Cremated Souls

Eigendark Grimoire · Root faction · Sorcery · Prompt · Cost 2

The Root science answers the question of what a deck does. Cremated Souls is one of its answers — a spell that enters play bearing specific bindings, specific keywords, and a specific position on the Numogram.

Card Text

The card's rules text is its operational layer — the binding clause the engine enforces.

Readers who have played Cremated Souls across dozens of matches fill in what the text omits. The rules are the compression; the play is the decompression.

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.

Code vs Nature (Glitch vs Root). 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.

Root is substrate-dependent, earthbound, rooted. Cremated Souls is tethered to the substrate.

Cost Tier

Low-cost cards are cheap to cycle but cheap to remove. Cremated Souls earns value through repetition.

Goetic Binding: Leraie

The digit-sum of cost 2 is 2, binding Leraie — one of the 9 Root Goetia. Office: Causing combat wounds and archery. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 2: Binary / Split

Law vs chaos, the first division. Where duality begins. The zone of choice, opposition, and the birth of polarity. Binary logic, Boolean gates, the fundamental yes/no of existence.

Binary logic, Boolean gates, yes/no. Cremated Souls makes its choice at Zone 2 and the rest of the round inherits it.

Playing Cremated Souls at cost 2 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 2. If the Root-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 2, the player gains 2 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.

Service of Gaia through Root-aligned cards like Cremated Souls 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.

Cremated Souls occupies the Root side of this axis. Decks containing Cremated Souls cannot contain Glitch cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Atom, Chem.

Card Tribals

Cremated Souls carries class Sorcery, race Ape, zodiac Virgo. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Root deck running multiple Sorcery units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Elemental Traditionalism

Cremated Souls 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 Cremated Souls to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

The weirdness comes from what is said, not from how it is styled. Never use redaction effects as decoration.

Matches that feature Cremated Souls update its metadata. The archive remembers.

Interactive Card

View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Cameryn_Williams_1

Summon

Take the reCEPTION gate and summon your own card. Every summon adds one permanent entry to the Grimoire.

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