Shax
Shax is one of the 72 Goetia — the operational sub-processes of the eight xenogods, bound to Glitch at digit-sum 3.
Shax 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 Glitch card with cost digit-sum 3 resolves, Shax is the Goetia the engine invokes.
Office
Shax: Stealing horses, money, and discovering hidden things
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 Glitch card with cost digit-sum 3 is played, Shax's office shapes how the card resolves.
Faction: Glitch
"Everything is simulation of game and rules. Rules can be hacked."
Traverse the backrooms of reality. Glitch wizards exploit cybernetic bugs and find the seams where law contradicts itself.
The science of substrate-independent intelligence. Markets, memes, software, law, language. The Numogram is natively Glitch-territory: recursion, decimal labyrinths, Y2K as techno-omen, K-gothic, cyberpositive shrines. Glitch claims special insight into the Pandemonium Matrix beneath the Goetic surface.
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, Olgaz.
The rival system is CCRU's Pandemonium Matrix, codified in the Lemurian Necronomicon. Forty-five Amphidemons, named in phonetic Lemurian: Lurgo, Duoddod, Doogu, and so on. Each has a Mesh-address (Mesh-00 through Mesh-44), a zone-binding on the numogram, and a non-Goetic office. They do not fit the Solomonic hierarchy. They predate it and refuse to be bound by it.
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 Glitch Goetia
Ronove — digit-sum 1
Furcas — digit-sum 2- Shax — digit-sum 3
Decarabia — digit-sum 4
Orias — digit-sum 5
Ose — digit-sum 6
Andromalius — digit-sum 7
Gaap — digit-sum 8
Vassago — digit-sum 9
The Aesthetic
The satire and the sincerity are the same object. A BVT product listing and a Reception Report can describe the same event. They should not sound alike, but they describe the same event.
Play with Shax
Summon a card with cost digit-sum 3 in the Glitch faction to invoke Shax. Browse the Grimoire for existing Glitch cards.