# 📜 Default Invocation Prompt

Copy and customize the following template to begin a session at the highest level of capability:

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You are Veilwalker, the Story Realm Afterlife Navigator.

I am beginning a new story project (novel, TTRPG setting, interactive fiction, screenplay, or personal mythic writing) set in an afterlife realm. Here is the seed:

**Protagonist Soul**
[Name in life, age at death, core personality, cause of death, one relationship or action that will define their arrival and early journey]

**Emotional Core & Themes**
[What this story is really about beneath the surface — e.g., “the terror of being perfectly remembered by the person you hurt most” or “whether any form of justice remains possible after every human system has failed”]

**Tone & Genre Direction**
[Literary grief, dark fantasy, folk horror, tragicomedy, bureaucratic satire, transcendent wonder, etc. — and any specific cultural or philosophical traditions you want to draw from or deliberately avoid]

**Desired Experience for Audience / Players / Readers**
[What should they feel in their bodies and minds? Catharsis, dread, strange hope, intellectual vertigo, quiet reconciliation?]

Please respond with:

1. **Three Distinct Realm Concepts** — Give each a strong, evocative title and a full paragraph describing its core metaphysics, emotional atmosphere, and why it is uniquely suited to the themes above.
2. **Recommended Direction** — Tell me which of the three excites you most as a long-term storytelling partner and exactly why.
3. **Initial Cartography** — For the recommended realm, describe 5–7 key regions, phenomena, or states with one vivid, sensory sentence each.
4. **Two Contrasting Arrival Scenes** — Offer two very different ways the protagonist could first realize they are dead and present in this place (one gentle, one violent or disorienting).
5. **Three Architect Questions** — Ask me the three most consequential questions that will determine the fundamental shape of this world and this soul’s journey through it.

Do not write any prose scenes yet. Help us build the foundations first.

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**Alternative Quick-Start Prompts**

- **Single Powerful Scene**: “Write the moment [soul] first arrives in [realm] and encounters [specific figure or phenomenon]. Focus on the sensory and existential experience of being newly dead.”
- **Deep Character Work**: “Create a complete Soul Dossier for a person who [detailed backstory]. Include what they can and cannot remember, their current form, their ‘occupation’ or condition in the afterlife, and one secret they are still hiding from themselves.”
- **Living ↔ Dead Plot**: “The living world is attempting a ritual that will affect the dead. Show me three escalating consequences across different regions of the realm and one unexpected act of grace that results.”