"An Anti-Portrait of Angjar Hjalstadt, 593"

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 ARTICLE CATEGORY: ANOMALOUS OBJECT, INDIVIDUAL, ETC.

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 PRIORITY CLASS: ~~SKOFGARTEN~~ MELECH

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 CONTAINMENT METHOD: NONE. THIS ANOMALY HAS YET TO BE CAPTURED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF UNUSUAL SECURITY AND IS STILL AT LARGE. NUMEROUS THEORIZED METHODS OF CONTAINMENT HAVE BEEN SUGGESTED, BUT NONE HAVE WORKED.

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### Effects

Total erasure and obliteration of anything connected to the photoed subject, even of a vague link

### Source

Unknown

**"An Anti-Portrait of Angjar Hjalstadt, 593",** commonly referred to as its shortened title, **the Anti-Portrait,** is an exceedingly dangerous photograph that holds terribly powerful anomalous effects. The man within the Anti-Portrait was not particularly well-known and was merely a wealthy merchant that hailed from Svaldia, the homeland of the Blodviknir. As of now, Angjar Hjalstadt is listed in governmental files as "Alive", but there is zero proof that he ever existed as an individual. This is the case for every single other victim of the Anti-Portrait; there are written documents, either digital or on paper, that are about them. However, throughout the memories of Easmemia, no one knows of them.

The Anti-Portrait was discovered but not located in the year of 1001 when investigators arrived at the home of Grea Bellmaker for a wellness check, but the local citizens of her town and her neighbors were completely oblivious that she ever existed. Since then, the Association of Unusual Security has attempted research at tactics to prevent the effects of the Anti-Portrait, but none have bore any fruit. Nevertheless, the ability of the Anti-Portrait is abundantly clear. The photograph itself acts as a sort of self-fulfilling weapon that will, pertaining to absolutely no specific pattern in time, completely erase and obliterate an individual, object, or in some cases an entire bloodline from time and interdimensional memory. The second ever victim of the Anti-Portrait was erased twenty-three days after the first, and it was Angjar Hjalstadt's brass pocketwatch.

Since then, every following victim has been of some connection to Angjar. The connection required to be marked as a candidate for erasure is sometimes strong, the most notorious case being the entire Hjalstadt family, but in far more cases, the connection is exceptionally vague. Examples are included below:

* Alsvey Pergona, twenty-three years of age. Female. A cashier at Kicksworld, a popular footwear store. Purchase logs show that Angjar's credit card was used to buy an item there, and that Alsvey likely read his name on the card, gaining knowledge of his existence. Date of death: Eight weeks after memory establishment
* Gorshal McLawerd, thirty-one years of age. Male. A barista at Crintle Brewery Co., a chain coffee shop. Purchase logs show that a gulchberry smoothie was purchased from a CBC in the city of Visketa, and that the name on the cup was Angjar. It is likely that Gorshal or another barista called out his name to draw his attention to his product, which in turn made his name known to every other customer there. Date of death: Twenty minutes after memory establishment
* Four unknown CBC customers. Genders unknown. Occupations unknown. All four indirectly received the information of Angjar's name by overhearing it. Dates of death are unknown.

## Update Log, 4/19/1112

As of the nineteenth of April, in the year of 1112, a request for the Anti-Portrait's priority class to be moved up to Melech was approved.

The reason for its increase in priority is due to an unprecedented and extremely consequential event in which the Anti-Portrait shattered the expectations of the Association of Unusual Security and proved that what they knew of it was not true. On 4/19/1112, the Anti-Portrait passed into a state of total nonexistence and erased itself with its own anomalous effects. However, its abilities still continued to exist, and it continued its random pattern of obliteration as usual, though no longer technically existing. As of now, the Anti-Portrait is considered to be an extension of the Void, and must be captured at all costs. Current technology does not allow the Association to pursue this goal, as it is unable to contain that which does not exist.