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What Is the Wiki?

The IlorisNovel TeamJuly 18, 2026

The Wiki is your story's memory. It's where every character, location, faction, and rule of your magic system lives as its own entry — so that in chapter 60 you can check what colour someone's eyes were in chapter 3 without reading chapter 3.

It's one feature with one name. If you've previously seen it called a "world builder," that was an earlier name for this same thing — there aren't two tools, and you're not missing one. There's only the Wiki.

Where it is

Open any story and click Wiki in the row of tabs across the top, next to Editor and Plot Threads. Every story gets its own Wiki automatically the moment you create it — you don't have to set one up. It just starts empty.

What's in it

A Wiki is made of entries, and entries live in categories.

An entry is one thing in your story: a person, a place, a sword, a spell, a noble house. Each entry has a name, a short description, a body you can write as long as you like, and optionally an image.

A category is a group of entries. When you make one you pick a type, and there are six:

Type For
Characters People
Locations Places
Systems Magic systems, power scaling, tech, rules
Factions Houses, sects, guilds, warring sides
Organizations Institutions, companies, orders
Other Anything that doesn't fit

The type sets the icon and colour. The name of the category is yours — so you can have three categories all of type Characters called "Main Cast," "The Vale Court," and "Dead," and they'll look consistent while staying separate.

It's a canvas, not a list

The Wiki isn't a folder of documents. It's a board you can arrange. Entries sit as cards you drag wherever makes sense to you, and where you put them is saved — so the shape you build is the shape you come back to.

You can also draw connections between entries by dragging from one card to another. A connection says "these two things are related." Who serves whom, which city fell to which faction, which character carries which cursed blade.

Entries can also nest. An entry can hold sub-entries, so a "House Vale" entry can contain the specific people in it.

Linking entries to your chapters

While writing a chapter, type @ and start typing a name. Your Wiki entries come up, and picking one drops in a link. Hover it later and you'll see that entry's details without leaving the chapter.

This is a tool for you, not your readers. Readers see the plain name — no link, no hover card. The point of an @mention is that you can check a detail mid-sentence without losing your place, and that your chapters carry a record of who appears where. It's for writing, not for the reading experience.

Letting readers see it

Your Wiki is private by default, and that's deliberate — a wiki full of spoilers is the last thing you want leaking.

If you want to share, you opt in one entry at a time with a "Make public" toggle on that entry. Entries you don't publish stay invisible. Once at least one entry is public, your story gets a public Wiki page readers can browse, and an "Explore the Wiki" link appears on your story page. Until then the page doesn't exist at all.

Your story has to be published and public before you can make any entry public.

You don't have to build it by hand

There's a Generate Wiki button. It reads every chapter you've written and builds categories, entries, and connections out of what's actually in your text.

It only adds — anything you've already made is left alone. It's free, it doesn't touch your coin balance or AI credits, and it runs in the background, so you can close it and keep writing while it works.

For a story that's already underway, this is usually the fastest way to go from an empty Wiki to something worth having.

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