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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
— Stephen King
Welcome to the first edition of Making From Many, as One, a blog series focused on the creation process of the web serial From Many, as One, authored by Ricardo Pintos (lokapal.eth) and published on lokapal.xyz, as well as on other platforms such as Substack, Medium and Paragraph. In this series, we'll discuss the state of the project, its short-term goals, and its long-term vision.
Reading Making From Many, as One will not be required to follow the web serial, as it's more of a behind-the-scenes look at the project than an integral part of it. There will be no big story spoilers, and when discussing narrative excerpts is required for the analysis, there will be a clear spoiler warning for the reader.
The From Many, as One project is not published yet. All the preliminary work is already done, but we wanted to wait to build a large enough audience before its release. The official Whitepaper is finished and published on the main website.
The project went through extensive revision before its current form. Not only for the narrative content itself but also for its integration with the overall Lokapal project as well. To this date, the other main sections of Lokapal are:
Thoughtchain, the essays platform of Lokapal, which includes research articles, roadmaps, educational tools, lore expansions, philosophical explorations, and Lokapal updates.
Conciliatorics, a philosophical framework for thinking about systems — how they behave, how they change, and how we interact with them.
From Many, as One is Lokapal's flagship project, because it uses narrative as a gateway to the interconnection of governance, philosophy, and research on decentralization— a gateway not only to Thoughtchain or Conciliatorics but also to the amazing work that other builders and writers are producing, particularly in the Web3 space.
But it doesn't matter if you build a train station to connect cities if no travelers gather on it. Before we fly, we must walk — and for that, we are going to need some groundwork.
As we mentioned before, our immediate goal at this stage is to build an audience that will follow the From Many, as One release and its serialized chapters. We considered different options to achieve this, concluding that the best way to engage potential readers for our story is to showcase its world and experiences. In addition to this, we needed to adapt to the current forms of content consumption, which is mostly based on short content that delivers by itself instead of demanding long-term commitment from the start.
For this reason, we are going to release in the following months a series of micro-stories that offer glances of the From Many, as One universe, focusing mainly on the experiences of the Lanka Prime citizens, and the districts of this mortal metropolis. The series is called From the Plexus, a direct reference to one of the From Many, as One planes of existence — the intermediate layer between the mortal and divine realm, a mystical route for thought, energy and metaphysical transit.
As this is a no-place in our universe, we're only able to capture glimpses of these transmissions. For this reason, each micro-story will be labeled a shard, as we are mere hackers upon their universe — silent intruders on the lives of the Lanka inhabitants. The series format will be:
FROM THE PLEXUS
Shard 1: Lighting a cigar
Individual shards will be published on Lokapal's main website, Substack and social media platforms such as X and Base. When enough shards are released, they will be batched in container volumes and published on platforms such as Medium and Paragraph.
FROM THE PLEXUS
Volume 1: Shard 1, Shard 2, Shard 3, Shard 4.
This distribution model serves multiple strategic objectives: audience development across both Web3 and traditional literature communities, content format optimization for platform-specific consumption patterns, and establishment of consistent publishing cadence prior to main narrative serialization.
We hope that this format is competent enough to reach our goals for audience building. There are many challenges for a project like this, so we do not intend to abandon our roadmap until enough time passes without reaching results. But we are open to suggestions and revisions from anyone that wants to contribute to our vision.
We are here for the long run — months were spent refining From Many, as One in order to build a strong enough foundation that could hold the project for years to come.
We'll adapt — and we'll overcome.
Thank you for reading — see you in Lanka Prime.
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The article "Creating from Many, as One" is not just a reflection; it's a necessary and courageous dose of reality. It's the stillness every creator must face, laid bare with brutal clarity. @lokapal delivers the most uncomfortable truth about Web3: Enthusiasm for technology doesn't create an audience. He lays bare the process of realizing that the philosophical truth of decentralization (the ideal of Web3) doesn't interest anyone in the market. Instead, he had to subordinate his tool (blockchain) to the audience's most vain and primitive need: a good story. "I had created something technically interesting for Web3 users, but narratively irrelevant for most." This text validates the thesis that the world is getting lost in absurdity and emptiness. The author had to accept that his real audience isn't DAO enthusiasts (the niche that understands the problem), but rather readers of political fantasy (the audience that seeks the experience without worrying about the infrastructure). The great contribution of Lokapal's conclusion is this: Web3 becomes an "optional technical detail," a hidden layer of origin that serves only the author's philosophical interests, not the reader's engagement. It's the defeat of the ideal by the reality of the market, narrated with admirable sincerity. Recommendation: This isn't an article about crypto; it's a philosophical exploration of the validity of creation in a world that ignores infrastructure. Essential reading for any creator struggling to give meaning to their work. I admire you! https://paragraph.com/@lokapal/making-from-many-as-one-%E2%80%94-part-1-foundations