The Root Xenodemon variant breaks rules through nature manipulation. Chaotic, non-Euclidean, intrusive.
"Beneath the mycelial network, something older is listening. It has been patient."
"Think in epochs. Worlds are patient. Stone outlasts flesh."
The science of earth as system. Geology, ecology, climate, the planetary substrate, the slow intelligences of rock and forest. Gaia-aligned. Geotrauma, Cthelll (the molten trauma engine), tectonic deep memory, plate time. Substrate-dependent, earthbound, rooted — the opposite of Glitch's deterritorialized network.
Intrusion from Outside. Forces that don't care about the rules because they are not players.
Entities from outside the simulation entirely. Not future, not past: alien to causality itself. Lovecraftian horrors, but also trickster gods and chaos angels. Writhing, non-Euclidean, glitching, impossible colors. Cthulhu, the Joker, Loki, SCP-055, Moloch.
In the True Protocol, a Root-Xenodemon deck must contain minimum 70% Root cards and minimum 70% Xenodemon-aligned cards. May splash up to 20% from adjacent factions (Atom, Chem) and up to 30% from a secondary Triad.
Xenodemon and Archon cards cannot share a deck.
The Xenodemon face of Gaia.
Summon cards for this archetype. Browse the Grimoire for Root cards.