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🧾 What is Paragraph?

Paragraph is the custom content language of Seven Spells of Destruction. It is a structured, tag-based format used to define every location, encounter, and narrative branch in the game.

The name “Paragraph” reflects its dual purpose:

• It is a paragraph of prose, forming the narrative foundation of each game moment.
• It is also a combination of para and graph:
  • Para, from Greek, means “beside”, “beyond”, or “adjacent to”, suggesting that the logic exists alongside the prose.
  • Graph refers to the underlying structure of the world, a network of connected locations, conditions, and choices.

Each Paragraph is therefore a unit of both narrative and logic, blending prose with branching conditions, stat changes, and links to other parts of the world.

This design allows writers to create reactive, conditionally branching content without needing to write code. Developers can still extend the system using embedded JavaScript and persistent state logic.

✍️ Designed for Scale and Safety

Paragraph is built for:

• Large-scale games, with thousands of locations
• Multiplayer-aware logic, with support for both global and per-player state
• Safe editing workflows, using a real-time linter to catch mistakes
• Hybrid prose and logic authorship, where interactive elements are embedded directly into narrative text

It is not intended as a general-purpose programming language. Instead, it is designed for building a reactive world with structured branching and tightly integrated story logic.

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