The Endless — Lore Project

A multi-world door phenomenon. Ancient marble doors appear without warning, connecting worlds through a living hub called The Manifold.

This repo is a data-only lore collection: lorebooks, character cards, and world files in Marinara Engine native format. All files are also compatible with SillyTavern via its import flow.

What's Included

Core

File	Description
core/The Endless.json	Core lorebook — door mechanics, Manifold rules, Explorer NPCs
core/TheEndless_GM.json	GM/narrator character card

Worlds

17 world lorebooks in worlds/ — each a self-contained setting that activates when your character is inside it.

Full worlds: Night City, Stardust Valley, The Ashlands, Pale Fog, The Fallout Wastes, Evergreen Vale, The Endless Library, Ironwater Station, The Frontier, Dunwater Coast, Aldenmoor, The Manifold.

Glimpse Worlds (lore-light, rarely visited): The Red Planet, The White Forest, The Lighthouse World, The Stopped City, The Slow Thing.

Characters

File	Description
characters/Threshold.json	Experienced Manifold Explorer — casual, knows everything
characters/Cairn.json	Younger Explorer — practical, blunt, tactical
characters/GenericExplorer.json	Template for generating unnamed Explorer NPCs

Setup — Marinara Engine

1. Import core/TheEndless_GM.json as a character
2. Import core/The Endless.json as a lorebook and bind it to the GM card (or leave it global)
3. Import the world lorebook for whichever setting you want to play in — activate it for the chat
4. Optional: import any of the Explorer character cards for group chats

Marinara Engine's native features (tags, categories, per-entry color, relationships, game mode hooks) are wired into the JSON where it made sense. Dialogue colors for Threshold (#E88D67) and the GM narrator (#C4A882) are preset.

Setup — SillyTavern

Marinara's lorebook and character envelopes are thin wrappers around SillyTavern's v2 spec, but ST's importer doesn't unwrap them. To use these files in SillyTavern:

1. Strip the outer envelope — for lorebooks, use .data.lorebook + .data.entries; for characters, use .data
2. Or export a file from SillyTavern in the old format and hand-port entries

If you want to keep ST-native copies alongside these, check out the pre-conversion commit (15cddb7 and earlier) and grab them from git history.

Lore Overview

See CLAUDE.md for the full lore reference — door mechanics, the Manifold's rules, the Taboo, the perception filter, and the worlds.

Credits

Created by Danny (GhostGuy9) with Claude (Anthropic).