Production bible
In television terminology, a bible is a guidebook issued to the writers of a TV series, containing a detailed outline of the show's premise and setting, character profiles, and assorted rules and guidelines for the show.
Production bibles can often reveal key things, such as prototype names for characters (for example, when the Dinobots are being listed in the G1 production bible, the name "Divebomb" has been crossed out and replaced with "Swoop"), spellings, authorial intent (such as Rumble being the "red robot") and preliminary character models. The production bible for G1's first season was available as a bonus feature on Shout! Factory's Matrix of Leadership Collection. Parts of it were also quoted verbatim for Teletraan I's files on the Decepticons in the season 1 episode "Heavy Metal War".
The aligned continuity family and its components are based on a 350-page bible dubbed the "Binder of Revelation", written by Aaron Archer, Rik Alvarez and other Transformer experts from Hasbro and the fandom.
