A desktop app for fantasy worldbuilding, made for storytellers and game masters. Write linked lore, draw maps, chart centuries of history with your own calendars, and see how everyone is connected.
Your world lives in a folder on your computer: no account, no cloud.
Behind this text: Above: the sample world, The Shattered Coast. Open a pin to read its lore.
The fastest way in. Pick a seed, a land shape and a climate, and Orbis Scriptor draws you a world:
Everything it makes is ordinary, editable content: a starting point, not a cage. The same seed always gives the same world.
Write in a clean editor and type [[ to mention any character, place or faction, or create one on the spot.
Every page shows what mentions it, so following a thread through your world is one click. Rename someone and every mention follows.
Queen Isolde
Last of House Vael, Isolde took the Thorn Crown at Saltmarrow in the final winter of the Salt War.
Her first act as queen was to send word to
Import your own map image, or start from blank parchment or open ocean. Then:
Layers, undo and PNG export come with it.
Record events as single moments or long spans, and zoom from centuries down to single days.
Define calendars that fit your world: any months, weeks, eras and leap years. Switch calendars and the same moment reads correctly in each.
Coronation of Isolde
Give characters parents, spouses, rivals, factions and homes. Explore the web of relationships as a graph, or switch to a family tree of a dynasty.
Search everything
Press Ctrl+K to find any page, place or tag.
Your own entity types
Add a “Deity” with domain and worshippers, or anything else.
Tags and favourites
Plus a list of what you edited recently.
Portraits and galleries
Images for characters and places.
Light and dark
Parchment by day, deep sea by night.
A sample world
Explore The Shattered Coast before you start your own.
Download and install
One installer for Windows, or an AppImage for Linux.
Open the sample, or generate a world
Explore The Shattered Coast, or roll a seed of your own.
Write, map and link as you go
Every page, pin and date stays connected to the rest.
Orbis Scriptor is local-first: your world is a folder on your own computer, not an account on someone else’s server. Nothing is uploaded.
On your computer
The Shattered Coast
world.json
world.db
assets
backups
Queen Isolde.md
Exported to Markdown, as Obsidian shows it
--- type: character tags: [royalty, house-vael] --- # Queen Isolde Last of [[House Vael]], Isolde took the Thorn Crown at [[Saltmarrow]] in the final winter of the [[The Salt War|Salt War]].
Free. Version 0.5.0. Read what’s new
Windows
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
Your system
Linux
Modern 64-bit Linux with WebKitGTK 4.1
Yes. Download it and use it, with no account and no subscription.
No. Everything is stored in a folder you choose.
In that folder: a database file, your images, and automatic daily backups.
Yes. Export to Markdown (it opens in Obsidian) or print any page to PDF.
Yes. Links, tags and images come across.
Not currently. Orbis Scriptor runs on Windows and Linux.
No cookies and no third-party trackers. The server keeps a basic access log (your IP address, the page and the time) so problems and attacks can be spotted, and deletes it after about two weeks.
Not built in. You can share the folder or an export, but two people should not edit the same world at once.
Ask anything, suggest a feature or report a bug. I read every message.