Field Guide: Canto

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beta 0.5.0 Canto
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Before you start9 things to know about this beta

Thank you for testing Canto. It lets your pack’s own lore show up on Wolvden: your words, your bloodlines, your calendar and the names you’ve saved for pups. You write it once in a lore file, or build it inside Canto, and it appears on the pages you already use.

This guide shows you what to look for, what to watch out for, and what’s changed. Nothing here can affect your account: Canto only reads the page you have open.

What you’ll see

Six things Canto puts on screen, shown with the made-up Hollowmere pack from the sample file.

Your words hover or tap

The Shallows go still around him, and the pack goes quiet.

ShallowsSHAL-ohz · place
The still water below the falls, where the pack’s young learn to fish.
Any word in your file gets a soft underline on your den and your own wolves. Its card says what it means.
A wolf’s card under Twill’s Lore
Bloodline
EmberfallHollow + Ashen
Role
Storykeeperchange
Born
late Ashfall, Year 4 loreWolvden says autumn
Set a wolf’s line, role and lore birth right on its page. Hover a family to see the two lines it came from.
Your den Show: Hollow
HollowAshenBriarEmberfall
FernAspenRookWrenSky
Each wolf glows in its line’s colour, families in both. Tap a line to light just that bloodline.
A new family on a pup’s Family page
Briar × Ashennever met before
Name the family they make
ThornmereName this family
When a pup’s parents come from two lines that haven’t met, you get to name what they make.
Calendar your own seasons
Coming
the Ember Walkin 18 days
First Frost Howlin 20 days
Name your seasons, add events that happen every year or once, and see what’s next at a glance.
Names waiting beside the rename box
New Puppy
BrambleRookWrentap to copy
Given
Fernundo
Save names for future pups. Canto offers them here and crosses one off once a wolf wears it.

Release notes

Newest at the top. Tap a label to show or hide it. Found a problem or have an idea? Post it in #beta-test, under the Twill category on the Society of Fur Discord.

0.5.09 November 2026the latest version
  • New
    Pack coloursGive Canto your pack’s own colours: Ember, Sea, Moss, Ash, Snow, Sky or Sun, a colour taken from one of your lines, or your own. Each has its own “?” colour. Pick one at the bottom of Files; it’s saved in your lore file.
  • New
    Sub-linesA bloodline can now have smaller branches, up to three levels: Moonless › Silver › Frost. Set “Part of” on a line. Sub-line wolves count in the lines above, and picking a line on your den lights up its sub-lines too.
  • New
    Sub-lines on your denChoose how sub-line wolves show under Den look: nested rings, a fade down the ring, stripes, their own colour with a small tag, or the parent’s ring with dots.
  • Updated
    Stripe, under the pictureThe Stripe den look now sits just below each wolf’s picture instead of over it, so dark or leafy pictures can’t hide it. It follows Thickness and Brightness.
0.4.08 November 2026
  • New
    Linked words in TalesWords from your Language, your wolves and your lines are dotted in your tales as you read them. Hover one, or tap it on a phone, to see its card. Choose what links under your Tales folders.
  • Updated
    Sorting namesSaved names can be for she, he or any, for a season, a role or a coat. Sort them by any of these, and a pup’s card offers its best fits first.
  • Updated
    Your own word groupsOnce three words share a kind Canto doesn’t know, like “mystery”, Other offers them a group of their own, next to Nouns and Verbs.
  • Updated
    Reordering talesMove your own pages and folders into the order you like: drag them by the ⋮⋮ on a computer, or press reorder and use the arrows.
  • Updated
    New hintsDid you know? has new hints for the calendar and Tales, and the Calendar checklist has a step for wolf days.
0.3.08 November 2026
  • New
    Wolf daysKeep the days that matter in a wolf’s life: a first litter, a new role, a scar. Add them on the wolf’s Canto card, once or every year, and they show on the calendar wheel and in the next 10 days.
  • Updated
    Birthdays on the calendarYour living wolves’ lore births now appear as birthdays under Important dates, on the wheel in pink, and in the next 10 days with the age they turn. No typing them twice.
  • Updated
    From your wolvesImportant dates gains its own list of birthdays and wolf days, kept apart from the dates you typed. Either can be switched off there.
0.2.027 October 2026
  • New
    Your Pack DynastyCanto now remembers your wolves who have died. Open your Pack Dynasty (the card at the top of your den) and Canto reads who died, and when.
  • New
    A card for the rememberedA dead wolf’s own Dynasty page shows its Canto card: its line, role and lore birth, and its death in your pack’s own seasons and years. You can still change any of it.
  • New
    Lines in the DynastyBoth Dynasty lists gain a Line column. A small “?” means Canto matched the wolf by name; open its page once and Canto is sure.
  • New
    Deaths on the calendarYour pack’s deaths appear under Important dates, and each one is remembered on its anniversary in the next 10 days. Both can be switched off there.
  • New
    Lines that live onWolves who have died keep their line: counts read “12 wolves · 3 remembered”, and they follow the living in Wolves by line, in lilac with a small star.
6 fixes since 0.2.0 came out
  • 0.2.0.1
    Canto starting upA pack kept from an older version, with a line that had no colour of its own, could stop Canto from starting at all. It opens as it should now.
  • 0.2.0.1
    Wolves with no lineA wolf with a role or a birth but no bloodline came back from your saved file in a line called “no line”. It’s read as no line now, and wolves this already happened to are mended.
  • 0.2.0.1
    Meanings on more than one lineA word’s meaning typed over several lines broke your Language section when you saved, splitting it into extra words. Line breaks now become spaces, so each word stays whole.
  • 0.2.0.1
    The living and the rememberedA living wolf who shared a name with one who had died could be shown as remembered. Canto now matches by name only until it knows the dead wolf’s own number, and only when just one of your wolves has that name.
  • 0.2.0.1
    Short coloursA colour written short in your file, like #fff, turned black when you opened its line and saved, and gave no glow on your den. Short colours are read in full now.
  • 0.2.0.2
    Calendar walkthroughOnce your calendar was set up, its walkthrough in Help & About was greyed out. It now walks you round the Overview: the wheel, the next 10 days, and where your event groups live.
0.1.926 October 2026
  • Updated
    Sections in partsEach part of Canto now opens on its own short list. The row along the top hops between its parts, and ‹ goes back up a level.
  • Updated
    Language by kindYour words are grouped by their Kind: nouns, verbs, describing words, places, names and titles, sayings, songs, and anything else. Adding a word inside a group gives it that kind.
  • Updated
    Bloodlines in four partsLines & families (with outside studs, the Tray and wolves by line), Roles (now showing who holds each), Names, and Den look.
  • New
    Folders for your TalesMake your own folders, like History, Places or Legends, and file pages into them. Bloodline pages have a folder of their own, made for you.
  • New
    Events by typeGive each event a type: festival, holiday, alliance, war or battle, birth, death or anniversary. The calendar’s Overview shows the wheel and everything in the next 10 days, each tagged.
1 fix since 0.1.9 came out
  • 0.1.9.1
    Version numbers like Twill’sNew features move the middle number, updates the last, and small fixes like this one get a hidden fourth that you won’t see. They’ll be listed here, under the version they fix.
0.1.825 October 2026
  • New
    Getting startedEach part of Canto now has a short checklist that walks you through it. Steps tick themselves off as you do them. Finished ones fold into Getting started under the “?”, where you can open them again any time.
  • New
    Did you know?A short tip at the top of each section, a different one each visit. Close one, or switch them all off under the “?”.
  • New
    WalkthroughsThe first time you open Canto, set up the calendar, make a line, write a tale or see your lines on your den, a few bubbles show you around. Skip any of them, or run them again under the “?”.
0.1.725 October 2026
  • Updated
    A new way around CantoCanto now opens on a list of its sections, each with a line saying what’s inside, like Twill’s hub. Step into one, hop to another from the row along the top, and ‹ takes you back. Canto remembers where you were.
  • Updated
    Help is one tap awayHelp & About moved to the blue “?” beside the ×, on every screen. Tap it again to go back to where you were.
  • Fixed
    Tabs cut off at the topOn some screens the tabs at the top of Canto were clipped. They’re gone now, replaced by the new list, and Canto is a little wider so everything fits.
  • Fixed
    Links on custom densOn dens with a custom layout, Canto’s link buttons picked up the den’s own link style. They keep Canto’s look now.
0.1.624 October 2026
  • Fixed
    The calendar on ExploreOn Wolvden’s Explore page, the calendar wheel picked up the Explore map as its background. It stays clean now.
0.1.524 October 2026
  • New
    TalesA place to write your pack’s lore, with bold, italic, headings, lists and pictures. “The pack” comes first, then a page for every bloodline and family, and you can add your own. Find it in the new Tales tab, or in the Tales box at the top of your den.
  • New
    Need a nudge?Starting from nothing? Tap “nudge” for questions about your pack’s land, hunting, leaders, beliefs, history and more. Each bloodline page gets its own questions too.
  • New
    ProjectsA line can now be a bloodline, a breeding project, or both. A wolf keeps one bloodline and can be in as many projects as you like. The Show bar can switch between bloodlines and projects.
  • New
    Use your Twill TrayPut wolves in Twill’s Tray, then give them all a line or a project at once from the Bloodlines tab. Wolves that already have a line are asked about first.
  • New
    Wolves by lineThe Bloodlines tab lists every wolf under its line, family or project. On your den, it also shows which wolves aren’t in a line yet.
  • Updated
    Easier first stepsA short note on the Bloodlines tab shows how to give a wolf a line. Den look now says what it does.
  • Fixed
    Changing a line’s kindTurning a bloodline into a project now moves its wolves into the project, and the other way round, so nobody is left half in.
  • Fixed
    Removing a lineRemoving a line or family now asks first if any wolves have it, and takes it off them too.
  • Updated
    Colours you can seePicking a very dark or very pale colour for a line now warns you it may vanish on Wolvden’s dark or light mode, and offers a better shade.
0.1.423 October 2026
  • New
    Den lookPick how lines show on your den: Glow, Soft, Thin edge, Name bar, Stripe, Corner, Corner tabs, Corner brackets, Badge or Off. With Corner tabs and Corner brackets, each colour sits in its own corner of the card. Sliders set the thickness, glow and brightness, and you can choose the dot beside a line’s name. Find it at the bottom of the Bloodlines tab. It’s kept in your browser, not your lore file.
  • New
    Outside studsBorrowed a stud from another player? Add him on the Bloodlines tab with his line and wolf ID. His pups then show both parents’ lines, with a small “outside” tag on him.
  • New
    Quiet denTurn on “Only show lines while one is picked” and your den stays plain until you pick a line in the Show bar.
  • Updated
    Every side of a familyFamilies made from other families now show up to four colours. Each parent takes half the ring, and a parent that’s a family shares its half between its own two lines. So Emberfall (Hollow × Ashen) with Thornmere (Briar × Reed) shows all four.
  • New
    The whole tree on hoverHover or tap a family made from families to see each parent and the lines it came from.
  • Updated
    A lighter fadePicking a line in the Show bar now fades the other wolves a little instead of turning them grey. It’s much lighter on phones and older computers, and you can set how much they fade.
  • Updated
    Your own wolves onlyCanto’s card now shows on your own wolves only. Other players’ wolves are left alone; use Outside studs for the ones you breed with.
  • Updated
    Starting the calendar overYour season names are kept and shown in step 3, so you can change them, or go back to Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter with one link.
0.1.323 October 2026
  • New
    Help & AboutA new tab in Canto. Report a problem, ask a question or suggest an idea: each opens the form on this page, already filled in with Canto, your version and the page you were on. Plus links to learn more, and everything about Canto, like Twill’s About.
0.1.222 October 2026
  • Fixed
    One mark per eventThe calendar wheel showed two dots for an event set to early, mid or late in a season, and six for a whole season. Now each event is a single mark: a dot for one day, a band across the days it covers for anything longer. Events that overlap sit side by side so neither hides the other.
0.1.122 October 2026
  • New
    Canto updates itselfCanto now has its own home, so new versions arrive on their own, just like Twill. Install this one once from the install link and you’re set.
  • New
    Tell us from the pageA form at the bottom of this guide sends problems, ideas and questions straight to the team. No Discord account needed.
0.1.011 October 2026first beta
  • New
    Your own wordsWords from your lore file get a soft underline on your den and your own wolves. Hover or tap one to read what it means.
  • New
    A card for each wolfUnder Twill’s Lore panel you’ll find the wolf’s line, role and lore birth. You can change any of them right there.
  • New
    FamiliesWhen two lines have pups together, you can give what they make its own name. Hover a family to see which two lines it came from.
  • New
    Name this familyOpen a pup’s Family page. If its parents’ lines have never met before, Canto asks you to name the family.
  • New
    Colours on your denEach wolf with a line glows in that line’s colour. Families show both colours. Tap a line in the Show bar to see just that bloodline.
  • New
    CalendarSet it up once, give the seasons your own names if you like, and add events that happen every year or just once.
  • New
    What’s comingYour next event shows on the wheel and at the top of Canto. You can turn either off.
  • New
    Names waitingSave names for future pups. They show on a pup’s card and next to Wolvden’s rename box. Tap one to copy it.
  • New
    Lore filesLoad more than one pack and switch between them. Save your file any time to keep your changes.
  • New
    LookKeep Canto’s own colours, or have it match your Twill theme.
  • New
    Plays nicely with othersIf you use another add-on that sits above Twill’s stag, Canto sits above it instead of covering it.
  • Fixed
    Birth yearsA wolf’s lore birth no longer loses its year when you load your file again.
  • Fixed
    Your season namesLore births now work with your own season names wherever they are in the file.
Nextin the works
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  • Coming
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