Servitors, egregores, tulpas and daemons: what each is, how it is made, fed and ended.
A construct
Servitor
A purpose-built construct with one task, a sigil, a feeding method and a kill condition.
What it is
To carry one bounded task that the practitioner can maintain and end.
How to make it
Write the task. Name it. Draw the sigil. Set the feeding and the kill condition. Charge it in gnosis and send it to the task.
A worked example
A Mercury servitor for a weekly contact: eight weeks, fed on Wednesdays, closed on the eighth Friday.
Background
A name, a single-sentence task, a sigil, a feeding method, a lifespan and a kill condition. A servitor with several tasks is a badly specified one.
Keeping it fed
Attention, a repeated phrase, a small offering or a weekly review. Put it on a schedule and log it.
Ending it
Name it, state that the task is finished, destroy or archive the sigil, close the ledger and return the space.
Keeping a record
A servitor sheet and a ledger line for creation, each feeding and the close.
Related entries
Instruments
One of 110 entries in the Technomancy workshop. How a working is built Is it wrong somewhere?
Mentioned by 32
Every entry that names Servitor, grouped by section.
⚙ Instruments 7
- The Sigil Forge Constructs
- The Servant Foundry Constructs
- The Instrument Workshop Constructs
- The Digital Banishing Switch Constructs
- The Servitor Ledger Constructs
- The Correspondence Engine Constructs
- The Random Rite Generator Constructs
⌬ Correspondences 6
- Mercury — message queue Constructs
- Water — log Constructs
- The Magician — build pipeline Constructs
- The Fool — bootstrap Constructs
- Wednesday — Mercury Constructs
- Saturday — Saturn Constructs
✧ Practices 5
- Sigilisation Constructs
- Servitor work Constructs
- Feeding a construct Constructs
- Dismissing a construct Constructs
- Cyber banishing Constructs
⌘ Protocols 5
- Forge a sigil Constructs
- Found a servitor Constructs
- Feed a servitor Constructs
- Dismiss a servitor Constructs
- Digital banishing Constructs
▤ Glossary 3
- Servitor Related
- Feeding Related
- Kill switch Related
⌁ Currents 2
- Chaos magic Constructs
- Cybermagic Constructs
❖ Workings 1
- The Mercury Inbox Servitor Constructs
More in Constructs
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
- Living work A long work — a comic, a record, a series — treated as a construct with a life and a close.
- Egregore A group construct generated by shared attention, symbol and ritual.
- Genius loci The nature of a place or platform, treated as a presence with its own temperament.
- Tulpa A willed companion developed through sustained attention and experienced as having its own voice.
- Daemon A background process that tends a working without being watched.
New entries, when they land
Occasional notes when a section of the grimoire is added or revised. No account, no tracking across sites, and one line to leave.