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The Location Wizard

The Location Wizard fills a building, landmark or room with a name, a description and the people who live or work there. This page covers everything it can do. For a first walkthrough, see 3. Your first building.

When it opens

• after you place and shape a Building, Custom building or Landmark in Build mode
• when you choose an empty building (or one from a cluster) in Build mode
• when you place a copy of a building

The header shows the settlement and district the building is in.

Step 1: Type — how to fill it

• Quick options. Ready-made buildings for your genre: a tavern, an inn, a blacksmith, a coffee shop, a noodle bar, a mess hall, homes and more. Each comes complete with a name, a description, staff or a family, and optional floors and rooms. They're assembled instantly without AI. Reroll any person, name or room until you like it. Quick options are written in English. They're offered for indoor buildings, not landmarks or rooms.
• A description. In the description box, write who lives or works here and what the place is like (up to 2,000 characters), then choose Generate.
• Manual. Start from a blank form.
• Place Empty. Keep the building as an empty shell and fill it later.

Generate characters at this location is ticked for indoor places and unticked for outdoor ones. Untick it for an empty building; tick it for a park with regulars.

What the AI reads when you choose Generate

Your description is only part of it. The AI also reads:

• the biome the building stands in
• the world briefing, plus your world's Peoples & Cultures and Additional Lore, word for word
• the region's briefing
• the settlement's briefing and every field of its profile
• the district's briefing and profile, including its character and wealth
• your active Journal notes for the settlement
• nearby buildings, and anyone already living here
• for a room, the building it's in and the rooms beside it

The settlement and district matter most. People are dressed to fit the settlement's culture and architecture, and places match the district's wealth: a bar in a rich quarter comes out upscale, one in the slums comes out grimy. Fill in your settlement and district profiles before generating buildings and everything fits together. See Area profiles and NPC briefings.

Tips for describing a place

• Say who runs it and who's usually there: "a tavern run by an elderly couple, with dockworkers in every evening".
• Add one or two details about the feel: worn, cozy, rowdy, upscale.
• Names come from name lists. Characters are named from large pools of real names, not invented by the AI. Mention a background ("an elderly Japanese couple") and they'll get names from that culture. The generator prefers these pool names even if you write your own, so rename people in the review if you have names in mind.
• Peoples. Characters are drawn from the species your world allows. A specific request ("an elf blacksmith") still works in any world. See Area profiles and NPC briefings.
• Magic weapons only when you ask. An ordinary smithy sells ordinary weapons. Describe a place that makes or sells enchanted weapons ("a frost-mage's forge") and some of its stock will be enchanted.

One Generate, a whole cast. A single Generate drafts the building and everyone in it in one go. On the free plan that's one daily AI action for the lot, where creating the same people one at a time in the Atlas would use one each. Nothing is saved until you save.

Step 2: Story

The building's name and description. The description is what every character inside "stands in", so keep the most important line first. See Buildings and rooms.

Step 3: Cast

Everyone who'll live or work here. Choose someone to open their full profile on the right and edit any field. You can add and remove people, and with quick options, reroll a person or their name.

• The first character is the owner by default.
• Import adds a character written with another AI assistant. See Importing NPCs.
• Everyone is 18 or older.

People created here live in the building. They also work there, unless it's a home or a room.

Step 4: Rooms

For indoor buildings: set floors, rooms per floor and occupants per room, then name each room, give it an interior prompt, and choose who lives in it. See Buildings and rooms.

Step 5: Details

Type, Owner, Building Color, the Interior Image Prompt (or Exterior Scene Prompt outdoors), Music Tracks and Map Icon.

Images and saving

With Generate images ticked (the default), saving paints:

• the building's interior
• a portrait for each character with a portrait prompt
• a picture for each floor and room with an interior prompt

The Cost so far card adds it up, and a large batch asks you to confirm before spending.

Untick Generate images and no image credits are spent. Characters are fully playable without portraits, and you can paint them later.

Choose Save (Place Building for a quick option). Images paint in the background, and a card pops up as each one lands. If an image fails, its credits are refunded.

Copies

When you place a copy of a building, the wizard opens with the original's details filled in. Saving brings over its pictures and rooms, but not its people. Start fresh clears the copy so you can fill the building another way.

Closing without saving

Cancel (or ×) asks first if you've made changes. A building you placed but never saved is removed when you cancel. Anything you'd already saved, including a Place Empty shell, is kept.