Welcome to the STAKES Universe.
A world where time is not a river... but a battlefield.
Where human Will can shape reality - and where forces beyond us fight to control it.

What STAKES Is
At its core, STAKES is a story about the awakening of Will:
the hidden power inside humanity,
the groups trying to weaponize it,
and the fractures in time left behind by their struggle.

From the Time Anchor...
to the Vanguard Protocol...
to the Will Unleashed...
each book reveals another layer of the war we were never meant to see.

Staked Events (Mini-List)

These are the fixed points in time - canon moments that cannot be changed.
They anchor the universe.

• The activation of the Time Anchor
• The hidden formation of the Vanguard Program
• The Maelstrom breach and first shadow-contact
• The destruction of the Genesis facility
• Heidi's broadcast that awakens global Will
• The planting of any Quantum Stake (all staked events freeze surrounding reality)

Everything outside these moments is flexible.
Everything else can bend, branch, or break.

How to Create in the STAKES Universe

If you want to draw, animate, or write inside this world:

1. Respect the staked events.
They are locked.

2. Everything else is yours.
Side stories, awakenings, shadows, new factions, moments between the cracks of time - the universe is open.

3. Tag your work with #stakes
This pulls it into the living timeline so I can find it.

Some stories aren't just told.
They're activated.