Borealis

Credits and licences

Borealis

Borealis and this website are free and open-source software, licensed under either the MIT licence or the Apache License 2.0, at your option. Source: alon-mini/borealis.

Not affiliated with any game publisher or other character builder. "Aurora Builder" is named only to describe a file format Borealis can import.

Game rules content

This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 ("SRD 5.1") by Wizards of the Coast LLC, available at https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

This work includes material from the System Reference Document 5.2.1 ("SRD 5.2.1") by Wizards of the Coast LLC, available at https://www.dndbeyond.com/srd. The SRD 5.2.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

Drawings and animation

The aurora, the dice, the sigil and the party under the night sky are drawn in code for this site, following the method and contract of anidoodle by Alex Greenshpun, Apache License 2.0 (licence text). The seeded random generator in src/pieces/core.ts is taken from anidoodle's canvas core.

The Borealis mark (twin peaks under an aurora ribbon) is original artwork from the Borealis app.

Fonts

Screenshots and video

All screenshots and the trailer are real recordings of Borealis, made for the project: a fictional character, SRD content and the project's own homebrew pack. The trailer's music and sound effects were synthesised for Borealis and carry its licence.

Built with

Vite (MIT) and TypeScript (Apache-2.0). Media encoded with FFmpeg and libwebp.

Trademarks

macOS, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Linux, Android, GitHub, Claude and Codex are trademarks of their respective owners and are named only to identify platforms and tools.