SCP-4840

Audapaupadopolis (English: City of the First Father), commonly abbreviated to Aud and classified by the SCP Foundation as SCP-4840, is a floating city located 7.8 kilometers (4.8 miles) above the Russian arctic. It is the first known civilization of human ancestors, also known as Homo aeternus or the Children of the Sun.
==History==
=== Building of Audapaupadopolis ===
In the early days of Earth, before even the Antediluvian era, Adam el Asem was fathered by Mekhane and Važjuma and placed upon the Earth. He explored the world, experiencing and seeing many wonders during his travels, until he came to the garden of Eden. There, he created the city of Audapaupadopolis upon a hill, which became a shining beacon of IS. While wandering in the gardens of Eden, he met Lilith there. The two fell in love, with the first two of their sons being Cain and Able el Adam. The two sired many more children, this race becoming known as the Children of the Sun, their scientific name being Homo aeternus. She eventually left Audapaupadopolis, leaving to explore the strange places of the world.Entry Page: 4840
===Early days===
Desiring a companion, Adam cut a rib from his chest and used it to produce Eve with his ontokinesis. The only child she and Adam produced was Seth, as she died from complications of childbirth. This sent Adam into a depression, deeply saddened by the loss, though he still cared for his children. Adam sent them to learn from the mothers of the world while he ruled his city and people. Audapaupadopolis became a vibrant hub, with a population of 100,000. Gods and monsters walked the streets, including the Serpent and Anantanesha, Mekhane and Yaldabaoth, the Scarlet King, Wondertainment, and even THE DEER.
===Decline and fall===
After his sons returned, the youngest, Seth, asked his father if he could have his very own star. Adam granted this request, taking a crown from another universe. Adam became obsessed with this crown, declaring himself the King of All That IS. His first sons, Cain and Able, betrayed him, using their lineages to raise armies and fight one another in order to claim the crown for themselves. 
During a fierce battle in a field below Audapaupadopolis, Able came to his brother to offer peace. Overcome with wickedness, Cain killed Able with a stone, but was immediately beset with intense guilt and grief afterward. He approached his father, Adam, with Able's broken body, when Adam tore Cain's arms off and marked him with the curses of perfect memory and to curse the land he walked, before sending him away. Able was then brought back to life, though he became filled with intense hatred. Lamenting what Able had become, he stored Able in a stone crypt beneath the earth.
Realizing that his other brothers would kill one another for a chance at claiming Adam's crown, Seth stole it from his father's head as he slept, fleeing with his kin from Audapaupadopolis. It fell to ruin slowly, its population of 100,000 leaving the city, with Adam being captured by the Fae and the Children of the Night. Seth stayed with Harrian's house in Old Europ, giving him the crown and dubbing him Apollyon: the King Over The Darkness.
===Seth's return and conflicts===
After Harrian passed and the crown went to his son Uvan, Seth returned to Audapaupadopolis and slept there for many years. Harrian's descendant and Sky King of Old Europ Xorus Apollyon demanded the lance Adam once held. When Seth told Xorus he did not know where it went, Xorus threatened to destroy the city in order to find it. In response, Seth worked with the great dragon Bharata to lift Audapaupadopolis in the sky, before sending it to the northern land of Leng where no man could reach it.
After the Great Profanities corrupted the four knights of King Sarrus IX Apollyon, Lancelot assaulted the city of Audapaupadopolis. Seth called upon the great dragon Bharata, the Noddite hero Beowulf, the sea lord Arkthurus, and King Relivine, the last Daevite king. This battle lasted for weeks, with all the defenders falling one by one until only Bharata and Seth remained. With his last breath, Bharata tore out Lancelot's heart upon the Temple of Sunset, the two of them dying. 
Seth remained alone, guarding the city from intruders for thousands of years, even as the Antediluvian Earth was washed away by the Great Flood. He used his power to shield the city from the naked eye, allowing it to be undiscovered for many thousands of years. The city was located above the North Sea in Scandinavia at about 4.5 to 5 kilometers (2.8 to 3.1 miles) in the sky.
===Rediscovery===
As time passed and the strain of maintaining Audapaupadopolis weighed on him, Seth was unable to keep the city shielded from human perception. In September 1933 during a flight from London to Oslo, British airman Sir George Dansen rediscovered the city. This news reached the SCP Foundation and the Royal Conservatory for Public Perception, who worked together to keep information about Audapaupadopolis out of the public sphere. The city was designated SCP-4840, and the Foundation sent Captain Francis Pike and a team of researchers in a hot-air balloon to explore it. There, they met Seth, who was also classified as SCP-4840-A.
==Description==
SCP-4840 is a large city currently located about 7.8 kilometers (4.8 miles) above the Russian arctic. The diameter of the entire city is about 5.45 kilometers (3.4 miles). It is currently levitating in the air due to the power of SCP-4840-A, who has been the caretaker of the city for eons. However, 4840's temperature and oxygen density is akin to being at sea level. 
4840 was built using advanced techniques that are commonly used in the modern age, such as the use of gas lamps, though were nonexistent elsewhere in the world for thousands of years. SCP Foundation linguists discovered a progenitor language to many Mediterranean languages, including Greek, written on many of the buildings in the city. 
The city is divided into four quadrants and a central hub. Each quadrant represented a certain trade, such as artisans and craftsmen, engineers and designers, blacksmiths and metallurgists, and farmers and bakers. Each quadrant had their own local governance, being located near the central hub. The hub contains three stone temples with iron ornaments, the Temple of Sunset, the Temple of Sunrise, and the Temple of Night, as well as a great hall formerly used as the building of governance for the whole city. The great hall contains a room that only SCP-4840-A could access, with unauthorized individuals experiencing growing dread as they attempt to enter until they're incapacitated by fear; this dread is represented by feelings of anxiety and panic.
== Notable locations==
*Temple of Sunrise
*Temple of Sunset
*Temple of Night
*The Old Library
==Notable residents==
*Adam el Asem (formerly)
*Bharata (formerly)
*Robert Bumaro (formerly)
*Eve (formerly)
*Mekhane (formerly)
*Scarlet King (formerly)
*SCP-073 (formerly)
*SCP-076-2 (formerly)
*SCP-336 (formerly)
*SCP-3000 (formerly)
*SCP-3125 (formerly)
*SCP-2845 (formerly)
*SCP-4840-A
*The Serpent (formerly)
*Unidentified pattern screamer
*Wondertainment (formerly)
*Yaldabaoth (formerly)
==Containment procedures==
As SCP-4840 is a mobile floating island, it cannot be contained within one singular space. As a result, the SCP Foundation set a 120 square kilometer (46 square mile) area of exclusion in the Russian Arctic, maintained by containment head Alyosha Yanovich and the leader of ATF Ru-199 "Siberian Squads". Thick clouds are used to shield 4840, though there are cloud generators that are used when weather is clear enough for one to see the city. Should anyone claim to have seen 4840, they are to be transferred to Site-210, likely for amnesticization. 
Monitoring of SCP-4840-B should also be performed regularly, though it has not moved since the Foundation's arrival. Documentation regarding 4840 should only be accessible to people with Level 4/4840 clearance, with only members of Project PARAGON or senior staff members assigned to SCP-2254, SCP-████, SCP-████, and SCP-4812 allowed to see the contents of 4840's SCiPnet document. As the Insurgency Reborn remains a threat, only certain authorized terminals have access to 4840's documentation.
==Meta==
===Appearances===
*Entry Page: 4840
*Project PARAGON Hub
*Audapaupadopolisian Language
==References==
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