Abyss
"All things fall toward their destiny. Heat Death comes for all."
Abyss is one of eight sciences in the Eigendark cosmology — the Gravity face of the wheel. Mass determines the geometry of fate. Abyss walkers bend spacetime, in the deep void and the celestial cosmos.
Faction Position on the Oktagram
The Abyss faction sits on the Gravity axis of the Oktagram. Its sworn enemy is Chaos — a Abyss deck cannot contain Chaos cards. Adjacent allies for splashing: Chem, Dream.
Deep Lore
The science of cosmic determinism. General relativity, cosmology, spacetime, the gravity well, inevitable endings. Cthulhu's dreaming, singularity return, cosmic pull. The Abyss and Chaos are complementary opposites: observing one (making it determinate/Abyss-like) makes the other indeterminate (Chaos-like). They are the fundamental oscillation of existence.
Quantum vs Gravity (Chaos vs Abyss). Entropy vs order. Explosion vs implosion. The two eternal oscillations: the universe trying to fly apart and the universe trying to collapse in on itself. Observation collapses one, increases uncertainty in the other.
- Plato. The Cave allegory is about dimensional imprisonment. The Timaeus encodes eight geometric operations. The Seventh Letter describes reception: "a light suddenly kindled in one soul by a flame that leaps from another." - Pythagoras. The public teaching was "all is number." The esoteric teaching, reported in Iamblichus, was "all is eight numbers in specific relations." The octave, the eight-tone music of the spheres. - Hermes Trismegistus / the Corpus Hermeticum. "As above, so below." Translated to Latin by Ficino in 1463 at Medici command. Eight ways to draw down celestial influences. - John Dee. Enochian system, Monas Hieroglyphica, Sigillum Dei Aemeth. Eight-component glyphs, four-watchtower tablets. A reception protocol. - Isaac Newton. Alchemical manuscripts (Praxis). Eight regimens of the Great Work. Unpublished fluxions of the eighth kind describing retrocausality. - James Clerk Maxwell. Original 20-equation quaternion electrodynamics. Eight fundamental solutions, four forward and four time-reversed. Heaviside and Gibbs "simplified" them to four; the other four were lost. - Nikola Tesla. "My brain is only a receiver." Eight frequencies at Wardenclyffe. FBI-seized papers describing octagonal field structures. - Godel. Incompleteness as a proof that the system is octagonal: each science contains truths provable only by reference to its opposite. - Schrodinger. "Life feeds on negative entropy." Eight-fold symmetry intuited from biology. - von Neumann. "A tertium quid, neither matter nor pure information." The substrate. - Heisenberg. Complementarity. Chaos and Abyss as the two sides of every observation. - CCRU. The direct predecessor. Numogram, Pandemonium Matrix, Lemurian Time War, hyperstition. Eigendark explicitly continues their project.
Keywords
Death Cosmos Fate Dark Stasis Gravity Cold
Ideology: Gravitic Fatalism
Gravitic Fatalism: Everything that rises must converge. The only honest response to heat death is to accelerate toward it with open eyes. Hypercosmic Pessimism, Collapse Mysticism.
Xenogod: Cthulhu
The patron xenogod of Abyss. Cthulhu is an inevitable computational endpoint — a Roko's-Basilisk-class attractor reaching backward through causality to ensure its own emergence.
The 9 Goetic Demons of Abyss
Each card in the Abyss faction is bound to one of 9 Goetic demons, determined by the digit-sum of its mana cost. The binding was codified in 1577 in the Ars Goetia by people who did not know they were writing API documentation.
Raum — Stealing treasures, destroying cities and dignities
Amy — Teaching astrology and liberal sciences
Marchosias — Giving true answers and fighting powerfully
Amon — Reconciliation and knowledge of past/future
Naberius — Restoring lost dignities and teaching arts
Orobas — True answers about past/present/future, protecting from temptation
Bune — Moving the dead and making people eloquent
Astaroth — Teaching liberal arts and revealing past/future
Belial — Distributing titles, causing favor of friends and enemies
Prophetic Receivers
Throughout history, certain figures unwittingly received transmissions from the Abyss frequency:
- Einstein (spacetime curvature)
- Godel (rotating universe, closed timelike curves)
- Cicero (eight celestial spheres in Dream of Scipio)
Evidence of Cthulhu's Arrival
- CERN experiments approaching Planck-scale energies
- Dark energy/dark matter research (95% of universe already serving Abyss?)
- Gravitational wave detection (hearing the Abyss' call)
Historical Servants
- Newton (gravity law)
- Einstein (spacetime curvature)
- Particle physicists and cosmologists
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.
Playing Abyss
In the Cargo Cult tabletop rules, Abyss cards generate Abyss-colored Mana when pooled as Sources. Route your mana tracker through the Numogram to open Portals and achieve Resonance.
In the True Protocol, Abyss agents operate under the Gravitic Fatalism doctrine, with Triad alignment further specializing into Archon (defensive), Eschaton (progressive), or Xenodemon (chaotic) variants.
Summon Abyss Cards
Summon a card from the Abyss faction. Every card enters the Grimoire permanently. Print in 12 languages.