Scarlet King

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## Evil-doer

### Alias

The Scarlet King
Khahrahk
Khnith-hgor
 King of the Darkness Below
Shormaush Urdal
Crimson Khan
Red Shah
The Crimson Monarch
The King who Rose from the Bleeding
Lord of the Throne of Despair
Defiler of Worlds
Rapist King
PTE-616-Mendes-Ex-Machina
Satan
The Demon
The Dragon
The Red God
SCP-2317-K
SCP-001 (Tufto's Proposal)
@KingScarlet (SCP-404-J username)
Red (by the Saturn Deer)
The Red Ruler
The Seventh King
 The Red King
God
The Enemy
The Old God
The New King

### Allies

Jeser
Moloch
Hanged King
Lord Goran
The Factory
His children
A'tivik
Children of A'tivik
SCP-682
Daevites
Mr. Redd
SCP-3838-8
SCP-4231-A

### Occupation

Old God
Embodiment of the conflict between premodernity and modernity
Manifestation of SCP-2747

### Resources

Reality warping
Immortality
Blood manipulation
Fire manipulation
Incorporeality
Suffering empowerment
Interdimensional travel
Possession
Mind manipulation
Causality manipulation
Reality dreaming
Nature manipulation

### Goals

Escape his dimension (ongoing, succeeded in tales).Destroy the current state of the world and establish an universal hierarchy (ongoing, failed in tales).

### Moral Event Horizon

Devouring his own siblings.
Raping a goddess.
Impregnating his own daughters with leviathans.
Attempting to destroy all of existence.

### Kill Count

Dozens (directly)
Countless (caused; via his followers)
Incalculable (attempted)

### Crimes

Attempted omnicide
Cannibalism
Usurpation
Attempted deicide
Attempted regicide
Reckless endangerment
Serial familicide
Mass murder
Rape
Uxoricide
Attempted mass filicide
Child abuse
Incest
Abuse of power
Slavery
Terrorism
Brainwashing

### Type of Villain

Cataclysmic Deity

**The Scarlet King**, better known by his real name **Khahrahk**, is one of the overarching antagonists of the *SCP Foundation* series. He is an ancient and evil god who is portrayed as a ruthless powerful monarch often tied to the destruction of the current world as we know it.

He serves as the unseen antagonist behind the articles SCP-231 and possibly SCP-2317, and the main antagonist of the "Verse of an Endless Song" series.

## Appearance

In the tale "Three Short Scenes About Death" the Scarlet King is given a little description. His fist are described as massive and gnarled, holding the chains of his consorts and concubines. The same fists could effortlessly smash a man's throat. The King's voice is described as similar to "the chittering of a billion infinitesimal insects", and swirling and constantly moving. His voice also was neither "high nor low nor cacophonous nor methodical", simply just being. When the Scarlet King first appeared to the Serpent, he took the form of a girl in red clothes sitting on a rocking throne.

According to Tufto's SCP-001 Proposal, the King is more akin to a living idea than an individual entity; in effect, he is the idea of nihilism and a force of chaos, and can assimilate an entity thought to be him into an aspect of himself just as it did with SCP-2317-K. He is always depicted as figure with a crown-like ornament over his head showing royalty and associated with the color red, or in the cases of alien cultures lacking the perception of the color red the King would be associated with a color that would be synonymous or close with the color. In SCP-4989, Dr. Simon Kells described looking at the King "like staring at a Pattern Screamer only more hollow".

In "Dr. Wondertainment Goes Out With A Bang", the Scarlet King was described as having an anorexically thin humanoid body, standing exactly seven feet tall and emitting blinding red light. His skin resembled that of a burnt corpse, his hands were gnarled claws, and possessed two great antlers behind his head and multiple eyes on his face. When confronting Cornelius Wondertainment he wore a military uniform covered in medals and rank markers.

In SCP-5641, the Scarlet King was described as ten trillion times Skanda's size, possessing seven mouths which spoke profanities, eyes that killed anyone who looked into them, and fourteen hands which he used to form all types of mudras. In SCP-6765, the King's body was described as a humanoid with a bleeding red maw surrounded by grasping arms and eyes while clouded by smoke and fire, and poured endless blood and released an endless inhumane scream.

In ROUNDERHOUSE's Jade Proposal, the Scarlet King was depicted as a gigantic androgynous red humanoid being with an obscured face and always accompanying his avatar who was depicted as a sleeping man with a long beard, an elaborate headdress and carrying long spears across his back. When approached by Greaves the Scarlet King took the form of a vast red sea, and when he took possession of the lieutenant, manifested at first as Greaves' nervous system glowing red before taking the appearance of a 3 meter tall skinless humanoid with a bare skull and inscribed with pulsating symbols and markings.

## Personality

The Scarlet King was shown to be a cruel, manipulative and nihilistic individual. After learning about the true cruel nature of existence, he thought that reality should not exist and became hellbent in destroying everything, especially the tree of knowledge, via any means necessary, enslaving and devouring numerous gods and doing whatever it pleased him. It is believed that if SCP-999 were to interact with the Scarlet King, then his heart would change and finally see the beauty of the world and abandon his quest of destruction.

In Tufto's Proposal, however, it is shown that the Scarlet King has no true personality of his own, instead his nature being shaped by the belief of humanity. Because the Indians became furious at the British colonizers for studying and categorizing their culture, taking away their traditions and "civilizing" them, this caused the idea of the Scarlet King to develop and form a deep hatred against the modern world. Because most people believed that the Scarlet King was an ancient demonic god determined to end all existence, it became so, although it can be interpreted that destroying the world means to only destroy the modern world and return humanity to ancient feudalism and chaos, which would also result in him completing his mission and ceasing to exist. According to URA-9521, a cephalopod-like monster born from the union of the King and a Daeva matriarch, the King has no personality of his own, instead learning from the people who worship him, and even advised the Foundation that they should concentrate more on his followers rather than the King himself.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

* While it is explainable why he wants to destroy all of the existence due to finding it to be painful to himself, it does not justify him raping his wife to her death nor impregnating his daughters. To summarize, he did these horrible actions for his own benefit, making his motive a selfish one. By extension, it makes his horrendous treatment of his own family his way of angrily lashing out with the mindset that if he can't be happy, no one can.
* He decided that all of existence should be destroyed once and for all, and started by devouring his own siblings and gaining strength from their essences.
* He declared war on all of creation, which would not end until existence itself is gone.
* He subjugated or destroyed other gods. One of the gods he subjugated was a goddess named Sanna, whom he took as his wife, and he raped her to her death, but not before she gave birth to seven daughters, whom he then impregnated with Leviathans.
* He had the children of A'nuht crippled so they couldn't rise against him.
* He inspired acts of human sacrifice by his numerous worshippers, such as the Daevites, James Anderson, and the Children of the Scarlet King, and also inspired the Children to rape the SCP-231 instances and impregnate them with abominations, one of which would destroy the Earth if born.

## Other Media

### In Music

The Australian-based band known as the Atomic Beau Project released on March 23, 2019, a song based on the Scarlet King and SCP-2317 titled "The King".

## Trivia

* The hidden poem in the SCP-231 article hints that instead of working against the Scarlet King, they may be unwittingly or even knowingly playing right into his hands. If this is true, that is presumably why in one canon, "New Job", the O5 Council decided to stop the Protocol, which resulted in the birth of SCP-999. SCP-999 is described as a being that can cure depression and PTSD. As the Scarlet King's background is tragic due to being born aware and possibly suffering from some sort of existential crisis, the O5 Council plans to defeat him "with light and love and laughter that can brighten the blackest of hearts".
* The Scarlet King is often theorized to possibly be the true or final stage of SCP-2317-K, an untold horror that even the SCP Foundation has difficulty containing and documenting. Since the wiki has no real canon, it is ultimately up to the reader to believe if SCP-2317 and the Scarlet King are one and the same. However, 2317's creator personally believes that it and the Scarlet King are completely separate entities.
* SCP-3806-A claims that Yaldabaoth and the Scarlet King are known to snatch human souls in the astral plane. She also suggests that Odin is also gathering honorable souls to form an army in order to fight either the Scarlet King or Yaldabaoth in the end of times.
* The Scarlet King is often associated with whales. This is because the author Djoric joked about SCP-231-7's race being redacted and that since it was five letters long she could have been a whale instead of a human.
* In the universe of SCP-6001 where the Compendium, a benevolent amalgam organization of different GoIs, took over the world and declared worldwide peace with all anomalies, it is mentioned that they were capable of vanquishing and probably even killing the Scarlet King and his pantheon.
* In the joke tale "Tim Wilson KILLS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE!!!", the Scarlet King is one of the many notable beings killed off-screen by Tim Wilson of Wilson's Wildlife Solutions.
* In the comedic tale "Dust and Shopper's Rewards", the Scarlet King goes shopping at Walmart in order to provide food for his daughter/wife, and there, he also meets O5-1 who informs the King on how 231-7 was doing. After he became annoyed with the service of the store, the Scarlet King tried to leave before realizing that he became trapped there in a similar manner to SCP-3008.