A blacked, pus-dripping arm, as thin as an olive branch, unfurled 
from its collar, and slowly stretched until it came to a filing cabinet 
located on the western wall of this office. Opening it, it rustled 
through some papers, until it came up with a file. Curling back into 
the coat, it dropped the file on the desk. 


Now, Fritz, we've, uh, reviewed your personnel file. Due to the extra 
amount of time you've spent with the, uh, SCP-085 object, and the 
multiple reports from your late subordinate, Lieutenant Masipag, 
who, uh, who complained about the time you spent... testing. We've 
interviewed Cassie, and determined the nature of the testing. 


Ten full seconds passed, and neither man nor being spoke. 


And, uh, so... due to high crimes and misdemeanors against the 
Foundation's mission, including gross negligence and inappropriate 
usage of an anomalous object, you are sentenced to die. This will be 
carried out at high noon, uh, tomorrow. 


Fritz froze in his seat. All around him, the room seemed to be 
compressing in on itself. This couldn't be happening. This was 
wrong. Impossible. The words echoed in his mind, shoving every 
other thought to the far reaches of his mind, until only the sobering 
and tombstone-still realization thundered through his shattered 
thoughts, like a final cavalry charge through a demented thought. He 
was finished. 


"B-but sir, surely this is an.. overreaction? | don't think- | mean, 
surely | deserve to at least keep my life through this? Why waste 
another life?" 


No, uh, | apologize, but this is just how things have turned out, 


Commander. You've caused a great deal, uh, much anguish to, er, 
many of our comrades, and somebody simply has to be responsible. 


"But..." Fritz struggled to find the words. "What about the people 
who didn't prevent me from abus- from using the containment 
supervision to see C- SCP-085?" 


The Administrator's body did not hold even a single withered hope. 
No pity, or remorse, or sadness could be detected from his rasping 
tone. 


You seem to, uh, appear to be having difficulty with your phrasing, 
Commander. 


Fritz opened his mouth once more, but words failed. 


Maybe, uh, perhaps, or, even if what you say is true, it doesn't 
matter, Commander. You are still, uh, the primary bearer of 
responsibility. I'm afraid it's, uh, time to face the music, so to speak. 


Before Fritz could utter another word, there was a creaking behind 
him. Two men, in identical, brown and gray uniforms stepped inside. 
Wordlessly, they hoisted him up by his arms, and began the long 
escort to the brig. 


| shall, uh, be sending somebody down in around an hour, 
Commander, if you require anything further. Good day, to, uh, you. 


The doors slammed shut, and a stuffed silence permeated the air. 


From his overcoat, a long arm emerged, crossing itself in front of 
him. 


Yes, yes, but, uh, being callous, it's better than having to empathize 
with a man like him. He was going to come down this road 
eventually. 


It twisted, snapping skin and ligaments as it curled around his 
infantile form. 


I'm sorry it had to be so explosive, too. | suppose, | suppose this is 
just how it happens, sometimes. 


The arms moved in assent, nestling below him and cradling him. He 
would need his rest. 


When the universe demands the absurd and impossible, we shall be 
there to stand and protect the rest of humanity... 


Without another word, his ruined eyelids shut, and he was at peace. 


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Et Tam Deum Petivi Hub Page 


Welcome! 


This is the hub page for the "Et Tam Deum Petivi" canon, a 
collection focusing on the lives of the agents of the Horizon Initiative. 
Here you will find background universe information and all tales and 
tale series taking place within the canon. 


This canon is open for anyone to add to. One shots, ongoing series, 
it doesn't matter. 


Tales and Tale Series 


Mary-Ann and Salah (by Djoric) 
Prologue: Just a Word to Me 


1) Shepherds 

2) Second Watch 

3) People Look East 

4) The Good of the Other 

5) The Place Where Two Rivers Meet 
6) Breakfast for Dinner 

7) Crossing the Streams 

8) The Tick Tock Gospel 

9) Nor Gloom of Night Shall Stay 
10) Agricola in Insula est Poeta 
11) Empire of Dirt 

Part 1 

Part 2 

Part 3 

12) The Settling Ash 


Mud on the Carpet 


When We Came Home 
The Hope Lake School 


Those Thin, Penultimate Hours (Djoric) 
Down By the River (Djoric) 
Excerpt of an Autobiography (Djoric) 


Wolves (by Dmatix) 


1) Tolerance 
2) The Horizon Blues 
3) The Man Comes Around 


Writing on the Walls (by Azzleflux) 


1) The Written God 
2) The Word and the Wolf 


Shifting Gears (by Vincent_Redgrave) 


1) Ignition: 
Part One- The Artists 
Part Two- The Soldier 
Part Three- The Rebel 
2) Are We Whole Yet? 
3) The Grey Gospel 
4) Judgment of the Machine 
5) Stalled- Picking Up the Pieces 
6) Reshaping the Machine 
7) Rusted Breaths 
8) Brass Sand and Blood 
9) As Fluid as Mercury 
10) Reignition- A Gear Forever Turning 


Chapterhouse 4 (By Ihpkmn) 
Facts Concerning Team 15 of Chapterhouse 4 and the Black Book 


The Verse 


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was too weak to 
fracture her own 
skull. 


« SCP-631 | SCP-632 | SCP-633 » 


This is just a collection of the basic tidbits and 
terminology that make up this canon. 


The Tribunal - The head council of the Horizon Initiative, 
consisting of a representative from each of the primary 
religions in the Initiative. 


The current Tribunal is: 


¢« Samuel — The most radical of the Tribunal. Leader of 
the Sons of Shammai. 

¢ Adnan - The moderate member of the Tribunal. Leader 
of Atibba al-Kitab. 

¢ Bernard — The tie-breaker: often indecisive. Leader of 
the Ordinis Occulti Luminis. 


The Tribunal oversees organization-wide matters: local 
matters are covered by the appropriate chapterhouse. 


Chapterhouses - The primary headquarters for a district 
of the Initiative. There are ten chapterhouses in the 
United States, while the Initiative in Europe and the 
Middle East will generally operate out of the 
headquarters of pre-existing organizations. Mary-Ann, 
Salah and their friends all hail from Chapterhouse 3. 


The Scribe Corps - The Initiative’s librarians, 
researchers, archivists, and clerical staff. They generally 
work behind the scenes, translating and analyzing 
recovered document and scripture. They are currently 
working on compiling the Universal Texts, a collection of 
the most theologically and historically accurate record 
possible to the truth of matters. 


The Shepherd Corps - The Initiative’s primary 
multipurpose field agency. Shepherds are the eyes, ears, 
and arms of the organization. Shepherds operate in 
pairs, living out amongst the general populace. 


Shepherds will generally receive their assignments from 
the District Head of the Corps, but may betake special 


orders from the Tribunal, as they, unlike Project Malleus, 
are under Tribunal jurisdiction. 


A Shepherd’s primary duties include: 


¢ Serving as guiding members of the local community. 
¢ Studying religious groups and establishing relations 
with groups listed for assimilation. 

* Recovery of artifacts and records of interest to the 
Initiative. 

¢ Low-threat anti-cult operations. 


Most Shepherds will own one or two items of some minor 
anomalous property, most often acquired through 
contacts with friendly anartists or Serpent's Hand cells. 
Veteran Shepherds will have more items on their person, 
sometimes upward of a dozen. 


Basically, these guys are Professor Sazed’s TH211 
comparative theology class with a little bit of the 
McManus brothers thrown in. 


Project Malleus (“The Wolves”) - The Initiative’s 
combat forces, under the command of Henry DeMontfort. 
Project Malleus is made from the most zealous and 
aggressive sects under the Inititative’s umbrella. They 
will kill and die without question, to the point where they 
are intimidating to pretty much everyone else in the 
organization. A strong rivalry exists between Project 
Malleus and the Shepherd Corps, with the Shepherds 
referring to PM agents as “Wolves”, while being referred 
to themselves as simply “Sheep”. 


Project Malleus favors fire-and-brimstone methods, often 
using relics in combat of significant destructive power. 


Basically, these guys are Father Anderson from Hellsing. 
An entire organization made up of Father Anderson. 


Areas of Influence - The Horizon Initiative is most 
influential in Western Europe, the Middle East, and North 


America. Operations in South and Central America and 
Africa are growing rapidly. Activity in east Asia is 
minimal: contact with various religious organizations is 
present, but any significant activity in the area has yet to 
occur. 


Demographics of the Initiative 


¢ Christianity - The main base is a mixture of Roman 
and Orthodox Catholics, and mainstream protestants 
(Lutherans, Anglicans, and Episcopalians). 
Representatives from evangelical and congregational 
sects, and the LDS Church, while present, are low in 
number. 

¢ Judaism - A very heterogeneous mixture of sects and 
groups, without clear majority groups. 

¢ Islam - Primarily Sunni, with a many practitioners of the 
Sufi mystic traditions. 

¢ Eastern Religions - There are a few consultants here 
or there, but little more than that. 

¢ Other - The Initiative has absorbed numerous small- 
scale cults and organizations, such as the Cult of the 
Wordsmith, the Church of Purity, and the Australian 
Church of Australia, among many others. 


The New Path - A method of thinking emerging within 
the Initiative, which emphasizes “moving away from the 
engrained shell of past ritual and ancient tradition and 
turning towards the "Truth of God”. It is generally 
frowned upon by the traditionalists, but the existence of 
the Universal Texts shows that it is gaining ground. 


Initiative Relations with Other Groups of Interest 


¢ Good Relations: Manna Charitable Foundation (The 
Initiative will occasionally sponsor them), Serpent’s Hand 
(most low-key cells), non-violent anartists (major 
suppliers of minor anomalous artifacts to the Initiative). 

¢ Variable Relations: The Initiative has a tentative truce 
with the Foundation and Coalition, including some 
negotiation rights over items, but this is the ideal, not the 


actual reality. The Initiative has some relations with 
Marshall, Carter & Dark, but keeps them at arm’s reach 
and doesn’t trust them in the slightest. 

* Poor Relations: ORIA (As the ORIA is a Shia 
organization, and the Initiative a Sunni majority), Chaos 
Insurgency (The Insurgency focuses on exploiting the 
poor, while the Initiative seeks to aid them) 

* Open Combat: Church of the Broken God, Fifthist 
Church, AWCY and other violent anartists (generally 
those who have begun a crusade of their own against 
religion because so edgy). 

¢ No notable relations: Alexyva, Dr. Wondertainment, 
the Factory, GRU-P, Nobody, and the UIU. 


The Initiative has connections of various kinds with a 
great many minor religious organizations not mentioned 
here. 


BackdoorSoHo - A little pocket of compressed space in 
Manhattan, home to a varied and vibrant community of 
anartists and various other inhabitants of the anomalous 
underworld. The head Doorman is Charlie, and entry is 
gained by presenting a token with the phrase ARS 
GRATIA ARTIS carved into it. 


Free ports like BackdoorSoHo exist all over the world, 
and serve as places where the human elements of the 
anomalous world may gather in relative peace. Most 
often they will be sponsored by some group or another, 
usually anartists or the Serpent’s Hand, but a great many 
are, for lack of a better term, unaligned. 


Key Themes 


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Street-level anomalies - “For every SCP contained by 
the Foundation, ten thousand harmless anomalies go 
unnoticed.” 


This canon will, by and large, take place on this level. 
The world is not under constant threat of destruction 
here. People live with, work with, and are anomalies ona 
daily basis. It’s almost urban fantasy-esque, in a sense. 
This view of the world is a much more weird and 
wonderful place than how the Foundation sees it. 


Life happens wherever you are, whether you want it 
to or not! - This canon is, at the end of the day, all about 
the characters. Who they are, what they do, where 
they’ve been and where they’re going, how they change 
and what changes them. There is happiness, sadness, 
love, loss, and life to be found here. 


Affiliation does not equal alignment - Don’t fall into the 
trap of “Church of the Broken God? Marshall, Carter & 
Dark? AWCY? CLEARLY EVIL.” This is a fallacy. All of 
the groups of interest will have good people, bad people, 
and people of all shades of grey. All of the GOls have 
their own perceptions and biases, of course, and many 
times with good reason, but do not let their biases 
become yours. 


Old vs New and the Truth - The Initiative is rife with 
internal issues. The old guard wants to hold on to the 
traditions of the past, maintaining the status quo or 
regaining lost position. Others, seek to mold the old 
traditions into something new, founded instead on newer 
and more accurate discoveries. Some will choose to try 
to destroy legitimate items because they clash with old 
beliefs, and others may come to crises of faith because 
of what is discovered. On the opposite side, characters 
may come to various realizations and empowered belief 
by those same truths. 


Timeline of Events 


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1944 - The three members of the Tribunal meet, the 


precursor to the Horizon Initiative is formed. 

c. 1960 - The Horizon Initiative is officially formed. 
1974 — Salah is born. 

1980 — Mary-Ann is born. 

1994 — Salah moves to Britain, meets Adnan. 


1998 — Salah graduates from university, begins full-time 
work in the Shepherd corps. Mary-Ann joins the Army 
Field Artillery Branch. 


c. 2000 — Project Malleus is founded. (Fire On The 
Horizon) Salah moves to the United States and is 
assigned to Chapterhouse 3. 


2001 — Mary-Ann is deployed to Afghanistan. 


2009 — Mary-Ann receives Honorable Discharge from the 
Army. 


2011 — Mary-Ann begins training for the Shepherd corps. 
Tolerance takes place. 


March 2012 — Mary-Ann and Salah are assigned as 
partners in the Shepherd corps. 


November 2012 — Shepherds and Second Watch take 
place. Foundation/Coalition/Initiative Non-Aggression 
Pact is signed. 


December 2012 — People Look East takes place. 
January 2013 — The Good of the Other takes place. 


February 2013 — The Place Where Two Rivers Meet 
takes place. Project Malleus destroys an anart 
community in California. 


April 2013 — Breakfast for Dinner takes place. 


May 2013 — Crossing the Streams takes place. 
October 2013 — The Tick Tock Gospel tales place. 


November 2013 — The Written God and The Word and 
the Wolf take place. Tribunal sanctions, investigations, 
and reforms against Project Malleus begin. 


December 2013 — The Horizon Blues, Nor Gloom of 
Night Shall Stay, and Ignition Part 1: The Artists take 
place. Naomi is born. 


April 2014 — Agricola In Insula Est Poeta takes place. 


June 2014 — Empire of Dirt takes place. The Settling Ash 
begins. Salah resigns from active service. 


2022 - The Settling Ash ends. 


Footnotes 

1. Rumors of a fat Zen Buddhist tea master and his blind MMA- 
fighter granddaughter within the Initiative are complete nonsense 
and not to be taken seriously. Theydefinitelydon’t roadtrip across 
America in a beat-up van and hang out playing go with strangers in 
tea shops. Nope. Theydefinitelydon’t do that. 


Just a Word to Me