SCP-140

A Chronicle of the Daevas, classified as SCP-140 ("An Incomplete Chronicle"), is a chronicle that details the history of the Daevite Empire, an extremely powerful nation of a human subspecies known as Daevites that utilized thaumaturgy and worshiped the Scarlet King. Many copies of this book exist, but many are not currently in the possession of the SCP Foundation.
==History==
===Modern era===
In the twentieth century, SCP-140-A established a printing house and published A Chronicle of the Daevas. ███████ ██████, a historian working at █████ University, managed to obtain one copy of a batch in the double-digits. His version concluded with the destruction of the Daevite Empire and the genocide of the Daeva by the army of Chinese general Qin Kai in the 200s BCE. However, several containment breaches by ██████ and other book owners altered the Empire's fate as described in the book. ██████ kept a journal on his home computer to record his book-related experiences. He was eventually driven to suicide by the book's cognitohazard.
===Discovery by the Foundation===
██████ bled out after slicing his wrists in an attempt to expand A Chronicle of the Daevas, and his copy was retrieved by the SCP Foundation after his colleagues reported the incident. A Chronicle of the Daevas was shortly classified as SCP-140 and sent to Reliquary Research and Containment Site-76 in the United States for containment, where it was assigned a Keter containment class due to its qualities. 
The chronicle absorbed both ███████'s blood and ink from other books within a 15-meter radius. The texts that had not been absorbed now contained numerous references to Daeva and the Daevite Empire, and they were also confiscated. Witnesses to ███████'s death were administered Class A amnestics and given false memories.Entry Page: 140
==Alternate realities==
===SCP-6140===
In U-6140, members of the Children of the Scarlet King were able to acquire a copy of SCP-140 from Richard Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin, an MC&D associate. Following the heist, Bruce contacted MC&D, who contacted the SCP Foundation, agreeing to let them keep the copy. The Foundation would dispatch Mobile Task Force Mu-3 "Highest Bidders" to locate the lost copy.
A Children of the Scarlet King cult in Elgin, Scotland, would later utilize the book in a complex ritual to restore the Daevite Empire to consensus reality. The rite had already been performed when MTF Mu-3 arrived at the scene.
When the ritual was finished, all copies of SCP-140 in the world combusted, including the one housed at Site-76 and copies owned by the United Nations Global Occult Coalition, Horizon Initiative, and the Serpent's Hand.Entry Page: 6140
== Attributes==
==Containment procedures==
The SCP Foundation's primary copy of SCP-140 is kept on a desk in a sealed vault at Reliquary Research and Containment Site-76. Liquids suited for writing, such as blood and ink, must be kept no closer than 15 meters from any instance of SCP-140. 
No research on the book is currently permitted; however, admission to the vault would require written permission from SCP-140's lead researcher. If research approval is granted, the book must not be removed from the vault, and readers must not have contact with it for more than nine hours. If an attempt to take SCP-140 is made, a security guard outside the vault is authorized to use deadly force. If any staff are found to have an obsession or memetic infection in relation to SCP-140, they will be given a Class A amnestic, planted with fake memories, and relocated to another station. Relapse signs are monitored and catalogued for transferred personnel.
Any other instances of SCP-140 must be destroyed, with the main copy in the Foundation's hands retained for archival purposes and to counteract any Daeva-related SCPs that emerge from the continuance of SCP-140's writing. 
==Meta==
===Appearances===
*Entry Page: 140 - 14 Apr 2010
*The Price of Knowledge - 26 Feb 2013
*Entry Page: 6140 - 27 May 2021
==References==
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