Core Answer
When RELiK works, it creates a designed experiential field that changes what people can feel, perceive, question, and author.
The effect is not only entertainment, campaign impact, puzzle-solving, or brand expression. RELiK works when an authored world becomes real enough that the participant, audience, corporation, community, or collaborator must interact with it as a consequential reality.
The most important through-line is agency: RELiK sets the conditions for people and other intelligences to recover, exercise, or expand narrative agency.