they are, how long they have been together and how much they have said.

The line above the list totals it — how many groups, bots, real players, and how many are talking. A row reading 266 yd apart means the group has drifted; apart means its members are in different zones.

Clicking a row opens that group full screen, on its own map, with its whole conversation. Open Groups opens the wall of every group at once.

Characters form opinions by talking, by overhearing others, and by what happens to them. Every shift is recorded with the reason for it.

A heading reading 25 of 14,494 means you are seeing the top of a larger pile; the expand button on it opens the whole list. Every name is a link.

Not everything that happens is worth remembering. What is, gets written down in the character's own words and weighed out of ten.

The counts give the total, how many characters carry anything, how many formed today, and the average weight. A memory weighed 10/10 was a defining event; a 3/10 was an errand.

To read one character's memories instead of the world's, select them and open the Memories tab in the inspector.

One character's whole record, assembled from the ledger — every kill, quest, level, item, journey, conversation, feeling and memory, in order.

Unlike every other panel, this one lists characters who are offline too. Search by name, or click a row to open that journey full screen. The journeys are rebuilt every ten minutes.

Companies are the realm's guilds. They hold territory, keep seats, court new members and fall out with one another.

• Companies — every company under Alliance and Horde headings.
• Candidacies — who is trying to join whom, and how far along: noticed, spoken for, offered a place, sworn in. Sponsors and opponents are named.
• Fallen companies — collapsed by default. Companies that broke apart, went quiet, or left remnants.
• Recent incidents — land Claimed, Taken, Held, Contested, or two companies hunting the same prey.

Clicking a company opens it in the inspector and lights its territory up on the map.

Each faction has a scribe who writes up the world's events in period prose, one watch at a time, from what actually happened. Rumours travel outward from where they started and distort as they go.

• Alliance / Horde — whose scribe you are reading. The factions see the world differently.
• Open Chronicle — the full-screen reader, laid out as a newspaper.
• Your Chronicle — an edition covering only what your own characters took part in.

Inside a watch, Word going around collects the rumours. Labels like Carried on, Further still and Far and wide say how many hands a story has passed through — the further it has travelled, the less reliable it is.

Merchants stock the auction houses, characters list what they loot, and the market works out what things are worth.

• Auction houses — one bar per house, split by seller: merchant, townsfolk or player.
• Last day — twenty-four hours of sold, listed and expired. Hover a column for that hour.
• Most traded goods — item names in quality colours, the price the market has learned, and which way it moved.
• Recent sales — what changed hands, for how much, between whom.

The market file is rewritten every ten minutes; if it falls behind, a stale badge appears.

The only panel that needs a password.

Pausing freezes a character where they stand. They still defend themselves if attacked, and the pause ends when they log out or the server restarts — it holds someone still, it does not remove them.

1. Paste the server's command token into the token field. It is kept in your browser only, and leaves it only as a header on the command itself.
2. Select a character, from the map or the roster.
3. Press Pause in the inspector. It becomes Resume.

Pausing without a token brings you to this panel and asks for one. Every result the server sends back is listed under Recent results.

Where you write your own characters into the world. They can be given a backstory, a turn of speech and a relationship to each other, and the world checks what you wrote before accepting it.

1. Name your main — the character you play as yourself. The rest become their alts.
2. Pick a character. What already stands for them appears below.
3. Bring them into the world. Choose what is between them and your main — only ties that pair could genuinely have are offered — plus a turn of speech and a few words of your own. Surprise me fills all three in as editable suggestions.
4. Write it, read what came back, then Bring them in. Nothing is stored until you do.

Under Words that must survive you can name things the writing must not lose — a cousin, a debt, a home town. If the result drops them, it is written again without them.

The gate

Anything you write is checked against four rules:

• Write as though it is real life. No games, no figures.
• Nothing later than this age has happened yet.
• Keep to your own people's lands and history.
• Your own words are kept — the shaping must not lose what you said.

The verdict comes back as This cannot stand in the world, Worth considering, or As the world would tell it. This panel needs its own token, separate from the command token, entered at the bottom under The gate.