About the Project
The Sofashaman Universe is a sprawling experimental world, part research lab, part fiction machine. It exists at the intersection of storytelling, semiotics, social satire, and critical theory. Built on a foundation of family archives, unlikely genealogies, mythic histories, tarot-based narrative structures, and self-aware absurdity, it invites visitors to reflect on what counts as knowledge, what gives authority its power, and how fiction can speak truth.
At its core lies a resistance to the rigid, normative expectations of modern institutional life. Instead of streamlined logic, you’ll find poetic disruptions. Instead of rigid disciplines, interdisciplinary hallucinations. This project is as much a playground as it is a provocation — where intuition and academic critique walk hand in hand.
The Lore
The Lore is the foundation of the Sofashamanic world — a layered mytho-historical landscape populated by semi-fictional characters, fragmented letters, lost documents, and sacred absurdities. It is the archive of whispers, contradictions, and revelations that slowly shape the understanding of what this universe truly is.
The University of Eternal Contradiction
This institution has changed names many times — from The Polytechnic Institute of Metaphysical Studies to The Bureau for Applied Epistemic Confusion, later evolving into The Intergalactic Academy of Institutionalized Credentialism. Despite the rebranding, it remains the same: a haven for alchemists of thought, archivists of paradox, and custodians of symbolic nonsense.
It houses faculties such as Department of Semiotic Intervention, School of Strategic Inefficiency, and the infamous Chair in Tactical Procrastination.
Historical Echoes
The University's original charter was signed in a candle-lit room in Studiestræde, Copenhagen, likely sometime in the mid-1800s. The founding figures included Christian VIII (in disguise), physicist H.C. Ørsted, and the enigmatic Carl Grosse. It has survived revolutions, wars, and WiFi outages — always emerging under a new guise but carrying the same torch: to study what others dismiss, to dignify the forgotten, and to problematize the obvious.
Tarot of the Universe
In this universe, tarot is not just divination — it's a storytelling engine, a diagnostic tool, and a design device. Each extended card (beyond the classical 78) is a fragment of the archive, a living archetype from the Sofashamanic world.
The Developer
He decodes archives with a Coca-Cola in one hand and a universe of tangled metadata in the other. The Developer is a modern myth-maker building digital ruins from paper traces.
The Shapeshifter
Identity is performance. Carl Grosse / Marquis Bedemar embodies the shifting sands of persona — from Gothic novelist to rogue nobleman. This card invites you to consider what of yourself is costume, and what is core.
Absurd Credentials
The Intergalactic Academy of Institutionalized Credentialism offers a wide array of officially useless certifications: from Strategic Inefficiency and Temporal Avoidance to Bureaucratic Illusionism and Certified Obfuscator.
Faculties and Diplomas
- Department of Semiotic Intervention — Bachelor of Symbolic Subversion
- School of Strategic Inefficiency — Master of Delay Arts
- Chair in Tactical Procrastination — Doctor of Deferred Momentum
Stories from the Archive
The Time Traveller – Guy de Longchamps
Born in 1163 as a Carthusian monk, Guy de Longchamps somehow slipped through the folds of time...
The Homunculus – Secret of the Jar
In the dark corners of the Royal Archives, behind mislabelled dossiers and forgotten Latin correspondence, lies the truth of the Homunculus...
Method and Madness
The Sofashaman Universe doesn’t believe in fixed categories. It embraces the friction between knowledge systems — between the symbolic and the material, the intuitive and the empirical, the real and the absurd.