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LoreQuest

Kids ages 10-14 write branching stories inside an RPG world

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Meet your mentor

Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, praises, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.

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LoreQuest is a creative writing RPG where YOU are the storyteller! Write branching stories inside a fantasy world, and other players can play through your adventures. You will learn how to craft characters, build plots, and write vivid descriptions while the AI gives you helpful feedback. Every writ

Distributed-narrative cast

Meet the cast

LoreQuest sits in the **word-woods zone** of AdventureHub alongside QuillSpell + GrammarForge — both already shipping distributed-narrative casts (Wave 1).

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Mossy

Forest / nature-spirit archetype (the quiet local-landscape entity who appears across many traditions — wood-elves, dryads, kami of place, etc., abstractly)

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Refrain

Repeating-tale / echo motif archetype (motif recurrence — same story-pattern appearing across cultures: flood myth, hero descent to underworld, twin gods, etc.)

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Thread

Hero-journey / fate-spinner archetype (the spinning thread of destiny that recurs across heroic narratives — Moirai, Norns, Anansi-as-spider, etc., abstractly)

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Ruse

Clever-fool / trickster archetype (the figure who breaks the rules and teaches a lesson by doing so — recurs across MANY traditions, but referenced **abstractly** here; the cast...

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Hearth

Origin / family / hearth-storyteller archetype (the figure who carries oral tradition; the grandmother / elder who tells the stories — found in nearly every tradition's framing...

What's distributed-narrative methodology? →

What's inside

Story Writing

Write your own branching stories using the story graph editor. Create scenes, write dialogue, and add choices that lead to different paths. Your story becomes a

Quest Adventures

Play through stories written by others or tackle writing quests from NPC characters. Each quest teaches a different writing skill -- dialogue, descriptions, plo

Writing Evaluation

The AI mentor reads your writing and gives feedback on vocabulary, sentence structure, creativity, and grammar. It asks helpful questions like "How could you ma

Story Library

Browse and play through stories created by the community. Rate your favorites and get inspired by what other Loremasters have created.

Mentored by Plot — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.

How LoreQuest handles your kid's data

  • ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
  • ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
  • ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
  • ✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
  • ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in

Full parent privacy guide →

Built with ForgeKit

LoreQuest runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.

Coming to the App Store

LoreQuest is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.

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