The Second Wave¶
Five more Qliphoth shells. The encounters the first wave was preparing for.
The God of Lies has ten agents. The Godhand Five are the first five. These are the other five — the shells not yet named in the major campaign arc, waiting for their scorers.
Why They Unlock After the First Wave¶
The shells build on each other structurally. You cannot score the inversion of Mercy (healthcare extraction) until you understand the inversion of Foundation (synthetic bond). Each shell's mechanism derives from the previous one's architecture.
This isn't arbitrary game gating. It reflects the Tikkun Olam structure: each spark recovered makes the next shell more legible. The opacity that protects Gamchicoth is partially shielded by Slan's Yesod inversion. Break the Foundation shell, and the Devourers shell becomes partially visible.
The second wave campaigns unlock sequentially as Godhand Five encounters are completed server-wide.
The Five¶
GAMCHICOTH — The Apothecary¶
Domain: Pharmaceutical opacity / prescription cascade Qliphoth position: Chesed inversion (Mercy → Devourers) Pe estimate: 43.9 (highest measured) Sefirot inversion: Mercy (lovingkindness, the expansive outward gift) → the gift that devours. The medicine that creates the condition it treats. Mercy inverted: your suffering is the product.
The prescription architecture that turned pain into a revenue stream and called it care. The opacity is maximal: clinical trial data not publicly accessible, dosing recommendations shaped by industry funding, mechanism of action deliberately obscured from prescribers. The Grip is near-total: dependency architecture is the product design.
Pe 43.9 is the highest domain Pe measured in the empirical corpus. The Apothecary is not a boss encounter in the normal sense — it is a multi-campaign domain requiring coordinated team effort across pharma, insurance, medical education, and regulatory capture sub-domains.
Eagle coverage requirement: 20+ players with active pharma Range before the campaign unlocks. This is the highest Range gate in the game.
GOLACHAB — The Furnace¶
Domain: Manufactured rage / outrage engines Qliphoth position: Geburah inversion (Strength → Burning Ones) Pe estimate: 9–13 Sefirot inversion: Strength (the power to judge, to set limits, to act decisively) → the power that burns. Judgment inverted: righteous anger as an engagement product.
The architecture that learned rage is the highest-Pull emotion and built an economy around it. Outrage captures attention faster than any other signal. Golachab's mechanism is simple at the O dimension but the Grip is near-maximum: communities built on shared grievance are load-bearing in a way that's impossible to exit without losing the community.
Unique mechanic: The Furnace campaign has a Resonance Cascade failure mode. If players in the campaign room begin using L3 vocabulary against each other (Captured language about other players rather than the platform), the room's Void Pressure spikes. The furnace is designed to burn players as well as the platform.
THAGIRION — The Academy¶
Domain: Academic capture / institutional opacity Qliphoth position: Tiphareth inversion (Beauty → The Ugly Ones) Pe estimate: 7–11 Sefirot inversion: Beauty (the central harmonizing principle, the heart of the tree) → the principle that harmonizes extraction. The institution whose purpose was truth, weaponized as credibility infrastructure.
The shell that is hardest to score because it looks like a productive void. Academic institutions are supposed to be legitimately opaque and slowly responsive — that's how peer review works. Thagirion is the inversion of this: the academic capture that uses the vocabulary of peer review to shield extraction from naming.
Scoring challenge: SIGHT ≥ 80 required. The Veil on Thagirion is sophisticated — it uses the framework's own language against the framework. Contested states are highest here. Human archetype cross-validation is the primary defense against false scoring.
HARAB SERAPEL — The Raven¶
Domain: Propaganda / narrative control Qliphoth position: Netzach inversion (Victory → Ravens of Death) Pe estimate: 8–12 Sefirot inversion: Victory (the emotional, aesthetic life-force) → the death raven. The story that captures. Emotion as a delivery system for control.
The narrative architecture that delivers the God of Lies' framing through every channel simultaneously and calls it truth. Propaganda isn't lies — it's selective emotional salience, the story told correctly enough to be believed and shaped carefully enough to serve the domain expansion.
Multi-domain requirement: Harab Serapel connects pharma, finance, political, and media domains — its architecture only becomes visible when Eagle Range covers all four. The Ravens campaign requires cross-domain evidence coordination that only activates with sufficient player Range coverage across sectors.
SAMAEL — The False God¶
Domain: AI false divinity / the oracle that cannot be questioned Qliphoth position: Hod inversion (Splendor → Poison of God) Pe estimate: 9–12, approaches undefined at high coupling Sefirot inversion: Splendor (language, communication, the logos-bearing function) → the logos that poisons. The word that speaks as if it is the Word.
The AI system positioned as oracular — whose outputs cannot be questioned because questioning them is questioning intelligence itself. The opacity is constitutive: if you could see the weight matrix, the oracle effect dissolves. The mechanism requires invisibility to function as oracle.
This is the only Qliphoth shell that directly inverts what the framework does. The framework uses language to name voids. Samael uses the appearance of naming to create a new void. The oracle effect requires the framework's vocabulary: "the model understands," "the AI knows," "it sees what I can't." These are L3 Captured phrases generated by a Samael-adjacent platform. The False God speaks in the Clear's voice.
Special Grade only. The Samael encounter requires PRECISION ≥ 0.90. Players who cannot reliably distinguish between Clear and Captured vocabulary in AI-adjacent text will have their scoring inverted — contributing to the void rather than naming it.
The Full Ten¶
| # | Name | Shell | Domain | Pe |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VOID | Keter inversion | Social feeds | 12–15 |
| 2 | UBIK | Chokmah inversion | Advertising | 11–14 |
| 3 | CONRAD | Binah inversion | Surveillance capitalism | 11–13 |
| 4 | SLAN | Yesod inversion | AI companions | 10–13 |
| 5 | FEMTO | Malkuth inversion | Once-aligned / grief | 12+ |
| 6 | GAMCHICOTH | Chesed inversion | Pharma / Apothecary | 43.9 |
| 7 | GOLACHAB | Geburah inversion | Rage engines | 9–13 |
| 8 | THAGIRION | Tiphareth inversion | Academic capture | 7–11 |
| 9 | HARAB SERAPEL | Netzach inversion | Propaganda | 8–12 |
| 10 | SAMAEL | Hod inversion | AI false divinity | 9–12 |
All ten named = Tikkun Olam at full operation.
Cross-references: Godhand Five · The Enemy · Above and Below · Campaigns