8181-1-D

Объект №: 8181
Допуск5
Класс содержания:
безопасный
Вторичный класс:
таумиэль
Класс нарушения:
кенэк
Класс риска:
предупреждение

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Гравюра, предположительно изображающая ритуальное применение SCP-8181 около 900-х годов до нашей эры.

Особые условия содержания: SCP-8181 в основном самодостаточны, однако ритуалисты и тауматологи Фонда должны постоянно поддерживать их в рабочем состоянии, если это не так.

SCP-8181-КЛЮЧ должен постоянно находиться в ведении Оперативной группы или сотрудников службы безопасности, а информация о её характере и содержании должна быть полностью скрыта от гражданского населения. Были приняты тщательно продуманные физические, противомеметические и концептуальные меры предосторожности, чтобы предотвратить обнаружение и проникновение в SCP-8181-КЛЮЧ гражданских лиц и аномальных субъектов не входящими в состав Фонда.

Постоянное сдерживание SCP-8181-ЦАРСТВО обеспечивается продолжающимся функционированием SCP-8181, ежедневными миротворческими операциями Фонда и положениями протокола завесы, как это предписано SCP-8181-ПЕЧАТЬ. Изолирование Прайм-Земли от SCP-8181-ЦАРСТВО и сокрытие всех соответствующих сведений о ней от гражданского населения является главной целью SCP-8181 и представляет собой неотъемлемый компонент Завесы.


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Печать Соломона

Описание: SCP-8181 описывает ритуальные оккультные действия и конструкции, которые по-разному разрабатываются, обнаруживаются или поддерживаются иным образом и пассивно или активно используются Фондом для изоляции областей физической реальности, подчиняющихся законам паранормальных явлений, от географических и пространственных регионов, прилегающих к Прайм-Земле, чтобы обеспечить соблюдение Завесы и взаимную секретность между аномальными и обычными сообществами, где только возможно. SCP-8181 функционируют с помощью различных тауматологических методов, включая ноосферное подавление или изменение знаний гражданского населения и прямое подавление конгруэнтности аномальных локаций.

Конгруэнтность и Гипермагистрали


Конгруэнтность - это тип взаимосвязи между объектом или местоположением в ограниченном пространстве и базовой реальностью, в которой метапространственные связи настолько обширны и/или тонки, что необразованному наблюдателю карманное измерение кажется, по сути, полностью интегрированным в базовую область и согласованным с ней, как с любым другим компонентом обыденного мира. Конгруэнтно-пространственные отношения распространены на субатомном уровне в оккультной физике элементарных частиц и ранее были широко распространены на макроуровне на Земле.

Гипермагистраль - это естественная форма чрезвычайно большого пути (авеню пространственного транспорта). Гипермагистрали невидимы и охватывают обширные географические регионы, объединяя конгруэнтные местоположения путем наложения и постоянного взаимного перемещения двух реальностей с целью беспрепятственного перемещения из одной в другую, что создает иллюзию прямого физического перемещения в трехмерном пространстве.

SCP-8181 сильно различаются по составу и способам действия, хотя большинство из них эффективно поддерживают себя и постоянно активны. Из примерно 10540 различных тауматологических функций три (3) специфических ритуала были признаны центральными для всего комплекса работ, связанных с SCP-8181; подробная информация о них, которые были признаны самодостаточными и не требующими активного вмешательства на данный момент, доступна только персоналу, имеющему допуск Смотрителя, или лицам, имеющим доступ к секретной информации. постановление офиса Администратора.

Подавляющее большинство нерешенных процедур и эфемерных явлений, связанных с SCP-8181, связаны с SCP-8181-КЛЮЧ. Параисторические данные указывают на существование многих экземпляров SCP-8181 в течение почти 3000 лет подряд, которые приписываются библейскому персонажу и известному тауматургу царю Соломону; даже те экземпляры SCP-8181, которые были созданы более поздними группами или отдельными лицами, а также адаптированные или полностью синтезированные ранним Фондом, имеют свою методологическую основу, прочно укоренённую в соломоновой традиции больше, чем в любой другой ветви тауматургии, демонстрируя непрерывное оккультное наследие.

Основной целью SCP-8181 при их развертывании Фондом, но, вероятно, также и их первоначальными создателями во многих случаях, является изоляция Прайм-Земли от SCP-8181-ЦАРСТВО. Начиная с 1881 года, неоднократное внедрение ритуалов SCP-8181 в операции Фонда привело к полному магическому закрытию примерно 86% всех гипермагистралей, ранее физически и пространственно связанных с планетой, а также к противомеметическому сокрытию - особенно после последствий Переворота 1891 года - почти всех путей, которые еще не были перекрыты.


Приложение 8181.1: Классификации вспомогательных объектов





Приложение 8181.2: Дополнительные выдержки из исследований


Ключ и Царство

Отчет о параархеологическом и эзотерическом историческом контексте гробницы Соломона (SCP-8181-КЛЮЧ)

Доктор Тобиас Фридеман, кафедра археологии; Доктор Вирсавия Кроули, кафедра прикладной эзотерики и др.
Археолог Фонда, том 402. 11.01.2023.

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SCP-8181-КЛЮЧ представляет собой высеченную в скале гробницу, типичную для древней Иудеи. Вход в сложную сеть погребальных пещер, расположенных ниже, осуществляется по каменной лестнице, к которой можно подняться с центрального заднего фасада во внутреннем дворе. Архитектурные стили в основном характерны для раннего периода Первого храма, хотя многие техники и стили восходят к ханаанским работам позднего бронзового века. В дополнение к главной камере, в которой находится саркофаг и большинство погребальных принадлежностей, туннели ведут к трем обнаруженным хранилищам артефактов и подземному комплексу святилищ с алтарем, украшенным витиеватой резьбой.
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Схема ритуальных принадлежностей, используемых для проведения ритуалов SCP-8181, найденных в гробнице Соломона.

Согласно официальной версии Смотрителей, гробница была обнаружена и раскопана в конце 1870-х годов человеком, известным как Основатель, и несколькими коллегами еще до создания Фонда во время их ранних исследований оккультизма - в частности, в рамках той же поездки по Ближнему Востоку, во время которой Страж Ворот приказал ему подготовится.
SCP-8181-КЛЮЧ - это, в основном, хранилище магических артефактов и записанных ритуалов, которые были необходимы как для непосредственного применения, так и для реверс-инжиниринга и аномального тиражирования при реализации SCP-8181 Фондом в целом. Хорошо известно, что царь Соломон создал и контролировал ряд магических разработок и аномальных сокровищ, которые, согласно легенде, были созданы специально для того, чтобы сдерживать, связывать и контролировать враждебные аномальные силы, которые хотели бы уничтожить его царство, такие как демонические сущности и внепространственные группировки. Действительно, Фонд официально признает тауматологические меры предосторожности, разработанные Соломоном и его двором, как первую известную реализацию Специальных процедур сдерживания в истории человечества; это неотъемлемая часть истории преемственности, разработанной ранними Надзирателями в свете обнаружения Гробницы Основателем и божественного поручения Хранителя, свидетельствующего о его предполагаемой деятельности. право на преемственность древней традиции сдерживания. Среди многих сотен небольших обрядов, используемых людьми Соломона для хранения определенных предметов, и эти второстепенные обряды все еще действуют или используются регулярно и включены в SCP-8181, ниже приводится краткое описание наиболее важных работ, приписываемых царю Соломону.
Царь Соломон, по-видимому, был экспертом в сдерживании и контроле демонических сил; действительно, одним из наиболее ценных предметов, обнаруженных в гробнице археологами, проводившими раскопки до ее основания, была древняя (предположительно оригинальная) копия протогоэтического гримуара Соломона, реконструкции и переводы которого, в частности форма Малого и Большого ключей стала вдохновлять всю средневековую и ренессансную традицию гоэтической демонологии, практику, которую многие оккультисты даже называют Соломоновой традицией. Другой находкой из гробницы, которая, по-видимому, служила этой цели, было Кольцо Соломона, ныне SCP-8181-КЛЮЧ-1, которое, согласно легенде, можно было использовать для "управления демонами" и магического установления господства над духами. Тестирование на 8181-КЛЮЧ-1 проверяет способность подавлять оккультные способности различных внефизических сущностей; считается, что термин "демон" относится к группе более общих сущностей, чем буквальные Адские сущности. Считается, что Соломон создал Кольцо не только для личной самообороны, но и для того, чтобы изолировать оккультных сущностей от реальности, что вполне согласуется с реализацией Фондом SCP-8181 для подавления нежелательных субстандартных измерений.
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Гравюра с изображением Железной короны Ломбардии, ключа Ритуала Соломона.

Возможно, самая известная работа царя Соломона, Ритуал, была довольно подробно описана в гробнице, но оставалась в значительной степени неизвестной в конкретных терминах, пока Фонд не обнаружил печально известный план Обскуракорпс по его осуществлению во время Седьмой Оккультной Войны, когда произошла смерть существа, известного в ГОК как ЛУС-0913-Ex Machina и Основание как Плюрипотентная Сущность-001-D оставив планету без магического стабилизатора, а ее магию - без какой-либо регулирующей силы, открыв возможность для искусственного создания новой. Цель оппортунистической поддержки искусственной фокусной сущности во времена так называемого таумического междуцарствия, по-видимому, была первоначальной целью, ради которой Соломон создал свой Ритуал, хотя невозможно установить, использовал ли он его - хотя Кольцо является одним из семи Ключей, необходимых для проведения Ритуала Соломона, а не всеми Ключами, которые он использовал. Семь из них находятся в его гробнице; многие, по-видимому, были созданы после Ритуала, что наводит на мысль о временных изменениях, а одно даже остается нераскрытым.
Последний крупномасштабный таумический ритуал, приписываемый царю Соломону, представляет собой обширную сверхвременную работу, которая, как утверждается, простиралась далеко в прошлое и будущее, чтобы повлиять на человеческое восприятие оккультизма в сторону мифологизации, а не научного понимания. Мало что из этого известно, и многое засекречено на уровне допуска Смотрителя. Таким образом, мы не обладаем соответствующей информацией или полномочиями, чтобы писать здесь по этому вопросу.

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Мир мифов и легенд

Параисторический отчет о бывшей "Большой Земле" и ее восприятии оккультным миром до принятия Генеральной резолюции 1881 года

Доктор Эдвард Кадмус, по рекомендации Объединенного департамента параистории, нексологии, дезинформации и недостоверной информации, мифологии и фольклористики, Архивного отдела и др.
Параисторик Фонда, том 628. 07.02.2019.

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Поскольку современному паранаучному сообществу хорошо известно, что вера формирует реальность, неудивительно, что до появления Завесы и ее физических магических последствий сама география Земли в некоторых случаях была почти такой же изменчивой и субъективной, как и человеческое понимание ее.
Гипермагистрали были чем-то большим, чем просто гигантскими путями; охватывая целые области суши или воды, они позволяли переходить от Прайм-Земли к внепространственному пространству постепенно, а не сразу, и способом, который был настолько тонким и считался настолько обычным среди торговцев и исследователей, что межпространственная составляющая путешествия едва ли когда-либо заметна — действительно, задолго до того, как было признано существование физических Гипермагистралей через отдельные географические области, миссии во многие так называемые мифические земли считались возможными с помощью обычных транспортных судов на протяжении большей части досовременной истории; то есть, если у человека была правильная комбинация магических движений руки и оккультной навигации.
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Occult travelogue attributed to Lemuel Gulliver.

Further, these now-anomalous methods were considered hardly more esoteric or foreign to most contemporary seafarers and road-travelers than the use of a map, sextant, or compass. What now the Foundation would classify as pocket-dimensional locations were known to many among the enlightened and occult-aware of pre-normalcy civilizations as ordinary locations where beings of more magical persuasion happened to dwell, and which were in many instances accessible to travelers wise and hearty enough to brave a trip to any physically-distant location. In general, trade and diplomatic missions to even moderate-distance occult civilizations were considered no more unlikely or difficult than those from one edge of the Eurasian supercontinent to the other, and mundane explorers such as Marco Polo counted among the same rank as esoteric ones such as Mandeville. Extensive trade routes to the Elven settlements of the (imagined) North and Serpentfolk states of the (dimensional) South, for instance, were developed and implemented at length by Europeans far before their discovery of the Americas, which (unlike the aforementioned locations) lie within full spatial congruency with the rest of the Prime Earth1.
Hyperways were often grouped in networks and overlapped in areas often known as junction points (such as in the Antarctic; see right) when connecting the Prime Earth to a series of dimensionally-adjacent and more extensively interlinked subdomains. Particularly in the instance of interrelated or "bundled" realms, Hyperway passages connected not only the Prime Earth to dimensional extremities composing the Greater Earth, but parts of the Greater Earth to others — recall that the distinction between Prime and accessory Earth dimensions is a construct of paranormalcy, and no such distinction existed to describe the set of dimensionally-connected regions2 during the time preceeding 1881.
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Traveler attempts to circumnavigate the Great Antarctic Permafrost Barrier (or "Ice-Wall"), an inter-Hyperway junction area, to explore Outer Earth. Estival Gate, Prime Antarctica, 1877.

Historiography relating to Greater Earth is often spotty; mass expungement of related documents from the public consciousness during the early implementation of the Veil was often panicked due to urgent circumstances and consequently resulted in the destruction of many primary sources, requiring a great deal of information regarding the Outer Domains and their peoples to be reconstructed manually. Additionally, due to the Prime Earth currently being closed off from the Outer Domains and travel between them banned strictly, very little new information has entered relating current happenings outside the world of Normalcy — this is by deliberate design, but it unfortunately means we effectively have no clue as to events outside our specific sector of Earth any time after 1881, nor can we simply visit the Outer Domains (even under research directives, in most cases) to replace the information that was lost by re-discovering it.
Despite the fraught circumstances surrounding the time leading to few surviving pieces of comprehensive documentation, a relatively lucid image of Greater Earth remains in the collective mind of the anomalous underworld on the other side of the Veil. We can be sure that, at any given time, the Subprime Realms housed hundreds or thousands of distinct states and other civilizational units constituting several hundred distinct sapient species. Furthermore, the impact of Outerworlder culture on that of Prime's nations, even with respect to that which is now considered non-anomalous, remains clear to a trained paraanthropologist in many cases. (Incidentally, although the influence of gnomish trapping methods on contemporary French cuisine or the adaptation of the dvergr Machinarcanorruptor into the modern drill bore are interesting stories, they unfortunately do not pertain directly to the scope of this paper: additional information concerning Prime-subprime civilizational interplay can be found on the Foundation paraanthropology portal).
When the Prime Earth was cut off from the rest by the implementation of the Veil and the beginning of SCP-8181, the immediate effect across the global occult community was apparently catastrophic. Many more frequently-visited metaspatial regions were allowed to continue harboring transit from Prime but suppressed into pocket dimensions, becoming counted among what are now known as Nexuses; the rest, in most cases, were severed entirely from any contact with what was now to be considered the sole and complete Earth. Hyperways were closed by thaumic rite at extensive length by early paranormalcy actors, and travel between the Prime Earth and adjacent regions was banned even in many cases involving exclusively anomalous and above-Veil actors who happened to reside in the Prime Earth. Major recession ensued as nations were cut off from extradimensional trade; what few colonies and outposts had been established outside the Prime Earth, most agreed to abandon in pursuit of the new normalcy.

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Sons of Solomon

The Convention on Preternatural Phenomena and the Dawn of Normalcy

By Dr. Hannah Safia, Dept. of Parahistory, Dept. of Disinformation & Misinformation, et al.
The Foundation Parahistorian, vol. 600. 4/12/2017.

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On the thirteenth of October, 1881, a rogue German sect of the Black Lodge killed God. Exactly two months later, the world would decide its thousand-year foray into the occult and arcane had caused devastation so irreconcilable it could not continue; the time for playing with fire was over.
The destruction of YHWH remains the greatest catastrophe in modern anomalous history. Overnight, the world's most populous branch of religions found their prayers unanswered, and the traditional occult workings they had been using for centuries they noticed become inert as invocations to a dead god. The Church, now unable to perform its promised miracles upon faith alone, was rendered powerless, and the European occult world of which it lie in the center was uprooted. Across the Mediterranean, the Muslim world likewise stagnated as whatever was left of the Ottoman caliphal claim became worthless and it became obvious the only occult authority actually held by the empire was the court mages in its employ and the imprisoned djinn in its vaults. With the penning of Carver's Laws of Unified Thaumatology still years away in 1881, it seemed the West may never again recreate an occult tradition of any significant scale.
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Kabbalistic personification of the thaumic regulator entity YHWH.

The wanton destruction wrought by rogue feuding mages had already long taken its toll, but the acts of the Lodge in 1881 had proven the final straw. The world drew its line in the sand: this madness could not continue. The Sixth Occult War had to end.
The nations of the world came down with the collective hammer and unanimously intervened to end the war with overwhelming diplomatic and (threatened) military force. With the fighting over, the peace would be the next most difficult. The world needed a new approach to the occult so that it could handle the immense repercussions and soon-to-ensue chaos of its late God's death as a unified front. It also, many believed, needed new regulations to ensure non-state actors could never again bring such devastation by the reckless use of anomalies. The occult, they now seemed to think, was best ignored and tucked away; it had cast the whole world into a terrible darkness by bringing us this war, and best be replaced by a new age of logic and enlightenment. Only by seeking refuge in the ultra-modern could we save ourselves, and to do this, we necessarily were obligated to forsake magic.
Meetings were held in Paris and New York, and eventually a final one held at the Forbidden City. The world's nations were invited to discuss future collaboration to create a more orderly and safer world having learned the lessons of the Sixth Occult War. An idealist dream had taken over in national seats of power from Washington to Berlin to Tokyo; that separation among nations in the domain of paranormal policy was only an obstruction to peace, and national paranormal agencies should be surrendered in favor of the creation of a singular impartial authority over the whole world.
At the center of these negotiations were a brilliant young man — formerly a civilian physicist from Cornell, many believe — who, around a decade ago, had founded a fledgling research group called Foundation alongside a group of friends and colleagues after discovering a never-ending path that filled him with an obsessive curiosity with creating a scientific research of the occult. Paradoxically, it appeared that humble study group shared the identity of one of the world's preeminent international scientific institutions for anomalous research. And so the man who called himself Solomon's son found himself with a seat at the table alongside twelve other leaders. He preached the doctrine of international collaboration and the necessity to unify, at times using it to secure funding and power. In so doing, he cemented his organization as first-among-equals at the center of the vast web that would come to be paranormalcy, with an all-new Foundation ascendant as the lynchpin. This man was called The Founder, for it can be said he more than any of the other twelve layed down the Iron Foundation.
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A group of delegates attend the Forbidden City Convention.

On the thirteenth of December, 1881, the Thirteen assembled for the first time to sign the Convention on Preternatural Phenomena.


Her Majesty's Royal Foundation for the Secure Containment of the Paranormal was the first to assent to The Founder's idea. The Foundation plan seemed to sustain London's treasured balance of power in equilibrium and provide the global integration — in both occult military and economy — that Britain sought. High-minded idealist plans of international cooperation and enlightened modernism likewise pleased the liberals in Victoria's cabinet. All that was demanded in exchange was scientific access to locations across the Empire, in which HMFSCP facilities inherited to the new Foundation would prove crucial.
L'Estate Noir had long dwelt in the dark and the shadows, despite the notion of a Veil being entirely foreign until this very meeting. To aid French ambitions, it had for years pulled the strings from behind. But now was the modern day; hardly the halcyon days of First Consul Bonaparte's Clockwork Legions and their glorious conquests, and the time for fighting among nations over the occult matter was over. Relations between Britannia and Marianne had long needed improvement, after all: perhaps volunteering to sign on second would do to cut the tension over Africa and lead to a more productive relationship in a new age.
The Tsar's Seers (Царские провидцы) most immediately needed a way to survive and remain relevant. The occult had not been Russia's foremost priority as of late; the Seers' equipment had become outdated, and the men who made up the organization old and withering. The Seers' occult tradition was a bizarre mixture of the old Byzantine rite and the practices of the Siberian nomads — a flavor of magic that, however mysterious, was dying if not dead. They needed support from the others to remain in their current place. When France signed on, they took their opportunity.
The Imperial German Testing Office for Paranormal Affairs (Kaiserliches Deutsches Prüfamt für Paranormale Angelegenheiten) was as ambitious in these days as could be imagined. New anomalous sciences melded with old-fashioned Prussian militance to create an organization whose prospects were almost frightening at a time when occult agencies were declining elsewhere in Europe. Ever opportunistic, they saw the Foundation plan as an opportunity to legitimize the new Germany as a real power and a reasonable participant in international affairs. As for the rest, they were probably lucky the KDPPA decided to sign on instead of going it on their own.
The American Secure Containment Initiative, riding off the heels of Manifest Destiny, fervently believed they knew best for the world. They thought that, given the assumption of a unified Foundation, the bickering of the various member agencies from across the pond would give America the authority as impartial mediator to dictate occult policy globally for a richer, freer, and more stable world on both sides of the Veil. Thus, when a critical mass of Europeans had signed, they followed. What the ASCI perhaps failed to anticipate was the degree of sub-national agency in the new organization, as hardly any formal national agencies ended up retaining sovereignty nor allegiance to their respective motherland.
The Devan-e Jaaduyih (دفتر سحر و جادو) had a strong base, but faltered as of late. Once purely and solely loyal to Safavid Persia but becoming independent following the dissolution of that state, the Ottoman government had also began contracting them out in lieu of maintaining their own agency in the 1850s, noticing their efficiency and unique magical methodology. The sublime Office had since suffered from over-extension, struggling to fill the shoes of its role as the sole modern occult agency for the entire Islamic world when its sheer size demanded several, particularly without the central authority of a caliphate and with the looming threat of European domination. They hoped the Foundation plan could remedy this and ensure the safety of the empires they protected.
The General Assembly of Thaumaturgists and Theologists was unique, tied not to any particular government and operating all across the West. Founded in Avalon among mostly sidhe, theoretical end-goals of preventing the return of the Mad Queene had since shifted toward general collusion among wizards of different traditions to advance the collective practice of thaumaturgy. This tendency toward international cooperation already made them a great fit, but they waited to sign to secure additional guarantees. Their leader, a cardinal, was a great diplomat: he wanted to make sure the late God would not have frowned upon the new organization, and that the occult world would be treated well and equally. His demands were partially successful, including the passed notion of continuing many former occult settlements in extradimensional Nexus points.
The Council of the Dutch East Indies' Special Investigations Board (Raad voor Bijzondere Onderzoeken, Raad van Nederlands-Indië) may have, upon the first glance, seemed to be filled with old men looking to line their pockets and colonists with delusions of living in the 17th century. But their control in the anomalous economy and virtual monopoly over trade routes both physical and dimensional were nothing to be overlooked, and their willingness to collaborate with the plan was greatly appreciated by the new Foundation for its economic prospects.
The Inner Africa Expeditionary Society was never going to last. Conceived as King Leopold's brainchild, its operations turned out just about as catastrophic and with just about as heinous a human life toll as would be expected given what his future schemes would come to entail. But the time for their rapacious pillaging was limited, and they knew the Heart of Darkness wouldn't remain so mysterious forever as to justify their inane markups in selling African anomalies. No matter how tall their hoard of stolen occult artifacts grew, the Society knew empire of this sort could not be maintained. Using their contained objects as leverage, they fled to the new Foundation project as a way of going out on their own terms.
The Knights of the Military Order of Borja y Aragón were a mystery, even to many of the other delegates at the table. Few knew what had propelled the rag-tag assembly of Spanish witch-hunters and knights to such prominence where the hundreds of similar chivalric orders that existed had failed, holding only local authority at best in an age of increasing nationalism and centralization. Nevertheless, the Order's initiates amassed untold riches from God only knew what dark dealings or far-flung cosmic vistas, and her grandmasters seemed to accrue centuries of age while remaining in health. It is unclear if anyone had the answer to this, but whatever it was, they deemed getting it on their side crucial to the new Foundation.
The Bureau of Onmyō (陰陽寮), in later days called the Holy Emperor's Council for Unearthly Matters (怪異なる事物についての聖帝評議会), seemed stuck between the old ways of magic and the new innovations of an ascendant Japan. As Meiji brought factories and gunboats and ballot-boxes, a schism emerged among the Emperor's older advisors between those who embraced the Rising Sun and those who saw only the reckless degeneracy that would destroy it. In the end, they could agree on only one thing: the Foundation plan was necessary, both to further Japan's prospects as a modern power and preserve the magic woven into its more ancient native traditions.
The Abnormality Institute (異學會) had protected China in some form for almost a thousand years. Surviving what seemed like a hundred bloody interregnums, the heavenly Institute repeatedly shifted names and dynastic allegiances in pursuit of their proto-containment mission. And though in their early days the Great Qing had brought glory to the Middle Kingdom, reactionary emperors and the absolutism of their mandate over the Celestial Empire seemed more and more to be dragging China down. The Institute had been secret supporters of the Self-Strengthening Movement, and were replaced from within by the entrenched bureaucracy. They had warned a series of emperors about the threat of stagnation and were universally ignored. It was against the will of the Empress Dowager, then, that they decided to break away from centuries of allegiance and independently join the Foundation project to secure their own future.


The Solomonic Foundation of the Secure Containment of the Unnatural was the strangest and the most influential. It was their delegate, the man called The Founder, who proposed to merge the thirteen Foundations into one, and proposed much of what we now call the Veil and the purview of SCP-8181. He and his colleagues, at one point the Council of Five Overseers of the Solomonic Foundation, claim to have founded the organization as a humble scientific project in 1872, although records of its existence, including acts of large influence in occult affairs globally, somehow date back to 1824. In these records, an image is painted of a large organization which acts monolithically and in an almost alien manner with regard to other paranormal groups of the time, as if it were a force of nature or total outside observer, despite it apparently being well-known and influential. Indeed, many believe the contradictions of the so-called "First Foundation", that is of the Solomonic precursor's chronology, to be attributable to retrocausal RCT-Δt intervention and the creation of stable time loops, stating it is likely that the pre-1872 actions of the First Foundation are largely attributable to the will of the post-1881 modern Foundation.
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Depicted above: Common dowsing, one of many acts deemed occult and outlawed upon the instigation of the Veil.

The Founder set to work building his Foundation. The Convention on Preternatural Phenomena mandated a Veil to separate the occult world from a newly-created normal one, and as such the infant Foundation's early years were plagued by the seemingly Sisyphean task of radically-restructuring the public consciousness of the Prime Earth to forget anomalous phenomena. The Veil was significantly weaker in the early years, hardly the ironclad barrier we now know — separating public perception of reality from the vast majority of said reality proved a difficult labor, particularly given the arbitrarity of the categorization in some cases: given that virtually every element of existence had some connection to the occult, on what basis was one to decide what should be preserved and what should be forgotten, what the public should be allowed to know from now on, and what not?
Furthermore, the immense EVE emissions caused by YHWH's death unleashed thaumic backlash events and other occult instability across the planet, generally increasing unpredictable occult activity globally and the prevalence of anomalous abilities in the human population at a time when the fledgling Veil demanded they be suppressed and curtailed. This made not only the counteraction of these effects but the planned full removal of anomalous factors from the public seem all the more impossible in the near future — regardless, the Foundation prevailed, making slow progress and fighting occult outbreaks in the unstable post-1881 world wherever they emerged.
The Veil's implementation was always meant to be gradual, despite how rushed it seemed at times in retrospect. The issues were likewise ironed out gradually: as amnestics entered mass production, disinformation and history-rewriting tools became more widespread in scope, and SCP-8181 continued to be discovered and invented, most anomalous phenomena were forgotten entirely, concealed via disinfo campaigns like Project Pantheon, or could be suppressed upon emergence reliably enough to be considered pacified.
But the institution of the so-called Great Forgetting in the mundane public was often only one half of the Veiled coin. Outside the purview of the now-normal society (which was newly classified as the true and entire Earth by the Convention), the rest of the world — those vistas of magic that remained — still stood. Six so-called Prime Continents could be chosen and a safe-haven of normalcy established around them, that much would soon be proven, but once their human populations have been secured and docilized, what is the new Foundation to do with the haven it has constructed? How could they isolate it from the vast occult world that stood just outside its dimensional doorstep? The issue of containing the world of normalcy from the world of magic would prove the second great challenge in establishing a Veil.
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A goetic circle of invocation from the Key of Solomon; one of many ritual components utilized by thaumo-engineers in the creation of SCP-8181.

The Founder emerged with a solution. He would delve into Solomon's tomb and emerge with the rituals necessary to physically sever the dimensional ties that so thoroughly integrated the occult and now-normal worlds, or elsewise with the tools and blueprints for the fledgling Foundation's thaumaturges to devise infinitely more such rites as needed. It appeared the old king once crafted many workings of the type The Founder needed, ostensibly to protect his kingdom from invading nations across dimensional lines once upon a time. This feat3 could be reverse-engineered with the artifacts and grimoires in the tomb to cut off the Hyperways leading to undesirable anomalous locations. If taken to their logically-possible conclusion, the workings were even theoretically replicable on a global scale should they be repeated and spread manually — exactly what the Foundation needed. This tomb and these works were the dawn of SCP-8181.
The coming two decades, during which the Veil was gradually implemented on both fronts, became a crusade for all those assigned to SCP-8181 research. The Foundation went marching across and beyond Earth-Prime in an attempt to find and close every last Hyperway; sever every last connection which linked the so-called normalcy bubble to, or in any other way evidenced even the existence of, a world outside of it. And, against what seemed like all odds, by the good work of the Foundation, by the wisdom of the Thirteen and the grace of the Founder, by our deaths in the Dark to carve out a world that knows Light, the job was eventually finished. The effort mostly succeeded, and the world of normalcy we experience today is its direct result.

[END OF EXCERPT]


Addendum 8181.3


Sacrifice Confers Power

As of 17 November 2022, the creation of a fourth SCP-8181 object, SCP-8181-SIGIL, has been approved to further ensure the preservation and efficient enforcement of the Veil protocol in perpetuity. For more information, please consult attached documents.

— O5-1


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