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Wiki chronology

Your wiki and your timeline describe the same world. Wiki chronology ties them together so a page knows where its subject sits in history, and an event knows which page tells its full story — and you can move between the two from either side.

Open any wiki page and open its detail panel (the right-hand panel), then switch to the Chronology tab. It lists every event connected to that page, grouped by era or year in your world’s calendar.

A page picks up events from two places:

  • Events linked directly to the page (see below), and
  • if the page is bound to an entity (a character, place, faction…), every event that involves that entity.

So a page about Queen Maerith that’s bound to the Maerith entity shows her birth, her coronation, the War of Ash, and her death — without you linking each one to the page by hand.

From the Chronology tab (as an editor):

  • Add event creates a new event and links it to this page in one step.
  • Link event (the chain icon) searches your world’s events and attaches an existing one to the page.

While writing, type [[ and start searching. Alongside pages, entities, and references, your world’s timeline events now appear in the results (marked 🕑). Pick one to drop an inline link to that event.

  • Hovering the link shows a small preview — the event’s type, date, certainty, and summary.
  • The link also registers as a backlink, so the event shows up in that page’s Chronology panel.

Open an event in the timeline and find the Page section in its inspector:

  1. If the event already has a linked page, choose Open linked page to go straight to it.

  2. If it doesn’t, Create page for this event makes a new wiki page named after the event and links the two together — ready for you to write the full account.

This keeps one home for long-form prose: short events stay as timeline markers, and the ones that deserve a full write-up get a bound page.

  • Entity timelines — the same events, seen from a character or faction’s detail page.
  • Wiki embeds — drop a filtered timeline list into a page with the Index Block.
  • Linking events — connect events to entities, places, sessions, and each other.