Ectoplasm — A semi-corporeal fluid which is 
transparent under normal circumstances and 
evaporates at room temperature. When subjected 
to an electric current it will emit visible-wavelength 
photons in a process known as ectoluminescence. 
Eigenweapon — A paraweapon capable of killing 
large numbers of people and/or dealing massive 
amounts of damage to terrain, infrastructure, or the 
environment. An anomalous weapon of mass 
destruction. 

EVE — Elan-Vital Energy. The fundamental 
particle of aetheric energy, which powers all 
thaumaturgy. 

Evocation — A spontaneous act of thaumaturgy, 
done without preparation or planning. Extremely 
difficult to perform successfully, and highly 
susceptible to backlash. 

Exorcism — An occult ritual intended to remove 
non-corporeal entities from a person or object. If 
the exorcised entity or entities originate ina 
different universe, they will be returned to it if 
possible. 

Exploit — A term for pattern-based reality bending 
accessible by any sufficiently skilled persons. 
Usually limited in scope and scale. Commonly 
associated with anartists. 

Familiar — A fragment of raw intellect given form 
and animated by thaumaturgy. Commonly bound 
by thaumaturges to serve as aides and 
companions. The preferred technical term is 


Constructed Intelligence. 

¢« Geas — The use of memetic agents to force a 
person to obey a set of rules or guidelines. 

¢ Golem — A physical construct animated by 

thaumaturgy, possessing basic sentience and a 

rudimentary intelligence. Essential instructions and 

complex behavioral parameters can be ascribed 

with an emet, a written inscription on or within the 

golem. While technically only referring to 

constructs animated via Kabbalistic thaumaturgy, 

the term is commonly and colloquially used to refer 

to any type of thaumic construct. 

Infohazard — A cognitohazard which can affect 

an individual if they learn about it, even without 

directly perceiving it. 

¢ Meme — An infectious idea which influences 
human actions, especially one which encourages 
further propagation of itself. Memetics is the study 
and application of memes. 

« Mnestic — A memory-enhancing drug used to 

counteract the effects of antimemes. 

Multiverse — The section of reality composed of a 

baseline universe and all of its associated branch 

universes. Many multiverses are known to exist 

throughout reality, although the total number is 

impossible to know with certainty (and is possibly 

infinite). Travel between multiverses is 

extraordinarily difficult and exceedingly rare. 

¢ Necromancy — The act of consulting the 
remnants of a deceased intelligence in order to 
gain information which may be used in attempts to 
predict future events. 

¢ Normalcy — That which is accepted and 
understood. The status quo. 


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¢ Occult — A term for things that violate the laws of 
physics, but which act in a manner consistent with 
the theory of unified thaumatology. AKA "magic". 


Ontic Bleed — A term used to describe the aspect 
radiation flux that commonly surrounds Ways, 
which arises as a result of branch universes 
drawing on the reality of the baseline universe to 
support their existence. 

The Outside — The infinite void of conceptual 
unspace which surrounds and encompasses the 
multiverses. It is a realm of unbounded concepts, 
devoid of mind or matter, which defies rational 
comprehension or explanation. 

Parahuman — An alternative term for humans 
with anomalous properties. Largely 
interchangeable with the term anahuman, although 
different organizations have different usage 
preferences. 

Paranormal — A term used for things which, while 
unexplainable under current laws of physics, act in 
a consistent, logical manner. 

Parascience — An encompassing term for 
scientific fields and endeavors which work behind 
the Veil to study paranormal phenomena and 
principles, with the ultimate goal of producing 
explanations compatible with standard physics. 
Paratechnology — A catch-all term for technology 
that is either non-anomalous but beyond the 
current state-of-the-art, or which is derived from or 
makes use of paranormal principles which are 
understood well enough to reliably replicate. Often 
abbreviated to paratech. 

Psionics — A field of parascience dedicated to 
the study of psychic and extrasensory abilities, and 
of individuals who possess these abilities. Psionics 
focuses on documenting various forms of psychic 
phenomena, analyzing their biological origins, and 
treating psionic diseases and disorders. 

Psychic — An individual possessing any number 
of psionic abilities, including extrasensory 
perception, innate precognition, telekinetic 
manipulation, and multiple forms of telepathy. 
Reality Bender — An individual with the innate 


ability to alter reality without employing 
thaumaturgy or exploits. Also called Type Greens, 
Bixbies, and Shapers. 

¢ Thaumatology — The parascientific study of 
paranormal phenomena historically referred to as 
magic. Unified thaumatology is the most widely 
accepted theoretical framework within this field, 
and provides the basis for nearly all modern 
implementations of functional magic. 

* Thaumaturge — An individual capable of 
harnessing EVE to perform occult workings. Also 
called Type Blues, Sorcerers, Wizards, and 
Magicians. 

¢ Thaumaturgy — The use of occult workings to 
alter reality, in conformance with the theories of 
unified thaumatology. 

¢ Universe — A single self-contained region of 
reality with its own physical laws and 
characteristics. Travel between universes is 
accomplished via Ways. 

¢ The Veil — The name given to the ongoing policy 
of world governments and normalcy protection 
agencies of hiding or disguising the existence of 
the anomalous, paranormal, and occult from the 
majority of humanity. 

¢« Way — A portal between universes within the 
same multiverse, which can be opened with an 
incantation or ritual to allow passage. Ways can 
also be created artificially by thaumaturges and 
reality benders. 


List of Locations 


A list of notable locations that appear in this canon. 


¢ Eurtec — A pocket universe accessible from almost every 
major city, built by the Servants of the Silicon Nornir to 
facilitate the research, development, and consumption of 
paratechnology. Its business-friendly legislature and laissez- 


faire approach to paratech have lured numerous 
organizations, including Prometheus Labs, to set up shop in 
Eurtec. Representing itself as the quintessential megalopolis 
of the future, Eurtec actively solicits paratech producers, 
consumers, and entrepreneurs to take advantage of what is 
essentially the largest celebration of paratech off Earth. 
¢ Paramax — United States Penitentiary, Paranormal ADX, 
colloquially called Paramax, is a federal supermax prison 
designed for containing anahuman felons and mundane 
paracriminals who cannot be amnesticized. Built in 1947 with 
assistance from the Foundation, Paramax is located in its own 
artificial pocket universe which floats freely through the 
Outside alongside the mainline universe. As one of the few 
facilities of its type, a number of nations have entered into 
agreements with the US Government that allow them to house 
their anahuman prisoners within Paramax. 
Three Portlands — A pocket universe with entrances in 
Portland, Oregon; Portland, Maine; and the Isle of Portland, 
formed from the overlapping and merger of the adjacent 
pocket universes of these places. Three Portlands is home to 
a vibrant anomalous community, drawn from the paranormal 
populations of its anchor cities. Because of its status as a 
quasi-independent city-state, many paratech companies use it 
as a tax haven, including Prometheus Labs. 


Cast of Characters 


A list of major and recurring characters that appear throughout this 
canon. May contain spoilers. 


¢ Vincent Anderson — Founder and CEO of Anderson 
Robotics. A Three Portlands native, Anderson is a skilled 
thaumaturge and cunning businessman who has turned his 
mid-90’s start-up into the world’s foremost source of robotics 
paratechnology. 

¢« Bardeen — An experimental artificial intelligence developed 
by Dr. Ambrose Peters at Prometheus Labs, Bardeen was 
appropriated by the Foundation's Department of Analytics. 
They erased its memory and retrained it to operate their 


WATCHDOG global monitoring program. Bardeen is now 
SCP-2897, and plays a vital role in the operations of the 
Analytics Department. 

Alliott Chao — Alliott Chao is a Discordian and a Black 
Queen involved in the trade of paratech across universes. 
Selling and buying eigenweapons from various universes in 
order to fund her investigation into her father's disappearance, 
she's currently located in the Third Law universe in an attempt 
to exact revenge for the destruction of an eigenweapon she 
sold. 

Simon Pietrykau — Director of the Foundation's Department 
of Analytics. Defected from GRU Division "P" after the Cuban 
Missile Crisis, and quickly rose up the ranks of the 
Foundation. Spearheaded the formation of the Department of 
Analytics, and has had a major influence on the Foundation as 
its director. Has acquired numerous biomechanical 
augmentations since the 1970s. 

The Rowe Family — The Rowe family are a clan of distantly- 
related thaumaturges with a long — and occasionally lost — 
history within the occult community. At present, the lineage 
has largely faded from view, with only three relatively notable 
descendants remaining: the renowned occult scholar Lauren 
Rowe; the elderly and recluse former Prometheus Labs 
researcher Eugene Rowe; and the young psychic medium 
Adam Rowe. 

MTF Tau-5 ("Samsara") — The result of Prometheus Labs' 
Samsara Project, Tau-5 are a group of four regenerating 
commandos used by the Foundation to test experimental 
paratechnology, and for missions where a conventional MTF 
would likely be lost. They are effectively expendable and 
renewable. 

Kenneth Spencer — Kenneth Spencer is a special agent of 
the UIU assigned to Three Portlands, and the sometimes 
commander of JTF Delta-3 ("Organic Free Trade"). He is a 
veteran FBI agent and investigator, but is a relative newcomer 
to the Veil. His vocal distrust of the Foundation has helped 
endear him to the paranormal community in Three Portlands. 
Robin Thorne — Robin Thorne is a special agent of the UIU 
assigned to Three Portlands, and a natural thaumaturge of 
moderate ability with extensive training from the ICSUT. They 


are a lifelong resident of Three Portlands, and are well-versed 
in the intricacies of the paranormal world. 


Paratech Products and Projects 


A list of significant pieces of paratech, or efforts to develop paratech, 
that appear in this canon. May contain spoilers. 


Automated Exorcism System — A machine for 
automatically performing exorcisms and other similar occult 
workings, although the presence of a thaumaturge is required 
for it to function. Sold by Prometheus Labs from 1985 to 1995, 
customers included the Horizon Initiative, the Global Occult 
Coalition, and the Foundation. 

All-Natural Automatons — Organic robots created through 
genetic engineering of cloned human zygotes, using 
technologies developed during Project Samsara. One of the 
few Prometheus Labs products that were untouched by the 
restructuring, production began in 1990 and continues to this 
day. 

Argo Marque Automobiles — The primary product line of 
Argo Automotives, consisting of temporally displaced cars 
from a year in the future. Sold from 1998 to 2008. 

Everhart Resonator — A machine used to produce EVE from 
electricity, developed by John Everhart during the Seventh 
Occult War. The conversion requires a thaumaturge to start 
the process, and is extremely inefficient, but it is far more 
reliable than any other method for generating large quantities 
of EVE. 

ISV Daedalus — A massive spaceship, intended for use as 
an interstellar research vessel. Construction was abandoned 
by Prometheus Labs in late 1997 before it could be 
completed. The unfinished hull is currently in a low-orbit 
around asteroid (532) Herculina. 

Ghostlight™ — A line of lightbulbs manufactured by Titan 
Consumer Appliances and Electronics, which utilize the 
ectoluminescent properties of ghosts to produce light. 
Recalled in 2006 due to quality problems in the supply of 
ectomorphs used. Manufacturing resumed at a later date 


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Consequently, 
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under Foundation supervision. 

NOTUS — A Prometheus Paraeconomics supercomputer built 
in 1968 to produce accurate stock market forecasts for 
selected stocks of interest to the company's economists. Later 
acquired by the Foundation in 2005. 

Powdered Unicorn Horn — A retrocausal contraceptive and 
industrial pesticide sold by Marshall, Carter and Dark. 

Project Auto-Magus — A long-term research and 
development program at Prometheus Labs in the early 1970s, 
focused on creating a fully mechanical thaumaturge. Canceled 
in 1976, the technologies developed were later used to create 
the Automated Exorcism System. 

Project Bardeen — A project undertaken by a team of neural 
network researchers at Prometheus Advanced Logic Devices, 
with the goal of developing an artificial intelligence. Despite its 
success, the project was shutdown after Prometheus 
Computing was purchased by the Foundation. 

Project Samsara — Originally a program for developing 
regenerative stem cell treatments, it transitioned into studying 
full-body regeneration and brain uploading in the mid 1990s. 
Met with some early success prior to the breakup of the 
Prometheus conglomerate, and was later revived by the 
Foundation. 

Sigil Machine — A machine that can generate various occult 
symbols and sigils to aid in thaumaturgical workings, with a 
uniformity and precision greater than that normally attained by 
unaided thaumaturges. Derived from the technology used in 
the Automated Exorcism System. 


Preliminary Report of J.C. Randall Upon His Party's 
Efforts to Catalogue the Multiverse 


Editor's Note: The document that follows is the first and last written 
report made by Doctor John Carver Randall — the inventor of the 
aetheric oscillation detector, and father of modern multiverse theory 
— during his 1927 expedition to explore the multiverse. It is also the 
last confirmed communication of any type to originate from his party, 
having been written on the eve of their disappearance. 


Although this report is largely a summary of a larger, comprehensive 
report that was never produced, the data it contains helped lay the 
foundations of multiversal cartography, in the form of the Randall 
Catalogue — the first systematic documentation and description of 
other universes within our multiverse. My intent in producing this 
edited and annotated version is to make this groundbreaking work 
more accessible to the modern reader, while preserving its historical 
and scientific worth. — L. Rowe 


To Marshal Landen Petersen, the Director of Anthropological and 
Archeological Missions, !