Records and relationships

It would be simpler to let you write a document per NPC and be done. DMRealm asks for a little more structure, and the reason shapes everything else.

A document can only be read. A linked record can be found, listed, drawn on a map, placed on a timeline, counted in a collection, rendered as a graph, handed to the AI as context, and checked against permissions. The same sentence, written as a link rather than as prose, does far more work.

What a link carries#

Direction

Links run from one record to another. 'Serves' and 'is served by' are the same link read from opposite ends.

Type

What kind of relationship it is — membership, rivalry, residence, ownership.

Strength

How strong the tie is, so a passing acquaintance and a blood oath are not the same edge.

Secrecy

A link can be marked secret, so the connection exists for you and is invisible to players — the twist is a relationship, not just a paragraph.

What that buys you#

• Opening a city shows the people, factions, and quests attached to it, without you maintaining that list.
• Renaming a faction updates it everywhere, because there is one faction rather than forty mentions.
• A wiki page can pull a live list of your coastal settlements instead of one you must remember to update.
• The AI drafts with your world in view rather than inventing a generic one.

What a record's page lets you do#

Every record's page has a More menu, the three dots beside its name. It lists only what that kind of record can actually do, so a missing choice is one that does not apply there, not one that is broken.

• Duplicate makes a copy named after the original, in the same folder and with the same content, that starts hidden from players. Its relationships, comments and history stay with the original. A board's Duplicate copies its tokens and links with it and opens the copy. Sites, quests and encounters keep their contents outside the record, so they are not copied this way.
• Move to folder files the record in your Directory. If you have no folders yet, create one there first.
• Copy link copies the record's address once your realm has saved it.
• Version history shows earlier versions of the page and lets you restore one.
• Delete moves the record to Trash, with Undo. If the page has unsaved changes on this device, you are asked before they are discarded.
• Generate with AI and Export open that record's tools in the side panel, on pages that have them.