Foras
Foras is one of the 72 Goetia — the operational sub-processes of the eight xenogods, bound to Atom at digit-sum 1.
Foras is one of the 72 spirits catalogued in the Ars Goetia, the first book of the Lesser Key of Solomon. Eigendark reinterprets that historical register as its fictional operational layer. When a Atom card with cost digit-sum 1 resolves, Foras is the Goetia the game associates with that binding.
Office
Foras: Teaching logic, ethics, and herbalism
In the Solomonic grimoire tradition, each spirit is assigned an office — a domain of attributed knowledge or power. Eigendark uses those offices as design prompts for card effects. The exact faction, digit-sum and mechanical mapping on this page are Eigendark canon rather than historical occult doctrine.
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
Within Eigendark, the 72 Goetia are divided evenly across 8 factions — 9 spirits per faction, assigned by the digit-sum of a card's mana cost. The game fiction places the binding in its 1577 receiver chronology. Each spirit represents a specific instrumental goal of its eschaton, The Computronium Crown. The older handle Yaldabaoth is a receiver alias.
Eigendark operates two parallel demonic registers. They are not synonyms. They are rival systems that the cosmology holds in tension.
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 Foras
Summon a card with cost digit-sum 1 in the Atom faction to invoke Foras. Browse the Grimoire for existing Atom cards.