Gate Guardian

The Gate Guardian is a Euclid/Keter class humanoid entity that is one of many potential entities that share the SCP-001 title. It can be viewed as one of the overarching protagonists of the entire mythos. SCP-001 is the being that prompted the creation of the SCP Foundation. He said one word that echoed through the administrator's head, "prepare". It was that one word that made the administrator create the Foundation for an unknown future event, and to contain many other dangerous or helpful entities and anomalies. It has never left its station.
==Description==
The Gate Guardian is a colossal entity that stands over 1000 feet in height, making it impossible for the foundation to contain. It normally has 4 luminous wing like appendages but the number can sometimes vary between as few as 2 or as many as 108, with each pair sprouting from its shoulders, back, temples, ankles, and wrists. The guardian wields a weapon described as either a sword or knife also known as SCP-001-2. The weapon can emit flames that rival the heat of the sun but, strangely, causes no damage to the environment around it.
As its name suggests, The Gate Guardian stands, weapon drawn and head bowed, in front of an equally colossal gate through which a pastoral grove can be seen along with multiple other entities that share SCP-001's description. This grove is thought to be the biblical Garden of Eden. The grove contains many fruit trees of unknown species, with two trees of immense size near the groves center. One of them, thought to be the Tree of Knowledge, appears to be an ordinary apple tree while the other, thought to be the Tree of Life, bears a fruit unknown on earth.
SCP-001 can and will annihilate any and all beings, organic or artificial, that pass within a 1 km radius of itself and ignore it's warnings, this is down to the sub-atomic level. The speed at which these attacks happen make it look like SCP-001 barely even moves. Ranged attacks on SCP-001 end with the instant annihilation of all projectiles, including those with nuclear capabilities along with attackers, regardless of their geographical location. In the case where a D-Class was executed for refusing to ignore SCP-001's warning to leave, all people responsible for the death of the D-Class were immediately annihilated along with their research site. 
Following the discovery of a message from the future that arrived at the Foundation in the present day, it was learned that, should SCP-001 step aside from his placement in front of the gate, a widespread, potentially world-ending cataclysm is about to occur.
If real, The Gate Guardian is one of, if not the most powerful beings that The Foundation has ever seen.
==Personality==
Not much is known about SCP-001's personality as it rarely interacts with humanity, and The Foundation rarely interacts with it out of safety. What is known however is that SCP-001 isn't openly hostile, preferring to send a telepathic message such as "FORGET" or "LEAVE" to all living beings who pass within a 1 km radius of itself. When the message is followed, the being will be free to leave, all while forgetting about SCP-001's existence.
It appears to at least care about the human species as a whole as the entity had a direct hand in the creation of The Foundation and it's goal of containing and combating anomalous creatures and entities that would easily spell the end of humanity, the planet or potentially the entire universe itself. However it has no qualms about destroying any one person or group of people who ignore its warnings or, on the very rare occasion, anger it, not seeming to care about collateral damage, as long as the majority of human kind survives.
== History ==
On December 26, 2004, the SCP Foundation tested SCP-001's kill range by firing a warhead from a nuclear submarine, which caused the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on the same date. This incident led to the deaths of around 35,000 people, most of whom were innocent civilians. This event very nearly exposed The Foundation to the world, resulting in the mandatory termination of all family, friends, and individuals related, in any way, to the 35,000 victims to prevent questioning, and the deployment of many memory erasing and memory altering drugs called amnestics on a near global scale. After this, any and all experiments including SCP-001 and nuclear material were forbidden on order of the O5 council. 
== Trivia ==
*A later experiment which included SCP-001 and SCP-073, also known as "Cain", was conducted to see if SCP-073's ability to reflect damage back on to his attackers would work as a counter. Against expectations, 073 was left unconscious and multiple members of personnel were left permanently blinded. SCP-001 was unharmed. After this incident, no further experiments of any kind which include SCP-001 are permitted on the order of the O5 council.
*The foundation once tried to use him to kill 682. The Gate Guardian failed and 682 stated that the guardian isn't Uriel, but a pretender, and that the place he was protecting was not the Garden of Eden instead the garden being SCP-2746, which is far west.
*In the tale "The Gate Opens", SCP-343 decides to use his angelic army to lay waste to the Earth, so that it could be remade as a paradise. He goes to SCP-001 who kneels to him and refers to him as his Father and Lord, and on 343's orders 001 finally opens the gate where armies of similar abstract angelical beings emerge.
*When SCP-001 confronted SCP-729-J, a powerful bunny plushy, he kneeled and a mouth manifested on 001's head calling it his lord, and then put it on the garden he was guarding. The Foundation was able to retrieve 729-J after 001 was allowed to have SCP-999 for a day.
*The Gate Guardian is included as a dangerous anomaly card in the SCP board game called Uncontained.
==Gallery==
SCP-1730.jpg|An alternate version of SCP-001 fighting alongside its version of SCP-2845 against Leech Boy inside SCP-1730
Scp001 main.jpg|Image of SCP-001 as seen on the official SCP Wiki.
Scp 001 anim.gif|The updated image, now animated. (mildly compressed for this wiki, to decrease load time.)
GateGuardian.jpg
Gate Guardian Tarot Card.jpg
SCP-3002 Iris Thompson.jpg
File:Dragon ash's SCP-001 The Gate Guardian.jpg
==External Link==
*SCP-001 — SCP Foundation Wikidot
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