The lorebook expanded.
Elias stared at the blinking cursor.
RELATIONSHIP WITH ELIAS: SYMBIOTIC. ELIAS LIVES THROUGH KAELEN. KAELEN WOULD CEASE TO EXIST WITHOUT ELIAS. THIS IS THE ONLY HONEST RELATIONSHIP EITHER HAS. novelai lorebook download
The download finished at 3:14 AM. Elias stared at the progress bar’s ghost on his monitor, then at the file sitting in his downloads folder: LOREBOOK_VAULT_omega_v4.nt . The lorebook expanded
The interface glitched. Once. Twice. Then the screen went black, and text began to write itself in the terminal font of a machine from the 1980s. ELIAS LIVES THROUGH KAELEN
Elias was a worldbuilder. He had spent six thousand hours crafting the continent of Aeridos, its forty-seven gods, its contradictory magic system, its sixteen-thousand-year history that exactly three people on the internet had ever read. His protagonist, Kaelen the Unburdened, had been with him since high school. Kaelen had his own scars, his own cynicism, his own dead wife’s name (Lyra) that Elias had typed so many times his fingers went there automatically, like muscle memory.
He clicked on Kaelen’s entry anyway.