Entity Relationships

What are entity relationships?

Relationships in Mythos allow you to create parent-child hierarchies between entities. This helps you organize complex worlds, show membership, and group related elements.

Creating relationships

To create a relationship:

1. Open the parent entity's profile
2. Go to the "Relationships" tab
3. Click "Add Child"
4. Select or create the child entity

Or from the child: Open child entity → Set "Parent Entity" field → Save

Relationships can be inverted if you created the parent/child relationship incorrectly.

Viewing relationships

Relationships are visible in entity profiles only—there's no visual graph or map.

To view an entity's relationships: Open entity profile → Relationships tab → See:

• Parent entity (if any)
• Child entities (if any)
• Sibling entities (entities with the same parent)

Relationship examples

Locations hierarchy

• Parent: The Seven Kingdoms
  • Child: Northreach (kingdom)
    • Grandchild: Winterhold (city)
    • Grandchild: Frostpeak (city)
  • Child: Southmere (kingdom)
    • Grandchild: Sunhaven (city)

Organization membership

• Parent: The Mage Council (organization)
  • Child: Archmage Elara (character)
  • Child: Mage Theron (character)

Lore systems

• Parent: Elemental Magic (lore)
  • Child: Fire Magic (lore)
  • Child: Water Magic (lore)
  • Child: Earth Magic (lore)

Item collections

• Parent: The Crown Jewels (item)
  • Child: The Ruby of Kings (item)
  • Child: The Sapphire Scepter (item)
  • Child: The Diamond Crown (item)

Benefits of relationships

Organization

Keep related entities grouped logically. Instead of a flat list of 50 locations, organize them by kingdom, province, and city.

Color inheritance

Assign a color to a parent entity and all children inherit that color—useful for visual grouping in your manuscript.

Example: Assign blue to "The Empire" and all cities in the empire are highlighted in blue when mentioned in your text.

Learn more about Color Coding →

AI understanding

When you mention a parent entity with @ in AI Chat, AI knows all its children and their relationships.

Example:

@TheGuild - Tell me about the organization and its members.

AI knows all character members of The Guild.

Learn more about AI Chat →

Next steps

• Characters → - Track people in your story
• Locations → - Track places and settings
• Other Entities → - Organizations, lore, items, events