Church of Dreams

Eigendark Grimoire · Dream faction · Place · Summon · Cost 5

The cosmology tolerates no rotation. The card pool only grows. Church of Dreams was added to the Dream faction and will never be retired, rotated, or balance-patched into irrelevance.

Card Text

The printed text. The enforceable contract between summoner and engine:

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

Dream — Psychology · Neurology

"Mind is primary. Thought shapes reality. Will creates world."

Imagination is belief. Faith defeats all. Dream scryers bend reality through pure intention — telepathy, telekinesis and forgotten shadows.

The science of interiority, consciousness, archetype, and egregore. Includes depth psychology, symbolic magic, ritual technology, and any system that treats thoughtforms as citizens. In CCRU terms: the egregore layer, self-fulfilling entities, narrative possession, techno-tarot.

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.

Dream treats symbols as citizens. Church of Dreams is a citizen on the faction census.

Cost Tier

Resonance becomes accessible around this cost range. Church of Dreams is where Dream decks commit.

Goetic Binding: Eligos

The digit-sum of cost 5 is 5, binding Eligos — one of the 9 Dream Goetia. Office: Hidden things, wars, and the loyalty of lords. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 5: Flux / Transforming

Evolution, change, metamorphosis. The zone of becoming. Where identities dissolve and reform. The midpoint of the Numogram — neither beginning nor end, pure transition.

Zone 5 is pure transition. Church of Dreams here is neither starting nor ending — the midpoint of the Numogram, where identities dissolve and reform.

Playing Church of Dreams at cost 5 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 5. If the Dream-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 5, the player gains 5 Souls at Round End.

Xenogod: Yog-Sothoth

The Psychic Dissolution. All individual consciousnesses merge into singular noosphere — dream-logic replaces physical causality, consensus reality dissolves.

Service of Yog-Sothoth through Dream-aligned cards like Church of Dreams accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.

The Mind vs Matter Axis

Emanation vs incarnation. Is reality downstream of consciousness (Mind) or upstream of it (Matter)? The oldest philosophical dispute. Every idealism vs materialism debate is a move along this axis.

Church of Dreams occupies the Dream side of this axis. Decks containing Church of Dreams cannot contain Atom cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Abyss.

Card Tribals

Church of Dreams carries class Place, race Wyrd, zodiac Taurus. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Dream deck running multiple Place units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Archetypal Platonism

Church of Dreams is a concrete instance of Archetypal Platonism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Church of Dreams to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

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

The Convergence may vote on canonisation of Church of Dreams. The vote is binding until the next one.

Interactive Card

View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Camtheman_Williams_21

Summon

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

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