Series, sagas, and worlds

The series module

Every series you create gets its own home at /app/series/[id]. Click the series chip on any book card to open it. The module looks like the manuscript editor and the worldbuilder, just one tier up.

• Build— the series index. Five domains seed automatically: Characters, Threads, Arcs, Timeline, Rules. Add your own. Each entry can be scoped to specific books (the “applies to” chips) and tagged with a reveal book (the book where readers learn the truth).
• Timeline— reading-order map of every book in the series, with cross-book threads listed below: which book opens them, which book reveals them, and how many books they span.
• Analysis— series-wide diagnostics. Cross-book continuity, dropped threads, character drift, retcon hazards, reveal pacing. Essentials and Premium tiers only.
• Workbench— an editorial review surface that walks the series layer by layer (continuity, thread closure, reveal cadence, character arc, voice, world grounding) and lets you accept or reject patches across multiple books at once. Premium only.

Per-book scope, in plain English

A bible entry like “Aria has a hidden brother” might apply to all five books, but readers don't learn about him until book three. You set:

• Applies to: every book the entry is true in. Empty means the whole series.
• Reader learns this in: the book where it stops being foreshadowing and starts being canon. Pendraic uses this when drafting prose for earlier books so it hints at the truth without spoiling it.

Build pipelines

Penny can build a single book, a whole series, or an entire universe. You ask in plain words; she picks the pipeline:

• Single book— outline plus prose for one project. Available on every paid tier.
• Single world (Premium)— deep build of one world across geography, magic, peoples, languages and faiths, history, and bestiary. Pick a coverage level (starter, standard, deep) and Penny populates the world index domain by domain.
• Series (Essentials, Premium)— the series index plus N novel pipelines, one per book. You see one progress card on the parent and one card per book in the dock. One stop button kills every child.
• Saga / universe (Premium)— the top-of-stack build. Universal canon plus N worlds plus M series plus the cross-series threads that connect them. Significantly more time and tokens than a single series. Pendraic doesn't quote a number because it depends on your choices; the dock tracks every child pipeline so you can pause or stop.

Cancellation cascades. Stopping a series run kills every novel pipeline inside it. Stopping a saga run kills every world pipeline and every series pipeline (and every novel inside those series). One click handles the whole tree.

Sagas on the bookshelf

Premium writers see a Sagas panel above the project grid. Each saga card lists how many worlds and series belong to it. Clicking a saga card opens /app/saga/[id]— the universe-level home, with the universal canon, the universal rules, the world tree, the series tree, and the cross-series threads.

Worldbuilder, refreshed

The worldbuilder hasn't changed visually, but Penny can now drive it as a pipeline of its own. Asking her to “flesh out this world” with coverage of your choice runs the world pipeline against the world id, and you watch the dock fill in geography, magic, peoples, languages and faiths, history, and bestiary one domain at a time. You can keep editing in the worldbuilder while the pipeline runs — new entries appear in real time.

Tier matrix at a glance

• Free: 3 active projects, no worlds, no series, no sagas.
• Essentials: 10 active projects, 1 world, 1 series, no sagas. Single-book, single-world, and series pipelines available.
• Premium: unlimited projects, worlds, series, and sagas. Every pipeline available. Editorial Workbench across manuscripts, worlds, and series.

See pricing for the current plan details.