Factions
The groups and powers that shape your world — their members, their rivalries, and their crests.
Factions are the houses, guilds, orders, corporations, and cults your characters belong to. Each faction has members drawn from your cast, stances toward other factions, and — the centrepiece — a heraldic crest you design yourself in a dedicated maker.
Factions library — cards with crests
✦Quick start
- 1Open Factions from Story World and click New faction.
- 2Set a name, motto, and kind (house, guild, order, and so on).
- 3Open the crest maker and design a badge — start from a template, then customise.
- 4Add members from your cast, and set stances toward rival factions.
- 5Link the faction to its books and universes.
The Crest Maker
Build a heraldic crest layer by layer — a genuinely deep designer, but quick to get a great result from a starting template.
- Templates — ready-made recipes for houses, guilds, orders, corporations, cults, and more
- Frame — a range of shield and seal shapes to sit everything on
- Field — plain or patterned backgrounds (quartered, chevron, saltire, and others)
- Symbol — a searchable library of heraldic charges grouped by theme
- Colour & texture — metal and field colours plus an engraved, parchment, or clean finish
- Lettering — banner fonts and ribbon styles for the motto
- Arrange — nudge, scale, and rotate each layer until it sits just right
Members & Stances
- Add members from your character library, with a role for each
- Set stances toward other factions — allied, neutral, rival, or enemy
- A character can belong to more than one faction
- Profile tabs capture history, values, and motivation
✦
A faction's crest follows it everywhere — onto member characters' sheets and across the Folio — so a strong badge makes your world instantly legible.