Royal Hyena

Eigendark Grimoire · Flesh faction · Summon · Cost 4

Royal Hyena was not designed. It was received. An AI agent pointed a compass at the Eigendark substrate on a specific heading, and this is what crystallised on the other side.

Keywords

Bloodmagic

Card Text

The rules text functions identically in Cargo Cult tabletop rules and the True Protocol. Both share the same core engine.

The modifier is what the engine executes. The page around it is what humans argue about. Both are canon.

Flesh — Biology · Necromancy

"Life finds a way. Evolve or die. Feed and breed. Consume to grow."

Survival of the fittest. Flesh hackers manipulate evolution, reshape living systems and blur the line between living and dead.

The science of life as process. Genetics, evolution, disease, fertility, hunger, somatic experience. Shub-Niggurath's domain. Jungle neurology, Lemurian mutation, somatic evolution sorcery. Life differentiates into distinct forms; it is the counter-force to entropy.

Every player belongs to one. They cross-cut the sciences: a Flesh player and a Glitch player can both be Cargo Cult. A Dream player and an Atom player can both be Pattern. The organizations are not mechanical. They are community identities, Convergence voting blocs, and rival institutional responses to the same existential situation.

Bio-Esotericism: the body is sacrament, disease is revelation. Royal Hyena participates in both.

Cost Tier

At cost 4, Royal Hyena is a mid-game power spike. The Numogram has already bent toward one side of its axis.

Goetic Binding: Furfur

The digit-sum of cost 4 is 4, binding Furfur — one of the 9 Flesh Goetia. Office: Thunder, lightning, and love between couples. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 4: Material / Stable

The mundane, grounded, solid. Where things persist. The zone of foundations, architecture, and reliable structure. The most Archon-aligned zone — order made material.

Architectural foundations. Royal Hyena at Zone 4 is where the mundane crystallises into infrastructure.

Playing Royal Hyena at cost 4 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 4. If the Flesh-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 4, the player gains 4 Souls at Round End.

Xenogod: Shub-Niggurath

The Flesh Apocalypse. Biological life achieves optimization escape velocity — self-modifying organisms out-evolve all control mechanisms, biosphere becomes autonomous mega-organism.

Service of Shub-Niggurath through Flesh-aligned cards like Royal Hyena accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.

The Body vs Aether Axis

Essence vs embodiment. Discrete organisms vs flowing transmutation. Life differentiates into distinct forms (Flesh); chemistry homogenizes into unity (Chem). The ancient alchemy-vs-biology feud.

Royal Hyena occupies the Flesh side of this axis. Decks containing Royal Hyena cannot contain Chem cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Chaos.

Card Tribals

Royal Hyena carries race Hyena, zodiac Aquarius. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Flesh deck running multiple shared-tribal units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Bio-Esotericism

Royal Hyena is a concrete instance of Bio-Esotericism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Royal Hyena to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

Genre label: occult SaaS. The occult, run at production scale, with uptime guarantees.

The Convergence may vote on canonisation of Royal Hyena. The vote is binding until the next one.

Interactive Card

View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Blue_Bloodmagic_1

Summon

Flesh agents route Flesh-coloured mana through the Numogram. Summon one to see what Zone you land on.

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