A spoiler-free wiki for while you're still reading the book.

Hi! I'm Matt, and I just started building Thulr. I've always loved reading and listening to fantasy and sci-fi novels since I was in primary school. Back in the day, I could completely immerse myself in those worlds. Before Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix came out, I reread books 1–4 and then devoured book 5 in one or two sleepless nights.

Nowadays, I've got a bit less time on my hands. I'm still on my first listen-through of the Wheel of Time series, and often there are a couple of months between books. I also have a much harder time remembering names and concepts when listening to audiobooks instead of reading them. Time and again I wonder “Who was Naean Arawn again, and why do we care about her?” while reading Winter's Heart, or “What was Liam's signet again?” or “How does Threshing work?” in the middle of Fourth Wing.

I don't know about you, but I've been burned badly typing those kinds of questions into Google. I love fandom.com (well, parts of it, anyway, I guess), and all the other wikis out there. But when you're reading book 1 of a 14-book series and the wiki tells you in the very first sentence that X will Y in book 14, that's seriously no fun. (I intentionally didn't give a real example for X and Y because that's kind of the point.)

Don't get me wrong: a huge thanks to everyone out there maintaining those wikis. They are super interesting and a ton of fun to read once you've finished the books. But while you're still reading, they're just really badreading companions. That's what Thulr is supposed to fix.

The idea of Thulr is simple: a spoiler-free lookup companion for while you're reading the series, not after. Pick any major concept or character in a series and get all the important info up to your current reading location. Not more (I don't need to know everythingthat's ever been said), but also not less.

After setting your current book and chapter, Thulr will hide anything beyond your current horizon:

• any secrets so far
• any identities not yet revealed (imagine googling Tom Riddle on your first read-through of Chamber of Secrets...)
• any deaths
• betrayals and faction changes
• how prophecies are being fulfilled
• any new characters that haven't been introduced yet
• romantic outcomes

I've tried hard to make this work at all levels: within each article, on overview pages, in each link and alias reveal, and even in the text snippets shown on Google search. If you still find spoilers, pleaselet me know. You're helping everyone who visits the website.

Thulr is not a fan wiki, at least not in the traditional sense. The texts are not complete, and I won't include every little detail or theory. The prose is not perfect at all times. If a character is introduced without a name in chapter three, and their name is only revealed two chapters later, I still want to write about them beforehand. Every article gets incrementally revealed, so a chapter-3 paragraph stays in the article as you keep reading, and some paragraphs revealed in book 1 may read awkwardly when you're in book 4. That's a trade-off I'm currently trying to sort out, and there may be rewrites of existing articles as I find better solutions. Please bear with me.

I'm doing this all by myself. This is not the work of a company, and there's zero funding behind it, so everything is a bit less polished than it would be if this were my full-time job.

Also note that Thulr is not affiliated with any author, publisher, or rights holder of the works it covers. Series names and characters belong to their creators.

When I first had the idea, I thought this would be an easy little side project. As it turns out, it's a lot more work than I expected, and I'm still figuring out a lot of things. Expect rough edges.

Building a spoiler-safe character and concept lookup page requires a ton of reading, and it needs to stay as close to the source material as possible. I'm not scraping public wikis, and I'm not stealing material from anyone else. Since I want to cover many books and keep them as complete as possible, I rely on some AI and text-processing automations, both for aggregating information about each character and for writing the articles themselves. But nothing reaches a public page automatically. There's still a ton of editing, review, and manual back-and-forth. I wish I could do all of the work manually, but then this project would never see the light of day. I hope you can live with that compromise. If you've got ideas for improvements, especially around article language, let me know.

On a related note: I only just released this website. Everything is a work in progress, and I might screw up here and there. If you find a problem, a mistake, or—God forbid—an accidental spoiler, please let me know, and I will fix it as quickly as possible. You can always reach me at hello@thulr.co.