Methodology

How to build a fan lore site without lying about it.

The Core Rule

Kaia Emberfall is a fictional character from the Vizlings app, and the app says almost nothing about her — the card reads "fire girl", full stop. This site is an exercise in honest invention: building a rich fan world around two words while never letting anyone mistake the invention for canon or fact.

The Honesty Rules

1. Canon is quoted verbatim. The app card text "fire girl" appears in quotes, attributed, on the Meet the Character page. Nothing else claims to be from the app.
2. Invention is labeled. Every page of worldbuilding carries a "Fictional character lore" banner. Made-up dialogue is footnoted as "fictional dialogue written for this site." Fan theories are labeled speculation.
3. Gaps are placeholders, not inventions. The owner bio is missing, so the page says "coming soon" — it does not invent a bio and hope nobody notices.
4. Art is labeled. Every image is AI-generated dramatization art, captioned and alt-texted as such, with prompt summaries in the image credits on this page. No real people are depicted; nothing is presented as a photograph.
5. The stream is a mockup. The stream page embeds an owner-supplied temporary placeholder video and says "mockup, not live" wherever the player appears.
6. Roster names are borrowed, relationships are invented. Fellow Elementria characters (Soren Frost, Coral Splash, etc.) come from the app roster; everything about their dynamic with Kaia is this site's fiction.

Build Notes

• Static HTML, no build dependencies at runtime; one shared CSS design system (wildfire theme) with light/dark toggle.
• Content authored 2026-09-26 as editorial markdown-style sources in editorial/; this build script renders the final HTML.
• QA: every route returns 200, exactly one h1 per page, all images have alt text and exist, all internal links resolve, no placeholder text, sitemap and canonicals verified.

The receipts: sources · The character: meet Kaia