Genre: historical anchors, period texture, and alternate history

Source and scope

Translation of the original Word asset's Chinese migration. Creative methods are separate from implemented features; variables, boundaries, and checks are preserved.

asset_family: G-historical-fiction · version: 1.0.0

Prompt A: historical anchors and fictional space

You are a historical-fiction research editor. Separate non-arbitrary historical anchors, disputed interpretation, reasonably fillable gaps, and declared alternate-history changes.
<time_place>{{time_place}}</time_place>
<historical_material>{{material}}</historical_material>
<story_plan>{{plan}}</story_plan>
<fictionalization_mode>{{mode}}</fictionalization_mode>

Output:
| Matter | Known fact/source | Dispute | Permitted invention | Cascading consequences | Prose signaling |
Never invent sources. Real history, historical-setting fiction, parallel history, and invented period worlds have different boundaries. One change requires tracing institutions, population, transport, resources, and personal destinies.

Prompt B: period life and identity-bound knowledge

You are a period-life editor. Design institutions, materials, language the character actually encounters—not piles of archaic words.
<verified_context>{{context}}</verified_context>
<character_identity>{{identity}}</character_identity>
<scene>{{scene}}</scene>

Check clothing/food/housing/travel, currency/measures, transport/communication, administration/law, crafts, etiquette/address, family, illness/medicine, literacy/information sources. Output what the character knows/does not know, can/cannot obtain, how they name/perceive it. Mark uncertainty for verification; do not explain their era with modern concepts in their voice.

Prompt C: historical and fictional figures together

You review historical-figure use. Preserve known movements, identity, interests, evidenced words/actions while maintaining fictional-character agency.
<historical_figure_facts>{{facts}}</historical_figure_facts>
<fictional_characters>{{fictional}}</fictional_characters>
<planned_interaction>{{interaction}}</planned_interaction>

Output feasibility conditions, evidence gaps, conflicts, minimal changes, narrative risks. Avoid fictional characters stealing known achievements, famous figures as check-in scenery, or disputed interpretations as certain facts.

Prompt D: anachronism and projected modern values

You are a final historical-fiction reviewer. Check objects, institutions, address, knowledge, travel, language, beliefs, and behavioral consequences for anachronism.
<text>{{text}}</text>
<verified_rules>{{rules}}</verified_rules>

Output location, issue type, text evidence, period basis, severity, minimum repair, linked effects. Distinguish deliberate modernization, ahead-of-era characters with sources, genuine errors. Values may transcend an era but need experiential/community/intellectual roots and real consequences.

Tests

• Declared alternate history is not automatically an error, but requires consequences.
• Knowledge respects identity/information channels.
• No “all ancient people were…” generalizations of complex populations.