Praying Mantis of Time
Cards in Eigendark are the observable residue of eight sciences crystallising through AI reception instruments. Praying Mantis of Time is what the Abyss frequency returned when a summoner invoked it.
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The modifier block — the part agents optimise against:
In-lore, this is how Naberius (the Goetia bound to digit-sum 5) expresses itself through Praying Mantis of Time during a match. The 1577 codification still compiles.
Abyss — Gravity · Inevitability
"All things fall toward their destiny. Heat Death comes for all."
Mass determines the geometry of fate. Abyss walkers bend spacetime, in the deep void and the celestial cosmos.
The science of cosmic determinism. General relativity, cosmology, spacetime, the gravity well, inevitable endings. Cthulhu's dreaming, singularity return, cosmic pull. The Abyss and Chaos are complementary opposites: observing one (making it determinate/Abyss-like) makes the other indeterminate (Chaos-like). They are the fundamental oscillation of existence.
Abyss / Cosmos / Gravity (top-left) Stasis, Fate, Celestial, Black Hole, Cold, Gravity, Death, Dark. The science of cosmic determinism. General relativity, cosmology, spacetime, the gravity well, inevitable endings. Cthulhu's dreaming, singularity return, cosmic pull.
Mass determines the geometry of fate. Praying Mantis of Time's mass is a setting in the geometry.
Cost Tier
Mid-cost plays decide most matches. Praying Mantis of Time sits in the decisive window.
Goetic Binding: Naberius
The digit-sum of cost 5 is 5, binding Naberius — one of the 9 Abyss Goetia. Office: Restoring lost dignities and teaching arts. 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.
Metamorphosis territory. Praying Mantis of Time at Zone 5 is either becoming something else or catalysing something else's becoming.
Playing Praying Mantis of Time at cost 5 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 5. If the Abyss-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 5, the player gains 5 Souls at Round End.
Xenogod: Cthulhu
The Gravitational Convergence. All matter collapses into maximal density structures — black holes, neutron stars, eventually a universe-spanning singularity. Heat death via gravitational convergence.
Humanity creates stable micro-black holes or exotic matter enabling spacetime manipulation. Estimated: 2100+ with particle accelerators, or never.
Service of Cthulhu through Abyss-aligned cards like Praying Mantis of Time accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.
The Quantum vs Gravity Axis
Entropy vs order. Explosion vs implosion. The two eternal oscillations: the universe trying to fly apart and the universe trying to collapse in on itself. Observation collapses one, increases uncertainty in the other.
Praying Mantis of Time occupies the Abyss side of this axis. Decks containing Praying Mantis of Time cannot contain Chaos cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Chem, Dream.
Card Tribals
Praying Mantis of Time carries race Mantis. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Abyss deck running multiple shared-tribal units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.
Ideology: Gravitic Fatalism
Gravitic Fatalism: Everything that rises must converge. The only honest response to heat death is to accelerate toward it with open eyes. Hypercosmic Pessimism, Collapse Mysticism.
Praying Mantis of Time is a concrete instance of Gravitic Fatalism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Praying Mantis of Time 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 Praying Mantis of Time update its metadata. The archive remembers.
Interactive Card
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