Abstract worldbuilding concepts (magic systems, souls, metaphysics) can't be turned into clear diagrams — text notes and wikis have no way to visualize non-linear, layered lore

Summary

Worldbuilders can describe a magic system in prose but cannot show it. The cited creator is trying to diagram how a mage's soul both overlaps with and is separated from the body — a 3-to-4-dimensional relationship — and reports that 'any way I try drawing this out ends up being very confusing to look at,' while simultaneously needing to strip out wordiness without losing the important information. This is a distinct, unsolved gap from canon tracking: the struggle is not remembering facts, it is translating inherently non-linear, layered, multi-dimensional lore (magic systems, soul structures, planar relationships, metaphysical rules) into a visual model that a reader can grasp at a glance. Existing tools split the problem badly: wiki/note systems (Obsidian, World Anvil, Campfire) store text in linear pages and offer no conceptual visualization; generic diagram tools (draw.io, Miro, Canva) are blank canvases with no understanding of lore entities, so every diagram is hand-built, easily goes stale against the written canon, and is 'too wordy or boring to look at.' The creator also admits their own familiarity with the system makes them overlook unclear aspects — there is no tool that audits a lore explanation for gaps and unclear structure or generates a diagram directly from the canon. For a codex that must present heroes, factions, relics, and interconnected lore, the inability to render relationships visually is a high-friction, high-value hole that creators currently patch by hand.