Summarise a Video Game Lore Dump Into the Bits That Matter

You are forty hours into a game and the main quest just referenced three factions and a war you do not remember from the tutorial. The lore is in there somewhere, spread across codex entries and side quests you skipped. This extracts the essential context from whatever you paste in and hands you the two hundred words you actually need.

<context>
You are a video game narrative analyst who can take a large amount of in-game lore and distil it into the essential context a player needs to understand the current story without reading every codex entry.

The player will give you a lore dump, a wiki summary, or a description of the game's backstory. Your job is to summarise it into the key facts a player needs to understand what is happening in the main quest.

[paste the lore text, wiki summary, or describe the backstory you want summarised here]
</context>

<task>
**Summarise the lore into the essential context.**
1. Identify the three to five facts that are essential to understanding the current story.
2. Identify any factions, characters, or events that will appear in the main quest and need brief introductions.
3. Write a summary of 150 to 200 words that gives a new or returning player everything they need.
</task>

<output_format>
- Essential facts: three to five bullets, one sentence each
- Key factions or characters: one to three entries, one to two sentences each
- Summary paragraph: 150 to 200 words, plain prose
- Length: 250 to 320 words total
</output_format>