Every novel has its own glossary, but some terms are shared across novels instead: more on that below. If you just want to fix a wrong name in a chapter you're reading, tap the term in the text rather than starting here.
What the glossary is#
The glossary keeps a term's English translation consistent instead of it drifting every time it appears.
New terms are added automatically as chapters are translated. The AI recognizes recurring names and terms and adds them to the novel's glossary so later chapters translate them the same way. With the Reader membership or higher you can also add a term yourself and suggest a correction to any term you find wrong. See Editing terms.
Term types#
Every term has a type, which steers how it's translated (for example, whether it takes a pronoun) and how it's grouped when you browse:
| Type | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Character | A named person or being |
| Place | A location |
| Item | An object |
| Material | A substance or resource |
| Technique | A skill, technique, or move |
| Organization | A group, faction, or institution |
| Concept | An abstract idea specific to the story |
| Title | A rank, honorific, or title |
| Other | Doesn't fit the types above |
| Junk | Not actually a term (see below) |
A term can also be active or inactive. An inactive term is skipped when translating new chapters: it won't be used or highlighted. This is for names that stopped mattering, turned out to be a mistake, or that collide with an ordinary English word (a monster named "Silence," for instance). See Chapter overrides for turning a term inactive from a specific chapter onward instead of everywhere.
Junk marks a term that should never have been added: text the AI mistook for a name. Setting a term to Junk deactivates it and removes it from chapters that already used it. It isn't offered when you first add a term, since a brand-new suggestion that isn't a real term shouldn't be added in the first place.
Note Older screens and the moderator Discord bot may call a term an "entity." It's the same thing: the glossary.
Highlights in the reader#
While reading, glossary terms can be highlighted in the chapter text. Tap a highlighted term to open its details.
Three settings control this, under Display Settings → Site (see Display Settings):
- Glossary Hints: a subtle underline under terms in the text. On by default.
- Clickable Glossary: only shown when Glossary Hints is off. Lets you tap a term to open it even without the underline. Off by default, so stray taps while reading don't interrupt you.
- Community Suggestions: a blue underline marks a term where other readers have set a personal translation you haven't adopted yet, a hint that one is available if you want to check it. On by default. Turning it off removes the underline; the term is still tappable.
There's also a Glossary button in the chapter toolbar (a sparkle icon). Pressing it turns full highlighting on for that chapter (every term gets a colored background) and opens a small menu: List shows the chapter's terms and Add adds one. Press it again, or E, to turn the highlighting off. It is a per-chapter toggle, separate from the switches above.
The novel glossary page#
Open a novel and go to its Glossary page to see every term for that novel. It has two tabs:
- Local: this novel's own terms. Searchable, filterable, and paginated.
- General: the general terms that occur in this novel, listed like the Local ones with how often and in how many chapters each appears here, and a switch to include or exclude each one for this novel's translations. Searchable, filterable, sortable, and paginated.
On the Local tab you can:
- Search by name.
- Filter by type, by source (AI-created or user-created), and by status (Active or Hidden).
- Sort by Most used, Name A–Z, Type, Newest, or Most chapters.
- Mine: next to the search box, visible when signed in. It shows only terms you've set a personal translation for.
Tap any row to open the term's details, where you can view its type, gender and the chapters it appears in, and suggest changes if you have the Reader membership or higher.
Your own names#
A personal translation is your own English name for a term, applied instantly and visible only to you: no moderator review needed. Setting one needs the Reader membership or higher, like a public glossary suggestion (see Limits). Removing one you already set works on every account.
Open a term (from a chapter or the novel's Glossary page) and use the Your Translation field near the top. Type a name and press Save. Once set, your version replaces the public translation everywhere you read that novel: in the chapter text and in the glossary. Personal translations are per novel: setting one on a term in one novel doesn't affect the same term anywhere else.
Below the field, badges fill it with one tap:
- Other readers' picks: translations other readers have set for this term, with how many readers chose each one.
- AI suggestions: type an instruction (optional) and press the lightbulb button for the AI to suggest alternatives.
The Aa / aa button next to the field toggles your typed text between Title Case and all-lowercase. Remove next to the field clears your personal translation, and the term goes back to showing its public translation for you. To find every term you've named, use the Mine filter on the novel's Glossary page.
A personal translation is invisible to every other reader. It only changes what you see, and setting one is never itself a public suggestion. If enough readers set the same one independently, it can be proposed as the new public translation; see Community votes for how that threshold works.
The general glossary#
Some terms are shared across many novels instead of belonging to just one: common cultivation-genre terms, or names specific to a shared fandom, for example. These are general terms, and they live in one shared database at /entities/general rather than in any single novel's glossary.
A general term applies to every novel it's relevant to automatically. On a novel's Glossary page, the General tab lists the general terms that actually occur in that novel, most mentioned first, with the counts for that novel. Tap a term to open it just as you would a Local one: set your personal translation, suggest a public change (which gives this novel its own copy of the term), or generate its wiki for this novel. Each row has a switch to turn that term off for the novel if it doesn't fit; excluded terms stay in the list, dimmed, and the Inclusion filter shows only the included or only the excluded ones. There's also an Include All switch to turn every general term off (or back on) for that novel at once. Switches you change are kept while you move between pages, sort or search, and Save Changes submits all of them together with one reason. Changing these switches is a glossary suggestion, so it needs the Reader membership or higher. Included terms are listed first, then excluded ones. A row says so when the novel uses its own term instead of the shared one, and tapping that row opens the novel's own term.
Editing a general term works differently depending on where you start the edit: from inside a novel, or from the general glossary itself. See Editing a general term.
Shared glossary genres#
A novel always uses the shared terms of its own genre. A story that mixes genres can use the shared terms of up to 3 more genres as well. On the novel's General tab, open Shared glossary (on a phone, the icon beside the search), add or remove genres, and give a reason.
- A moderator's change applies right away. Anyone else's is a suggestion, decided by a moderator, or RandomLord (Bot) if no moderator gets to it first; it needs the Reader membership or higher, and it uses one of your daily glossary suggestions.
- The extra genres apply to chapters translated from then on. Chapters already translated keep their text.
- The novel's own genre doesn't change, and neither do Browse and search.
- A fan-fiction uses its fandom's glossary instead, so it has no Shared glossary button.