Your character portal

The character portal is your read-only window into the campaign world. You see what your character would know — not the full world the GM has built, and not other players' private character information.

Your campaign dashboard

When you log in, you land on your campaign dashboard — a list of every campaign you have joined. Each campaign card shows a snapshot of your character:

  • Portrait — your character's portrait if your GM has set one
  • Name, class, and race
  • Level badge — your current level
  • Affiliation — the faction or group your GM has recorded for your character
  • Session Zero status — if your Session Zero is still incomplete, a small amber indicator appears as a reminder

Click any campaign card to open that campaign's portal.

What's visible to you

Your portal shows content the GM has made available to you specifically:

  • Party-visible entities — NPCs, locations, factions, items, and lore the GM has revealed to the whole group
  • Character-tagged entities — content your GM has shared with your character specifically, based on your character's tags
  • Session summaries the GM has published after each session
  • Your character's backstory articles that have been approved and canonized
  • The world timeline, showing events marked as visible to the party

You won't see GM-only content — that's your GM's private notes, unrevealed secrets, and plot information. If a wikilink in an article points to a GM-only entity, it appears as plain text rather than a clickable link.

Navigating the portal

The portal sidebar lists entity types that have content available to you: NPCs, Locations, Factions, Items, Events, Lore. Types with no visible content are hidden — if you don't see a category, there's nothing there for your character yet.

Click any category to browse a filtered list. Use the search bar at the top to find any entity by name. Results are filtered to your visibility level automatically.

Entity pages

Click any entity card to open its full article. From the article page you can:

  • Read the full article content, including any text blocks, callouts, and images the GM has added
  • Click wikilinks to navigate to connected entities
  • View the entity's relationship connections
  • See linked images the GM has attached

You can't edit entity articles. If you notice an error or want to add a note to your GM, use the message icon on the entity page.

Your character profile

Your profile lives in the portal, and your character's tools are tabs on it rather than separate pages to hunt for:

TabWhat's on it
SheetYour character sheet — stats, resources, gear, spells, and rolling
ArcYour character arc log
HistoryWhat your character has been part of, session by session
ConnectionsYour relationship anchors
JournalYour own notes
KnowledgeWhat your character knows, including the languages they read

Your GM sets up your character initially. You can update your portrait and add to your backstory from the profile page.

If you're in more than one campaign, each has its own character — use the character switcher to move between them.

📝Note

Your character profile is visible to your GM. Other players can see your character's name and portrait in the party roster, but not your private arc log entries or unapproved backstory articles.

Languages

Some text in the world is written in an in-world language. Whether you can read it depends on what your character knows — fluent, conversational, or basic recognition — and your GM can grant you temporary understanding during a session for a translation spell or a helpful NPC.

Choose how that text is shown to you in your profile settings:

ModeBehaviour
Hover to translate (default)Shown in script; hover to reveal the meaning
Always translatedShown in plain text wherever your character can read it
Original scriptAlways shown in script, even when your character is fluent

During a session In development

While a session is live, the portal shows what your GM reveals as they reveal it. In a fight you'll see the initiative order, whose turn it is, and a combat log of who acted and what landed. NPC health is shown as a description — Bloodied, Critical — rather than a number.

If your GM has enabled it, you can move your own character's token on the battlemap from here.

If something isn't showing

Two reasons an entity might not appear in your portal:

  1. Your GM has it set to GM Only and hasn't revealed it yet
  2. Your character doesn't have the visibility tag that unlocks that content

In either case, ask your GM. They can check visibility settings and share content directly with your character if appropriate.

💡Tip

The portal updates in real time. When your GM reveals something during a session, it appears in your portal immediately — you don't need to refresh the page.

Troubleshooting

My portal is empty — nothing is showing. Your GM controls what you see. If the portal is empty, they haven't revealed anything to the party yet. This is common at the start of a campaign before Session 1. Ask your GM to make some entities Party-visible once the campaign begins.

Wikilinks in articles show as plain text instead of clickable links. A wikilink that renders as plain text means the entity it points to is still GM Only — your character doesn't know about it yet. When your GM reveals that entity, the link will become clickable automatically. No refresh needed.

My character profile shows the wrong name or portrait. Your GM sets up your character initially. If the name or portrait is wrong, ask your GM to update it from the campaign dashboard. Once your profile is set up, you can update your portrait yourself from your profile page.

I accepted the invite but I'm seeing someone else's world. If you have multiple campaign invites or Skryrún accounts, confirm you're logged into the right account. Click your profile icon at the top of the portal to check. If you're on the right account but seeing a different campaign, use the campaign selector to switch to the correct one.

My campaign card shows "Session Zero incomplete." This means your GM's Session Zero workflow hasn't been completed for your character yet. Ask your GM — they complete Session Zero from the campaign dashboard. Once done, the indicator disappears from your card.

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