Narrative Governance

**Each Potential NFT evolves based upon the DeGenerous Dao Narrative Governance votes at a Story Node** where the holder's decisions help influence the development of both the NFT's they own and the lore of the world in which they exist. The Dischordian Saga will play out over the course of the development of Potentials project.

Twice a week, every week - a **Story Node** will be released. The Story Nodes contain the next installment of the Dischordian Saga story and provide the holders the chance to make a decision about how they react to the current unfolding narrative. The Decision points will take the form of a multiple choice set of options that will each lead to a different set of outcomes. Each Story Node will reveal a new piece of lore and provide the Potentials holders a chance to use both their will and their governance power to influence the outcome of that particular story node. Certain story nodes will only be available to Potentials with the right active variables. Variables are developed and determined as the Dischordian Saga progresses.

Each decision will influence not only the evolution of your Potential, but also the overall course that the narrative of the Dischordian Saga itself. The more Potentials you own, the more influence you have over the way the story evolves. Every Story Node will have an official "Canon" outcome based upon the majority vote through Narrative Governance. However, even if the outcome that your Potential selected is not actualized, your free will choice will be recorded, and it will still help to influence the development of your own true potential.

Each Potential begins its existence in a chrysalis form - known as Inception Ark. By participating in Narrative Governance votes at Story Nodes, each holder will be gradually evolving their Potential. At the end of the first Cycle of the Dischordian Saga, the Potentials will be unlocked, and their artwork revealed.

During the First Cycle, holders will make decisions that will help shape the final form their Potential takes.

## **Play-To-Change**

Initially, you will be able to earn our ecosystem’s base resource **Imaginarion** (IMGR) via participation in the weekly ongoing Narrative Governance Story Nodes. We want to reward early adopters and community members by building them up a reserve.

Eventually, you will be earning Imaginarion via weekly gaming events, and possibly a smaller amount via interacting with community engagement points in your Inception Arks like AES, Connexus, etc. A % is charged for a common resource pool so players get x IMGR per NFT guaranteed for engaging in the ecosystem. That x IMGR is precisely how much you’ll need to burn to participate in the Saga and evolve your NFT. If you’re more skilled/invested more time/money you'll have extra IMGR for consumables, bounties, cosmetics, wearables/weapons.

Ultimately, Each gaming event where IMGR is earned will be hosted in a Web2 game and tied into the lore. In the meantime, you'll be heading over to your Inception Ark console, which will be serving as the Narrative Governance page. You'll manage everything from here.

Narrative Governance lets you vote weekly, thus impacting both your own character's lore and the general lore. E.g. you vote to go into a war which won't happen unless it has over 50% of the votes, but you can get a 'fiery' trait showing your character's desire to wage war.

**RPG x Choose Your Own Adventure on steroids**. All the narrative traits travel with the NFT. It’s a living character in the story so its history travels with it. Experiences, choices, memories & skills learned by an NFT character will be recorded, and soulbond - unique value.

In the overall NFT ecosystem, a large majority of NFTs are static. Some gaming NFTs allow you to purchase wearables, but anyone can purchase the same exact one items. We want to ensure each NFT unlocks diff things in trait-gated governance, and reflects character uniqueness. Each vote opens up a different matrix-tree path. Once you've bridged your NFT via our Module to access games, metaverses, etc you'll be able to have easy access to all of this and evolve the NFT within a customizer. Arks allow degens to kill time and grind as the general story is kept simple for those that have less time.

**AES (*Ark Entertainment System*):** Lets people play arcade games from the console (simple old ones like pong, pac-man, tetris, space invaders). **Connexus:** Infinite 20-min long AI-generated journeys you go through with a chatbot, images, and votes to explore possibilities.

Besides our own gaming events, we'll use the **Multiverse Bifrost** to participate in other metaverses, and in gaming events within other communities that want to collaborate via one-off **Play-To-Give** actions - money goes to a multi-sig charity wallet managed by our DAO. In return, they might get game passes and a soulbond NFT of a trait specific to them that can be equipped onto a Potential (benefit for mutual holders). More supportive collections can get utility NFTs created specifically for them and airdropped (a tiny amount transferable for leaderboard or larger soulbond). Game passes brought in will be one big (inflationary) race of their own, with a part of the lore unlocked, and voting participation so the IMGR they earn post-tax makes sense.