Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know before claiming a seed — from delivery and payment to lore protocols, prose exclusivity, and the rules that keep every Anomaly one-of-one.

The Identity Ledger is a narrative design studio specializing in "Scriptable Concepts" — high-concept story foundations and lore bibles designed for authors, screenwriters, indie game developers, and tabletop RPG Dungeon Masters.

Select your desired Scriptable Concept tier (Origins or Anomaly) and complete checkout. Because all assets are digital, there are no shipping fees or waiting periods. Your interactive fillable PDF files will be available for instant download on the post-checkout confirmation screen and emailed directly to your inbox.

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Products are delivered as interactive, fillable PDFs. You can open, read, fill out, and save them using any standard, free PDF reader (such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, Apple Books, GoodNotes, or Preview) on desktop, tablet, or mobile.

If you experience any issues downloading your files or accessing your purchase, contact us directly through our storefront live chat or reply to your order confirmation email.

Due to the immediate digital delivery nature of structural assets and downloadable files, all sales are strictly final. Refunds, exchanges, and cancellations are not offered once an order has been processed.

  • To assist with informed purchasing decisions, every product page provides a full concept excerpt, genre tags, world phenomena specifications, and a detailed list of included deliverables. Please review these details carefully prior to claiming a seed or concept.
  • Customer satisfaction remains a priority — if technical issues arise or a purchase presents unexpected friction, contact support immediately via live chat or by replying directly to the order confirmation email. Direct assistance is available to help clarify world logic or navigate a practical solution.

A Scriptable Concept is a narrative foundation engineered to eliminate writer's block. A Foundation Without Walls means there's an established concrete, high-stakes architecture — the core premise, mechanics, stakes, and world friction points — while leaving the character design, dialogue, prose style, and final creative resolutions entirely in your hands.

Both editions give you the core foundation — including the story anchor and matrix questions. The major difference comes down to execution:


A STATUS: SEALED designation indicates an unreleased or upcoming 1-of-1 Anomaly. The lore record has been logged in the archive, but the files are locked and not yet available for purchase. Shoppers can sign up for notifications on the product page to be alerted the moment a sealed file is unsealed and dropped into the storefront.

A single concept seed can have up to five distinct Anomaly versions maximum (e.g., V.1 through V.5). However, each individual version is a strict, 1-of-1 Lore Bible. Every version features completely different mechanics, custom prose answers, and narrative resolutions.

While multiple versions of a seed may be released simultaneously or unsealed over time, once a specific version is purchased, that exact 1-of-1 file is permanently retired and will never be generated or sold again.

No two creators think alike.

  • The Origins edition provides the structure — the open matrix questions and core story anchor — leaving every creator to interpret, build, and answer those questions through their own unique creative lens.

  • An Anomaly purchase bypasses the blank canvas entirely, granting 1-of-1 verbatim prose exclusivity over a specific, fully realized resolution. While the underlying concept seed remains open for others to build upon in their own way, the exact written text, custom mechanics, and specific narrative resolutions in your Anomaly file belong strictly to you and are permanently retired.

Yes. You retain 100% exclusive intellectual property ownership over any original text, expansions, resolutions, and lore details that you independently author. You have total commercial freedom to publish, copyright, and monetize your finished novels, screenplays, games, or audio dramas.

Purchasing an Anomaly edition grants you 1-of-1 verbatim exclusivity over the exact, word-for-word custom prose answers provided in that specific Lore Bible. While underlying broad genre tropes remain open, those exact prose text blocks belong exclusively to you.

Yes! Your purchased concept is a starting line, not a cage. You are explicitly encouraged to twist, bend, cross out, or overwrite any mechanics, time periods, or character roles to fit your specific vision.

No. The product titles, cover art, trailer videos, storefront blurbs, and visual layout design remain the exclusive intellectual property of The Identity Ledger and Phoenix J. You are expected to create your own unique title and branding for your published work to prevent market confusion and protect your brand.

  • Allowed: You may use AI as a private writing assistant to copy, paste, brainstorm, or manipulate your own authored answers for drafting your manuscript.
  • Prohibited: You are strictly prohibited from uploading our files, visual layouts, or structural question matrices into public AI models, shared datasets, scrapers, or automated generators for template resale.

The 72-Hour Development Session is a targeted consulting service to stress-test your world rules or resolve plot holes. You receive up to 5 targeted consultation messages directly through our secure messaging system. Sessions are capped at a 1,000-word maximum submission and exclude direct script/prose editing.

This service is not always available.

Yes. If your universe requires a completely custom lane or broader narrative scope beyond our current catalog, custom development is fulfilled through secure external contracts (via Fiverr). Contact us via live chat or review our custom service listings for availability.

Think of these as the narrative DNA of each seed. They highlight the tone, core mechanics, and flexibility of the story seed so you can immediately tell if it fits your project before buying.