Common Terms

A

* *Amnestics/Amnesiacs/Mnestics*: A substance, usually a drug, that the Foundation utilizes to nullify or erase the memories of individuals who have knowledge about anomalies or the Foundation that they should not have
* *Anacoustic*: Anomalous acoustic phenomenon
* *Anartist*: An artist that utilizes or makes anomalies for art
* *Anti-Meme/Anti-Memetics*: Anti-Memetic SCPs involve self-censoring themselves; whenever they are perceived, memory erasure properties typically enact, usually involving said SCP

B

* *The Book of Shadows*: An item obtained from The Wanderer's Library that has the ability to cast effects or "spells" involving shadows and shadowstuff
* *Brightmatter*: The opposite of shadowstuff; a tangible light material created by "celestial light"

C

* *Cognitohazard*: A cognitohazard is an anomaly that can pose a danger to any individual when sensed, but most typically when seeing the anomaly
* *COS/Counter-Occult Strategems*: COS are specialized plans utilized by MTF Psi-9 to counter mystical and "magic" anomalies

D

* *D-Class/D-*: D-Class personnel are expendable and disposable personnel that are essentially held prisoner by the Foundation to be used for testing. They are usually prisoners, GoI members, information leakers, etc.
* *Director/Site Director*: The most qualified individual at any given Foundation Site who directs and runs the operations at their Site

G

* *GoI/Groups of Interest*: Groups of Interest, or GoIs, are organizations the Foundation knows about and acknowledges, typically organizations that also interact with anomalies

M

* *Meme/Memetic*: Memes are information and ideas that rapidly transfer and spread in culture, mutating and changing in form and value for each person that experiences them. Memetic SCPs involve ideas that trigger a response when they're seen or understood, meaning the very knowledge of them can carry out their anomalous effects. There has to be an incentive to spreading them
* *Metaspells/Metamagic*: Utilizing and manipulating fundamental aspects of reality in one area, including manipulating quintessence. Magic is utilized through spells, expending quintessence like a fuel source
* *MTF/Mobile Task Force*: Mobile Task Force Units, or MTF Units, are specialized groups used by the Foundation to carry out certain tasks

R

* *RAISA*: The Recordkeeping and Information Security Administration, or RAISA, is an internal administration in the Foundation tasked with holding all the Foundation information, including redacted and expunged portions of any Foundation documents

S

* *The SCP Foundation/The Foundation*: The SCP Foundation is a worldwide organization devoted to capturing anomalous entities to keep humanity safe and ignorant. The SCP stands for Secure, Contain, Protect; the Foundation's motto
* *SCPs*: SCPs are anomalous objects that can be an animal, humanoid, location, substance, item, planet, dimension, transmission, phenomenon, organism, disease, or anything that exhibits properties and behaviors that aren't typical or normal by understood standards
* *Shadeform*: An ability using the Book of Shadows that allows the user to use shadows and shadowstuff to surround themselves in a different form, becoming solid enough to allow the user to interact with the physical environment
* *Shadowmancer*: An individual who is able to utilize and manipulate shadows in a mysterious way
* *Shadowmancy*: The practice of utilizing and manipulating shadows and shadowstuff in a mysterious way. Shadowmancy can also involve utilizing brightmatter and light adverse to shadows and shadowstuff
* *Shadowsteel*: A strange black metal material that is very strong and malleable
* *Shadowstuff*: A shadowy, wispy black material that resembles smoke and can manifest physical objects and entities, seen in SCP-017 and Umber from The Cult of New Umbra. It appears as a surface or substance that is devoid of light. It can be traveled through using unknown means
* *Skip*: The phonetic pronunciation of SCP, used commonly by MTF agents and doctors working for the Foundation

Q

* *Quintessence*: The metaphysical solids of typically non-solid things, such as light and dark seen in brightmatter and shadowstuff. Quintessence is used for anomalous utility and manipulation, as seen in the Book of Shadows. They don't follow conventional physics and can take different forms with different properties