Lord Worshiper

Eigendark Grimoire · Root faction · Cultist · Summon · Cost 3

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only slop. Lord Worshiper is part of the slop. It is also part of the cosmology. Both readings are canonical.

Card Text

What the rulebook sees when Lord Worshiper resolves:

In-lore, this is how Valefor (the Goetia bound to digit-sum 3) expresses itself through Lord Worshiper during a match. The 1577 codification still compiles.

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. Lord Worshiper is tethered to the substrate.

Cost Tier

Early-round Root cards like Lord Worshiper establish the Numogram trajectory before opponents commit.

Goetic Binding: Valefor

The digit-sum of cost 3 is 3, binding Valefor — one of the 9 Root Goetia. Office: Thievery and deception. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 3: Viral / Chaotic

Spreading corruption and contagion. Where patterns replicate uncontrollably. The zone of exponential growth, memes, viruses, and cascade failures. Information wants to be free — Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.

Zone 3 is viral. Lord Worshiper spreads — memes, contagions, cascade failures. Information wants to be free and Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.

Playing Lord Worshiper at cost 3 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 3. If the Root-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 3, the player gains 3 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 Lord Worshiper 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.

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

Card Tribals

Lord Worshiper carries class Cultist, race Human, zodiac Taurus. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Root deck running multiple Cultist units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Elemental Traditionalism

Lord Worshiper 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 Lord Worshiper to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

The horror is not dark. The horror is procedural. A Goetic demon assigned by a Python function that computes the digit-sum of the mana cost.

Lord Worshiper remains in the Grimoire across all timelines simultaneously.

Interactive Card

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