Cast and Geenius OS profiles

The cast of a book is the characters, places, objects, weather and organisations the story uses.

Two ways to make a cast member#

In Author. Make a character, place, object, weather or organisation directly. It belongs to your workspace and is never touched by a Geenius OS sync.
From Geenius OS. Link a profile from your Geenius OS Profiles. The cast then holds a reference to the profile and its revision. The profile stays in the OS; you describe a person once and use them in every book.

Geenius OS is optional. You can write a whole book without it.

Roles#

A cast entry can have a role: protagonist, antagonist, supporting, minor, narrator, setting, object, weather or organisation, and a note.

Snapshots#

Author keeps a snapshot of each linked profile: its revision, kind, name, summary, facets and its located_in and part_of relations. So a book opens and checks without a network call.

A sync reads the profiles from Geenius OS as you, with a short-lived token. It runs from Sync from Geenius OS, by itself when the snapshots are more than ten minutes old, and before any action that names a profile.
A newer revision in the OS shows on the cast as changed in Geenius OS.
A profile deleted in the OS stays as a snapshot marked missing, so the book still reads.
Settings, Geenius OS picks the workspace the profiles come from.

Facts and story#

Facts about a person (their birth date, their occupation) live in the profile. What happens to them in the story lives in Author as events. The state of a character at a moment is the profile plus the events up to then. See Events and state.

Permissions#

Linking uses a read-only permission for your Geenius OS profiles, granted when you sign in with Geenius OS. Author stores the permission sealed.