Story Bible

Your Story Bible is a living, structured reference that understands your story. It extracts and organizes everything from characters to world-building rules.

What is a Story Bible?

Traditional story bibles are documents writers create to track their fictional worlds. Idioscript builds one automatically by analyzing your documents — extracting characters, locations, events, and more into a structured, searchable format.

Unlike a static document, Idioscript's Story Bible is dynamic. You can query it in plain language, browse entities, and use it as context for brainstorming and research.

What Gets Extracted

Characters

People and beings in your story. Idioscript extracts names, descriptions, relationships, motivations, and tracks appearances across documents.

Locations

Places in your world. From rooms to cities to planets. Includes physical descriptions, significance to the plot, and connections to other locations.

Events

Significant happenings in your narrative. Historical events, plot points, backstory moments — organized by their place in the story timeline.

Scenes

Individual scenes from your documents. Includes participating characters, location, key actions, and narrative position in your story.

Organizations

Groups, factions, companies, and institutions. Tracks membership, hierarchies, goals, and relationships between organizations.

Systems

World-building rules and mechanics. Magic systems, technologies, social structures, religions — the underlying logic that makes your world work.

Building Your Story Bible

Steps to Build

Upload documents to your project
Go to the Bible tab
Click Build Memory
Wait for processing (time depends on document size)
Browse and explore your extracted entities

Derived-Only Mode

In Derived-Only projects, the Story Bible is built automatically when you upload documents. No manual build step required.

Research Mode

The Research tab lets you ask questions about your story in plain language. It's backed by your Story Bible, so answers come from what you've actually written.

Example Research Questions

"What do we know about Marcus's relationship with his sister?"
"When does the protagonist first visit the abandoned factory?"
"List all the rules of the magic system I've established."
"What events happened before the war started?"
"Are there any contradictions in how I describe the capital city?"

Answers are grounded in your actual text. If something isn't in your documents, Idioscript will tell you rather than making things up.

Brainstorming Mode

The Brainstorm tab is for exploring possibilities. Unlike Research (which answers questions about what exists), Brainstorming helps you figure out what could exist.

Brainstorming Uses

Explore what-if scenarios grounded in your established world
Generate character dialogue that fits their personality
Find plot holes or logical gaps in your narrative
Develop backstory consistent with existing events
Create new characters that fit your world's rules

Brainstorming has full context of your Story Bible and Style Fingerprint, so suggestions are tailored to your specific work — not generic writing advice.

Browsing & Editing

The Bible tab provides a visual browser for all extracted entities. You can:

Search — Find entities by name or content
Sort — By name, creation date, update date, or story order (for events/scenes)
Filter by type — Focus on characters, locations, or any entity type
View details — See all extracted information for any entity
Cross-reference — Navigate between connected entities
JSON view — See the raw structured data if needed

Rebuilding the Bible

After adding new documents or making significant changes, rebuild your Story Bible to incorporate the updates.

Standard Mode — Click "Build Memory" again to rebuild with all current documents.
Derived-Only Mode — Rebuilds happen automatically with each document upload.
Incremental Updates — Future versions will support incremental updates without full rebuilds.