Worldbuilding

Worlds worth getting lost in.

Build rich, deeply interconnected worlds that breathe life into your stories. From character backstories to custom calendars, every detail of your universe lives in one place.

Living characters

Detailed profiles, evolving arcs, tangled relationships and visual galleries that keep your cast vivid and consistent.

Places and lore

Map locations with descriptions and significance. Build an encyclopedia of lore, magic, history and cultures.

Custom systems

Define your own calendar with eras, months, moons and events. Build family trees and connect every element with tags.

Characters

Characters that feel real.

Every great story is driven by unforgettable characters.

Edda gives you structured profiles with every attribute you need: name, role, age, appearance, personality, backstory, motivations and flaws. No more scattered notes or forgotten details. When your protagonist's eye color matters in chapter thirty-two, you will know exactly where to find it. Characters do not exist in isolation, either. Give each character an arc in ordered stages, and define the web of relationships that binds your cast together, then see it drawn as a relationship web.

  • Structured fields for name, role, age and appearance
  • Personality, backstory, motivations and flaws in rich text
  • Arc stages tied to chapters, scenes or plot beats, shown on the story timeline
  • Ten relationship types with about forty named kinds (ally, rival, mentor, love interest, family), each shown from both sides
Edda project overview with characters, locations and scenes

Places and lore

Places your readers will want to visit.

Your locations deserve the same care as your characters.

Each location gets its own profile with rich descriptions, narrative significance and direct connections to the characters who inhabit it. Beyond places, your world's own wiki holds magic systems with internal logic, histories that span centuries, and cultures with their own traditions and conflicts. Categorize articles by type, history, magic, culture, religion, technology, legend, and tag them for fast retrieval while you write.

  • Location profiles with descriptions and significance
  • Link characters to locations and see who belongs where
  • Wiki-style encyclopedia articles with categories and tags
  • Quick access from your manuscript while you write
  • Nested locations to any depth, from continent and kingdom down to a single room
Edda worldbuilding link library connecting characters, locations and lore

Time and lineage

Time works differently in your world.

Your fantasy world does not follow the Gregorian calendar. Define entirely custom calendar systems: name your eras, create months of any length, and place pivotal events on your timeline. Whether your world has thirteen months, three moons with their own phases, leap rules, or a calendar that restarts its year count with each era, Edda handles it. Pair that with a visual family-tree builder for dynastic intrigue and inherited curses, and a character gallery for portraits and reference art, and your entire cast becomes vivid and immediate.

Everything included

The complete worldbuilding toolkit.

Every tool you need to build, organize and explore the fictional worlds that power your stories.

Character profiles

Name, role, age, appearance, personality, backstory, motivations and flaws in searchable profiles.

Character arcs

Track how characters evolve with ordered arc stages tied to chapters, scenes and beats, shown on the character and on the story timeline.

Two-way relationships

Add a relationship once and it shows on both characters, from each side: Parent on one, Child on the other; Mentor and Student; Employer and Employee.

Relationship web

See your whole cast and how they connect, drawn as a web you can filter and explore.

Custom fields

Add your own fields to characters and locations: species, rank, allegiance, anything your world needs.

Maps

Upload your maps and pin locations, regions, routes, events and points of interest to them. Pan and pinch to zoom on a touch screen.

Name generator

Generate character names from 17 origins, including Elven, Dwarven and science fiction, by gender, with or without surnames.

Locations

Detailed location profiles with significance and links to connected characters.

Encyclopedia

Wiki-style articles for lore, magic, history, cultures, religions and more.

Custom calendar

Define eras, months and day counts. Place events on a timeline built for your world.

Family trees

Visual builder that maps bloodlines, marriages and lineage across generations.

Image galleries

Upload portraits, concept art and reference images for your cast, your places and your lore.

Series sharing

Share characters across the books of a series, so one profile follows them from book one to book five.

Notes and connections

Attach notes to any element and connect characters, locations and lore.

Tags everywhere

Tag characters, places, articles, maps, calendars, family trees, eras, facts, factions, scenes and research, then browse every tag in one place.

Full-text search

Search across all your worldbuilding content instantly: characters, articles, maps, markers, calendar events, family members and more.

Eras and continuity

Hierarchical eras, era-scoped calendars, world conditions, floating events with a range of possible dates, and automatic continuity checks.

Continuity engine

Catches scenes dated before a character's birth or after their death, a character in two places at once, places used before they are founded, events out of order, and characters acting on facts they have not learned yet.

All data stays local

Your worlds live on your device. No cloud dependency and no data harvesting; sync is optional and can be end-to-end encrypted.

Your world is waiting
to be built.

Every character, every location, every piece of lore, organized, connected and always at your fingertips. Start building today.

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