Goetic Magic, or goetia, represents the absolute frontier of sorcery, eschewing the sensory grounding of Primal Magic and the social negotiations of Theurgical Magic for a direct, violent plumbing of The Dreamspace. It involves the deliberate tapping of raw, unmediated psionic currents and the forceful coercion of Living Dreams from far beyond the protective veil of the Anthropospheric Layer of the Dreamspace into our fragile reality. Because the human mind lacks the biological architecture to process these powers, concepts and entities, the goetic practitioner must bridge the cognitive gap using extreme, destabilizing conceptual mediums: the crushing weight of eternity, the ecstasy of final death, or the fractured logic of absolute insanity. This is not a conversation with a god, but an attempt to harness a hurricane of alien energy that actively seeks to dissolve the caster’s identity; consequently, its mastery depends entirely on the DET (Determination) attribute, representing the sheer, stubborn grit required to keep one's psyche coherent while staring into the naked void.
The practice of goetia is known to many as "black magic" or "dark magic", for good reason. It often results in unpredictable reality-altering phenomena that can haunt a location for decades or outright kill the practitioner. Each Aspect of Goetic Magic functions as a different method of weaponizing the deeper Dreamspace's indifference to human life, ranging from the Destructive Aspect's raw entropic discharge to the Eldritch Aspect’s terrifying ability to herd alien denizens into realspace. Goetia is, in essence, the employing of one's own mind as a fraying tether, holding back a violet tide of unreality that views the laws of physics as merely a temporary suggestion.
Goetic Magic contains the following Aspects:
- Sanguine Aspect (I-V)
Mastery over the vital fluid, supreme conceptual conductor.
- Necromantic Aspect (I-V)
Mastery over the thin veil that separates the living from the dead.
- Void Aspect (I-V)
Mastery over the primordial dark that came before everything else.
- Destructive Aspect (I-V)
Directing the flows of the Dreamspace towards accelerated, violent deconstruction.
- Changing Aspect (I-V)
Directing the flows of the Dreamspace towards total reorganisation.
- Decaying Aspect (I-V)
Directing the flows of the Dreamspace towards accelerating the final decay of all things.
- Sensory Aspect (I-V)
Directing the flows of the Dreamspace towards the overflowing of what seems.
- Demonologic Aspect (I-V)
Summoning and herding the alien denizens of the deeper Dreamspace.