Kala'Az, Master of Oblivion

## Backstory

According to the public record following his attack, Dresden Cain was born on September 24th, 1995, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. According to interviews done by national news with coworkers, family, and all publicly known acquaintances, he was a well-intentioned, kind child who entered school and immediately excelled. A bright and gifted child that was seen by every single person that he encountered, he took middle school classes when he was in the 4th grade, and was bragged about by all who could hear by his parents, a stay-at-home mother and his stepfather, a stock trader, that their child was the best thing in the world, and that he would become the next president of the United States, or cure Cancer, or do something that would allow him to go down in history as one of the greatest and smartest people in human history, culminating these achievements by winning the National Children's Spelling Bee at age 13. This would all change during his freshman year of High School, when something within the young boy just.... ended. He began to fail the college level courses that he was taking, and had to move down to taking only Freshman level courses, of which he got strictly B's in. Slowly, but surely, those past achievements and those past glories of childhood and innocence, had begun to fade, fade into memory and eventually, the world forgot about Dresden Cain.

He graduated from High School with a 3.4 GPA in 2013, and worked a waiter job at a local Olive Garden, until one day, in 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, he quit his job, and went off the grid, not to be seen again until the events of Christmas of 2022, the events in between are murky to the public record, according to official sources, but it is generally accepted that he lived off the grid and had little to know contact with anyone who was not a member of his group, the Children of Oblivion.

According to unofficial sources from the web forum 4Chan, specifically an anonymous user who claimed to have been a former member of the Children of Oblivion, Dresden Cain told the story about how the pressure to achieve to the increasingly impossible standards that his parents, specifically his mother, had put on him had made him start to lose any desire or willingness to achieve anything, believing that the world had nothing for him and nothing to offer, he collapsed inwards, and his academic life began to suffer. His mother made his stepfather beat him physically and starve him of food until he got his grades up, spending weekends locked in a dark basement with the intention of studying without distraction. It was here that the source allegedly claimed that Dresden had made first contact with an entity of void, of pure nothingness living in "The space where there is no light", and the idea for forming the Children of Oblivion had been born, something that gave the young man a new purpose in life, the idea that nothing mattered, and why not have fun in doing it? Whatever the truth may be, what is indisputable fact is the impact that the Children of Oblivion left after their creation.

## The Children of Oblivion

It is unknown how many members were in the cult known as the Children of Oblivion, with estimates ranging from anywhere from 10-20 members in total, their mission statement was apparently the complete worship and growth of a entity described as "Kala'Az" who had come from a place where there was no light, and nothing that ever was or could be, and they had to nurture and give to the creature in order to ensure that it came healthy and clean into our own world. To that end, the Children of Oblivion publicly announced themselves to the world when they robbed the Tulsa Air and Space Museum in the city itself, stealing several important and historical artifacts that were city property. Remnants of these artifacts and items were later found in the Cult's residence, desecrated and destroyed, allegedly "eaten" by the creature that they worshipped, it is there that according to unofficial accounts, a piece of Kala'Az had come into existence, a small piece the size of a penny or some other comparable coin. Dresden Cain ate the growth and began convulsing and screaming out in pain for 2 days following the event, before returning to somewhat of normal and rational mind, though clearly changed and effected. He was described to be "Desiring to bring in more" and that the entity inside of him "Was consuming and making him whole" at the same time. It was after this robbery of state property that Cain and his cultists wanted to up the stakes, and with evidence of their god and their all-consuming being a reality, they wanted to make their mark on the world forever.

The Children of Oblivion worked for the rest of the summer and autumn in order to create makeshift missiles that could be dropped from a plane onto the city of Tulsa itself, an idea that was confirmed to be Dresden Cain's, of which they bought a working civilian plane, and worked with several crime syndicates and black-market dealers in order to find and consume the explosive parts needed for such a scheme to work. The entirety of the cult pulled together and brought forth significant funding for this display, with several people even taking out loans from banks and robbing others, the sum of the scheme is estimated to be somewhere to 300,000 to half a million dollars, with the brilliant mind of Cain being responsible for bringing over and smuggling in different parts and needs from across the world. On Christmas Day, 2022 Dresden Cain flew up himself in the self-made bomber to begin his act of destruction as the rest of the Cult remained behind to watch the destruction from a safe distance. At a high enough altitude, Dresden even grabbed onto a missile, and fell with the explosives as the plane began its descent and crash into the city as well, primed and filled with explosives, before he used a wing suit to get away cleanly as the missiles dropped.

6,714 people died in the Oblivion Bombings, and the state declared a State of Emergency following such a catastrophic destruction of life, massive sections of Tulsa's downtown districts were destroyed and tens of thousands were injured following the attack, but Dresden Cain himself was never seen again, at least, not according to offical sources, which count him amongst the death toll, but unbeknownst to them, the attack managed to give the Void entity that the cult worshipped the strength and ability to manifest half of itself within Earth's dimension, and devoured Dresden Cain whole, consuming him and taking his body as a vessel. Dresden Cain died on that day, but Kala'Az, the Master of Oblivion, was born. The FBI followed up and investigated the aftermath of the attack, finding several members of the Cult had taken out large loans in order to finance the attack, and converged on the Cain residence in a Tulsa suburb. The mortal Children of Oblivion members were all arrested at the site, but they also encountered Kala'Az in the middle of a "sermon" and opened fire on him, as he summoned forth orbs of pure void in order to obliterate all of the attacking agents, leaving before more agents could arrive at the scene. It is unknown where Kala'Az is currently at this time.

## Extra Info

The Oblivion Bombings, as they came to be known, was the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil ever conducted, and while no such writings or official manifestos existed that were written by Kala'Az, several of the Children themselves wrote down holy books and manifestos, that have begun to spread across obscure internet forums in the Dark Web. When the FBI investigated the Cain residence, they found the bodies of Dresden's mother and stepfather buried in the back, having been dead for 2 years up to that point, with Dresden Cain using his intelligence to pretend to be them and remove suspicion of the Cult's location.

The surviving members of the Children are currently locked away in a secure American holding facility; Guantanamo Bay, for torture and enhanced interrogation on the whereabouts of their leader and the activities that they were planning under direct contact with Kala'Az. The SCP Foundation considers Kala'Az to be a Keter level entity.

## Stats

Strength: 3 (Wimp)

Speed: 9 (Superhuman)

IQ: 9 (Light Yagami)

Senses: 5 (Average)

Aim: 6 (Steady)

Personality: Flashy (Does things that are visually stunning)

Origins