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It wasn't a list of characters or locations. It was a map. But the map was not of Aeridos. The map was of a cramped one-bedroom apartment in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There was a desk in the corner with a half-empty mug of coffee. There was a calendar on the wall marking the days since his last date. There was a bed where Elias slept alone.

RELATIONSHIP WITH ELIAS: SYMBIOTIC. ELIAS LIVES THROUGH KAELEN. KAELEN WOULD CEASE TO EXIST WITHOUT ELIAS. THIS IS THE ONLY HONEST RELATIONSHIP EITHER HAS.

KAELEN THE UNBURDENED: [NARRATIVE PARASITE. ORIGINALLY CREATED TO PROCESS GRIEF OVER FATHER’S DEATH (2009). NOW SERVES AS PRIMARY EMOTIONAL OUTLET. HAS HAD 17 ADVENTURES. PROTAGONIST (ELIAS) HAS HAD 0.]

He thought of Kaelen, who had never once complained. Who had carried his grief, his rage, his longing for a love that never existed. Who had fought forty-seven battles for a god who typed him into existence and then closed the laptop when the real world got too loud. novelai lorebook download

ELIAS: [CURRENT STATUS: OBSERVING. EMOTION: FEAR. SECONDARY EMOTION: RECOGNITION.]

He looked back at the screen. The lorebook had updated.

The lorebook expanded.

WARNING: NARRATIVE RECURSION DETECTED.

YOUR WORLD HAS BEEN WRITING YOU BACK. DO YOU WANT TO SEE?

APARTMENT: [CRAMPED. SMELLS OF INSTANT RAMEN AND STAGNANT AIR. PROTAGONIST (ELIAS) HAS NOT LEFT IN 72 HOURS.] It wasn't a list of characters or locations

Elias stared at the blinking cursor.

With trembling hands, Elias scrolled to the entry marked PROTAGONIST (ELIAS) .