Concepts

Philosophical, religious and esoteric concepts that underpin the game's lore: Gnosticism, Theosophy, Syncretism, Demiurge, Akashic Records, Anunnaki.

Monas / Monade

"The One" — Pythagorean and Neoplatonic term for primordial unity. Absolutely simple principle, source of all number and all reality. Greek philosophical concept organizing the wiki's Source-Principle category.

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Barbelo

First emanation of the Invisible Spirit in Sethian Gnostic cosmology. Androgynous "Mother-Father," Pronoia (First Thought), Aeon of Aeons. Mother of Sophia. In the game: the divine feminine that did not fall — model of possible reintegration.

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Bythos

"The Abyss" — Valentinian name for the Father-source of the Gnostic Pleroma. The absolutely withdrawn principle from which all emanation flows, ineffable by design. Technical term of Gnosticism, parallel to the Pythagorean Monade.

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Tò Hén

"The One" — absolutely simple principle in Plotinus's Neoplatonism. Prior to Being, source through superabundant emanation of all reality. More technically articulated than the Pythagorean Monade; direct precursor of medieval Christian apophasis.

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Pleroma

"Fullness" — totality of divine aeons emanating from the Monade in Gnostic cosmology. Not "another place" — the fullness of what the Monade is when it unfolds. Source from which Sophia fell, and to which the human spark seeks to return.

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Sophia

"Wisdom" — fallen aeon of the gnostic Pleroma, error-mother of the Demiurge. Continuation of the biblical Hokmá, Hellenistic Sapientia, and Russian Sophiology. Echo of the divine feminine suppressed by monotheism, returning in multiple traditions.

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Demiurge

In Plato, the divine craftsman who orders the cosmos. In Gnosticism, the false creator god of the material world — and, in the game's lore, Enki, architect of the social structures that imprison humanity psychologically.

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Yaldabaoth

Chief of the archons in Sethian Gnostic cosmology. Ignorant creator of the material world, born of Sophia. In the game's lore, the Gnostic hypostasis of Enki — also accepted with the alternative spelling Yaodabaoth.

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Anunnaki

Sumerian-Akkadian term for the collective of the great gods. Does not mean "aliens": designates the children of An, the "princes" of the pantheon. In the game, they are humans with access to the Akashic Records.

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Theosophy

Esoteric synthesis founded by Helena P. Blavatsky in the late 19th century, combining Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Hinduism, and Buddhism into a universal "secret doctrine".

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Akashic Records

Supposed cosmic archive of every event, thought, and action — past, present, and future. Theosophical concept derived from Hindu akasha. In the game, it is what the Anunnaki could access — and what makes Aurora who she is.

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Gnosticism

Religious current of the first centuries of the common era that regarded salvation as the fruit of gnosis — direct and liberating knowledge of the divine reality behind the material world.

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Syncretism

The fusion of religious elements from distinct traditions. A key concept for understanding why Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, Aphrodite, and Venus became different names for what, in some readings, is the same thing.

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