he Eclipse Court (Sig Beob-won)
A faction of Cheonmugwan (천무관) survivors who hold that the Fracturing ritual succeeded as a first step, that Maggi (막기) is the evolution of Giun (기운), and that the world must be remade. Led by Grand Magister Do-Jin.
Origin
The Sig Beob-won are drawn from the survivors of the Cheonmugwan, the order whose Rite of Heaven’s Mandate broke the Celestial Pillars and tore the boundary between realms. Those survivors stood at the center of the Fracturing and were washed over by Maggi in its purest form. They suffer the agony of immortality. Their bodies are deeply disfigured, with only small vestiges of their prior selves visible. Many are missing senses: eyes ruined, ears burned over, mouths sealed shut. Their skin crawls with black lines of Maggi corruption.
Belief
They believe the original ritual did not fail. It was the first step. To them, Maggi is not a corruption but the ultimate evolution of Giun. Before the Maggi they were powerful yet mortal. Now they are immortal, and they hold that the next step will make them more powerful still and transform the world into the form it was always meant to be.
This places them as the dark mirror of what players do at Transcendence. The Cheonmugwan tried to use the pillars to gain power; a transcending player takes the place of the fractured pillars instead. Not everyone sees that distinction as clean, which is part of why the discipline draws suspicion (see Transcendence (Beyond Level 99)).
Leadership: Grand Magister Do-Jin
Do-Jin was the youngest of the original high scholars, a prodigy whose ambition outweighed his empathy. His body is heavily mutated by Maggi, but he wields it with terrifying elegance. He is not explicitly evil. He simply knows he is right, and that those who do not see things his way are wrong. If he encounters a player he is not outright hostile; if anything, he is intrigued. He is positioned as the long-term central antagonist.
Full profile: Grand Magister Do-Jin.
Maggi and the moral question
Maggi reads as the opposite of Giun, so it is not strictly geographic but a meta-emotional force. It gathers more strongly in places marked by grief or suffering: graveyards, dangerous roads where people die. This frames the killing of corrupted creatures and ghosts as a mercy rather than the slaying of something simply evil. The grey zone is deliberate. The “evil” is left to the penultimate result of Maggi, whatever was ultimately created at the core of the Cheonmugwan ritual, which is the end the Eclipse Court works toward.
Relation to the other survivors
The Cheonmugwan survivors split. The Eclipse Court chose to finish what they started. The Ashen Archivists (Jae-Giloggwan), by contrast, recognized the hubris of their actions and seek repentance (see The Ashen Archivists (Jae-Giloggwan)).
See also
- The Cheonmugwan
- The Ashen Archivists (Jae-Giloggwan)
- Grand Magister Do-Jin
- Maggi
- Giun
- The Celestial Pillars and the Gyunhyeong
- The Fracturing (Cheonha Bunhae)
- Transcendence (Beyond Level 99)
Source: ETK Lore Bible, sections “The Cheonmugwan Today” / “The Sig Beob-won (The Eclipse Court)” and “General Lore Considerations” (Maggi, Transcendence); World of Haneul foundation doc for Cheonmugwan, pillar, and Fracturing context.