ZZZ-Colossus Lich

## **CLEARANCE - LEVEL 4: SECRET**

All information regarding KQE-0018 ("Colossus Lich") is classified Level 4 Clearance by order of the Global Occult Coalition. By proceeding, you are acknowledging that you have clearance to view these files, and that you have received Need-to-Know permission from the appropriate Level 5 or higher authority.

NOTICE: This document contains a mnemetic kill agent, any viewer without proper clearance will be terminated.

Containment Class: Euclid
Disruption Class: Amida
Risk Class: Critical
Spacial Manifold: Faewild
Environment: Humid Continental Climate (Dfb)

Containment Procedures
   KQE-0018 instances should be avoided at all costs.
If encountered: Subject should immediately deafen themselves. DO NOT attempt to salvage hearing. DO NOT cover, obstruct, or dampen hearing. DO immediately destroy any capability to process auditory information. Subject should then vacate the area as soon as possible. DO NOT look at the KQE-0018 instance.
Upon surviving an encounter with KQE-0018: DO NOT sleep for at least 9 days. This may result in death. If the subject sleeps before the 9-day period concludes, they must be terminated. Report the incident to your Site director, appropriate amnestics will be administrated.

XK-Class "End of the World" Scenario
During a XK-Class "End of the World" Scenario, War should be declared on the KQE-0018 instance. The O-5 council are to be given total authority. See Document "K-Class Scenarios".

Class A Scenario: "Resurfacing"
During a "Resurfacing" Event, MTF-Zeta-5 ("Hear no Evil") and MTF-Psi-9 ("Plane Walkers"), will be deployed. All humans within 6km of a KQE-0018.0 instance should be evacuated. MTF-Zeta-5 has authority to shoot to kill. Termination of KQE-0018.0 is unlikely. MTF-Psi-9 are to attempt to banish the KQE-0018.0 instance to the Faewild. If termination is successful, a Class B "Undeath" Scenario will ensue. If the KQE-0018.0 instance travels outside of the 6km perimeter, a XK-Class "End of the World" Scenario should be declared.

Class B Scenario: "Undeath"
During an "Undeath" Event, all deployed MTFs may be withdrawn and the Object re-classified as Euclid. MTF-Psi-8 ("Gate Guardians") should be deployed in the location the Class A "Resurfacing" Event occurred. All knocks and doors within 6km should be permanently taken offline.

Description
KQE-0018 ("Colossus Lich") is a ~~species~~ collection of three, 608cm tall humanoid entities. KQE-0018.0 ~~appears to be skeletal~~ is the skeleton of a possibly extant species classifed KQE-0017 ("Colossi"). KQE-0018 instances are fully animated and sapient. All are highly anomalous, capable of controlling sapient beings using auditory data. All known entities are extremely violent and seek to destroy all, natural life. Three known instances exist: KQE-0018.2 ("Dagaz"), KQE-0018.3 ("Ansuz"), and KQE-0018.4 ("Jera"). All are phenotypically similar, and can be easily indentified as KQE-0018.
All KQE-0018.0 instances have a regenerative ability similar to KQE-0600 ("Living Dead"), it was therefore assumed KQE-0018.0 contain the same regenerative mechanism as KQE-0600: KQE-0019 ("Lazarus Stone"). This was later shown to not be entirely true, See Addendum: Biology and Physiology.
KQE-0018.1 ("Phylactery") is a theorized facility that stores the consciousness of KQE-0018. The facility is also theorized to generate a new body in the event that KQE-0018.0 instance is destroyed (KQE-0018 Class B Scenario: "Undeath").

KQE-0018.2 ("Dagaz")
KQE-0018.2 ("Dagaz") is 608cm tall, dressed in a formal style of clothing popular in Savoy, and some parts of Florence. The instance' primary anomalous capability is the manipulation of cognitive processing through auditory data. This includes the ability to actively create cognitio hazards, amnestistise targets, and lobotomization of targets.

KQE-0018.3 ("Ansuz")
KQE-0018.3 ("Ansuz") is 621cm tall, dressed in noble armour typical of an Anatoli knight. The instance' primary anomalous capability is the manipulation of bodily actions through auditory data. While controlled subjects indicate extreme pain and distress. KQE-0018.3 capability often leads to broken bones, internal bleeding, and muscular atrophy.

KQE-0018.4 ("Jera")
KQE-0018.4 ("Jera") is 693cm tall, dressed in priestly garments popular in Ibera. The instance' primary anomalous capability is the manipulation of subject will through auditory data. KQE-0018.4 may also cause extreme visual, auditory, and tactile hallucinations. While controlled subjects show no extreme emotions. All subjects appear catatonic in composure, only capable of moving to a small degree.
Encountering a KQE-0018 instance is extremely dangerous. Hearing subjects who encounter KQE-0018 have a so far reported 0% chance of survival; while deafened subjects have a 12% chance of survival.

KQE-0018 instances resemble a human skeleton. However, many of the "weight-bearing" skeltal structures are heavily modified. The bone density, size, and mass in these sections is far greater than a human counterpart. These modifications most likley developed to support the massive weight of the theorized KQE-0017 ("Colossi").

Internal Structure
After examination it has been determined KQE-0018 has an organ similar to KQE-0019 ("Lazarus Stone"). However, this organ is capable of transmitting information stored in the Thinking Drive. The Drive is in a permanent state of transmission, even when placed within a Godblind. Theoretically, the transmissions are sent to KQE-0018.1 ("Phylactery"). The data is then saved onto KQE-0018.1, allowing for a constantly updated consciousness.

Date: 38.Z.-9
Interviewer: Ms. ███████ ██ █████████
Interviewed: KQE-0018.2 ("Dagaz")

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Background: KQE-0018.2 has been restrained by MTF-Psi-1 ("Chain Makers")

MS.█████████: Good morning 0018, can you please identify yourself for our records?

DAGAZ: I am the end.

MS.█████████: Do you have a name 0018.

DAGAZ: I have many names, those of Alagadda call me Dagaz, Architect of Lies.

MS.█████████: I see, would you like me to refer to you as Dagaz?

DAGAZ: Names mean little to me.

MS.█████████: I see, can you tell me where you came from?

DAGAZ: I was once part of a brilliant empire, we ruled Alagadda and the Faefolk.
       The Colossus of Apollyon was my guide, and I was there, his right hand.
       He fell, and a knight, a lowly general stached Alagadda from our hands. I
       was consined to be a servant. I held my tounge and waited, for I knew I
       would be Kaiser. Still, my anger consumed me. I fled Alagadda to the World
       Above, to wait for Jera to fall. I found a man there, a beautiful man. I
       took him to Alagadda to be my consort. Yet, I grew tired of him. A foolish
       boy who would do anything. And I held him to it. He grew tired as well, he
       wished to return to the world Above. I let him. When he returned several
       centuries later he was deformed. His body fae. It disgusted me.

MS.█████████: I'm sorry, I meant how did you become--how did you become what you
              are now.

DAGAZ: A trite incovation, one who mortals could not fathom, but to Colossi, a
       simple matter. The Ritual of Desicration.

MS.█████████: We assumed that ritual was a myth.

DAGAZ: Perhaps.

MS.█████████: Why did you choose to be this way?

DAGAZ: Who wants to die?

MS.█████████: ...

DAGAZ: I tell you this, ███████, you wish to live; as we all do. So tell me,
       ███████, why did you come here today?

MS.█████████: To learn more about you.

DAGAZ: Yes, but for your Coalition, of for your self?

MS.█████████: How would one perform the ritual of desicration?

DAGAZ: [REDACTED]

MS.█████████: [REDACTED]

DAGAZ: [REDACTED]

- Interview Aborted -
- MS. ███████ ██ █████████ was shortly after terminated for violating
  Coaltion protocol -

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Revision: 4.H.0 FE - "species of", revised "collection of 3"