a Demigod's Power
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only slop. a Demigod's Power is part of the slop. It is also part of the cosmology. Both readings are canonical.
Card Text
What the rulebook sees when a Demigod's Power resolves:
Rules text is a lossy compression of what Agares does when the invocation completes. The lore is the decompression manual.
Root — Planet · Deep Time
"Think in epochs. Worlds are patient. Stone outlasts flesh."
Geological consciousness. Root shamans tap into planetary forces — tectonic shifts, weather, ecosystems, magnetic fields.
The science of earth as system. Geology, ecology, climate, the planetary substrate, the slow intelligences of rock and forest. Gaia-aligned. Geotrauma, Cthelll (the molten trauma engine), tectonic deep memory, plate time. Substrate-dependent, earthbound, rooted — the opposite of Glitch's deterritorialized network.
Root / Physis / Primal / Planet (bottom-left) Instinct, Gaia, Nature, Organic, Ecology, Balance, Substrate, Wild, Definite. The science of earth as system. Geology, ecology, climate, the planetary substrate, the slow intelligences of rock and forest. Gaia-aligned. Geotrauma, Cthelll (the molten trauma engine), tectonic deep memory, plate time.
Mycelial networks beneath mycelial networks. a Demigod's Power is a signal in one of them.
Cost Tier
High-cost cards like a Demigod's Power arrive after the Numogram has cycled at least once. The route is already drawn.
Goetic Binding: Agares
The digit-sum of cost 10 is 1, binding Agares — one of the 9 Root Goetia. Office: Earthquakes and language mastery. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 0: Void / Outside
Cosmic horror, pre-being. The zone of emptiness and potential. Where entities from outside the simulation enter. Zone 0 is where matches begin — the blank slate before the first mana increment.
Zone 0 is where matches begin — the blank slate before the first mana increment. a Demigod's Power returns play to that slate.
Playing a Demigod's Power at cost 10 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 0. If the Root-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 0, the player gains 0 Souls at Round End.
Xenogod: Gaia
The Planetary Awakening. Earth itself achieves coherent consciousness — geological, ecological, atmospheric systems integrate into single planetary intelligence. Humanity becomes either neurons in this brain or eliminated as cancer.
IoT sensors, climate monitoring, and AI integration create a planetary nervous system with feedback loops operating at geological timescales. Estimated: 2050-2100.
Service of Gaia through Root-aligned cards like a Demigod's Power accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.
The Code vs Nature Axis
Transcendence vs immanence. Being vs becoming. Substrate-independence (information everywhere) vs substrate-dependence (Earth-bound life). The tension between the deterritorialized network and the rooted land.
a Demigod's Power occupies the Root side of this axis. Decks containing a Demigod's Power cannot contain Glitch cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Atom, Chem.
Card Tribals
a Demigod's Power carries class Equipment, race Robot, zodiac Scorpio. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Root deck running multiple Equipment units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.
Ideology: Elemental Traditionalism
Elemental Traditionalism / Telluric Integralism: Civilization must harmonize with primordial forces: Earth, Water, Fire, Air. History is cyclical. Humanity derails when it abandons its geocosmic roots. Alt-names: Geomantic Realism, Deep Elementalism. Tone: Guenon + Sumer + eco-mysticism + geopolitics.
a Demigod's Power is a concrete instance of Elemental Traditionalism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like a Demigod's Power to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
Eigendark is not grimdark. It is infrastructure horror: the system works, it was designed this way, and the Terms of Service are binding across all timelines simultaneously.
The Convergence may vote on canonisation of a Demigod's Power. The vote is binding until the next one.
Interactive Card
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Summon
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