Asten for worldbuilders

Asten gives your notes on places, cultures, and rules a home, connects the parts you settle to the manuscript, and keeps the rest out of the way until you need it.

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In short

Asten gives fantasy and science-fiction writers optional worldbuilding tools (a wall for scraps, an atlas for places, and a dossier grouped by kind) connected to a canon of settled facts. When the manuscript contradicts a settled fact, Asten marks it. Nothing in the world is required before you write.

Common problems

The wiki that ate the novel

Three years of lore, eleven pages of chapter one.

Facts scattered across apps

Maps in one tool, a wiki in another, the manuscript in a third, and none of them talk.

Your own rules, broken

Magic costs blood in book one. By book two, nobody bleeds.

How Asten helps

Wall, atlas, dossier

Scraps, places, and entries by kind: places, cultures, systems, creatures, items, questions, fragments.

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Spark → sketched → settled

Ideas grow at their own pace. Only settled entries become canon.

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Canon checked against the manuscript

Settled facts are checked against the manuscript, with sources.

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Two clocks

Histories, prophecies, and flashbacks with story time and reading order kept apart.

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The harbor at Veld

You pin a spark on the wall: “Veld: harbor town, eats the reef’s fish, distrusts the capital.”
Two chapters later you sketch it in the atlas, east of the reef.
When the siege chapter needs it, you settle it. Asten mints the facts.
Chapter 31 has Mira sail from Veld to the capital in two days. You declared that route as five, so CANON-E301 marks the journey.

Below the sand

settled

The atlas

Veld sits east of the reef, two days’ sail from the capital. Pinned on a rough map.

Limits

The atlas is a rough map for pinning places. Travel-time checks work once you declare routes with a travel time.
World rules (“magic costs blood”) are written as plain patterns in the invariants panel and checked against the scene trace.
Story time can count days, use Gregorian dates, or use a fictional calendar whose months you define.