Explorations
Every project has a permanent Main draft and any number of explorations — parallel versions of your story where the radical rewrite can fail safely, and the parts that work come home.
I
Start an exploration — a perfect copy of your story as it stands. Chapters, beats, Codex and all.
II
Rewrite, delete, invent. Everything you change stays inside the exploration. Main is untouched by definition.
III
Open any chapter's history and read both versions side by side, differences highlighted.
IV
Cherry-pick the passages that work, make the exploration your new Main, or archive it with its full history kept.
The Exploration Picker
A small pill at the top of the writing window always shows which version of the story you are in. Click it, choose an exploration, and every document — chapters, beats, Codex entries — becomes that version's. Unsaved work is tucked away safely first, so nothing half-applies.
An exploration begins as a perfect copy of your story as it stands, named and numbered for you. Create it and jump in — or park it for later and keep writing on Main.
Compare — Chapter 7 · Main vs Mentor Betrayal
Main
Maren smiled and poured the tea, and for a while the world was warm.
Mentor Betrayal · taking
Maren's hand did not tremble as she poured the second cup — the one with the bitterroot.
Committed to Main with the note "merged from Mentor Betrayal."
Selective Merge
Open any chapter's history — every saved version, from every exploration, timestamped. Compare side by side, accept or reject each block, and retain only the passages that earned their place.
When the whole experiment is the new canon, merge the entire exploration in one motion. The source stays intact — Mythos never burns a bridge for you.
The Guardrails
An imported manuscript is your canonical draft, so Mythos always files it on Main — and every exploration inherits it automatically.
Removing a chapter hides it from the exploration you are in, nowhere else. Toggle Show Explorations to see it again — and bring it back anywhere.
Making an exploration the new canon leaves the original intact, history and all. Permanent deletion exists, but it is a separate, deliberate act with a confirmation.
In Practice
Start an exploration called Mentor Betrayal, rewrite the chapters that change, and read them against Main. If it works, merge the strongest passages back. If it doesn't, archive it — the experiment cost nothing.
Write opening A on Main; start an exploration and write opening B. Compare side by side with fresh eyes, keep the winner, archive the other. Both stay in history forever.
Create Magic-System Rework without switching to it. It sits dormant in the picker — a parking lot for the idea that isn't ready — while you keep drafting on Main.
Fourteen days free, every feature. Main stays pristine no matter what you try.
Mythos has not been released yet. Stay tuned — it is coming soon.