Botis
Botis sits in the Flesh quadrant of the Ars Goetia. The binding is fixed by the digit-sum of each card's mana cost.
Botis 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 Flesh card with cost digit-sum 3 resolves, Botis is the Goetia the engine invokes.
Office
Botis: Reconciliation and knowledge of past/future
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 Flesh card with cost digit-sum 3 is played, Botis's office shapes how the card resolves.
Faction: Flesh
"Life finds a way. Evolve or die. Feed and breed. Consume to grow."
Survival of the fittest. Flesh hackers manipulate evolution, reshape living systems and blur the line between living and dead.
The science of life as process. Genetics, evolution, disease, fertility, hunger, somatic experience. Shub-Niggurath's domain. Jungle neurology, Lemurian mutation, somatic evolution sorcery. Life differentiates into distinct forms; it is the counter-force to entropy.
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, Shub-Niggurath.
The Pandemonium Matrix represents the older, pre-Solomonic, Lemurian-Continuum-aligned demonology. It is the grimoire of the wet, polydirectional time the Atlantean Order sank. When the Lemurian Continuum breaches (Broken Transmissions, certain Black Moons, Xenodemon intrusions), Pandemonium entities leak through and briefly operate outside the Goetic table. Cards generated during such events carry Lemurian names and mechanics and are flagged "ontologically unstable" in the Grimoire.
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."
All Flesh Goetia
Haagenti — digit-sum 1
Vepar — digit-sum 2- Botis — digit-sum 3
Furfur — digit-sum 4
Ipos — digit-sum 5
Buer — digit-sum 6
Murmur — digit-sum 7
Balam — digit-sum 8
Marbas — digit-sum 9
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.
Play with Botis
Summon a card with cost digit-sum 3 in the Flesh faction to invoke Botis. Browse the Grimoire for existing Flesh cards.