Nature: Summer's Exile is a member of a highly 
intelligent, sapient species of unknown origin. It 
is known there are other members of their 
species, and that this species are 
hermaphroditic predators. No known fellow 
members of their species have been identified. 
Summer's Exile has been twisted beyond 
recognition from their original form, so 
unfortunately few real conclusions can be drawn 
from them on the rest of their species4. 


Summer's Exile is thought to have been 
banished or exiled from its home; the earliest 
and most reliable accounts claim the Exile is 
"ever denied the lands of Summer." The full 
circumstances of its exile are unknown.° 


The Exile views humans as Western humans 
see cockroaches, but they also have real fear of 
humans beyond the instinctual, for humans are 
comparatively enormous and have spent years 
upon years tormenting the Exile (literally so, in 
the case of the Foundation). To the Exile, 
humans represent a horror nearly impossible for 
us to comprehend. 


They seem to bear a lesser hatred for other 
Earth-based life forms. When interacting with 
non-Earth-based life forms, they behave like a 
typical large predator: sedate and cautious with 
punctuated periods of intense hunting activity. 


It is not known if their adaptive shapeshifting 
capability is native to their species, or if itis a 
curse or trait bestowed on them for other 
reasons, such as the Mark borne by Cain the 


Wanderer, or indeed a side effect of Jailor 
interference. 


History & Associated Parties: Summer's Exile 
is closely connected to the SCP Foundation on 
an occultic level; the nature of this connection is 
not yet fully understood. The Jailors certainly 
awoke them from their prior hibernation and may 
or may not have created their present form 
entirely. 


It is Known that Summer's Exile was in 
hibernation for centuries until the Jailors 
disturbed their slumber. At an unknown date a 
decade or longer ago, the Jailors discovered (re- 
discovered?) the Exile's grave, apparently based 
on information inherited from their predecessors 
(see other entries relating to the SCP 
Foundation's history elsewhere). 


The Jailors dug up the Exile's insensate body, 
and began subjecting it to experiments, 
attempting to combine the body with other 
preternatural entities. They must have been 
forewarned of the consequences, perhaps at the 
last minute, for no Jailor was present when the 
Exile awoke. 


After awakening, the Exile briefly wandered the 
Earth before the Jailors managed to capture and 
imprison it. The Exile has been attempting 
escape ever since. 


Because of these events, Summer's Exile is 
commonly named "Gaoler's Hubris". 


The Jailors have reacted with fear to their 
mistake, but wrongly. Their leaders privately use 
the Exile as an example of why knowledge and 
scientific inquiry is dangerous and must be 
suppressed, rather than acknowledging that they 


ought to have sought out more knowledge on 
the Exile before blundering around in the dark in 
the Exile's grave. Predictably, the Jailors refuse 
outside help with the Exile. 


Summer's Exile has shown great affection for 
the Fifth Lost Child, despite her humanoid form. 
The reason for this is unknown.® 


Curiously, there are also reports of Summer's 
Exile cooperating with the Jailors at times to 
unknown ends. If this is at all true, most Jailors 
appear to be unaware of it. 


Approach: Confrontations with Summer's Exile 
are best won through distracting them or 
temporarily imprisoning them long enough to 
escape. Human Hand members in particular are 
advised to flee Summer's Exile by any means 
possible. 


Summer's Exile cannot be banished 
permanently to another non-Earth plane, only 
temporarily (usually attempts fail). The Exile's 
longest successful banishment was to the 
Ravelwoods (see Library sources) as the effect 
of a particularly powerful ritual, and even then 
the banishment lasted mere years, and was 
likely more successful due to the nature of the 
Ravelwoods itself. Summer's Exile cannot enter 
Ways and is barred from entering the Library. 


No imprisonment of Summer's Exile has ever 
been permanent. The Jailors have been most 
successful, but Summer's Exile regularly 
escapes their cages. Only the Jailors' resources 
have allowed the Exile's continued 
imprisonment. 


The Jailors continually subject Summer's Exile 
to attempts to kill it. This is strongly 


recommended against, for exposing Summer's 
Exile to more power will usually only increase its 
power, and not all its immunities wear off after 
time.” 


Observations & Stories 


Records of Summer's Exile appear intermittently 
throughout history, though many accounts 
appear to be fabricated. One famous account 
(thought fabricated due to historical 
inconsistencies) is Lord Blackwood and the 
Great Tarasque Hunt of '83. The earliest 
mention is from a fragment of an unknown work, 
naming the Summer's Exile and claiming that 
"she grieves eternally for tragedies unknown" 
with no elaboration.8 


Many accounts refer to Summer's Exile as a 
Sisyphean figure, being punished for some 
terrible crime by banishment to our world, and 
forced into an endless incomprehensible and 
certainly painful cycle. The Exile'’s very existence 
here is torture.9 


C. Mondessa claims in "Lost Souls" that 
Summer's Exile resigned themselves to being 
unable to return home, and wishes to either 
sleep undisturbed or to destroy the entirety of 
civilization, whichever is most convenient. She 
speculates that they may, in fact, believe that 
they may be freed from their imprisonment on 
Earth once they have exterminated all sapient 
life on the planet — a belief that may in fact be 
true. 


"The Exile is futility and absurdity in flesh. The 
Exile is the workman, stomped upon by the 


nobility, the wanderer turned away from shelter, 
the child ignored by the parent, the lover 
abandoned, injustice visited. The Exile, reborn 
and turned back from Summer in perpetuity, 
swims in the pains of birth and death, struggling 
to reach equilibrium when none is to be found. 
Only when it awakens, when it is conscious, 
when it sees the truth of its eternal struggle, will 
it turn its pain to scorn and return it thrice-nine- 
fold. There is no struggle that cannot be 
overcome by scorn. No obstacle that cannot be 
brushed aside by rage and righteous indignation. 
When justice is served it will be served in fire 
and sharpened stone." ~Septimus the Enchanter 


Doubt 


It is possible that the Jailors themselves created 
Summer's Exile out of whole cloth during one of 
their grand experiments, creating everything 
about their present and past — from their 
original species and absent home to their 
retroactive appearance in old tales — in a single 


vast reality cascade. 1011 


A few accounts alternatively claim that the 
Foundation is purposely attempting to help the 
Exile ascend back to godhood, so that it can 
return to wreak vengeance on the home from 
which it is exiled, but most of us find this 
unlikely. 


1. Despite being referred to in multiple texts as "the Last 
Dragon", Summer's Exile is neither the last of their kind 
nor a dragon, and even if they were a dragon, would 
certainly not be the last. Possibly a corruption of "Lost 


Dragon", with the term "Dragon" being metaphorical or 
an umbrella translation. 

2. Informal. No official scientific categorization has yet 
been applied. 

3. This follows the principles of the Sixth Law of Magical 
Dynamics set out by Xiaophus. 

4. Other than "smart hermaphroditic predator", which 
apparently we're just assuming is true based on armchair 
theorization and dubious old sources? There can be no 
"conclusions" here; Summer's Exile is a monster made of 
rumor and fear. 

5. The Exile's home may lie within the Summerlands, or 
Summer itself. This may be an obscured reference to a 
more alien home. Or, instead, Summer may be a 
metaphorical reference to a properly destined afterlife 
(possibly an afterlife paradise), or the next stage in the 
reincarnation cycle from which the Exile is being barred. 
6. Some scholars have speculated that they are two 
halves of the same being — perhaps even split by the 
Jailors, or the Jailors' predecessors. 

7. For instance, during the Exile's first six attempts to 
escape Jailor custody, small arms fire was sufficient to 
hurt them enough to allow for re-capture. This has since 
ceased to be viable, forcing the Jailors to go to greater 
and greater lengths to keep the Exile caged. 

8. This fragment differs from most early sources by 
indicating that the Exile is feminine or female, depending 
how Old Aloish language is interpreted; other early 
sources refer to them as gender-neutral or 
hermaphroditic (not necessarily intersex in the humanoid 
sense, but specifically hermaphroditic). This article refers 
to the Exile with the gender-neutral ‘they’ in its English 
iteration, as is most common, but note a minority of 
scholarship alternatively uses 'it', ‘she’, and ‘he’, in 
descending order of commonness. 

9. If true, the Foundation's apparently torturous 
containment is, at worst, only a moderate annoyance, 
and at best actually beneficial to the Exile by serving to 
encourage growth in its power. — X. X. 

10. This allegation has cropped up repeatedly but has 


The following effects have been observed in subjects exposed to 
SCP-712: 


— Perceived desaturation when viewing colors in the visible 
spectrum after viewing SCP-712. After viewing SCP-712-1a, 
subjects perceive desaturation of yellow and blue colors; after 
viewing SCP-712-1b, subjects perceive desaturation of red and 
green colors. This is the most commonly reported effect. 
— Viewing SCP-712 has triggered severe migraine headaches with 
visual aura in subjects predisposed to migraines on several 
occasions. 
— Diminished ability of the subject's eyes to focus visible 
wavelengths of light while retaining the ability to focus SCP-712 
wavelengths. 
— Temporary complete blindness to the visible spectrum has been 
observed in two subjects. Both subjects recovered within the 30 day 
observation period. 
— Grand Mal seizures. Before the recovery of SCP-712-1, Dr. 
appeared to have suffered a Grand Mal seizure. During initial 
experimentation, two subjects diagnosed with epilepsy suffered 
seizures. 


+ Recovery Log 


Recovery of SCP-712-1: 

The Foundation was alerted to a possible anomalous 
object when Dr. , a respected professor of 
Physics at University was institutionalized 
following a reported nervous breakdown resulting in a 
fugue state lasting several days. Dr. is a highly 
respected expert in sensitometry and had been 
expanding on Crane and Piantanida's research into 
human perception of "impossible colors" for three years 
prior to the recovery of SCP-712-1. 


Research assistants studying under Dr. found 
him unconscious in his optics laboratory on July 02, 
2009, after apparently having ripped the power cord of 
SCP-712-1 from a bench power supply during a grand 
mal seizure. Foundation investigators posing as doctors 
with the state's Department of Mental Health interviewed 


not yet been proven. Certainly, it would go yet further 
towards explaining the Jailors' general hatred of 
knowledge and scientific inquiry. 

11. There's no need to overstate this case. The 
Jailorsaimfor knowledge and scientific inquiry, even 
though they fall horribly short. This sort of overstated 
rhetoric is inadvisable. 


Blue Lily Chains 


Blue Lily Chains 


Ward flower chains, faerie chains 


Conspectus 


Blue lily chains provide minor warding effects 
and are a symbol of good luck and friendship to 
those on good terms with fae. A popular variant 
of classic faerie chains, blue lily chains were 
created by Serpent's Hand members! using 
Library-sourced techniques. These chains are 
often created by students of the preternatural as 
an exercise in imbuing items with aetheric 
qualities. 


Illustration 


Blue lily chains methodically attached to a 
favorite potted poinsettia owned by 2.S.. Foil 
does not have mystical significance. 


Knowledge 


Traits: Blue lily chains have a number of small 
magical effects: 

~ They use the strength of interpersonal 
relationships to keep negative emotions out of 
whatever room they're in@ 

~ They allow a user minor protection when 
traveling faerie paths 

~ If hung in direct sunlight, they protect against 
many fae-affilated spirits, so long as there is 
daylight 

~ They provide minor protection against physical 
and spiritual harm? 

~ Miscellaneous minor protective wards (may be 
customized by the user)4 


Nature: Blue lily chains are specially attuned to 
the crafter, and their friends, family, and 
romantic partners. The effects of the chains are 
stronger when given to someone the crafter or 
custodian cares about. 


Like all objects of faerie origin, blue lily chains 
have an element of caprice, especially around 
faeries themselves. Lily chains respond to the 
wearer's mood and the mood of the others 
around them and causing the effects to fluctuate 
(though usually in positive ways). Be sure to stay 
on good terms with fae, otherwise the chains 
may stop or reverse their effects. If stolen, the 
chains will not work for the thief.§ 


The use of blue lilies in these faerie chains has a 
particular occult significance to the original 
developers, which shall not be noted here’. 


History & Associated Parties: This particular 
style of faerie chain was developed by Serpent's 
Hand members, which makes these chains 
potent sympathetic magic tools for members of 
the Hand. Faerie chains in general have a long 
history — it's said that the first were created 


when the first humans met the first faeries in 
friendship, in time immemorial. 


Approach: Blue lily chains are considered 
"Steadfast" in Loyalty8, because their effects will 
only manifest for a single individual, and must be 
passed on willingly to transfer the effect. The 
chains can be passed only to someone the 
custodian cares about, or has at least some 
sympathy for.9 Only the crafter can pass on the 
blue lily chains the first time. 


To benefit from the effects of the chains, hang 
them as decorations in a stationary area that has 
meaning to you — such as within your home, a 
favorite social location, or even a place outside 
your home where you sleep. You can also use 
them to decorate something that is portable, 
especially if living.10 Some people in the Library 
bring blue-lily-chain-decorated plants with them 
to reading rooms. You can also wear them on 
your person, as a bracelet or circlet or necklace. 


A small cluster of fairy chains can provide an 
exponentially useful effect, though wearing too 
many of them on your person will not provide 
much benefit. 


The only way these chains can be dangerous is 
if you intentionally upset a fae. So don't do that. 
(Well, just don't do it. Is there really any reason 
to upset a fae on purpose?"1) 


Other Detail: Similar chains and garlands are 
used across the world, with or without magical 
connotations — though, more may have this 
significance than are remembered by those 
using them. 


Within the Hand, these are sometimes used to 
mark people or locations that are trusted. 


Remember, though, don't turn off your brain just 
because magical symbolism walks into a room... 


Observations & Stories 


See "Faerie Fire" and "Never Servants, Walkers 
In Light" for a great deal of excellent information 
on the history and usage of faerie chains. 


For more general history of humans and fae, 
"The History of Men on Mundus"!2 is a good 
place to start. A recent popular alternative is 
"Children of Light, Children of Dust"!8, by Abigail 
Jackson of the Association of Wanderers. 14