# Series Bible — [Series title]

> A free series bible template from Loomworld (https://loomworld.ai/templates/series-bible).
> Use and adapt it for your own books. Delete any section you don't need.
>
> How to use it: fill in book one first, then update the bible at the end of every chapter
> you draft — not at the end of the book. Anything a reader could notice changing belongs here.

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## 1. Series overview

- **Series title:**
- **Genre / subgenre:**
- **Logline (one sentence for the whole series):**
- **Series question (what the reader keeps reading to find out):**
- **Planned length:** [number of books] books, about [word count] words each
- **Point of view and tense:**
- **Comparable titles:**

### Books

| # | Title | Status | Story time covered | One-line summary |
|---|-------|--------|--------------------|------------------|
| 1 |       | Drafting / Revising / Published | e.g. Spring–Winter 1843 | |
| 2 |       | | | |
| 3 |       | | | |

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## 2. Characters

Copy this block for every character with a name. Walk-ons can go in the short list at the end.

### [Character name]

- **Also called (nicknames, titles, aliases):**
- **Role:** lead / supporting / minor
- **First appears:** Book [ ], Chapter [ ]
- **Born / age at the start of each book:** Book 1: [ ] · Book 2: [ ] · Book 3: [ ]
- **Appearance (things you will describe more than once):** eyes, hair, height, scars, how they dress
- **Voice:** how they talk, words they use, words they never use
- **Wants / needs / fears:**
- **Secrets (and who knows them, from which chapter):**
- **Skills and limits:**
- **Arc by book:**
  - Book 1:
  - Book 2:
  - Book 3:
- **Status at the end of each book (alive, injured, where they are, what they now know):**
  - Book 1:
  - Book 2:

### Minor characters

| Name | Who they are | First appears | Last seen | Notes |
|------|--------------|---------------|-----------|-------|
|      |              |               |           |       |

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## 3. Relationships

| Character A | Character B | Relationship | How it changes (book / chapter) |
|-------------|-------------|--------------|---------------------------------|
|             |             | e.g. siblings, rivals, former partners | |

Factions, families and organisations:

| Group | Leader | Members | Goal | Allies / enemies |
|-------|--------|---------|------|------------------|
|       |        |         |      |                  |

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## 4. Places

Copy this block for every place a scene happens in more than once.

### [Place name]

- **Part of (country → city → district → building):**
- **First appears:** Book [ ], Chapter [ ]
- **What it looks like / sounds like / smells like:**
- **Who lives or works here:**
- **Distance and travel time to other places:**
- **What changes here over the series:**

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## 5. Objects that matter

| Object | Description | Who has it (and from when) | Where it is now | Why it matters |
|--------|-------------|----------------------------|-----------------|----------------|
|        |             |                            |                 |                |

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## 6. World rules

What is true everywhere in your world. Write each rule so you could check a scene against it.

| Area | Rule | Cost or limit | First shown (book / chapter) |
|------|------|---------------|------------------------------|
| Magic / technology | | | |
| Law and government | | | |
| Money and trade | | | |
| Religion and custom | | | |
| History (before book one) | | | |

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## 7. Timeline

Keep two clocks: when things happen in the story, and the order the reader meets them.

### Story time (chronological)

| When (date, year or "Day 3") | Event | Book / chapter where it is shown or mentioned |
|------------------------------|-------|-----------------------------------------------|
|                              |       |                                               |

### Reading order (per book)

| Book / chapter | When it happens in story time | Flashback or present? |
|----------------|-------------------------------|-----------------------|
|                |                               |                       |

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## 8. Open threads and foreshadowing

Every setup is a promise. Note where you planted it, where you reminded the reader, and where you pay it off.

| Thread | Setup (book / chapter) | Reminders | Payoff (book / chapter) | Status |
|--------|------------------------|-----------|-------------------------|--------|
|        |                        |           |                         | Open / Paid off / Dropped on purpose |

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## 9. Continuity log

Facts that are easy to get wrong between books. Add a line the moment you write one.

| Book / chapter | Fact established | Check again in |
|----------------|------------------|----------------|
|                | e.g. "Mara lost the ring in the river" | Book 2, when the ring comes back |

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## 10. Style sheet

- **Spellings of names and invented words:**
- **Capitalisation (titles, ranks, places, magic terms):**
- **Numbers (words or digits), dates and time format:**
- **Dialogue conventions (e.g. how telepathy or other languages are shown):**
- **Words and phrases to avoid:**

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*Want this to keep itself up to date? In Loomworld every section above is a module linked to your manuscript:
characters count their own appearances, the timeline keeps both clocks, and the foreshadowing tracker warns you
when a thread is overdue. Start free at https://loomworld.ai*