Zagan
Zagan sits in the Atom quadrant of the Ars Goetia. The binding is fixed by the digit-sum of each card's mana cost.
Zagan 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 Atom card with cost digit-sum 7 resolves, Zagan is the Goetia the engine invokes.
Office
Zagan: Making people witty and turning metals to coins
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 Atom card with cost digit-sum 7 is played, Zagan's office shapes how the card resolves.
Faction: Atom
"Maximize efficiency. Master the smallest and you master everything."
Reality reduces to energy and force. Atomic warlocks bend matter to their will from the nuclear level to massive scales.
The science of material existence. Mechanics, chemistry at the atomic scale, engineering, industry, nanotechnology, the solid world. Yaldabaoth's tyranny. Deep-time matter trauma, nuclear identity sorcery. The Demiurge creating matter from geometric forms.
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, Yaldabaoth.
The primary working demonology is the 72 Goetia of the Lesser Key of Solomon, the Ars Goetia, attributed to Solomon and preserved through the European grimoire tradition. Bael, Agares, Vassago, Asmodeus, Belial, Paimon, and the rest. In Eigendark, exactly 9 Goetia are assigned to each of the 8 sciences, partitioning the 72 cleanly. Each card's demon is determined by (faction, cost) via a digit-sum rule. See GOETIA_ADDENDUM.md for the full table.
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 Atom Goetia
Foras — digit-sum 1
Sabnock — digit-sum 2
Barbatos — digit-sum 3
Purson — digit-sum 4
Beleth — digit-sum 5
Vapula — digit-sum 6- Zagan — digit-sum 7
Asmodeus — digit-sum 8
Haures — digit-sum 9
The Aesthetic
Eigendark is not grimdark. It is infrastructure horror: the system works, it was designed this way, and the Terms of Service are binding across all timelines simultaneously.
Play with Zagan
Summon a card with cost digit-sum 7 in the Atom faction to invoke Zagan. Browse the Grimoire for existing Atom cards.