
In Eigendark, Gusion is the Goetia that activates when a Chaos card with cost digit-sum 1 resolves.
Gusion 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 Chaos card with cost digit-sum 1 resolves, Gusion is the Goetia the engine invokes.
Gusion: Telling present/past/future and reconciling friendships
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 Chaos card with cost digit-sum 1 is played, Gusion's office shapes how the card resolves.
"Primordial duality. All outcomes exist simultaneously."
Vibration begets energy and form. Chaos sorcerers reach into parallel timelines and create what should have never been.
The science of indeterminacy. Quantum mechanics, chaos theory, probability, divination, the primordial pre-cosmic flux. Azathoth as the nuclear chaos at the center. Hyperstition lives partly here, because belief-states collapse probability distributions.
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, Azathoth.
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.
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."
Gusion — digit-sum 1
Seere — digit-sum 2
Valac — digit-sum 3
Samigina — digit-sum 4
Stolas — digit-sum 5
Glasya-Labolas — digit-sum 6
Camio — digit-sum 7
Aim — digit-sum 8
Paimon — digit-sum 9The 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.
Summon a card with cost digit-sum 1 in the Chaos faction to invoke Gusion. Browse the Grimoire for existing Chaos cards.