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 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 7 resolves, Zagan is the Goetia the game associates with that binding.
Office
Zagan: Making people witty and turning metals to coins
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.
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.