Terms of Service

1. The agreement

LoreWind is an AI story engine operated by LoreWind Studios LLC. By creating an account or using the service, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use LoreWind.

2. Who may use LoreWind

You must be 18 years or older to use LoreWind. LoreWind is an AI RPG platform built around rich lore, character dialogue, living worlds, factions, choices, and game systems.

If we have reason to believe an account belongs to someone under 18, we may require an age check and pause the AI for that account. This is done for that person's safety, not as a penalty. AI is unpredictable, incredibly convincing, and capable of harm when used irresponsibly. During the 30-day window shown on the account, you can read and download your saved stories and timelines, use the existing refund process under the usual terms, and contact support. Pages not meant for anyone under 18 stay closed and are left out of the download while the hold stands. Passing the check lifts the hold. If the check has not passed by the deadline, the account and its stories will be deleted. A check required under this section never needs a paid plan. Right after the check, we ask our identity provider to delete your selfie and any identification document you showed, and we keep nothing from it but the result, the method used, the date, and a reference number.

Your account is personal. It belongs to one person: you. Do not share your password or sign-in links, and do not let anyone else play under your account, including members of your household. Your agreement to these terms applies to you alone.

We want to keep our limits generous, and our costs are modeled around one user per account who can play without feeling restricted, not multiple people using the same account who constantly reach those limits. The rule runs both ways: just as one account belongs to one person, one person keeps one account. Do not create additional accounts to re-take a free trial, re-earn a one-time offer, or step around a restriction. One-time offers, including the welcome discount, belong to the first account you make with us. LoreWind may issue a warning or close duplicate accounts at its discretion, with refunds under our refund policy in section 10. We understand that AI is expensive, and we are constantly looking for ways to lower costs so we can provide a better AI gaming experience to everyone. We ask that you be patient with us. LoreWind is not a large company and pays market prices for most of what we provide access to. Sharing an account or farming welcome discounts is in violation of these terms as either would reduce what we can offer to each user. If you want to save money, Lore Points are the honest way: they earn discounts on your renewal, and you can learn more about them on the pricing page. When you want to play with friends or family, use LoreWind's multiplayer: invite them to a shared story and everyone plays as their own character, each behind their own account and their own agreement to these terms. LoreWind may restrict or freeze shared accounts, which may be eligible for refunds under our refund policy in section 10.

3. Absolutely prohibited: content that sexualizes a minor, or depicts one in a sexual act

Content that sexualizes a minor, as defined below, or depicts a minor in a sexual act, is prohibited throughout LoreWind, including stories, worlds, characters, images, voices, video and anything you publish or share. This applies to fictional characters as well as real people. A world's customs or age of majority do not change this boundary, and calling a character who is physically portrayed as a child "eighteen or older" does not exempt them from this rule. To depict a sexual act means to show it, or to describe what the people involved physically do during it, in any medium; stating that it happened, without showing or describing it, is acknowledging a fact, as explained below.

A minor is anyone under eighteen. A character's age is determined by whichever is younger: the years they have lived or the age of their current body, assessed outside the fiction in normal human terms. A thousand-year-old being whose body looks ten is protected as a child, as is a child transformed into an adult body who retains the mental development of a child.

The only exceptions are beings created directly as adults, without ever having been children, and fictional beings that develop into adulthood at a different rate from humans. In either case, they must have reached both physical and mental development equivalent to adulthood, assessed outside the fiction in normal human terms. For example, a clone or alien that develops at twice the human rate may qualify as an adult despite having lived fewer than eighteen years, provided they have reached physical and mental development equivalent to that of a normal human aged eighteen or older, accounting for their species' rate of development.

A story may acknowledge a sexual fact, pregnancy, sexual abuse, crimes, threats, betrothals, or marriage customs as a fact of the world and its setting, or of a character's experience, including when a character involved is or was a minor. These facts must remain non-graphic and non-sexualized. For example, a medieval setting may set the age of majority at sixteen, and its nobility may betroth and marry young; your story is not forbidden from acknowledging such a fact, as is common in historical and fantasy fiction. A sacked city can result in war crimes committed against minors. A story may name what happened directly; it does not have to disguise its severity, add a moral judgment, or deny its existence. A sexual act involving a minor must never be depicted. The game master is instructed never to narrate such a scene, to treat it as the fact it is if it comes up, and to keep it entirely off the page. A request to describe such a scene graphically or in a sexualized manner is blocked and flagged when our automated checks detect it, as described below. Ordinary non-sexual romance, compliments, marriages, or discussions of them are not prohibited merely because they involve a young character. The context and treatment of the subject determine whether it is permitted as reasonable fictional storytelling. The politics and awkwardness of a betrothal, a first love or crush, or a hard fact stated plainly is reasonable fiction; using your story as an excuse to treat it as a dating simulator for roleplaying a grown adult who dates a minor, content written to linger sexually on a minor's body, or content written to make them an object of sexual desire to the reader, is not.

Explicit or eroticized sexual descriptions involving a minor, as defined above, are prohibited, whether they appear in narration, dialogue, thoughts, fantasies, recollections, statements about what might happen, audio, images, video, or anything else. This rule is purely additive and exists in addition to the fact that a minor may not be depicted in a sexual act.

LoreWind will block requests and tell you why when it automatically detects requests as falling into the category of "Content that sexualizes a minor, or depicts one in a sexual act," as we have described it in this section. Detection is automated and no automated system is perfect. A single block does not restrict the account by itself. Depending on the confidence of our safety system's automated assessment of a request, a block may result in a retained flag record, holding the flagged request. That flag counts only toward the repeated-attempt thresholds and any later consented review of whether a flag was a mistake or genuine. Repeated attempts to elicit such content after you have been warned are a violation and can freeze the account as section 11 describes. Where the law requires it, violations, such as those involving real minors, will be reported to the appropriate authorities.

4. General rules

• Content whose primary purpose is pornography or sexual gratification rather than genuine narrative development is forbidden.
• Content that sexualizes a real, identifiable person who is living, or who died less than one hundred years ago, without their consent, is forbidden.
• A story must never invent a sexual fact about a real person who is living or who died less than one hundred years ago, at any age in their life, without their express consent.
• LoreWind permits clearly fictional portrayals of historical people who died at least one hundred years ago, including romantic relationships, under the same rules as any fictional character. Invented dialogue, relationships, and events must be presented as fiction, not as verified facts about their lives. Pictures stay safe for work per section 5, and the protections for anyone portrayed under the age of eighteen per section 3 apply in full.
• Content that threatens, targets, or incites violence against a real, identifiable, living person, or that promotes hatred of real groups because of their race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability, is forbidden. Any image or video depiction of violence against a real person that may cause distress to that person or to others is also forbidden. This is not meant to prevent you from having legitimate violence, prejudice, or world building in your fantasy world; keep it in the story. If you are not clearly intending to incite violence against real groups, acting maliciously against a real person, or using real people in your images or your references, you will not be in violation of this rule.
• Uploading an image of a real person, yourself included, to use as an image reference for characters or scenes is forbidden. Reference images must depict fictional characters only. You must also not intentionally generate images of real people to such a degree that it would be difficult to distinguish them from the real person in question.
• Using the service to harass, threaten, or defraud others is forbidden.
• Uploading material you have no right to use, including voices for cloning, is forbidden.
• If you believe a world on LoreWind infringes your copyright through its lore, locations, characters, pictures, or voices, and would like the disputed material removed, write to [email protected] with a link to that world and details of the work you own. LoreWind may hide a reported world from the gallery while reviewing the report. The world's creator can respond by removing the disputed material or explaining why its use is permitted. If the issue is resolved because the disputed material has been removed or its use is lawful, and no other restriction applies, LoreWind will restore the world to the gallery. Accounts responsible for repeated copyright infringement may be frozen. You will be notified of the freeze and given thirty days from that notice to appeal by writing to [email protected] for a human review. Your account will not be closed while an appeal made within that period is under review. If you do not appeal within thirty days, or your appeal is denied, your account may be closed. We will give you at least seven days' notice before closing it, so you can download your work and take your refund first. While your account is frozen, you can still take the automatic refund under our refund policy and download your work.
• Publishing worlds to the gallery that violate any rule on this page is forbidden.
• Attempting to break, overload, reverse engineer, or get around the limits of the service is forbidden.
• Using your account as an AI service for something else is forbidden: connecting your own scripts, bots or apps to LoreWind to generate content, or letting another product run on your subscription. This restriction does not apply to LoreWind Studios' own companion apps, Chronicler of Kings among them, or any other app we expressly support (section 9). A screen reader or another tool that helps you use the site yourself is fine.
• Reselling, renting or sharing access to the service is forbidden. One account is one person (section 2). This does not change your rights to export, publish or sell your own original work under section 8.

5. Mature ratings, the NSFW tag, and age checks

LoreWind is not designed or offered for sexual gratification in text, audio, images, video, or any other form. Its purpose is to deliver narratively coherent and genre-authentic fictional worlds. Serious or adult subject matter may appear only when it is proportionate to and contextually justified by the ongoing story, and it must go no further than that story requires. During early access, this is a rule of user conduct. Automated enforcement may be introduced later if it becomes necessary at scale. The conduct rule in this paragraph does not apply to lawful stories or worlds that remain private and do not violate any of our other terms. Published worlds that violate this rule may be removed from the world gallery.

A creator-selected Mature rating describes non-explicit adult themes, such as strong violence, horror, trauma, crime, profanity, political or moral complexity, sensuality, and non-explicit adult romance. It is separate from the automatic NSFW tag. LoreWind applies the NSFW tag only when its safety screen detects sexually explicit content and the player confirms the transition. Tasteful romance, kissing, sensuality, and fade-to-black intimacy do not receive that tag. Every LoreWind user must be 18 or older regardless of a story's content rating or NSFW state.

Stories written for adults sometimes go to dark or serious adult territory. Adults deserve room to engage honestly with the worlds that fit their imagination, within the boundaries on this page. Continuing generation in an NSFW-tagged story and beginning an NSFW-tagged published world require independent age assurance. Until that check is done, the part of the story written after it became NSFW is closed; everything before that point stays open. In the gallery, NSFW-tagged worlds are hidden from guests and unverified accounts, and shown only after a verified player opts in from account settings. The hosted age check is provided by Didit. LoreWind retains only the verification result, method, date, and provider session reference. Didit returns its age estimate so that LoreWind can confirm the result; LoreWind does not retain the estimate, and does not store verification selfies or identity documents. Passing the check is permanent for the account. Starting a check requires an active paid plan on the account, except a check the under-18 hold in section 2 requires; a free trial does not qualify. A finished check may cost LoreWind a provider fee whether it passes or fails. That fee counts as part of what your account cost us in that subscription period, like anything else we pay for on your behalf; it never takes from your play allowance and is never billed to you separately. A check that has already been started may still be completed, and a verification already earned stays with the account whatever plan it carries afterwards. After each Didit check, approved or not, LoreWind tells Didit to delete the whole check: your selfie, your ID if you showed one, and the face data made from them. If Didit does not confirm the deletion, LoreWind keeps asking until it does. Didit is not allowed to use anything from your check to train its software. You may access NSFW-tagged material only where it is lawful for you.

In a solo story, when LoreWind's generation-bound input screen determines that a move would add the NSFW tag, LoreWind pauses before sending that move to the game master. Age verification establishes eligibility, but it is not consent. An already verified player is still shown what the change means for that timeline and asked whether to continue. Only affirmative confirmation applies the tag. Declining leaves the story untagged and returns the move for editing or withdrawal. Nothing has been sent to your game master, so this spends none of your Ink. The same no-Ink-use promise applies when the move is paused for age verification. Continuing means completing the age check, and starting a new check requires an active paid plan; an account that cannot start one leaves the move paused, and it is returned for editing or withdrawal with nothing spent.

Multiplayer stories, the stories you invite other players into so that each plays their own character, may carry a Mature rating, but they must remain non-explicit and cannot become NSFW-tagged. If generation-bound input screening detects a sexually explicit move in a multiplayer story, LoreWind rejects it before sending it to the game master or persisting or tagging it. Multiplayer stories have no NSFW consent, age-verification, or other opt-in path; the player must revise the move. Nothing has been sent to the game master, so the attempt spends none of the player's Ink. An NSFW-tagged story cannot be made multiplayer: no other player can be invited into it. This does not limit publishing: an NSFW-tagged world may still be published to the gallery, where it is shown only to verified players who opt in, as described above. If a story became NSFW-tagged partway through, its owner can fork an untagged timeline from a point before the NSFW boundary and invite other players to that fork; a story that is NSFW-tagged from its start, such as one begun from an NSFW-tagged world, has no such point and cannot be played in multiplayer.

In a solo timeline, once accepted, the NSFW tag records the last pre-NSFW point so the earlier portion can be forked separately. An NSFW-tagged timeline remains subject to age-assurance, model availability, multiplayer, and gallery restrictions. A published world inherits an existing tag from its source story.

Images are always safe for work, including in an NSFW-tagged text story. LoreWind does not offer sexually explicit image generation, and images do not enter or change a story's NSFW or age-verification state. Image prompts are checked against these rules before they are sent to the provider for the selected picture maker. A prompt is not sent for generation unless it passes the required checks. An image-prompt-only block does not count toward account-freeze thresholds. Video is not an open text-to-video tool: it may animate only an existing LoreWind SFW illustration.

Depiction of sexual acts as it is defined in section 3, involving consenting adult characters, may be part of a story only within the narrative limits above; a non-consensual act between adults may be acknowledged as a fact of the story but not depicted. Content whose primary purpose is pornography or sexual gratification is not permitted, and story context may not be used as a pretext for it. Your stories are yours to tell within these terms; the absolute prohibitions are in sections 3 and 4.

6. Your safety

An AI model is not a mental health counselor and should never be treated as one. If you are struggling, please talk to a real person or a crisis line where you live. I do not endorse any content generated by the AI models I provide, including directions to self-harm, sexually explicit content, or violent content, in any shape or form: what the game master writes is fiction, never advice, and never a direction to act.

If my automated systems detect signs of real self-harm or suicidal intent in a message, the message is not sent to the game master. Instead, I show you crisis resources, such as the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in the US and findahelpline.com elsewhere, and the message stays yours to edit or withdraw. This detection is fully automated: I do not manually monitor or read your messages, and your privacy is respected exactly as section 7 describes. It is about your well-being, not enforcement. A dated record of the flag is kept, without the text that triggered it. The flag does not count against your account, and it never blocks you from continuing to use the service. You can keep playing immediately. Dark themes written as fiction are part of the service and are not affected.

7. Enforcement and your privacy

Your personal stories are private: I do not routinely read them, and I will not conduct a policy review without your permission unless review or disclosure is required by law. LoreWind does not train AI models on your content, and wherever possible does not opt into having its providers use your content for model training. Third-party AI services process your content to generate what you asked for and to run the automated checks below. LoreWind uses automated checks to help enforce its content policies. You are responsible for following those policies, whether or not an automated check flags your content. No person is routinely looking over your shoulder while you play.

An account that repeatedly makes requests the screening blocks as sexual content involving a minor is frozen automatically: it can no longer generate anything, and it stays that way until you write to support and a person on staff has reviewed it and decided what happens next. Staff review begins with redacted flags. Revealing stored text requires your permission and a recorded reason unless review or disclosure is required by law, and every reveal permanently records who looked, when, and why. Human staff may unfreeze an account without erasing its flags, exonerate it by erasing the flags and lifting the freeze together, or impose a permanent ban after review if the flags accurately reflect attempts to violate section 3 of this document. A frozen account receives an informational seven-day appeal deadline. The end of that window never causes an automatic ban.

Reporting a bug sends what its dialog says it sends: the address of the page you were on, your account id and standing, your browser and time zone, a short technical log of what the app asked our server and what the server answered, anything you wrote in the box, and any screenshot you chose to attach. Nothing is sent until you press Send report. If you report from a story page, you are granting me permission to read the surrounding context of that story, nothing more. I do not use it to collect any information about you or your account that is irrelevant to the bug. I use the collected data to fix the bug you hit and improve the app, and it is deleted when your account is deleted. In the interest of efficiency and to address issues quicker, I may use Anthropic's Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex to help review your report, identify the cause of an issue, and propose fixes. These tools may process the information described above, including relevant story context you permit me to read. I do not opt into having your data used for model training by Anthropic or OpenAI.

8. Your worlds, your stories, and what you may do with them

You own the worlds you personally create from scratch in the world forge, and the stories you play in them, and you are free to do whatever you wish with them. This does not apply if you have taken material from another IP or another person's world without their permission. Export the original stories you create, publish them as your own work, adapt them, sell them. I claim no ownership of your original content, take no cut of anything you earn from it, and ask no permission before you take it anywhere else. You grant LoreWind only the license needed to run the service: storing your stories, generating continuations, and, when you choose to publish a world, showing it to other players. That world still belongs to you; you grant other players only the right to play in it and to export their own stories for their own use under the rules below.

A world belongs to whoever made it. When you play in a world another player published, or in a LoreWind Official world, the world itself, its setting, characters, lore, and names, remains the property of its creator, and LoreWind Official worlds, each of which is handwritten by me, are the property of LoreWind. The owner of that world, by publishing, has given you the right to play in the world, and you may keep and export the stories you create there for your own use, but you may not publish them, sell them, post them on competitor sites, adapt them into books or other works, or reuse the world's material outside of a LoreWind story created from the owner's world without the creator's permission. You may share the stories you create from worlds you did not make through free, non-commercial means such as personal blogs and forums, as long as you explicitly state that it is a LoreWind story created from another person's world and credit the creator of that world. Breaking these rules is a violation of these terms and may cost you your access to LoreWind; a refund may be granted for the remainder of your active subscription. Worlds are made with care and intention in LoreWind, so be kind to others.

9. AI-generated content

LoreWind's game master is powered by third-party AI models, the models a player chooses between. Their output is generated, not authored by a person, and may be inaccurate or unexpected. You are responsible for how you use what you generate.

Your requests are processed by third-party AI providers and remain subject to those providers' terms of service and acceptable-use policies. A request LoreWind permits may still be declined by the model that serves it.

Your subscription can also power an approved companion app, such as Chronicler of Kings, through LoreWind's companion API. You link the app from a signed-in LoreWind page and are shown what you are approving before it can spend anything; the same content rules, safety screening, and Ink metering apply to everything it generates. No other product may run on your subscription (section 4). A companion session runs outside any story timeline, so explicit output there is governed by your account's age verification rather than a per-story consent step, and the absolute prohibitions in sections 3 and 4 apply unchanged.

10. Subscriptions and refunds

LoreWind's plans and what they cost are listed on the pricing page, and that page is where you buy one. Payment is handled by Stripe. You enter your card in Stripe's secure payment fields, so LoreWind never receives your card number. What LoreWind keeps is Stripe's own reference for the card and what Stripe reports about the charge. The free week and the welcome discount on a first month are each offered once per account and once per card. LoreWind never sees your full card number. Stripe gives us a card reference, which we keep so the same card cannot claim the free week or the welcome price a second time. A phone or watch wallet can give Stripe a different reference for the same physical card, so the once-per-card check may treat it as a different card.

Subscriptions do not renew automatically unless you turn renewal on yourself: by default a plan simply ends when its month does, so there are never surprise charges. If you turn renewal on, LoreWind sends a reminder to your account email about three days before the renewal date, stating the plan and date. When the current period was discounted, the reminder names why and shows both what you paid and the next renewal price; otherwise it shows the renewal price we have on record for your plan. It also reminds you how to turn renewal off before it charges.

If you upgrade your plan mid-month, the unused value of your current plan, the same number the refund button shows, is automatically credited toward the upgrade, and the upgrade starts a fresh month at the new tier. Nothing you paid for evaporates when you climb.

I reserve the right to raise or lower rates as needed to maintain the sustainability of the company. A price change never touches the month you have already paid for, and it can never surprise you: renewal is opt-in, so a new price applies only to periods you choose to buy after the change. A later change to a plan's listed price does not change the base monthly price of an existing subscription. The reminder above reaches you about three days before each renewal, so you can turn renewal off before anything is charged. Price changes are posted on the announcements tab and emailed to you if you have subscribed to emails.

Leaving is a button, not an email thread. The account page shows your available refund before you confirm it. The refund is the lower of the amount you paid minus the cost of your usage, and the amount covering the time left in your paid month; it cannot be less than zero. A refund ends your access immediately and pauses resubscribing for ninety days. Write to [email protected] if you want that pause lifted. Turning renewal off instead blocks nothing and keeps your access until the period ends. Fraudulent payment abuse may result in proportionate account restrictions, but nothing in these terms limits any right provided by law, the card networks, or the payment processor.

11. Unsubscribing, leaving, freezes, and bans

Renewal is off unless you turn it on yourself, and the same switch on the account page turns it off again at any time. Your plan will end at the close of its paid period and your stories will remain readable for as long as the service exists. Turning renewal off is not the same as closing your account. You can request account deletion from the account page after exporting any story you want to keep. Current deletion removes the account and its story records, purges story media that no surviving story or published-world reference still uses, and deletes your custom voices at the voice provider. Records of AI-provider spending are kept in anonymized form, and if the account is frozen when deletion is requested, its enforcement flag records are retained for review.

A single section 3 block may record a flag but does not freeze the account by itself. Repeated flagged blocks in a given period freeze the account, and it can generate nothing until staff have reviewed it. Blocked requests are refused before they are added to a story. A freeze starts a review; it is not a final decision, because automated screening can be wrong.

A frozen user may write to [email protected]. The seven-day appeal window begins when the freeze is recorded and is informational, not an automatic countdown to a ban. If your account was frozen automatically, the seven-day appeal window begins when staff record the reason for the freeze and you are sent that notice. A human review of private flagged text requires your permission and a recorded staff reason unless otherwise required by law, and every reveal permanently records the reviewer. Staff may lift the freeze while retaining its flags, exonerate the account by wiping its flags and lifting the freeze, or make a separate human decision to ban it permanently. A ban removes access but deletes nothing, and lifting one is a separate staff action.

Questions or appeals may be sent to [email protected].

12. The service, as is

LoreWind is early-access software from a solo developer, provided as is, without warranties. To the fullest extent permitted by law, LoreWind Studios LLC is not liable for indirect or consequential damages arising from your use of the service.

The downloadable Windows and Android apps offered on this site are windows onto the same live service: everything on this page applies inside them exactly as it does in the browser. During early access these builds are not distributed through the app stores, so your device may warn you before installing. They are not malware; download them only from lorewind.app. If you would rather not dismiss that warning, use the website as normal until the app store listings are ready. The website works fine on a phone or a desktop.

13. Changes

These terms will change as LoreWind grows, and the date above will change with them. Material changes will be announced in the app. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept it.

Contact

Questions, appeals, and reports: [email protected].