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page.cavu.forge.entity

A thing in the story's world — a character, a place, an object, a group — reduced to an identity. Everything said about it, its name included, is a page.cavu.forge.fact anchored to the timeline, because nothing in a story is assumed static: people are renamed, age, move and die; places change hands and fall down. The record's key is the entity's id; its kind is the one thing that doesn't change.

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Properties

createdAt

requiredstring · datetime

kind

requiredstring

What sort of thing this is — the known values are only suggestions; a project can have starships, spells or species. Attribute definitions can be scoped to kinds.

  • maxLength: 640
  • maxGraphemes: 64
  • knownValues: character | place | item | group

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