Terms you’ll see

Term	Meaning
World	A fictional setting with its own calendar, weather, and feeds
Roleplay date	The current date inside the story
Day number	A position in the world’s timeline, not a day of the month
Feed	A connection from a world to a Discord destination
Posting time	The real-world local time used by the schedule
Advancement interval	How often the scheduled calendar advancement happens
Climate	The weather setting used for a world or region
Region	A location within a world with its own weather context. A feed can follow one region, so each region’s channel gets its own forecast
Weather tone	How eventful a world’s weather is: Realistic (Free), Dramatic or Supernatural (Plus)
Weather event	A rare headline such as a heatwave, blizzard, arcane tempest, or sunless day
Condition lock	Holds one weather condition across a run of roleplay days, for a whole world or, on Plus, a single region or with no end date
Custom hazard	A rare weather event you invent for a world, with your own wording and chance per day. Atlas
Forecast preview	A read-only look at the next days with unsaved seasons or hazards. Nothing is stored. Atlas
World pack	A downloadable file of a server’s regions, seasons, and custom hazards that another server can import. Importing is Atlas
Blood Moon	A rare full moon announced in moon bulletins. Plus, and off until enabled for a world
Canonical weather	The saved weather used when that roleplay day is viewed again
Shard	A Discord gateway connection responsible for a group of servers
Heartbeat	A recent report from a running gateway process
Entitlement	The plan and access currently assigned to a Discord server

Start with your first world if these terms are new.