# Character bible template

From AxiomStory (https://axiomstory.com/blog/character-bible).
Copy the profile below once per character. Fill the main cast first, side characters later.
Leave a line blank until the story needs it.

## The cast list

| Name | Role | First chapter | Last chapter |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  |  |  |  |

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## Character profile

### Who they are

- Name:
- Other names, titles, nicknames:
- Role in the story:
- Age:
- Where they come from:
- What they do all day:
- First appears in:

### Look

- Height and build:
- Face, eyes, hair:
- Marks (scars, tattoos, freckles):
- What they usually wear:
- Things they always carry:
- Reference sheet: (link or file name)

### Voice

- How they talk (fast, slow, few words, many words):
- Words or phrases only they use:
- Words they would never say:
- A line of dialogue that sounds like them:
- What their voice sounds like out loud:

### Inside

- What they want:
- What they need (and do not know they need):
- What they fear:
- An old hurt that still shapes them:
- A secret:
- What they would never do:
- What would make them do it anyway:

### People

| Person | How they feel about them | What the other person knows | Chapter |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  |  |  |  |

### Arc

- Where they start:
- What changes them:
- Where they end:

### Changes over the story

| Chapter | What changed | Why |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  |  |  |

### Facts to check

Facts that are easy to get wrong, with the chapter that settled each one.

- Fact:
  Chapter:
- Fact:
  Chapter:

### Open questions

- Things you have not decided yet: