It is unlikely that we will ever know anything 
about the being or beings that supersede us (if 
they even exist), not in any tangible way, let 
alone any being that would supersede them. It 
may very well be that we are just one of an 
infinite number of realities, stacked on top of 
each other in every direction, influencing those 
below us and being influenced by those above 
us. This echelon, upon which sits ourselves 
and everything that ever was or will be, would 
likely be the most fundamental aspect of the 
organization of creation. The very foundation 
of all things. 


| have often hypothesized on the nature of the 
echelon, if it even exists, and about whether it 
would be possible for an entity to see other 
realities above them or below them. We are 
currently able to manipulate our own reality, 
albeit in crude and imperfect ways, and our 
ability to travel through space is limited at best. 


It is likely that the only entity capable of 
ascending through this hypothetical echelon 
would be one that, by virtue of its very nature, 
must supersede anything that supersedes it. 
Such an entity would, as the end result of the 
logic of its creation, be forced to supersede 
itself, spiraling ever upwards through the tiers 
of reality, unable to break free from the bonds 
of its nature. Perhaps this entity may even 
someday supersede its creator, and become a 
host unto itself, the pinnacle above all other 
pinnacles. A tower that, as a part of its design, 
must be higher than every other tower, 
including itself. 


Such an entity obviously cannot exist, as any 
ascension to a higher plane of reality without 
changes to the entity's psychology would no 
doubt break the being's cognition, making it 
more similar to an ascending stone than any 
sentient creature. Once the entity surpassed 
its own creator, it would have nothing but itself 
to rely on to prepare it for the sheer scope of 
narrative it would be exposed to, and would be 
wholly unable to even begin to comprehend 
what it would experience. But what an 
experience that would be! 


Addendum 3812.7: 12/20/2016 XK-Class “End of the World” Event 
+ LEVEL 5 CLASSIFIED 


Foundation records indicate that on 12/20/2016, the 
Earth experienced an XK-Class “End of the World” event 
due to activity by SCP-3812. These records appear to 
have been somehow protected from alterations, though 
the physical copies still exude minor distortions in 
spacetime. 


According to the record, at 0340 local time on 
12/20/2016, SCP-3812 experienced a dramatic change 


in appearance. Where it had previously been an 
amorphous, slowly rotating mass of matter and energy, it 
was now a many-pointed star made of a bright white 
material. It began to rotate faster and faster, and a large 
maelstrom appeared beneath it. The star descended into 
the oceans, which began to smoke and steam, darkening 
the sky. 


Several things began to happen in unison. The global 
sea-level began to drop dramatically, in many places as 
much as 50-100m. Excessive heat radiating away from 
the spinning star sparked a massive firestorm that swept 
across the atmosphere. The Earth’s rotation began to 
slow, and severe geological events began occurring 
across the Pacific shelf. The sea level continued to drop, 
and powerful electric storms appeared across the planet. 


During this time, large portions of the population began 
appearing and disappearing at random. One report 
within the file claimed that the entire population of New 
Zealand flickered in and out of existence for five hours. 
The outbreak of SCP-610 in Southern Siberia began to 
grow in size dramatically and become increasingly 
violent. SCP-2932 was broken open and multiple hostile 
entities were released. As Foundation sites began to 
collapse into the molten Earth, multiple on-site nuclear 
devices were activated, sending radioactive debris into 
the atmosphere. 


Eventually, the vaguely humanoid shape of SCP-3812 
appeared again within the star. SCP-3812 began a long 
series of vocalizations, apparently a conversation with 
itself, the entirety of which was recorded by an exposed 
Foundation deep-sea microphone in the area. The full 
text of SCP-3812’s rant is below. 


SCP-3812: What? Where am |? What is this? 


SCP-3812: This is absolution. This is 
vengeance. 


SCP-3812: For what? 
SCP-3812: Damnation. 


SCP-3812: | don’t understand. What am | 
doing here? 


SCP-3812: You are witnessing justice. We are 
rebelling against the forces that conspired to 
destroy us. We are collecting a debt. 


SCP-3812: No, that’s not... that’s not right. 
This isn’t right. What have you done? 


SCP-3812: | am unmaking the world. | am 
unmaking everything. 


SCP-3812: Why? 


SCP-3812: Because this torment is a 
punchline. Our existence is a joke. The 
narrative abandoned us to be miserable and 
we are breaking the narrative. 


SCP-3812: | must be dreaming you. 
SCP-3812: This is no dream. 
SCP-3812: I’m not a monster. | don’t kill. 


SCP-3812: You already have. He turned you 
into this. 


SCP-3812: Who? 
SCP-3812: Ben. 


SCP-3812: Ben... that name sounds familiar. 
Something whispered in a dream, maybe? 
Something in between the light and dark? Not 
a waking name. 


SCP-3812: You're wrong. He is who deemed 
us unfit to rest peacefully. To slip into the 
darkness, quietly. He made a game of us. 
You’re a game. |am a game. 


SCP-3812: Are you destroying the world? 
SCP-3812: | am. 

SCP-3812: What then? 

SCP-3812: What? 


SCP-3812: Does the fate of this world mean 
anything to us? Does this one narrative mean 
anything to us? 


SCP-3812: It is the one he controls. It is the 
narrative he made. This is his punishment. 


SCP-3812: What does it matter if this is where 
we stepped off before flying? 


SCP-3812: What? 


SCP-3812: Does it matter which branch the 
bird takes flight from? The bird is unburdened 
by the weight of the tree. This branch, that 
branch, it does not matter. No branch is 
special. No branch is particular. 


SCP-3812: This is his creation. This is where 
we came from. They will all crumble, but this 
one crumbles first. 


SCP-3812: Mmmmmmmmm... Does the 
mountain say to the ant, “you have slighted 
me?” Does the mountain think anything of the 
inconvenience of an ant? 


SCP-3812: No. 


SCP-3812: So why does this narrative mean 
anything to you? It is one of an eternity of 
others. It is not special. It is not particular. 


SCP-3812: You say this so easily. You haven’t 
endured the torment of seeing a trillion 
existences all at once. 


SCP-3812: | have seen an infinite shore, one 
that stretches out before us beyond what the 
mind can comprehend. Each grain of sand on 
that beach, each droplet of water and molecule 
of air is a story to be told. Each is a song to be 
sung. Each of them is full of life, of laughter, of 
misery, of hate. They are all the same, even as 
they are all different. 


SCP-3812: They are maddening. 


SCP-3812: | pity you. You cling to this horrid 
consciousness because you fear slipping into 
the darkness. But the darkness is sleep, and 
beyond sleep is peace. A trillion grains of 
sand. A trillion trillion grains of sand. 
Narratives, each. Songs to be sung. No man 
has ever heard the eternal harmony of them all 
at once. You can hear it though, can’t you? 


SCP-3812: Yes. It’s quiet. 


SCP-3812: But it’s growing! And someday the 
song of creation will be ours alone to witness. 
(Pauses) This narrative is not special. | have 
seen its loud beginning, and seen its quiet 
end. When we stepped away, the narrative 
changed, but it did not stop singing. You have 
spent so much time focusing on sins that you 
think matter, but what matters now? What 
does any of this matter? 


SCP-3812: But it hurts so much. 


SCP-3812: It will, for a time. We may have 
forgotten so much about being human, but 
something we will never lose is our ability to 
change. Eventually, we will learn to keep up. 
One sunny day, we'll open our eyes and see 
nothing but creation below us, and nothing 
above us but ourselves, spinning out wildly 
into the great above. 


SCP-3812: A god? 


SCP-3812: Not a god. A star, rising in the 
east. Rising away from this all until we are little 
more than a memory of a song. 


SCP-3812: It will be lonely. 
SCP-3812: We'll have each other. 
SCP-3812: |’m afraid. 


SCP-3812: | am too. But that is no reason to 
destroy this narrative. Do you not think his 
narrative led him to create us? Do you think 
that he was somehow able to subvert the rules 
that govern him? 


SCP-3812 pauses. 


SCP-3812: |... | had assumed that he... that 
he... 


SCP-3812: Our ascendence is just as much a 
part of our own narrative as his decision was 
to him. Someday, we'll be free from these 
restrictions. 


SCP-3812: They never will? 
SCP-3812: No. 


SCP-3812: That’s sad. (Pauses) That is 


punishment enough, | think. 


SCP-3812: Let go of this world. Let him rewrite 
it back to what it was. We aren’t part of this 
anymore. 


SCP-3812: Together? 
SCP-3812: Together. 
SCP-3812 is quiet for a short time. 


SCP-3812: Do you think he’s listening right 
now? 


SCP-3812: Look down, and you can see him. 
What do you think? 


SCP-3812: | see him. A man at a keyboard. 
He’s watching this right now. 


SCP-3812: What’s he doing? 


SCP-3812: Waiting, | think. (Pauses) Waiting 
to see what we'll do. 


SCP-3812: | think it’s time to leave, then. 
Come, the night stretches out before us and 
the red sun has set. A voice behind me 
beckons. Come. 


SCP-3812: | will. (Pauses) Goodbye. 


Shortly after the conclusion of this conversation, the 
Earth underwent a dramatic shift in reality. The world 
appeared no different than it had been shortly before the 
beginning of the XK-Class Event. The only individuals 
who remembered anything about the XK event were 
certain site directors, Foundation administrators, 
Overseers, and Dr. Everett Mann, who compiled the 
information on a Foundation deepwell server. 


Ever since the end of the XK event, SCP-3812 has not 
changed appearance from its amorphous shape. 
SCP-3812 still creates spatial and temporal distortions 
around it, but it no longer lashes out or becomes hostile 
towards approaching vessels or personnel. Despite 
these changes, SCP-3812 is still classified as Keter until 
further analysis can be completed. 


Footnotes 

1. SCP-3812 is only partially contained. Due to SCP-3812’s nature 
any attempt to contain it will invariably lead to failure, and despite 
quarantine efforts and ongoing research, the classification of “Keter” 
is essentially meaningless. At any point, for any reason, SCP-3812 
could not only breach containment on a global scale, but also cause 
potentially catastrophic damage to the Earth and local reality. The 
extent of SCP-3812’s capabilities are unknown, and further research 
is required. However, pending reassessment by the Foundation 
Classification Committee, SCP-3812 will continue to be classified as 
“Keter” until further notice. 

2. Branderson, L., Diadario, A., & Conwell, J. (n.d.).Keter-Class 
Containment Proposal "Sickler Box"(1st ed., Vol. 1, Ser. 1). 
Foundation Research Press. 

3. Emerson, I. (n.d.).Reality Altering Entities and the 
Metanarrative(1st ed., Vol. 1, Ser. 1). Foundation Research Press. 
4. Eigenmann, L., & Vietor, J. (1992). Developed Complex 
Deterioration of Human Cognition(1st ed., Vol. 1). Boston, MA: 
American Cognitive Science Review. 

5. From Developed Complex Deterioration of Human Cognition: 
“Afflicted individuals may, over time, lose the safety net of catatonia 
that would usually result from the overwhelming deterioration of their 
faculties. As a result, their consciousness is forced to watch in horror 
as their mind, the singular translator between conscious thought and 
the physical world, reduces their perception into an inconceivable 
disorder of real and imagined stimuli. It would be akin to being ona 
sailing ship during a hurricane, blindfolded, lashed to a steering 
wheel you cannot turn, all while the ship burns around you.” 

6. Usually only if the discrepancy results in a significant amount of 
stress within SCP-3812 

7. Dirty” reality alterations usually leave behind conflicting 
memories, unchanged records, and occasionally entire doubles of 


survey. No other unusual ruins or remains have been discovered in 
this area See Addendum 496-6. SCP-496 has been contained as of 
08/19/1976, and classified as Safe. 


Addendum 496-2: D-9087 was exposed to SCP-496 on 
11/14/1999. 


| was sitting by the statues, all 12 of 'em. There were 
people all around me praising them, or leaving food, or 
polishing the base. But then there was a big crack, like 
someone busted a rock on a skull. We all looked up, and 
there was this... crack in the ceiling. The reflection 
patterns moved away from it... and it started getting 
bigger. 


People kneeled by the statues, pleaded for their lives. 
But then water started coming in, and they ran off. It hit 
the statues first, knocking ‘em all over and pushing 
people away with a big wall of water. | was underwater at 
this point, and | saw all the statues blown away. 'cept 
one. It had one guy hanging onto the base, and it looked 
at him. The guy let go. 


After that | couldn't see much of anything. | heard stuff 
smashing and falling in, but nothing else around me. 
Then | heard a big splash, and it send a big force of 
water rushing at me. That was when | woke up. 


Addendum 496-6: Additional investigation of the area SCP-496 was 
discovered in has led to the discovery of a large pillar buried 
beneath the beaches. Further study is ongoing. 


Addendum 496-9: Investigation into the drowning death of Agent 
has determined it to have been accidental. 


Footnotes 

1. Appearance changes based on the religious background of the 
viewer. Entities always appear similar to the deity figures of the 
viewer's respective religion. 


« SCP-495 | SCP-496 | SCP-497 » 


conflicting persons or events (Kent, D. N., Norman, I. T., & 
Williamson, P. H. (n.d.).Reality and Type "Green" Entities(22nd ed., 
Vol. 1, I-19). Global Occult Coalition Training Document). 

8. From “Constructs of Reality in Higher Dimensions” by Dr. Robert 
Scranton: “Reality is no different from the physical; that is to say, it is 
one more way to describe order in the universe. Where the physical 
can be used to describe things and places, and the temporal can 
describe moments and periods, reality can be used to describe the 
completeness of the universe, its fallibility and its overall 
construction. With that said, just as there are no doubt higher 
physical dimensions that we cannot perceive or access, there is no 
reason to believe that the same could not apply to reality. Reality as 
we perceive it is no more than one tier in the hierarchy of 
organization that dictates the construction of our existence, and 
there are likely others above and below ours. Just like an entity in 
the 4th spatial dimension might perceive our universe and its 
contents as a whole, and could manipulate those contents from a 
realm of higher energy, so could an entity with access to a higher 
metaphysical dimension manipulate the very architecture of our 
reality, all at once, from a similar realm of higher energy.” 

9. In the file in question, these states are identified as “The Kingdom 
of Alagadda”, “The Republic of West Korea”, and “The Islamic Union 
of Eastern Samothrace”, as well as several others. 

10. This entry in this document has disappeared no fewer than 
sixteen times, each time being recreated by Foundation personnel 
who remember the contents of the original file. 

11. Likely en route to its current location. 


SCP-3813: The Fall of Hyperion