Builder's Manual · Chapter 1

Personality, Relationships, and Names

Personality types, relationships, and naming conventions are the social engine. Build them to keep every bond specific.

Personality types

Files live in /Personality Types/ (.personality-type.json). Each defines archetypeSummary, values, adoreTriggers, despiseTriggers, emotionalStyle, chemistryNotes, instantBondTypes, slowTrustTypes, and exampleCharacters. Eight ship with the project: Emberheart, Ironvein, Sparkwire, Gravitas, Tidecaller, Stormbreak, Nullshadow, Hearthkeep.

When adding a character, set personalityType (reference to one of these) and culture (free text naming culture). No two unrelated characters should share a surname — enforce it at creation.

Relationships

Files live in /Relationships/ (.relationship.json): characterA, characterB, chemistry (magnetic/warm/neutral/strained/volatile), score (-100 to +100), history, trustNotes. Score is an enhancer, never a gate: high chemistry can permit intimacy at low scores, and low chemistry can block warmth at high scores. Let personality type decide which acts move the score — never a universal "money = admiration" rule.

Naming conventions

Files live in /Naming Conventions/ (.naming-convention.json): culture, appliesTo, rules, examples, forbiddenPatterns. Five ship with the project covering Helix corporate Baselines, Rust Belt Undercity nicknames, mutant resistance chosen names, places and stations, and pets/vehicles/keepsakes (vehicles take iron-noun names, pets short signal-calls, weapons only after a life-event). Apply them when creating characters, locations, pets, starships, mechs, and equipment — and give artists, cooks, and storytellers a Hearthkeep home so art has mechanical weight through adore triggers.

Manual updated Sep 14, 2026.

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They thought they could hide behind their machines.

The rich used their money to implant themselves with nanomachines and cybernetics, while using robots to control the world. The poor were left to struggle and under the oppression their bodies began to evolve. They awakened mutant powers to fight back against those who oppressed them.

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