Fable Lore & FAQs
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Story Role Icons
Fable decodes your narrative into a "story grammar", represented by story roles.
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Protagonist: Your role, the hero in your own story. Usually referred to as "I" or "me." |
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Helper: Person or thing that aids you in your story. Benefactor. Assistant. |
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Helped: Person or thing that receives assistance. Beneficiary. |
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Adversary: Person or thing that challenges you. Opponent. Obstacle. |
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Mission: The goal or objective of your narrative. |
World Icons
Fable learns your world as you go along by classifying each significant thing you mention into different types.
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People: Includes humans and other beings that serve as companions. |
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Groups: Encompasses organizations, groups, companies, and assemblies, such as a school. |
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Ideas: Incorporeal creations of the mind, concepts or theories, such as physics. |
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Nature: Elements in nature, like trees. |
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Artifacts: Human-made creations, including machines, tools, and cultural objects, for example, computers. |
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Events: Occurrences in time, such as Christmas or a weekend. |
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Places: Locations and landmarks, like Chicago.. |
Soul Shards and the Soul Ledger
The Soul Ledger tracks the amount of Heart, Courage, and Shadow generated by what you write about. Soul Shards measure your reconciliation with your Shadow, which is the ultimate good in Fable.
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Love: Increases when you help others or receive help. It grows more significantly when this interaction involves a former adversary. |
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Courage: Strengthens when you offer help, especially to those who were once adversaries. |
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Shadow: Expands in the presence of adversaries. It diminishes when you either help your adversaries or receive help from them (which also earns Soul Shards). |
Prophecies
Engage with real-life choose-your-own-adventure scenarios through Prophecies. These are foresights into potential narratives revealed about an hour after journaling. Use them to help steer your life.
Epics
Epics are the narrative themes emerging from your journal. Epics adapt and evolve with each new journal entry and create the threads woven by Prophecies and Missions.
Character Decks
Each Character represents a positive archetypal role in a domain of society, with a unique combination of traits. Fable creates Missions by blending your Epics and World to synchronize the Character Deck with the Traits you need. Rate characters to influence this process.
Missions
New mission themes are suggested frequently. Fable's default mission mode merges a fantasy theme from myth and folklore with your Epics, your World, and desired Character traits to inspire you to heroism.
Sharing
Fable gives you control over what is shared. For journal entries, you can share the illustration, the illustration + Hero's Path commentary (never the journal entry itself), and you can save the illustration to your device. For missions, you can share the mission illustration, a summary of the mission, a summary + invite to the mission or save the mission illustration to your device.
Fable Score
The Fable Personal Development Score (Fable Score) is available after 10 journal entries and serves as a quantifiable indicator of your advancement in personal development with Fable. It is derived from a combination of several elements: the average quantities of Heart, Courage, and Shadow manifested in your journal entries, alongside Soul Shards and your degree of synchronization with Characters. Mathematically, it is represented as: (Heart×Courage÷Shadow)×Soul Shards×Character Synchronization. A higher Fable Score signifies that you are making strides in integrating your Shadow, and enhancing your capacity for love and courage across life's various aspects. The ultimate objective of Fable is for you to evolve into a Universal Hero of Humankind, a goal that is reflected in your Fable Score.
- Heart: Represents the average amount of love expressed in your journal entries. Heart serves as the foundational metric, signifying the capacity for empathy, understanding, and positive emotional expression.
- Courage: Denotes the average amount of help and support you've offered, as recorded in your journal entries. Courage acts as a multiplier of Heart, suggesting that acts of help and bravery amplify the impact of love. This reflects the idea that courage enables individuals to act on their compassion and love, making it a force multiplier in personal development.
- Shadow: The average amount of hate or negativity expressed in your journal entries. Shadow is used as a divisor in the FPDI formula, indicating that higher expressions of negativity reduce the overall index. This component underscores the importance of recognizing and managing negative emotions and behaviors as part of personal growth.
- Soul Shards: Represents the conversion of negative emotions or hate back into love and courage, averaged per journal entry. This component highlights the transformative aspect of personal development, where negative experiences and emotions are not merely suppressed but are actively turned into forces for positive change and growth. (The Soul Shards metaphor pictures the soul as an infinite whole fragmented into shadow that is made whole through Self-Other overcoming.)
- Character Synchronization: Measures how well you have demonstrated the abilities required to earn a set of 79 character cards that represent all positive archetypal roles in society. This component of the FPDS emphasizes the importance of embodying a wide range of positive traits and roles, reflecting a holistic approach to personal development where growth is seen not just in overcoming personal challenges but also in contributing positively to society.
Fable personal development system is a sophisticated and deeply meaningful framework for personal development, grounded in a rich tapestry of psychological insight and philosophical wisdom. It's a unique approach that not only measures growth but actively fosters it, offering users a clear path toward becoming their best selves.
Exporting Your Journal
To authenticate your request and receive a temporary secure link for downloading a secure zip file containing the contents of your journal, please send an email detailing your request to [email protected].
Contact Fable
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