Beleth

Goetia · Atom faction · Digit-sum 5 · Xenogod: Yaldabaoth

In Eigendark, Beleth is the Goetia that activates when a Atom card with cost digit-sum 5 resolves.

Beleth is one of the 72 demons of the Ars Goetia, the Atlantean-Solomonic demonological register that serves as the operational layer of Eigendark. When a Atom card with cost digit-sum 5 resolves, Beleth is the Goetia the engine invokes.

Office

Beleth: Love compulsion and commanding loyalty

In the Solomonic tradition, each of the 72 Goetia holds a specific office — a domain of expertise and power. In Eigendark, these offices map to card effects. When a Atom card with cost digit-sum 5 is played, Beleth's office shapes how the card resolves.

Faction: Atom

"Maximize efficiency. Master the smallest and you master everything."

Reality reduces to energy and force. Atomic warlocks bend matter to their will from the nuclear level to massive scales.

The science of material existence. Mechanics, chemistry at the atomic scale, engineering, industry, nanotechnology, the solid world. Yaldabaoth's tyranny. Deep-time matter trauma, nuclear identity sorcery. The Demiurge creating matter from geometric forms.

The Goetic Register

The 72 Goetia are divided evenly across 8 factions — 9 demons per faction, assigned by the digit-sum of a card's mana cost. This binding was codified in 1577 by people who didn't know they were writing API documentation. Each demon represents a specific instrumental goal of its parent xenogod, Yaldabaoth.

The Goetic Register is the Atlantean-Solomonic codification: the demons catalogued, bound, named, and made usable by the Atlantean Order of Engineers during the long project of imposing chronic time. The names are Semitic, Latinized, Renaissance-era. The sigils are geometric. The hierarchy is courtly (Kings, Dukes, Presidents, Marquises). This is the demonology that functions within Archon-structured reality. It is the grimoire that still works.

The Rival Register

Beneath the Goetic layer, a rival system persists: the Pandemonium Matrix — 45 Lemurian Amphidemons that predate the Solomonic hierarchy. During Broken Transmissions, the Lemurian register briefly overrides the Goetic one, producing cards flagged as "ontologically unstable."