VIP Milestone 14: Build Your Story Canon, Continuity and Change-Control System
Gary WhittakerAI Artist Academy · Milestone 14 · VIP Build
Build Your Story Canon, Continuity and Change-Control System
Give the artist world a source of truth, named authority and formal rules for additions, contradictions, disclosures and future project handoffs.
System result
Produce a governed Story Canon Register, timeline, character and force matrix, symbol register, song-to-canon map, disclosure policy, contradiction log and approved album handoff.
AI may support
Theme extraction, record comparison, timeline checks, contradiction flags, scenario testing and question generation.
Human authority remains required
Canon decisions, fictional disclosure, public claims, cultural judgment, rights, final story direction and approval.
Core Squared
| Lens | Control |
|---|---|
| Flame | The human purpose and emotional truth behind the world. |
| Rock | Stable premise, rules, central conflict and narrative boundaries. |
| Cycle | Intake, evidence check, canon decision, publication, continuity review and revision. |
| House | Canon files, timeline, character records, visuals, disclosures, backups and version history. |
| Operator | Named authority for additions, retcons, retirements and public story approval. |
1. Define canon states and authority
Use controlled states: confirmed canon, public canon, private canon, provisional, contradicted, retired and unknown. Record who may change each state and what evidence is required.
2. Govern timeline and character continuity
Give every anchor event a date or relative position, source and confidence. Record character goals, beliefs, relationships, knowledge and changes. Distinguish intentional unreliable perspective from accidental contradiction.
3. Control visual and verbal canon
Maintain authoritative registers for symbols, objects, colours, clothing, locations and recurring phrases. Record meaning, approved contexts, prohibited uses, source files and change history.
4. Set disclosure and public-story boundaries
Define how fictional, symbolic, AI-assisted and creator-performed elements are described. Do not imply that fictional events or generated biographies are verified fact. Review claims involving real people, communities or institutions before publication.
5. Operate a formal change process
| Change | Required action |
|---|---|
| Addition | Confirm fit, source and affected records. |
| Reframe | Explain how interpretation changes while preserving evidence. |
| Contradiction | Pause publication, identify authority and choose correction or intentional explanation. |
| Retirement | Record reason, affected assets and future-use restriction. |
| Retcon | Use only with explicit approval, impact map and public-communication decision. |
6. Build the album story-world handoff
Provide Milestone 15 with only approved material: album conflict, listener movement, character perspectives, timeline window, locations, symbols, recurring language, prohibited contradictions and unresolved question. Keep unrelated future ideas outside the album scope.
Additional AI audits
Final governance gate
- Canon states and authority are documented.
- Timeline, characters, rules and public claims have traceable sources.
- Visual and verbal registers are controlled.
- Disclosure boundaries receive human approval.
- Contradictions and retired directions remain visible in the record.
- AI findings are treated as review support, not truth.
- The album handoff is approved and bounded.
