Elements form the building blocks of OnlyWorlds. Everything that constitutes or inhabits your world should find representation between the 20 types of element categories and their fields.

The two vignettes below, from the opening of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, provide a sense of how these elements can be parsed from stories. Each element category has a separate page for more detailed information and discussion.

Opening

See the child.person_4 He is pale and thin,flaky he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt.webhook He stokes the scullery fire.thunderstorm Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond castle that harbor yet a few last wolves.bug_report His folk supervisor_account are known for hewers of wood and drawers of water auto_fix_normal but in truth his father link has been a schoolmaster.military_tech He lies in drink, he quotes from poets api whose names are now lost.

He rides up saved_search through the latterday republic of Fredonia business into the town of Nacogdoches. The Reverend Green had been playing to a full house groups_3 daily as long as the rain had been falling and the rain had been falling for two weeks.book

He stood with others of his kind crib along the back wall. The only thing that might have distinguished him in that crowd was that he was not armed. Neighbors, said the reverend, he couldn’t stay out of these here hell, hell, hellholes edit_road right here in Nacogdoches.

The Judge

An enormous man person_4 dressed in an oilcloth slicker webhook had entered the tent castle and removed his hat. He was bald as a stone and he had no trace of beard and he had no brows to his eyes nor lashes to them flaky.

The reverend had stopped his sermon api altogether. There was no sound in the tent. All watched the man. He adjusted the hat and then pushed his way forward saved_search as far as the crateboard pulpit where the reverend stood and there he turned to address the reverend’s congregation.groups_3

His face was serene and strangely childlike. His hands were small. He held them out. Ladies and gentlemen I feel it my duty to inform you that the man crib holding this revival is an imposter. He holds no papers of divinity edit_road from any institution business recognized or improvised. He is altogether devoid of the least qualification to the office he has usurped and has only committed to memory a few passages from the good book for the purpose of lending to his fraudulent sermons some faint flavor of the piety he despises.book In truth, the gentleman standing here before you posing as a minister of the Lord military_tech is not only totally illiterate auto_fix_normal but is also wanted by the law gpp_bad in the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Arkansas.architecture