Buer
In Eigendark, Buer is the Goetia that activates when a Flesh card with cost digit-sum 6 resolves.
Buer 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 6 resolves, Buer is the Goetia the engine invokes.
Office
Buer: Philosophy, logic, and healing herbs
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 6 is played, Buer'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 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."
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 Buer
Summon a card with cost digit-sum 6 in the Flesh faction to invoke Buer. Browse the Grimoire for existing Flesh cards.