# Cast

> How the cast works in Author: characters, places, objects, weather and organisations, their roles, and how the state of a character is worked out.

Source: https://plotaloo.com/docs/cast-and-profiles/

The **cast** of a book is the characters, places, objects, weather and organisations the story uses.

## Making a cast member

Make a character, place, object, weather or organisation directly in Author. It belongs to your workspace and you describe it once, then use it in every book.

## Roles

A cast entry can have a role: protagonist, antagonist, supporting, minor, narrator, setting, object, weather or organisation, and a note.

## Facts and story

Facts about a person (their birth date, their occupation) live on the cast entry. What happens to them in the story lives in Author as events. The state of a character at a moment is the entry plus the events up to then. See [Events and state](/docs/events-and-state/).