Story Elements — Characters, Locations, Plots & Creatures by node

Every book on CivNode has its own set of story elements: characters, locations, plots, and creatures. You manage them from the book dashboard. ## Characters Create a character and CivNode gives you fields for the basics: name, role, description, appearance, personality, backstory. Fill in what you know. Leave blank what you don't. As your story develops, come back and add more. If you have AI enabled, **AI Fill** can generate missing details based on what you have already written. It reads your existing text and fills in plausible details for fields you left empty. You review everything before it saves. Character portraits can be generated if you have an image provider configured (ComfyUI locally, or a cloud image provider). The portrait is based on the character's physical description. ## Locations Same idea as characters but for places. Name, description, atmosphere, history, notable features. Useful for keeping settings consistent across a long work, especially if your story moves between places. ## Plots Plot entries let you outline story arcs. Acts, scenes, turning points. You can organize them hierarchically — a main plot with subplots beneath it. Not a rigid outlining tool. A place to keep notes about where the story is going. ## Creatures For speculative fiction, fantasy, sci-fi — any writing that invents beings. Name, species, abilities, habitat, behavior. If your world has things that don't exist in ours, this is where they live. ## Family trees You can define family relationships between characters. Mark parents, children, spouses, siblings. CivNode renders this as a visual family tree. Useful for sagas, multi-generational stories, or any work where lineage matters. ## How story elements connect to the AI tools Story elements are not just reference notes. The AI tools use them. When the exploration pane discusses your characters, it knows what you have defined. When AI Fill generates suggestions, it checks your existing entries for consistency. Your story elements are the AI's memory of your world.