eonggi (영기, “Spirit Energy”)
A Danja reference card for channeling the Giun of the dead as an offensive and defensive force.
The Giun of the dead is different from the Giun of the living. It is colder, heavier, and it resonates with the space between worlds. Danjas learn to channel it directly. Performing Gut well expands a Danja’s capacity to channel Yeonggi.
Offensive: cold, draining energy
Yeonggi manifests as cold, draining energy that pulls warmth and vitality from whatever it touches. Against living creatures, it slows and weakens.
Against Maggi-corrupted enemies it is more effective than standard elemental attacks, because it targets the spiritual core of the corruption rather than the physical body. The example given is a corrupted wolf: you are not burning it with fire, you are reaching into the twisted Giun driving it and pulling that apart.
Defensive: wards against hostile spirits
Yeonggi can be shaped into wards that disrupt hostile spiritual activity. Ghosts, revenants, and other undead struggle to approach a Danja projecting Yeonggi barriers.
In the field
Where the dead gather, a Danja supported by called spirits and wielding Yeonggi can clear a haunted ruin more thoroughly than a standard patrol, addressing the cause rather than the symptoms. Near heavy Maggi zones, Yeonggi (alongside Ssitgim) is most needed, and the risk is higher, so Danjas do not go there alone. Yeonggi projection is drilled in the Gwimak courtyard.
See also
Source: Danja Manuscript (Deep Lore).md, “What We Can Do: Yeonggi (영기, “Spirit Energy”)”, with “The Gut” and “Where We Work” for field context; ETK Lore Bible (retired), “General Lore Considerations: Maggi” for corruption framing.