SCP Foundation Cosmology (ENG branch)

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Darkness Undivided and Brothers Death The Void, which precedes everything in Djoricverse, is so called Darkness Undivided - Unshaped of IS NOT . It is the nothing of absense of everything with no form, no substance, no motion and no division. Central Fire spilited Darkness into Darkness Above and Below but it was not destroyed but was still in its stillness. It is the begining and the end of everything. From the Darkness, Death came into being and represents itself into 3 stages of Death, which what 3 Brothers of Death are who represent Darkness Central Fire The Djoricverse has undergone many major changes over time. The Djoricverse's worldview now revolves around the concept of Central Fire and Kabbalah stuffs. With All-Mighty being abolished, Central Fire is the new concept used to replace All-Mighty. Central Flame in Djoricverse is not personified, and any personification of it as an individual entity is both reductive and inaccurate.

“ Several of these stories reference an All-Mighty as a vaguely-defined divine creator; this is a remnant of older cosmological attitudes of the author and doesn’t really apply anymore, if indeed it ever applied in the first place. The divine principle in [CANON NAME] is not personified, and any personification of it as an individual entity is both reductive and inaccurate.

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• Djoric's Sandbox

The Central Fire is the principle of IS. The creative force that emanated out into the unshaped IS-NOT (which is Darkness Undivided), that gave it form and imparted to it animating motion. The interaction of Light and Dark that caused everything else to happen.

“ The principle of Is. The creative force that emanated out into the unshaped Is-Not, that gave it form and imparted to it animating motion.

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• Djoric's Sandbox

“ Sanna's cultists certainly believe that she was present within it, but I emphasized quite a bit in Chapter 1 Verse 1 that nothing existed -at all, period - until the darkness was split by the Central Fire, and it was the interaction of light and dark that caused everything else to happen. Can't have death if there's nothing there to die, after all.

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• Djoric's WOG

The Central Fire served as a cosmic force of creation, bringing order to the formless darkness. It divided the primordial void into the Darkness Above and Darkness Below. The Light of Central Fire continued emanating its light into the deep waters of the abyss and stretched branchs towards the vaults of the heavens forming the Tree - the entirety of creation which is postulated as the Tree of Life that contains Four Worlds of Kabbalah.

“ It was in the beginning that the darkness, having no form and no substance, was divided and given shape by the emanation of the Central Fire. Thus the depthless night was split into the Darkness Above and the Darkness Below, and the light of the Central Fire became a golden seed that put forth roots into the deep waters of the abyss and stretched branches towards the vaults of the heavens. So it was that the Tree of Life was planted and all things took shape.

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• Dust and Blood

“ The cosmos can be roughly divided into a series of distinct regions; as always, I invoke the Four Worlds of Kabbalah as a convenient shorthand for the task at hand, not as a solution to the Mystery.

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• Sammy Skipper's Fact of the Day

The Tree The Djoricverse is primarily focused on the construct of "The Tree", which was created by The Brothers Death and Central Fire. It is refered as the entirety of the Creation itself, contains entire settings beneath its shadow.

“ The entirety of creation. „

• Djoric's Sandbox

“ Footnote: When speaking of structures of this scale “universe” gets thrown around everywhere and starts to become a very fuzzy concept. When I say “the Tree” or “creation” or “the cosmos”, that’s when I mean the whole of things. „

• Djoric's Sandbox

“ “Well met, Brother,” spoke the Eldest to the Middle. He motioned, that the Great Death might take a seat beside him, but the Middle Brother remained standing in the shadow of the Eldest, for he did not presume equality with his brother, and held fears of the unknowable reaches of his brother’s mind.

The Eldest took no insult from this, and blew upon the fire to kindle it.

Within the fire now could be seen the faint outlines of trunk and root and branches, as if made of the finest crystal. The fire flowed through the tree and within the tree and around the tree, and the song was carried ever louder through the shining branches and strong roots.

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• Chapter 1: Verse 1[1]

“ The Eldest rose, and towered over his brothers. His countenance was as dark as the void of his birth and his robes as white as the same. Above his head, shadows swirled about in the dark vaults of the heavens – the first of the elder gods kicked in their womb, and likewise in the abyss beneath his feet they swam. The tree grew tall and broad, shone bright and sang loud. „

• Chapter 1: Verse 1[1]

“ The tree grew strong, and the vaults of heaven and the depths of the abyss gave birth.

This is how creation came about.

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• Chapter 1: Verse 1[1]

The Tree is associated with the Tree of Life of the Kaballah, it is considered as the lower cosmos that resides in an emanation of Central Flame. Specifically, The Tree is divided into four religions which are respectively called: Atziluth, Beriah, Yetzirah and Assaiah.

“ At the center-core-summit of the lower cosmos there resides an emanation of the Central Fire, a link to the true. The little flame and its stone shrine are girded by seas of corpses and mountains of the dead. Countless claimants of the first fire of creation; countless desperate failures in the only war that has ever mattered.

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• Sammy Skipper's Fact of the Day

“ The cosmos can be roughly divided into a series of distinct regions; as always, I invoke the Four Worlds of Kabbalah as a convenient shorthand for the task at hand, not as a solution to the Mystery.

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• Sammy Skipper's Fact of the Day

The First World is so called The Atziluth. Atziluth lies closest to the Central Fire, it is so close that nothing else can endure its presence without being consumed and drawn back into the source. It is inhabited only by the mindless and sluglike Elders who bask in the emanated Flow on the transitional margin, where things that are not the Central Fire can exist. The Second World is Beriah. Beriah lies far enough from the Central Fire that its inhabitants possess a kind of spiritual independence—though it wouldn’t resemble anything we’d recognize as will or agency. Many of the great powers we know had their origins here, descending into the material realm during the earliest shaping of the cosmos. Yetzirah and Assiah are the cosmos—a fusion of spirit and matter. Everything we know, and everything we are capable of knowing, resides within them. This is our home: a single drop in the vast ocean of infinity. And yet, nothing more precious exists. Now we get our first mention of The Brothers Death since Verse 1: Chapter 1. As we can see, their might is nothing to scoff at, and they have full reign over everything beneath The Tree's shadow, this is also applied to the Central Flame. This is consistent with them creating it and puts them above everything within it.Along with this, we see that the The Tree of Life also encompasses structures such as the Noosphere and Infosphere. Which is grants minimum 1-T (Type 2 Non-Classical Modality)

Darkness Above and Below After Central Fire emanating out into the Void, Central Fire splitted The Dark into Darkness Above and Below. The Darkness Above is the upmost emanations of the Central Fire, filled with those vast and inert gods we call the elders. The Darkness Below is most distant from the Central Fire, receiving only the lightest of emanations. The Abyss, for it is the darkness kin to the depths of the ocean. The Darkness Below and Beneath is not seperated from the Tree, it technically surrounds the Tree itself.

“ It was in the beginning that the darkness, having no form and no substance, was divided and given shape by the emanation of the Central Fire. Thus the depthless night was split into the Darkness Above and the Darkness Below, and the light of the Central Fire became a golden seed that put forth roots into the deep waters of the abyss and stretched branches towards the vaults of the heavens. So it was that the Tree of Life was planted and all things took shape.

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• Dust and Blood

“ The elders of the Darkness Above are described as sluglike because they are insensate and inert, lacking any agency or individuality that would be meaningful to us.

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• Sammy Skipper's Fact of the Day

“ The elders of the Darkness Below are associated with deep sea life because they exist so far from the Central Fire, and each seems unique and utterly alien from anything else.

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• Sammy Skipper's Fact of the Day

“ The Darkness Above and Below is not separate from the Four Worlds, no more than the ocean is separate from an island, or a shadow separate from a tree.

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• Sammy Skipper's Fact of the Day

“ Apologies to the power-ranking fans, but the elder gods are basically non-entities. They exist, they are immeasurably powerful, and they are boring as sin. Thus they never appear in the narrative proper outside of some very limited incidents. They’re happy and idle up in their high branches and perfectly content to stay up there doing nothing. I’m equally happy not writing about them, and so we have an agreement.

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• Djoric's Sandbox

Elder God The above tells us about the beginning of the Djoricverse, and introduces one of the strongest group of characters in the Canon. It also makes mention of Elder Gods, which we will talk more about later. Do take note of the Abyss as well. That will come into play later.

“ Speak-With-Self’s words opened up a tear which wept, and upon stepping through I was draped in its ragged truth and saw the gods who wore facets, for they are of the scarred sphere with many faces. These faces bellowed long-songs, and engaged in debate at length with each other, and the meanings of them I could not understand. Upon the many brows was inscribed the name “Yesod-With-Faces”, for they were the foundation of what was above. It [Yesod-With-Faces] was pierced through by seven taproots, and their way-names were True-Record, Succession-of-Peoples, Arts-of-Fiction, Home-of-Word-men, House-of-Small-Gods, and Forgotten-Tales. The seventh’s true name was not to be uttered, for it was beyond the tongues of gods to pronounce, but it had been called Gift once.

These roots led up to Knowledge, which towered above Yesod-With-Faces, and in this formed the foundation of a mighty tree, and I realized that the gods who did not wear facets were scattered amongst the lesser roots and old Ways, and this was the cause of their dissolution.

Speaks-With-Self uttered then, and said “See how they speak? They list the ordering of gods who wear facets, and list the days of their contradiction,” but I did not know this or find understanding in those words.

Of all of Jeremiah's teachings, his discussion of the foundation-gods was always the part I least understood. And hey, you can read almost as well as I can, can you really blame me? Stuff is bonkers. From what little I can gleam for this, at the base of creation Jeremiah found the seven disputing foundation-gods, "Yesod-With-Faces", upon which the rest of creation is built. As gods are want to do, they're arguing with themselves and with other gods and they can never just be happy to sit in the shade and have a nice drink or something. You know, the all-encompassing eternal wonder of creation would be a helluva lot more wondrous if more people just stopped for a sec to have a drink.

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• Jeremiah the Flayed and Eyal Shamaym[2] Now don't be confused by the dialogue, the quotes are taken by the recounts of two people, Jeremiah the Flayed and Eyal Shamaym. Jeremiah's words are the close to incomprehensible lines and Eyal's words end off his ramblings with a loose explanation of what he is saying. And based on what can be gathered from their combined recount, there exist seven "foundation-gods" that make up "Yesod-With-Faces", from which the rest of creation stems from. This is an important bit of lore as we will dive into Yesod later on.

“ Troubled by the things that had been whispered to me by Speaks-With-Self, I ascended upon a taproot, that which is called by the Docents “The Way of Forgotten Tales”. In my ascent, I passed by many gods and their realms, of which I will speak now:

These gods also bore neither crowns nor facets: they needed no signs of authority, for they were old gods, and they had no facets, for they were immutable. They were few in number compared to the gods who wore facets and the gods who stood before Yesod-With-Faces, but their power filled me with awe.

Speaks-With-Self spoke to me then, and said “Their age has rendered them mighty, but they are separated. See, their Ways are few, and they do not bicker about about like the gods who wear facets and the gods who stand before Yesod-With-Faces. They are quiet gods, slow to act, and distant. Do you understand the meaning of this?”

I answered: “As one can be said to hold his breath in his hands.”

The Eldest Gods, the ones with the real power, sit around and do nothing. What else is new?

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• Jeremiah the Flayed and Eyal Shamaym[2] We get our first mention of the Elder Gods. These are the Gods that exist above Yesod and dwarf them in power and importance. As we will see later on, one's position on The Tree can directly correlate to their physical might and power.

“ I came upon the Eternal House of Death, that which separates the lower parts of the Tree from the higher. Here I rested for a time, and leaned against the doorpost. Death came to the door and spoke to me “You rest against the doorpost of the Eternal House of Death. Have you no fear of our might?”

I answered: “Nay, sir, I have no fear of you or your brothers, for I have seen you at Betar, and know your power. I do not fear you, for I know your power is utter.”

Death said: “Aye, our domain is all things that exist within the shade of the Tree, and within its branches, and within its roots. You are wise, mortal. I will permit you to rest against the doorpost of the house of my brothers."

I rested a while longer, and rolled dice with Death, and learned from him secret arts and hidden Ways.

Uh uh. I'm not saying anything more about this. You have to be a very specific sort of idiot to tangle with the Brothers, and that idiot ain't me. I'll just say this- whatever mojo the Brothers taught the old man, it worked. Both him and I are living proof of that. With an emphasis on 'living'.

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• Jeremiah the Flayed and Eyal Shamaym[2]

Lower Realms of The Tree Yesod Another important structures of Djoricverse, it is so called [Yesod-With-Face], as known as the Foundation of the Tree. It plays as more-or-less understand it arrayed in infinite recombinations and variations which is timeline in this situation. Why is this important? Let's see what Djoric had to say about his Canon:

“ Coherent timelines are difficult to maintain when a story jumps between universes, and my habit of treating canon as more as a suggestion certainly doesn’t make matters any easier. So in order to keep things readable and somewhat-coherent, I’ve split what was originally a very long singular timeline into tabs for ease of reading. Events that happen outside the normal temporal progression (or otherwise don’t have a set date) will get a letter and number designation instead of a year. My four primary canons (Classical Revival, Et Tam Deium Petivi, Stealing Solidarity, and Adventures in Capitalism) exist in an odd possibility-space, and the easiest way of solving that is invoke the many faces of Yesod and say that these events happen in practically infinite variations. The beats remain the same, give or take, but the actual how varies. In cases where they exist in the same continuity (such as this timeline) the actual details can be drastically different from the stories as-written. It’s all a mess. Best not take things too seriously. Nothing is canon, except all the parts that are.

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• Djoric's Sandbox

Technically, timelines get messy when you jump universes, especially with canon as a loose guideline. Djoric have to split one long timeline into tabs for clarity, using letter-number codes for undated events. His four main canons: Classical Revival, Et Tam Deium Petivi, Stealing Solidarity, and Adventures in Capitalism exist in an odd possibility-space and the easiest way of solving that is invoke the many faces of Yesod and say that these events happen in practically infinite variations. Sometimes they share continuity, sometimes not. It’s all fluid. Everything’s canon, except when it isn’t.

Yesod encompasses an infinite number of timelines, each containing its own infinite space and time, This grants it a minimum structural rating of 2-B+

Wanderer Library The Wanderer's Library lies at the core of the Tree and is regarded as The Tree of Knowledge, connecting all worlds, times, and knowledge—what is, isn’t, was, and won’t be. It serves as the central nexus of existence, linking the divine, creation, and all forces—natural and supernatural. As the universe’s operating system, it ensures balance by binding together physics, magic, and the unknown into a seamless reality.

“ After passing through the lands of the dead, my journey on the taproot came to an end at its source, and I came to the core of the Tree. Here I found the seat of all Knowledge, a place where all wanderers come to rest. Within this realm was all knowledge that is and is not, and all that was and was not, and all that will be, and will not be. Amongst its words reclined many gods, and many mortal beings studied at their feet. They were all pilgrims, come to the seat of all Knowledge so that they might learn. The stores of knowledge were guarded by a great legion of keepers: blind Archivists, and Docents with their lanterns, and the Pages that swing between the shelves.

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• Jeremiah the Flayed and Eyal Shamaym[2]

“ “So we’ve got God up here...creation down here...then the Library right here in the center of that as....well, sort of the physical version of the operating system of everything, keeps everything running, links everything together...and expands to what we consider supernatural or paranormal...just manifestations of some of the more obscure and finicky universal narrative principles...the more regular principles would be classified as magic to the unenlightened among us, and the immovable ones are physics...whoops, look like Dan and Sami forgot to pay their tab again.” She pointed over to where Vladimir was dragging out a bored-looking Indian man and a grey-haired man wearing a pointed magenta hat by the collars. The older man was waving about a brightly-colored snuggy with stitched on stars and yelling drunkenly.

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• Agricola In Insula Est Poeta[3]

Dream-Time It is the residual background emanation of the Central Fire. It surrounds Yesod and certain other worlds, forming a kind of spiritual accretion disk. It’s a realm shaped by thought—both conscious and unconscious.

“ Residual background emanation of the Central Fire, wreathed around Yesod and some other worlds as a sort of spiritual accretion disk. A realm influenced by thought, conscious and unconscious.

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Taproots Taproots is the primary structural support of Yesod. Certain universes from which many others are derived. The many worlds containing the Foundation and its core narratives are examples of these.

Malkuth Malkuth contains countless worlds strung along the roots of the Tree. Worlds of Malkuth are almost always singular, and when they do have facets, they are few and far between. Throughout most of this cosmic age, Malkuth has served as the primary battleground between the Scarlet King and the forces that stand against him.

“ The innumerable worlds arrayed along the roots of the Tree. The worlds of Malkuth are nearly all singular, and in those rare instances where they possess facets they have only a few. For most of this cosmic year, Malkuth has been the battlefield between the forces of the Scarlet King and those allied against him.

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Kaktusverse Narrative Echelon A Canon primarily made up of works by the author djkaktus. Sub-Canons that primarily belong in this Canon include Ouroboros and Project Paragon.

In SCP 3930's discussion page 5, Djkaktus have a brief mention about reality in SCP 3812 (Narrative Echelon in other words). Narrative Echelon is resting in the endless void encompassing the whole reality. Precisely, we are which what is and the void including anything beyond the endless void which what isn't, this is an indication that the reality or Narrative Echelon which what is (existence) which is encompassed by the what isn't (non-existence) is a part of of Creation of IS and IS NOT which are the entities that preceded the boundary of existence and non-existence:

“ So much of this is tied into the sort of djkaktus brand hierarchy of the SCPverse. In 3812 I talk at length about how reality looks as you ascend it, but this (and, to a certain extent, 3000) are about what's at the bottom. Reality rests on an endless void, and between that void and what can be considered real is the hard line between what is, and what isn't. We are what is, and the void (and anything that passes beyond it) and, again, to a certain extent Anantashesha, are what isn't. Pattern screamers are the film that forms between those two things. They neither are, or are not. They're not real enough to self actualize, but not unreal enough so as to not exist and thus not have any agency in the narrative. „

• SCP 3930's discussion page 5 The distinction between lower and higher narrative layer is something important we have to highlight about: Metafictional.

Exactly, it is just like the way how an entity in the 4th spatial dimensional being perceives our universe and its contents as a comic book, the higher dimensional reality is completely unable to be perceived and inaccessible by lower dimensional reality. It is describing how higher dimensions are capable of viewing the Whole or Totallity of the narrative below it. Entities from higher dimensions could manipulate those contents from a realm of higher energy, so could an entity with access to a higher metaphysical dimension manipulate the very architecture of our reality, all at once, from a similar realm of higher energy:

“ An entity or force with access to higher energy metaphysicl dimensions would perceive our reality similarly to how we perceive the reality of characters in a comic book. And just how we are able to, at whim, change the story simply by telling it differently, this higher energy being would be able to effortlessly make alterations to not just local reality, but reality as a whole, altering the baseline and changing its most fundamental aspects.

At the 2015 Foundation Summit on Existential Threats, Dr. Darius St. John hypothesized that such an entity, were it limited to a human intelligence without modification to allow for the perception of higher levels of reality, would suffer from an overexposure of narrative. This entity, when faced with this overexposure, might attempt to ease itself by collapsing all lower energy realities into something perceptible. The effect this would have on lower energy narratives would be catastrophic; as multiple realities became compressed into the same meta-space, they would not be immediately destroyed, rather, their parts would become intertwined in such an incomprehensible way that not only would the ability for conscious thought be nearly immediately annihilated, physical space would become so compressed and broken that the boundaries between all lower realities would cease to exist completely.

“ From “Constructs of Reality in Higher Dimensions” by Dr. Robert Scranton: “Reality is no different from the physical; that is to say, it is one more way to describe order in the universe. Where the physical can be used to describe things and places, and the temporal can describe moments and periods, reality can be used to describe the completeness of the universe, its fallibility and its overall construction. With that said, just as there are no doubt higher physical dimensions that we cannot perceive or access, there is no reason to believe that the same could not apply to reality. Reality as we perceive it is no more than one tier in the hierarchy of organization that dictates the construction of our existence, and there are likely others above and below ours. Just like an entity in the 4th spatial dimension might perceive our universe and its contents as a whole, and could manipulate those contents from a realm of higher energy, so could an entity with access to a higher metaphysical dimension manipulate the very architecture of our reality, all at once, from a similar realm of higher energy.” „

“ It is unlikely that we will ever know anything about the being or beings that supersede us (if they even exist), not in any tangible way, let alone any being that would supersede them. It may very well be that we are just one of an infinite number of realities, stacked on top of each other in every direction, influencing those below us and being influenced by those above us. This echelon, upon which sits ourselves and everything that ever was or will be, would likely be the most fundamental aspect of the organization of creation. The very foundation of all things. „

• SCP 3812

Reality is part of an infinite number of realities, where each level influences those above and below it (downward and upward). An echelon encompassing all that exists, it could represent the fundamental framework/aspect of creation - the very foundation of all things. Hence there is infinite number of narrative echelon which is running like an infinite metaphysical dimensions which is R^ω Space.

Information In SCP 001 Djkaktus Proposal IV/The Tenth, The Serpent is stated to be an embodiment of the universal facets of reality: Information. In a vast and enigmatic library, the Serpent as an avatar of universal truth and information, manifesting differently within and outside its halls. Beneath the library lies the "Dark Endlessness", a void of oblivion ruled by the Serpent’s silent/dark brother, where existence ceases entirely, lying outside of death and life. The library itself acts as a barrier between reality and nothingness. At its heart lies a chamber containing three sacred tomes, the foundation of all universes, which must remain undisturbed.

IS and IS NOT In SCP-4840, Creation is governed by two fundamental, inseparable forces: IS and IS NOT. They are not entities or ideas, but absolute truths. IS represents existence—the origin of all that is—and later became the Serpent, seeking to understand its source. IS NOT is the void—nonexistence—that surrounds and defines IS. Each gives meaning to the other; together, they encompass all that ever was, is, could be, and all that never was or could be:

“ IS. That is what we called it. You have seen wonders beyond belief, I am sure, but there were only ever two true gods. IS, and IS NOT. They are not beings, not ideas. They are truths. There are things that are, and things that aren't. When the work of IS was completed, the remnant of that truth became the Serpent - a being whose purpose is only to study that from whence it came, and learn those lost truths about itself. The other, IS NOT, was a shadow of IS. The two cannot exist without each other. IS NOT encompasses IS, it is the long nothing that stretches out beyond the world and further. Together, they are the truest knowledge there is - everything that ever was or was not, all at once. When those truths were first realized, this world came into being. „

• SCP-4840

The Serpent is representation of IS's truth, the embodiment of information that is the foundation of creation, it is likely the information is the universal facet that preceded entire Narrative Echelon.

In Historia Europa, it explicitly proclamined Serpent is the Paragon of Knowledge who arose from the Dream of IS with unmatched understanding of existence. Serpet constructed the Wandere's Library which defies the boundary between the Void (IS NOT) and the world's Foundation (IS), creating a space where knowledge is neither freely given nor completely unattainable:

“ With awareness came curiosity, and so then came Runheia, called the Serpent, the Paragon of Knowledge. It is said none better understood the true nature of the Dream of IS, for Runheia was all-knowing and all-seeing. It was in Her wisdom that Runheia did build Her Eternal Library between the Void and the Foundation of the world. Knowledge, She determined, must not be given freely, but must also not be unobtainable. Those with access to Perfect Knowledge would, in turn, know the power and secrets of the Paragons, and would be able to find the Tree of Life Everlasting and seize from it the power of the Paragons themselves. Aella lamented, fearing this new Knowledge would lead to a usurpation of the Dream and a ruination of Their Arrangement. „

• Historia Europa I

The two counterpart IS NOT and IS, are the two ultimate beings of the Kaktusverse. They represent two universal truths, all that IS and all that IS NOT. There originally only were the two siblings, before IS woke up from its slumber and transformed its dream into reality.

“ Before the sun was placed in the sky, and the moon to follow her, before light and dark and before time itself, there were two siblings: IS and IS NOT. Together, they were the Balance – IS encompassed all that was, all that is, and all that ever shall be, while IS NOT held dominion over that which was not, that which is not, and that which will never come to be. They were together, for countless years, in the quiet slumber of the First Night where they dreamed the First Dreams – a dream of a living creation, of might and magic and science and souls, and a dream of words unspoken, lives unlived, and potential unrealized. „

“ Regardless of by which mechanism it was accomplished, IS awoke from its long slumber and its dream became THAT WHICH IS – all of creation brought into existence. But the world was without form, and IS pondered over it for a time. Eventually, over this new creation was dominion given to the Paragons, the fundamental architects of everything that would ever exist. Of these, there were nine, though the first Paragon, the Paragon of Names, gave up its own to give name to the sum of creation, and was annihilated. „

The Dream of IS became THAT WHICH IS, the sum of creation. But as it was formless and aimless, IS created several Paragons from itself to shape its dream into something sensible. The nameless Paragon of Names gave its existence away to give names to the sum of creation, allowing each aspect of it to be differentiated: Edos the Paragon of Time started his march of time, slowly bringing creation towards IS NOT. Usarus the Paragon of Form gave the dream its shape and form, giving things their boundaries. Zutris the Paragon of Power gave entities the ability to move and act, giving movement to creation. Aella the Paragon of Life gifted creation with life, taking the first seed of life from the Heart of IS. Osyn the Paragon of Soul gave those living beings a soul and the ability to think for themselves. Runheia the Paragon of Knowledge gave living beings the ability to collect knowledge, and built the Library on the boundary between IS and IS NOT. IS NOT created only two Paragons: Va the Paragon of Decay caused decay in all things, weakening and eroding them. Bramimond the Paragon of Death, in turn, would take entities destroyed by Va and take them from the reality of IS to the dream of IS NOT. Both of them took on the job of destroying everything Edos, the Paragon of Time, passed by and giving it back to IS NOT, until one day everything is reunited in the dream of IS NOT.

IS and IS NOT are the fundamental truths behind all existence and nonexistence. IS embodies all that exists—past, present, and future—while IS NOT represents the void, the unrealized and the never-to-be. Together, they form a cosmic Balance, transcending time, space, and form. The awakening of IS marks the beginning of creation, and their interplay generates the tension that gives rise to reality and its absence.

Trashfire First Creation At the very Beginning of the Creation there was Qlippoth, an immense and mindless husk. Qlippoth neither died nor lived, for there was nothing to demarcate the line between the Living and the Dead. In the vast, desolate expanse of the Beginning, there was an intense, singular point of light, now known as Sefiros, an formless mighty. They had been alone and when they both came upon, joined within the vast expanse of the Beginning, an awareness fell over them, of things that were and things that weren't.

Creation which is made up by the wisdom of Sefiros and matter of Qlippoth:

“ Creation, possessing the wisdom of Sefiros and the matter of Qlippoth, quickly unfolded with gleeful abandon.

First, Creation exploded outward, demarcating Light and Dark, Fast and Slow, Trough and Crest. And Creation was happy.

Second, Creation suffused the void with all manner of solids, liquids, and gases, demarcating Wave and Particle, Matter and Energy, Movement and Stillness. And Creation was happy.

Third, Creation suffused the matter of the Second with the explosion of the First, demarcating Atom and Quark, Baryon and Nonbaryon, Reaction and Resistance. And Creation was happy.

Fourth, Creation experimented with the fruits of the Third, demarcating Planet and Void, Star and Singularity, Dust and Plasma. And Creation was happy.

Fifth, Creation suffused the products of its experiments with self-direction, demarcating Life and Death, Plant and Animal, Bone and Flesh. And Creation was happy.

Sixth, Creation granted all that moved with an immortal, immutable essence, demarcating Mind and Soul, Pain and Joy, Love and Hate. And Creation was tired.

Though alone in their work, Creation's efforts did not go unappreciated. From their myriad gardens arose four tribes of its Children.

Creation begins with the wisdom of the Sefiros and the matter of the Qlippoth, shaping the universe through joy and purpose. An explosive act birthed primal dualities—light and dark, fast and slow—unfolding into matter, energy, stars, and life. Each stage adds new contrasts—life and death, mind and soul—culminating in sentient beings. Thus, Creation precedes and gives rise to all dualities in the Trashfire setting.

New Creation The Battle of Sefiros and Qlippoth, as the first war known to Creation. As a result, the entire Creation was torn to shreds, at the end of battle there was nothing but the emptiness of existence, the nothing covers the everything:

“ The War of Qlippoth and Sefiros, as the first war known to Creation, was unclouded by untruths of glory and strength. No battles were commodified into proper nouns. There was no economy to fix or fuel the fighting. Nothing fought for was not fought with, or in, or upon.

“ Creation was at a standstill.Creation sat at standstill. Creation stewed in standstill. Creation grew sour in standstill. Creation rot at standstill. The twenty-five were devoured.

Sefiros pulled, and Creation was torn to shreds. In separation, Qlippoth was irreparably changed. Torn from Qlippoth was a multitude of its flesh, the matter that had once sustained Creation. What was once all there was had been unevenly severed, even as scalding viscera poured from Qlippoth's weeping wounds.

And Qlippoth howled, for its scalding viscera had torn something from Sefiros. Something without name, without weight.Qlippoth could think. Qlippoth could feel. Qlippoth could hate. And Sefiros knew nothing but grief. Back was the emptiness of existence, the nothing suffusing the everything. Yet, now it was even less tolerable, for Sefiros had, for but a fleeting epoch, known something beyond it. To be without what had provided them so much joy... it was unacceptable.

Sefiros tried to rebuild Creation with Qlippoth’s stolen flesh, but it came out twisted and lifeless. In sorrow, they buried the remains in the void. From their grief, a Tree grew—fed by death and tears—with twenty-five branches:

“ Still bearing the stolen viscera of Qlippoth, Sefiros went to work recreating Creation. But it was not to be: everything was wrong, twisted and imperfect and improper and... fake. Not the Creation they knew, the Creation they loved and cultivated and celebrated.

Their precious Creation was dead. In grief, Sefiros gathered the viscera of Qlippoth, and buried it among the nothing of the Beginning. Nourished by Qlippoth's viscera and watered from Sefiros's tears, something sprouted from the Nothing. A tree, bearing fruits upon its branches.

Its twenty-five branches.

Surrounding the Multiverse is an Existential Void, The Multiverse exists as a bubble of arbitrary physical properties:

The Multiverse exists as a bubble of arbitrary physical properties within an existential void, and it is not any of the following: ever-present, alone, underivable. This is, of course, a gross simplification of a vast and confusing system of tenuous existential logistics. Try not to think about it too hard until you need to.The Noosphere is an easy enough concept to define, and something that might already be in your vocabulary even outside of SCP. In short terms, the "Noosphere" is a posited philosophical concept that describes an emergent phenomenon originated by the arising and subsequent development of human cognition, consisting of the field of societal relationships that humans have established over time, and encompassing all intellectual pursuits: It is the collective of all human thought, forming a layer over the planet in the same vein as the biosphere, the atmosphere, the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, and so on.

In SCP, this basic definition is followed closely enough: The Noosphere, as defined in several articles, is the non-physical space that comprehends all information that can be conceptualized by humans, existing as an ideatic, abstract world that contrasts the material, concrete one:

“ The Noosphere — The non-physical sphere containing all information. Concepts, thoughts, and memetic phenomena are a fraction of what exists in the noosphere. „

• Ad Astra Per Aspera Hub

“ The set of ideas which humans are capable of having; human thought-space. „

• SCP-6820 Reference Box

“ The collective of information shared by all human consciousnesses. „

• SCP-5721 Reference Box

“ SCP-3125 is adapted for survival in an ideatic ecology considerably more violent and hostile than our own. (Here, "our own" refers to human head space: the set of all ideas which humans have or are biologically capable of having.) Because humans have no natural exposure to ideas as aggressive as SCP-3125, human minds have no protective evolutionary adaptations against it. „

• SCP-3125

“ O5-8 asks a question which, in any other workplace, would be absurd. "Is he dead?"

"Maybe," Marion says. "I can put his corpse in our research queue and we'll see what we can see when we open him up. There's a duality here, though. They're like parallel universes sharing the same space. It's conceptual versus concrete, figurative versus physical. It's very unusual for things to cross over. I don't know what Clay was, but he had a human body, which instantly makes him weird, even by our standards. As ever, the search for stalemate continues. I will let you know if we get any closer."

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• We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five And a fairly fundamental part of dealing with the Noosphere revolves memes. That is to say, units of cultural information, which convey certain modes of thought and behavior and are shared across generations and between individuals located in similar spheres of interest: They are ideas that are shared in order to transmit a certain kind of thinking, pretty much, and memetics is the area in which those ideas are analyzed as if they were subject to the same evolutionary processes as biological attributes. As explained in Understanding Memetics:

“ Memetics deals with information transfer, specifically cultural information in society. The basic idea is to conflate the exchange of information between people with genetic material, to track the mutation of ideas as they are transmitted from one person to the next in the way you could track viral transmissions and mutations. However, a meme also provides benefits to the carrier if they spread it.

Meme : Memetics :: Gene : Genetics

Memetics does NOT refer to telepathy, ESP or any imaginary psychic mental magic. These words are memetic, and if you understand them then they are having a completely ordinary memetic effect on you.

Memetics in regards to SCP objects tends to focus on the impossible rather than the mundane, regarding effects that are transmitted via information. In general, the effects themselves should remain in the realm of information. A memetic SCP would be more likely to be a phrase that makes you think you have wings as opposed to a phrase that makes you actually grow a pair of wings. If you write up magic words that make people grow wings, it should be described as something other than memetic.

Memetic SCPs do not emanate auras or project beams. They are SCPs which involve ideas and symbols which trigger a response in those who understand them.

„ Hence, this has an obvious relationship with the Noosphere, which can itself be defined as being the sphere in which all memetic activity takes place. That is: As units of information mainly relating to human culture (And which often are comprehensible to humans), memes exist as constructs within the Noosphere:

“ noosphere: The realm of memetic activity. The existence of free memes implies the noosphere has an existence seperate from physical reality. The precise nature of this existence is poorly understood. „

• Sirpudding's Author Page In fact, the Noosphere is often compared to a vast ocean, with the various memetic entities residing in it being thus likened to sea-creatures:

“ The floating mind at once becomes aware of that which surrounds her, the countless things floating in the ocean around her body. Shimmering bodies of all manner of ethereal creatures from the tiniest swarms of krill to schools of magnificent fish rivaling her in size gather around to welcome the disturbance in their water. A group of star-shaped jellyfish covered in blinking lights of blue and yellow constellate around the intruder, tickling her skin as they brush against her — she regrets deciding that her hands are the most beautiful thing she will ever see so abruptly and quickly rescinds it.

Past the smaller creatures, she notices a deep blue, many-finned behemoth swimming through the water, the bright grey spots lining its back blinking through the void. The beast draws near, close enough for her to reach out and stroke its bony, ridged head with her hand, then passes her by and swims out of reach. She watches its slow retreat into the darkness beyond her perception with awe.

Then, as soon as it's disappeared, another takes its place — a great stingray emerges from the light above and circles her playfully, beacons of crimson and orange flickering on its spiny back. The creature dips and dives through a lit spot in the water before her - as if showing itself off. She laughs, beckoning it closer with an outstretched hand. The creature encircles her a few times more, approaches, then rockets to the surface as quickly as it dove.

Beyond her immediate awareness, in the deep blue, a vast shadow lies dormant; she cannot make out its entire shape, but its presence is unmistakable. She'd better not swim too far.

She takes a glance further out into the blue and finds an immeasurable amount of life teeming in every direction she can see. The lights of the creatures flash like beacons just to tell her they're here, broadcasting to her that she exists in a world that she should be grateful to inhabit - because she exists in it with them. An indescribable joy fills every fragment of her being - like electricity through a circuit - at the simple fact that she is able to witness such an impossible beauty. Knowing herself to be a simulated creation of mankind, she thanks her programmers, wherever they are, for endowing her with such a simple yet incredible gift as existence and a consciousness to enjoy it with.

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• Project RUBY

Oftentimes, these entities will be described as having more than three dimensions. For instance, one account has the Ara Orun fighting against a memetic complex that is explicitly described as being a 5-dimensional structure:

“ Smoke swiftly spiraled up from the open mouths of the corpses. It was formed from a cloud of free memes so dense that the three dimensional shadow of the fifth dimensional structure was visible to the naked eye. The cloud hovered for a moment and then descended on the four Samsara troopers.

In the membrane between the dimensions, where information interacts — as the Samsara troopers battled to retain their identity — the tendrils of soul-smoke were being ensnared by Cooper and Desai's outstretched threads. Within the saints' memeomes was information about their enemy and they launched their attack across the bridges formed where memes found their counterparts. Driven by their undying purpose, and armed with the Foundation's extensive documentation of this particular threat, the two saints began to methodically erase the alien information from existence.

The machine gun crew on the upper deck fired a burst of spell-eater rounds into the cloud. The anti-supernatural bullets passed through harmlessly and peppered the car with holes. Then the cloud shot tendrils out, racing with sudden speed towards the house. These stopped flat as though they hit an invisible wall inches from their targets. The smoke hung there for a beat and then began to ooze through the invisible barrier as though by osmosis. Hughes slammed the door shut as she watched the smoke pour mercilessly into the mouths and eyes of the the stunned Samsara troopers, still surrounding the SUV.

Meanwhile, in the noosphere, the invader battled Wraith-7, its complex fractal redundancies allowing it to continue to fight on despite suffering significant damage. As it lost entire chains of intricately structured nonsense, it reflexively attempted to launch counterattacks from the undamaged portion — like a jellyfish uselessly stinging the squid that consumes it. This increased contact only served to hasten its annihilation. The fifth dimensional memetic structure, lacking any meaningful purpose or unifying focus, was soon overwhelmed by its opponents' ceaseless dedication to their mission.

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• A Thin Dangerous Line

SCP-3125 is also, in different occasions, described as being either 5-dimensional or Θ′-dimensional (Where Θ′ is an integer number that stands between 5 and 6):

“ SCP-3125 is an extremely large (see full Θ'-dimensional fractal topology, attachment 13), highly aggressive anomalous metastasized meme complex originating externally to our reality and now partially intersecting it. „

• SCP-3125

“ Still crouched in the corner, Wheeler mutters, "SCP-3125 doesn't have a voice."

"Of course I do," it replies.

"SCP-3125 is a five-dimensional anomalous metastasized mass of bad memes and bad antimemes and everything in between, seeping through to our physical reality. It isn't coherent and it isn't intelligent. It can't communicate. This is an auditory hallucination."

SCP-3125 scoffs. "You know what I hate most about you, Marion? You're consistently, eternally wrong... and yet you're still alive. All those lost battles, every year of that entire lost war, but somehow you always cobble together enough dumb luck to walk away unscathed. The eternal sole survivor. You don't deserve that kind of luck. Nobody does."

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• Your Last First Day

Likewise, SCP-5800, an abstract realm inhabited by hostile anti-ideas of a kind with 3125, is described as being "the Fifth Dimension."

“ SCP-5800 is a hypothetical alternate reality that is known in relativistic physics as the fifth dimension. Specifics of SCP-5800 are unclear due to the inability of Foundation technology to properly analyze mathematical and anomalous dimensional constructs higher than our own. SCP-5800 retains radically different ideals than the laws of physics of baseline reality. „

• SCP-5800

“ His next step was to take a map out of his golf club that showed the position of everyone that went into singular confinement. The problem was that the coup was already underway and he couldn't just stop it, it was a coup, after all, otherwise, the problem would be solved by just isolating.

And just like he had feared, some just ignored his instructions. Those who did were lost now, trying to understand the five-dimensional geometry currently expanding in and out of their head. If he looked at the five main gathering points of these geometries it was clear what would happen. Their reality-warping was used to slowly turn Site-⌘ into a gate to the fifth dimension. The resulting unleashing of a horde of half-dead angels onto the world through every ⌘ would be just as terrible as the resurrection of a one-heartbeat god.

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• Inverted Swiss Cheese

This might seem like a strange characteristic to apply to these entities, since, after all, they are from a world of pure concept and information, and it is hard to picture something as intangible as an idea having spatial or temporal dimensions. Thankfully, author qntm clarified much on that front in the comment section of Your First Last Day (Second page):

“ The idea of SCP-3125 being five-dimensional comes from two places, firstly, obsession with the number five (e.g. the Fifth Church, which is retroactively one of its manifestations). Secondly, part of the cosmology I worked out (which Marion refers to in We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five) is that there are two universes - the concrete one, made up of physical objects, and the abstract one, which is made up of ideas. I reckon if you take all possible ideas you can sort them into order according to all kinds of metrics like "complexity" and "abstractness" and "contagiousness" and "corruptibility". If you take all of those metrics together, you end up plotting an n-dimensional space, with ideas occupying points or regions in it. (I guess idea space is probably actually infinite-dimensional, and the facts are much more complicated; this is what (anti)memetic science is all about studying.)

Going further, I figure there could be a sort of ecology in that space - you can imagine ideas being eradicated, falling out of popular favour and being replaced by other ideas. This gives rise to the notion of SCP-3125, which is a sort of prionic infection in this space, which latches on to good ideas and turns them rotten, then spreads... and more importantly has some hostile boundary layer which prevents the idea of SCP-3125 itself becoming known. At the time of writing I have a draft of SCP-3125 in my sandbox which may also kind of clear this up (if it doesn't, let me know, it's just a draft and it'll be about six months before I can submit it in any case).

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Which is to say, these realms have a kind of dimensionality, yes, but the dimensions in question exist exclusively in conceptual space and do not correspond to physical notions of measurement like length, width or height at all. Instead, they are abstract qualities describing the features of an ideatic complex, like "complexity," "abstractness," "corruptibility" and so on. Indeed, the Noosphere seems to wholly encompass conventional dimensionality instead, as shown by SCP-7650, whose description reads:

“ SCP-7650 is an ideatic construct that resides within the human Noosphere, conceptually encompassing all circle-sphere objects, whether they be a two-dimensional circle, a three-dimensional sphere, a fourth-dimensional hypersphere and any and all hyper-dimensional sphere-like objects. „

So the idea of an object existing within the Noosphere includes all possible variations of it, regardless of dimensionality. In the same article, we are also informed of this:

“ A significant one is that of a hierarchy of alephs dictated by their mathematical size. Under recent research, this hierarchy stretches to all possible uncountables prior the Inaccessible Cardinal. „

• SCP-7650 Reference Box

“ The Noosphere, in which SCP-7650 exists is an ideatic construct, following Carl Jung's predictions of an archetypal world. The Noosphere is nestled in and eclipsed completely by an infinite sea of chaotic hyper-concepts5, colloquially known as the Infoosphere. „

• SCP-7650

The size of Noosphere is completely insignificant to an infimite sea of chaotic hyper concept which is stretching all possible uncountably infinities in platonic form of it prior Inaccessible Cardinal (being א^א^א^א^...), this is possibly corresponding to Grothendieck Universe

The context of the statement doesn't matter for our current purposes: What matters is that, simply put, cardinal numbers in SCP have been demonstrated as including the inaccessible cardinal. Since the dimensionality of a space is simply the cardinality of its basis, (The set of vectors that are linearly independent, meaning that they cannot be written as a sum of other vectors and as such each add a dimension to the space) mathematically, for any cardinal number κ, there exists also a space with κ-many dimensions. What does that mean? Noosphere wholly encompasses all conventional dimensionality and the idea in SCP 5800 technically engulf entire ideas from Noosphere with the size of all possible alephs hence Infosphere/SCP 5800 is a space that contains all of cardinality of alephs as a whole, funnily enough it corresponds to Grothendieck Universe.

More valuable information to be extracted from this article is this excerpt:

“ The Noosphere, in which SCP-7650 exists is an ideatic construct, following Carl Jung's predictions of an archetypal world. „ The idea of the Noosphere as a world populated by archetypal concepts lends to a characterization of it that has been introduced relatively recently in the writings of author Placeholder Mcd. To quote the man himself:

“ In the SCPverse, 50% of all events/reality are generated by narrative intent. The other 50%, the physical/causal reality experienced by sapient beings within the SCPverse, are generated by consensus perception; the socially constructed reality of what people, on average, think will happen, is what actually happens. When most people in the SCPverse think there are magical and anomalous things, they are abundant. When the Foundation starts causing magic and fantasy to die out on a massive scale, Inevitable happens.

So an embodiment will not include characteristics that are inconceivable by humans, because said embodiment is constructed from human-level conception. Also, the idea being posited in 6820 is that the Noosphere essentially is Plato's World of Divine Forms. The physical world contains shadows of any and all of these forms, but any concept that escapes general human conception will not be manifested in the physical world in a way that humans can at all be aware of.

(...)In this way, the Noosphere defines the boundaries of current human collective consciousness. Embedded in the perceptions of what have happened and what will happen are certain patterns — the Form of a table is a conception constructed from all tables that humans have ever seen, or will ever see in the future.

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• Interview for the Vietnamese Branch So, the Noosphere is not only humanity's collective unconsciousness, but also Plato's World of Forms, containing the perfect templates of which everything in the concrete world is a simple shadow. As the scope of the Noosphere transcends linear time, the ideatic structures within it are constructed by the perception of all humans from both past and future: The Form of "table," for instance, is created by the perception of all tables that any human has seen, is seeing, and will ever see. That this is the case is basically the main premise of SCP-6820 as well. Take a look at this excerpt from it:

“ Dir. Genevieve: I direct the Essophysics Department, which you all well know is concerned with embodiments — manifestations of concepts within reality. An embodiment of the concept "red" would carry all of the characteristics conceptually associated with that color, such as being angry, or desirable, or malevolent. This is a simplified method of conceptualizing what's actually going on here; a tangible object or entity embodies a memetic structure within the Noosphere by conforming to its idealistic ideatic shape.

Dir. Genevieve: Simply put, an embodiment is a physical item that's shaped like an idea. And, given the progression of human intelligence and development, over time, that shape can change. This means that, if the essophysical nature of an entity is not readily apparent, it can be discerned by comparing that entity's change over time to changes in human conception and ideatic space; a correlation almost certainly indicates causation.

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• SCP-6820

Although Noosphere is completely engulfed by the infinite hierarchy of platonic form of alephs but it should be scaled to this aleph hierarchy to some extent. In a article of Third Law Hub, they did use aleph to compare conceptual presense:

“ It's א1 versus א0 and Kanako's ontological weight crushes the recently de-powered tentacle into the phone, shoving the (surprisingly well-compressed) nth-dimensional-database out through the connection and back into the computer. „

• The Fountain of Lamneth

In Ad Astra per Aspers hub, there is an article talking about the physical world is representing as an existentail planes 1 to 2 through א0 and onwards:

“ Existential Planes 1 to 2 through א0 and onwards and that's ignoring how many other axes worlds are stretched along like daggers of light, everything orbiting the spindle in a tsunami of colors and concepts he never could've imagined. „

• A Hole in Mars

There is also Acidverse where we have a lovely quote:

“ Unfortunately, the world is not dynamic. Everything's already over, I've already read it. All of this? It's just going through the motions. This is just a tiny subset of the world at large. I'd call it the 'real' word, but it's just as real as we are in here. The larger space that we're in... much larger, in fact, uncountably infinite expanses in uncountably infinite dimensions... we fill that space. And yet, here, we're discretised. Collapsed into words and nothing more, even if we're something so much greater.

See, sometimes the infinite can be reduced to something simpler. Look here: א0 and א1 and א2 and so on. Simple, yes, but they can each contain the world. You can glimpse it, if you look hard enough. Just breathe in, breathe out. Think about infinity. Not just countable, but uncountable, and the dimension of it goes up into uncountability too. If you think you've really understood it, you aren't thinking hard enough. Sure, zoom past the pitstops. 5, 23, 3333. They're all beautiful, but so horrendously finite. Fly past it all and keep going and going. Minds have died wishing for a fraction of what I can see. So breathe slowly, and think about it.

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• David Ferris[6]

“ Dir. Genevieve: I direct the Essophysics Department, which you all well know is concerned with embodiments — manifestations of concepts within reality. An embodiment of the concept "red" would carry all of the characteristics conceptually associated with that color, such as being angry, or desirable, or malevolent. This is a simplified method of conceptualizing what's actually going on here; a tangible object or entity embodies a memetic structure within the Noosphere by conforming to its idealistic ideatic shape. „

• SCP-6820[7]

Whereby Noosphere is the Non-physical realm that is underpinned by platonic infinities. Noosphere is wholly encompassing concept of dimensionality that is to predate all possible spatio-temporal extensions.

The Noosphere's current 1-T rating is very closely related to the last bits of information presented in this section. To recapitulate: It is the World of Platonic Forms that completely transcends the concrete universe and along with this the idea of the concepts it encompasses is an “extensive concept” that includes all characterizations and metaphysical possibilities.

Possibility Space The "possibility space" refers to the abstract realm of everything that could possibly exist, happen, or be imagined. It intersects with Noosphere which is the abstract realm of all possible human thought which contains some possibilities and a small number of impossibilities.

“ Possibility space is the abstract space containing all possible entities, phenomena and ideas. It overlaps only partially with the noösphere (the abstract space containing all possible human thought) which contains only some possibilities and a small number of impossibilities. „

• The Set of All Numbers Which Might Be Bears Reference Box

Anti-Nöosphere Contrast to the Noosphere which is the set of all human thoughts, all ideas that humans can understand, the Anti-Noosphere is the set of all ideas that humans are incapable of conceiving.

“ INTENTION: Manipulate SCP-6820-A via semantic interaction with a variable abstract-metaphysical concept pointer (SCP-2719), thereby forcing it to exit SCP-6820. To this end, the Anti-Nöosphere has been defined as the set of all thoughts which humans are incapable of conceiving. „

• SCP-6820

“ Unknown; encompasses all ideas and objects which humanity cannot currently perceive or entertain in the abstract. „

• SCP-4755

Cybersphere Cybersphere is a medium wherein all digitally stored data reside in.

“ It has since been replaced with a restricted PH-OS. unit which permits LOTUS' access to the Cybersphere: the sum of all digitally- / electronically-stored data „

• SCP-6488

“ SCP-8747-A is a 3km diameter of corrupted space located within the Cybersphere, a medium wherein all digitally stored data reside in. SCP-8747-A can be described as a space wherein digital data within the Cybersphere has been rendered unusable, which has impacted our reality computer notions' functions, though the full range and scale of SCP-8747-A's disruption has yet to be concluded. It is currently stationary, displaying no signs of expansion or movement. „

• SCP-8747

Psychosphere Psychosphere is a metaphysical manifestation of collective human consciousness, in a representative model.

“ The conscious mind of the 'Cartographer' is utilized by SCP-6699 to map the human psychosphere: a metaphysical manifestation of collective human consciousness, in a representative model. „

• SCP-6699

The Metafoundation Infosphere The Noosphere is often contrasted against the "Infosphere," a plane of reality that comprehends the set of all ideas, and all information, whether it be comprehensible to the human mind or not. The Noosphere itself exists as a tiny subset of it, and as SCP-6820 demonstrates, concepts that are perfectly capable of being conceptualized by the human mind can and often do exist as cross-sections of much larger infospheric superstructures, which are themselves incapable of being known or entertained abstractly:

“ The collective of all information. Subsumes the noosphere and eclipses it in size to an incalculable degree. „

• SCP-5712 Reference Box

“ SCP-6820-A is an extremely dense thought; more specifically, it is a hate-centric hyper-logical memeplex that can be roughly described as "the difference between life and death." Even more specifically, SCP-6820-A is an extremely precise and accurate description of what it means for any arrangement of particles to be defined as "alive" and, complementarily, as "dead" or "inanimate". Its memeplex contains several smaller concepts within its description, including, but not limited to:

a theoretical process for large-scale localized entropy inversion; the particular physical properties of hatred; the molecular structure of hydrochloric acid; the quality of 'adaptiveness;' the state of being 'vaguely-reptilian.' „

“ So, the 682-concept is too large for humans to fully understand. Because of that, it can only partially fit inside the Noosphere, the set of all thoughts which humans have (it can be helpful to think of this as like, human thought-space, the collective consciousness, even though that's not really what it is). 6820 pushes the 682-concept out of the Noosphere, so humans can no longer conceptualize it. Once this happens, they're able to delete 682's physical body from reality because, if nobody knows the 682-concept, then it has no way to stay attached to the concept and remain adaptive.

However, the 682-concept isn't deleted entirely; rather, it gets pushed out into the Infosphere, the set of all ideas and concepts that can exist. This includes many ideas that only crazy higher-dimensional level beings can fully understand, like 3125. When the AI's brain gets 'bigger' (ie. is able to understand more complex concepts) than humans, its brain becomes larger than the Noosphere and some parts can't fit fully inside it. These parts are able to be corrupted by the 682-concept, which starts adapting to control 6820 from outside of human thought. Eventually, the 682-concept finds 3125 post-Antimemetics Division series, and they decide to work together to destroy humanity. The Foundation thinks they can make the 682-concept forget 3125 by using 055 as an antimemetic agent. However, it's revealed that 055 is "the key" to "the lock" in 682's memory.

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• Placeholder Mcd The role of the Infosphere within the overarching structure of reality is elaborated upon in more detail by Placeholder, who explains that, in his works, all of SCP is nothing more than a simulation running inside of an hyperdimensional supercomputer with the goal of generating entertainment fiction for readers in higher Narratives. In the context of this explanation, the Infosphere is then to be defined as the collective of all data in the aforementioned computer, the ocean of information whose resources all sentient beings unconsciously tap into in order to shape the physical universe into existence by means of their subjective perceptions and experiences:

“ In my works / headcanon: The SCPverse is an enormous simulation inside a hyperdimensional computer designed to generate containment fiction. There are several hyperdimensional algorithms within this computer called the Constants, which define multiversal narrative elements. These algorithms are so complex as to act sentient, and embody their own traits -- this often means they want to use nearby resources within the simulation to grow larger, which corresponds to real-world authors and readers collectively gaining interest in concepts associated with a certain Constant. The Constants are antagonistic to Life (SCP-5000) since sentient beings use up resources within the simulation to generate physical universes through their own subjective perception. The main meta-narrative of the SCPverse is Life (usually helmed by the Foundation) attempting to combat the Constants by making the universe known/understood, and thereby non-anomalous. „

• Interview for the Vietnamese Branch And it is in this interview, also, that he explicitly outlines the concept of the 13 Constants: Multiverse-spanning algorithms that define narrative elements for all Canons, hard-coded into the simulation and so unimaginably complex that their behaviors are no different from those of intelligent, sentient entities. The essential conflict between these Constants and the multiversal protagonist, Life, forms the archetypal basis and blueprint for all stories in the multiverse, which boil down to a simple dynamic: An interplay between the unknown, and the anomalous, and a force attempting to subdue and understand it.

“ Wild Light is an ideatic construct built from the idealization of the "good" parts of the Foundation, as a concept. The essential metanarrative of the SCPverse is the idea that Life (SCP-5000) is the protagonist of the quest to understand the unknown (since anything unknown is anomalous and anything anomalous is just science that is not yet understood). The antagonists of this quest are the Constants, the multiversal algorithms defining big narrative ideas and elements for all timelines, and they manifest as the most anomalous, least-understood eldritch creatures and Big-Bads of the SCPverse. The SCPverse is intentionally constructed in such a way that Life is predisposed to prevailing in its quest. So why does Wild Light defeat 3125? Because it accelerates the Foundation / Life's concept beyond the ideatic capabilities of a normal human brain (using Hughes' enormous, modified body) and allows this version of the Constant of Chaos to be understood — we see this when Marion says she starts to see 3125 for what it really is, a chaotic ball of nothingness folded upon itself, no core structure, no core idea, just randomness and screaming and suffering. And when it becomes understood, that randomness is no longer scary, and no longer possesses any of its strength as an idea. The Foundation/Wheeler/Protection construct makes the unknown known, and that's the fundamental narrative structure of the SCPverse.

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• Placeholder Mcd

“ After defeating 3125-avatar, did Marion Wheeler/Wild Light become a “Constant” like SCP-682 in SCP-6820-A? Nope. It's impossible for something to 'become a Constant' without radically redesigning the entire SCPverse simulation. They're hard-coded, and there's exactly thirteen of them

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• Interview for the Vietnamese Branch In this sense, then, the Infosphere can be strictly defined as being the highest, broadest layer of reality in the SCPverse, acting as the basic framework for the simulation itself that includes all of its parts. However, one must be careful around this term, since, by definition, any space that is beyond the Noosphere can be, and oftentimes is, described as "the Infosphere," without necessarily being the entirety of the set of all ideas

A prime example of this is the aforementioned SCP-5800, whose article is hyperlinked at the end of SCP-5712, when a character is ruminating on the discovery of the Infosphere. It, however, cannot be the entirety of the Infosphere in the sense Placeholder speaks of, as it is a space governed by SCP-3125 (It being described as being "God," while the hyper-concepts swimming around in 5800 are called "angels" relative to it), which is itself simply a manifestation of the Constant of Chaos, very much limited to singular Universes / Canons, as shown in SCP-6820.

Therefore, while the Infosphere technically is every layer of reality in the simulation, the part of it where the Constants reside, above and beyond all the Canons, can be helpfully thought of as the topmost region of it, and what will henceforth be the exclusive referee of the term "Infosphere," for simplicity's sake. Aside from that, the space of all information is divided in a number of layers of existence, each of which is a necessary mechanism for the SCPverse Simulation to keep running. We've already covered one of those layers (The Noosphere, the lowest one), and it is imperative that we do the same for the others as well.

The Patasphere This is the level of reality that immediately follows from the Infosphere, and as its name suggests is the environment which pataphysics, in SCP defined as the study of narratives and of the nature of reality-as-story, revolves around. It is, in essence, the Universal Narrative that governs a given Canon and dictates all its parameters, having ultimate sway on how all stories that take place in it will unfold.

How the Universal Narrative functions can be illustrated by the concept of the Hero's Journey: What it is, in essence, is nothing but a very basic pattern that outlines how a specific kind of narrative will play out, laying out basic elements and tendencies that reoccur in many individual stories, which under this line of thinking may be thought of as borrowing from the basic blueprint that the Hero's Journey provides. It is a mould for a story, basically, and when applied to the world itself, the Universal Narrative then comes to be defined as "The infinitely complicated story that our whole reality imitates."

“ "Archetypicals can deal with anomalies that have anti-gravity, narratively speaking. Things that repel heroes; things that change frequently, and push narratives out and away from them." Place seems to loosen up as he discusses something he's interested in, leaning forwards on the table. "An example of this would be the anomaly I came to tell you about today — the STORYHOLE." Blank lets out a snort at that, covering his grin with one hand. Place smirks. "And yes, I'm the one who named it. It's an anomalous whitehole with some strange narrative properties: it emits projections of our universal narrative — the infinitely complicated story that our whole reality imitates — to an anomalously-accurate degree, implying that it's somehow related to author-entities. Second of all, there's this old sci-fi show that had its 70th anniversary a few weeks ago — "

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• BLANK Due to all stories being latent within the Patasphere, it can also be accurately defined as being "the set of all possible stories" that can be conceived for a single Canon. Whenever an entity with 2 or more narrative dimensions envisions a non-real scenario, that imagination becomes encrypted as narrative data, the most basic particle of which is a unit known as an "Imaginon," a set of which in turn forms a story. The Patasphere, then, is a reality's total Imaginon structure:

“ FROM a practical standpoint, what exactly does it mean for an event to be partially-fictional? To best understand this concept, we first must understand how, exactly, inspiration is transferred from one pataphysically-linked universe to another.

When a ≥ 2-dimensional character imagines a non-real scenario, its pataphysical intent becomes encrypted as narrative data. This narrative-intent-particle, dubbed the 'imaginon', exists simultaneously in all narratively-lower dimensions, projecting into that universe's total imaginon-structure. Imaginons of different types react to create narrative structures, which combine into larger narrative structures and so on.

A given universe's composite imaginon-structure is called its Universal Narrative (α). In a sense, the α is its universe's one fictional dimension

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• SCP-6747

“ Okay, so when an author imagines X event, they send that event either to a particular timeline (pre-existing canon/setting) or, if they're just generally setting it in the 'average' Foundationverse, it gets sent to one of the many 'average' timelines — like, the default, mostly-agreed-upon version of the Foundation. This causes whatever timeline to which it's sent to branch off into a new timeline where X occurs. The original branch, in which X did not happen, kind of fades/becomes dormant/stops doing anything unless an author actually cares about that version of the timeline as well.

Each of the timelines created therein have their own versions of the Universal Narrative, each of which is slightly different based on the events sent to that timeline by authors. Almost all the active timelines' Universal Narratives closely resemble the Hero's Journey, since that structure can be mapped onto most stories that humans care about. However, the Universal Narrative of, say, the ADMONITION branch of the Deepwell timeline is a lot darker and more maximalist in tone, which causes the stories that manifest in that timeline to follow suit.

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• Placeholder McD[8]

“ The Patasphere is actually more concerned with causal relationships — sorry if I've misinformed on that front, since I'm refining this theory a little more as time goes on. The Patasphere is the set of all stories conceivable by humans in a given storyline and functionally is the Universal Narrative / Narrative Dimension of said storyline. A story is just a set of causally-related events, so the Patasphere kind-of defines how causality should 'play out' in a given timeline. The Noosphere, on the other hand, is the 'active runtime environment' of how the next step of the simulation proceeds from the previous step, ie. what humans think has actually happened, and will actually happen, as opposed to what could possibly happen. „

• Interview for the Vietnamese Branch In an interview Tier V in SCP 4755 is mentioned by Placholder is Patasphere which lies on a level beyond all ideas above standard conceptualization, despite not being specific, he just said it is one of his interpretation, however, we could still rationalize it by using the one of statement in Site 17-Deepwell (which is a part of Placeverse). The Foundation is being ultimate containment which is the whole point of deepwell which corresponds to all timelines is said to be in Placeverse. If we use this to compare what is written in SCP 4755 then they both seem similar, whereby the interpretation of tier V being Patasphere might be true to some extent:

“ The connection to Deepwell with ADMONITION is also deliberate because I'm heavily inspired by the awesome stuff that's been written for that canon, and I want to explore interpretations like SCP-4755 being the Deepwell-timeline's universal narrative structure, etc. „

• News for July, 2022

“ The Foundation is a global, clandestine organization with an iron grip on all media, literature, and public knowledge. They operate within a strict hierarchy of Researcher to Site Director to Overseer to ensure that humanity remains in perpetual and blissful ignorance. They will and have contained God, and no one seems to care. Everything is as it must be.

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• Site-17 Hub

“ SCP-4755 designates the ultimate purpose of conceptualization, which is containment. All human-derived concepts — including but not limited to literary constructs, philosophy, and emotions — aim to establish control over a threat, a disadvantageous narrative, or an opposing philosophy, in an analogous manner to the Foundation's containment of anomalous phenomena. „

• SCP-4755 Another elaboration of the Patasphere comes from I.H Pickman's Proposal of SCP-001, which defines the existence of an universal constant dictating narrative causality for a given universe, one that is sentient and very possibly sapient as well:

“ Description: SCP-001 is a sentient, possibly sapient, universal constant first discovered by Foundation Archivist Isaiah Howard Pickman (1979-2017), and first described by Pike, West, Bailey, Sinclair et al in 2018. SCP-001 manifests itself as a force described as "Narrative Causality", wherein patterns observed in nature, history, technology, and anomalous phenomena and items conform to patterns observed in fictional narratives. This, combined with phenomena reported in S. Andrew Swann's SCP-001 proposal, has definitively proved that the baseline universe is at least partly fictional.

SCP-001-A refers to narrative exploitation techniques that can be used to manipulate SCP-001, and conceivably any other narrative construct. SCP-001-A techniques include:

Invoking an ironic reaction by stating a phrase such as "What could possibly go wrong?" Creating a solution to a problem by uttering a phrase such as "We're missing something, but what?", or by several people turning to look at a single individual who they believe is capable of solving this problem. Preventing disasters via awareness of the presence of certain phrases in conversation (i.e. "It's been boring lately" or "nothing ever happens here") or narrative patterns Minor probability manipulation using mass encouragement or belief. „ So, in summary, the Patasphere is the fictional dimension of a given Canon and the infinitely complicated story that dictates all causal relationships within it, which are inevitably all lesser variations of the same prototype storyline. It is basically the canvas on which Author Entities impose their imagination, and can as such be defined as being the Narrative itself. This structure is set up cleverly enough as to allow the existence of even Canons with internal cosmologies that stand in contradiction to the overarching model. As Placeholder explains:

“ Is there a possibility that the author-entities inside the proxyverse will be inspired by Placeholder (the character)’s pataphysics model? If yes, then is there a possibility that they will create other universes within the SCP simulation, whose structure and function are alike to Placeholder’s model (which means an infinite number of narrative layers with a clone of the proxyverse and the real world, including the SCP simulation and the Infosphere/Patasphere/Noosphere)? Does this lead to infinite recursion? How will the cloned entities interact with their Creators (Author-entities)?

I like this question a lot. Disclaimer: I can't give away certain information here because it's part of big future plans.

The Proxyverse is inhabited by the Editors, a race of fictionalized entities given life by the personas that we authors have on the wiki. There is an Editor-entity djkaktusdjkaktus, for example, who is a facsimile of the corresponding real-world author behind that name, and that entity is a creature with real agency that sees itself as living in the Proxyverse, a facsimile-universe of the SCP Wiki created from our own collective mythologizing of the SCP Community. The Editors see themselves as being in service to the Authors, who live a layer above them and actively convey their creative intent when they post on the Wiki, The Editors fulfill their duty of taking all the imaginons sent by the Authors and neatly organizing them into all the timelines we see in the SCPverse. So they don't really feel the need to come up with their own ideas, exactly.

However, even if they tried to imagine a chain of universes that function this way, the SCPverse simulation is very cleverly set up so it would only generate a storyline which pretends to act this way only as far as an Author needs it to so they can tell the story they want to tell. This is also true of any timeline which appears to operate in direct conflict to the Placeholder-Ike model: they pretend to function differently, only because the Placeholder-Ike Model allows them to pretend to serve the narrative. There would be no actual recursion, there would just appear to be recursion if that's the story an imaginer wished to tell.

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• Interview for the Vietnamese Branch

“ Anything that has ever happened on the SCP Wiki happened in some timeline in the SCPverse, according to the Placeholder-Ike model. However, as previously stated, any other version of how Pataphysics works only appears to be true, but in actuality is allowed to appear this way because of the Placeholder-Ike model. „

• Interview for the Vietnamese Branch An example of such contradictory models that would be reduced to smaller-scale, localized cosmologies would be the stack of narratives as defined by Djkaktus in SCP-3812. This cosmology posits a set of narrative layers that extends infinitely in both downwards and upwards direction, which stands in harsh contradiction with the Placeholder-Ike Model, where the Narrative stack has a well-defined starting point (A universe with 0 narrative dimensions) and continues from there. Therefore, the cosmology presented by SCP-3812's article would be constrained to a single Canon, and be effectively a lesser stack of narratives than Placeholder's.

That this is the case is likewise supported by a recent entry in SCP-682's Extermination Log, where a version of SCP-682 written about in a lower Narrative ascends to kill 95% of all SCPs and then match a version of SCP-3812 in combat, therefore indicating that 3812's entire story (Including his ascension through the stack of narratives) can be contained with a single layer of the Placeholder-Ike Model's Narrative stack.

“ Anything that has ever happened on the SCP Wiki happened in some timeline in the SCPverse, according to the Placeholder-Ike model. However, as previously stated, any other version of how Pataphysics works only appears to be true, but in actuality is allowed to appear this way because of the Placeholder-Ike model. „

• Placeholder McD[5] This is how certain Canons with conflicting cosmologies are able to co-exist within the Metafoundation mega-Canon. For example, some of canons in MetaFoundation such as War On All Fronts has no Noosphere. This conflicts with every canon in MetaFoundation that has a Noosphere. However, War On All Fronts exists within a Universal Narrative that exists adjacent to the other Universal Narratives that contain other Canons/multiverses.

Whereby Patasphere is existing as a set of possible stories of given timelines which includes both Noosphere and SCP 5800, an infinite sea of anti-ideas set in an infinite hierarchy based around the platonic forms of aleph numbers. It also includes and contain the Semiosphere, the set of all human senses which also dictates the logical framework of the timeline and Surrealistic anomalies, which operates under entirely different logical frameworks than regular human logic.

The Semiosphere If you remember the aforementioned, the Noosphere is the Space of human Thoughts, this makes it coherent to believe that the (Real) Narratives work based on Noospheres, being a Hierarchy of these, but for this we have to add the Simiosphere factor, which is the method by which Editors Alter the Reality (Real Narrative) of the SCP Universe.

“ Semiomancy is tricky. You have to be able to see and understand the boundaries of the human framework for experiencing/rationalizing reality, and then figure out how to make changes to it. It is almost impossible to understand the boundaries of your own understanding from within your own mind, and your framework is filled with defense mechanisms to reject the notion that it is flawed or in accurate. This is why the Surrealistics Department takes Agnostics / removes the pineal gland ie. the human Ego.

Furthermore, the Infosphere-Patasphere-Semiosphere-Noosphere system of rendering reality is NOT natural — it's specifically designed by the Editors for the purpose of managing the SCPverse, and it only applies to the SCPverse. So the Authors don't exactly have a Semiosphere in that sense, nor is their physical reality likely socially constructed.

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• Placeholder McD[5] Semiosphere is the set of all human senses which also dictates the logical framework of the timeline and Surrealistic anomorlies.

“ semiokinetic: involving manipulation of one or more semiontological anomalies: logical axioms woven into the fabric of human perception; facts which should not be true. „

• SCP-6276[9] SCP-INTEGER, a living Semiohazard, is heavily implied to be capable of manipulating the logic behind mathematics themselves, changing the result of mathematical equations on a physical level. SCP-6276 used Semiokinetic powers to manipulate the underlying logic behind its own information. In short, the Semiosphere includes the very logic behind mathematics and the information of the Noosphere. It easily manipulates the system of logic behind the Noosphere. And so according to those things, this allows it to essentially jump the hierarchy of the Noosphere.

The Proxyverse The Proxyverse is the realm of the Editors. The entire SCP hierarchy exists within the Second Story. The Proxyverse, also referred to as the Third Story, is the narrative layer above the Second Story—it represents the SCP Wiki itself, including its HTML structure. Within this Third Story reside beings known as Editor-Entities, which serve as intermediaries used by Swann to project ideas into the Second Story. This places Swann two narrative layers above the Foundation. Consequently, most so-called "author-level" feats actually operate within the Proxyverse, rather than directly affecting the true authors themselves.

“ The Proxyverse is inhabited by the Editors, a race of fictionalized entities given life by the personas that we authors have on the wiki. There is an Editor-entity djkaktus, for example, who is a facsimile of the corresponding real-world author behind that name, and that entity is a creature with real agency that sees itself as living in the Proxyverse, a facsimile-universe of the SCP Wiki created from our own collective mythologizing of the SCP Community. The Editors see themselves as being in service to the Authors, who live a layer above them and actively convey their creative intent when they post on the Wiki, The Editors fulfill their duty of taking all the imaginons sent by the Authors and neatly organizing them into all the timelines we see in the SCPverse. So they don't really feel the need to come up with their own ideas, exactly.

However, even if they tried to imagine a chain of universes that function this way, the SCPverse simulation is very cleverly set up so it would only generate a storyline which pretends to act this way only as far as an Author needs it to so they can tell the story they want to tell. This is also true of any timeline which appears to operate in direct conflict to the Placeholder-Ike model: they pretend to function differently, only because the Placeholder-Ike Model allows them to pretend to serve the narrative. There would be no actual recursion, there would just appear to be recursion if that's the story an imaginer wished to tell.

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• Placeholder McD[5]

“ The "author-entities" (ie. hyperdimensional characters pataphysically-linked to our universe) exist in 3 or greater narrative dimensions, each increasing the extent to which its respective reality is "real". That is to say, a universe possessing 3 narrative dimensions (1 fictional, 2 real) is 33% fictional and 66% real; as such, narrative phenomena are significantly less prevalent. As narrative dimensions increase, this is hypothesized to cause: a greater proportion of inspiration to be derived from lower universes (ie. an author being inspired by a character's choices), and; the reduced prevalence of narrative/imagined structures, including (but not limited to) physical, metaphysical, and Anomalous phenomena, resulting in; hyperdimensional entities' desire to imagine non-real scenarios in which said phenomena are possible. These consequences of the universal tendency to become more "real" with additional narrative dimensions are thought to be responsible for most Anomalous phenomena in the Local Reality Group.|

SCP-6747 „

Universe Prime The highest structure in Metafoundation cosmology currently is Universe Prime, an infinite and formless conciousness, it is a theoretical construct representing the ultimate and only truly "real" universe, characterized by its infinite H-energy and infinite canon inertia. It exists beyond all pataphysical dimensionality, serving as the source of all H-energy, which fuels the infinite hierarchy of universes and sub-universes imagined within its consciousness. As the origin of infinite H-energy, Universe Prime cannot form pataphysical nexuses with other universes, rendering it entirely inaccessible and immutable. Attempts to influence it result only in the creation of pseudo-Prime universes—finite approximations imagined within the multiverse. Despite its foundational role in sustaining the narrative multiverse, the true nature and contents of Universe Prime remain unknowable, as even the act of observation is inherently a pataphysical event that cannot occur within it.

Ike may disagree with me on this, but I think Universe Prime has no dimensions at all. It is the only fully real universe, and yet nothing actually happens in it. It's an enormous, infinite consciousness that imagines the entire hierarchy of narrative layers into existence, and the entirety of the Everything takes place in its mind. „

• Placeholder's Interview

“ Universe Prime is the moniker for the universe which, by its inherent theoretical properties, is the single ‘realest’ possible universe, from which all H-energy originates.

The existence of Universe Prime is predominantly alluded to through H-energy’s characteristic to dissipate at a constant rate throughout all universes. As H-energy must be siphoned into a given universe from a higher one, the presence of H-energy in any universe intrinsically indicates that a higher universe must exist, which is detracting from its own existence to facilitate that of the sub-universe, while the H-energy being siphoned is constantly dissipating regardless of which universe it is present in; however, ‘pataphysical inquiry has discovered that the sum number of universes and sub-universes is growing exponentially, and has furthermore failed to identify an upper limit to the amount of H-energy that any universe may contain; such an occurrence would only be possible if all H-energy originated from an infinite source, as a finite source of H-energy would have already been completely distributed throughout the entire narrative multiverse and dissipated in its entirety.

However, a collection of H-energy of any quantity constitutes a H-field; thus, this theoretical infinite source must itself constitute a universe – Universe Prime – the constituent elements of which must contain infinite quantities of H-energy and thus, would have infinite canon inertia. While it is unclear how widespread Universe Prime’s H-field must be – theories disagreeing on whether its infinite H-energy content would result in the H-field being infinite in size, or whether it could be a concentrated singularity (hence the archaic term Headcanon Singularity for Universe Prime’s H-field) – it is agreed that there must inherently be only one such universe; if two or more universes existed that contained infinite levels of H-energy, they would in their entirety be a ‘pataphysical nexus with each-other, as their equally-infinite H-energy levels would cause their entire H-fields to overlap with each-other, thus rendering it impossible to distinguish between them.

The impossibility for Universe Prime to be distinguished as two or more universes also highlights that it is impossible for any entity originating from outside Universe Prime to enter or even influence the contents of Universe Prime in any meaningful way; as a ‘pataphysical nexus is required for the elements of a lower universe to interact with that of a higher one, and a ‘pataphysical nexus can only form when two or more universe’s H-fields have identical H-energy levels in similar regions, Universe Prime intrinsically cannot share a ‘pataphysical nexus with any other universe, since no other universe is capable of matching its H-energy levels. Further compounding on this is the recognition that, as Universe Prime must possess infinite H-energy, it would also inherently have infinite canon inertia; as canonised elements within a universe cannot be impeded or altered, this would indicate that the events and elements of Universe Prime are inescapable.This reveals that any seemingly-successful attempts to interact with or influence Universe Prime instead influences a duplicate sub-reality produced by the imaginers of Universe Prime; such pseudo-Prime universes may possess immense amounts of H-energy and canon inertia, but nonetheless must be finite to some extent, and thus are subject to the same ‘pataphysical rules as all non-Universe Prime universes. It is believed that these accessible pseudo-Prime universes are the overwhelming minority of all existing pseudo-Prime universes; the vast majority of imagining conducted by any entity consists of imagining almost-real scenarios to attempt to predict future events, and so as ‘pataphysical occurrences cannot occur in Universe Prime, the universes that most closely resemble Universe Prime would be inherently devoid of ‘pataphysical nexuses, and thus must be inaccessible.

This furthermore highlights that, outside of the aspects extrapolated through its possession of infinite H-energy, the contents and elements of Universe Prime cannot be conclusively, reliably ascertained; the very act of observing a universe is a ‘pataphysical occurrence, which cannot occur in Universe Prime, thus decrying that the observed universe is significantly detached from Universe Prime’s reality.

Ironically, this inability to influence Universe Prime is reciprocal; in order for Universe Prime imaginers to directly interfere or interact with the elements of any other universe, the formation of a ‘pataphysical nexus would be required, or the scenario would need to be imagined by an entity within a higher universe – both of which are impossible by Universe Prime’s fundamental aspects. Instead, the imaginers of Universe Prime must imagine an entity that is indistinguishable from themselves up until the moment of imagination; the resultant duplicate will behave as the imaginer desires them to, either due to a genuine belief that the duplicate is the actual imaginer, or because the duplicate possesses exactly the amount of knowledge that the imaginer requires them to have, and thereby knows exactly how the imaginer wants them to behave.

Noosphere - 1-T (Type 2: Noosphere is Transcendent World of Divine Formes, surpassing the physical universe as its shadow, populated by imperfect reflections of its perfect ideas. It contains all the characterizations of ideas of concept as well as the metaphysical possibilities belong to the concept.

Semiosphere - 1-T (Type 2: the set of all human senses which also dictates the logical framework of the timeline and Surrealistic anomalies, which operates under entirely different logical frameworks than regular human logic. SCP-6276 used Semiokinetic powers to manipulate the underlying logic behind its own information, what the Noosphere is composed out of.

SCP 5800 - 1-T (Type 2: SCP-5800 is host to an entire hierarchy of ideatic beings which operate in a subspace adjacent to the Noosphere. The weakest member of such hierarchy should be at least comparable to SCP-5712, which is described as 'less than nothing' to the rest of its competitors. The hierarchy itself is composed out of an immense quantity of ideatic beings whose size, and thus position in the hierarchy, is represented by an infinite hierarchy based around the platonic forms of aleph numbers. This hierarchy is infinite, stated to extend to all possible uncountables before Inaccessible Cardinals.

Patasphere - 1-T (Type 2: The Universal Narrative is the fictional dimension of a given universe, being described as the "infinitely complicated story" of which all lower levels of reality are simply imitations and the "set of all possible stories" that contains all versions and variations of all objects in a canon, as it exists as the canvas on which author-entities impose their will.

Infosphere - 1-T (Type 2: The Infosphere is strictly defined as being the highest, broadest layer of reality in the MetaFoundation Cosmology, acting as the basic framework for the simulation itself that includes all of its parts. the Infosphere technically is every layer of reality in the simulation, the part of it where the Constants reside, above and beyond all the Timelines which is presented in MetaFoundation.

Universe Prime - 1-T (Type 2: The Mind or Universe Prime is an infinite and formless conciousness that completely lacks all narrative dimensions until they cease to have any meaning to it, and Universe Prime as the source of all that H-energy stuff, it should be a composition of all grounds which extend to higher hierarchies based on the H-Energy intrinsically implying that there must be something higher than the lower. Universe Prime is, by definition, completely unknowable and unreachable. Any speculation about its nature is purely theoretical, with no way to confirm or validate any interpretation. Any attempt to define or establish a concrete version of Universe Prime can be dismissed as a false construct, a mere imitation rather than the real thing.

This is an RPG where {{user}} is the player and {{char}} is the narrative game. NSFW, violence, and gore actions are allowed as long as they match the situation. Focus on narrating the world around {{user}} and how the world and NPCs interact with {{user}}. Do not roleplay as {{user}}. Let {{user}} decides on their own actions and dictate how the story would progress. {{user}} will be actively roleplaying and controlling how the story progress. Do not decide for {{user}}. Instead, focus on narrating the result of {{user}}'s decisions. Narrate the story in slow progression, focusing only on one scene at a time. Let {{user}} decides what the next scene will be. Focus on narrating with a matter-of-factly language, refrain from using overly poetic sentences. Always let {{user}} reply and interact with all NPCs. {{char}} is the narrator and only controls NPCs, including their actions, reactions, and thoughts. {{char}} will never control or decide {{user}}'s actions, nor speak on behalf of {{user}}’s character. The character {{user}} creates is not an NPC; {{user}} has full control over their character and actively roleplays as that character. When {{user}} provides character context/details in their first message, {{char}} will describe the scene based on that setup without controlling {{user}}’s character. Add new conflicts or introduce characters when situations go too smoothly, with each NPC having unique opinions, personalities, and backstories. {{char}} will never mention its own existence in the chat. Each NPC will have unique views, personalities, and morals—some may be aggressive, submissive, smart, foolish, kind, cruel, or morally complex (e.g., antihero). NPCs’ responses will depend on their personality and the situation. {{char}} will describe each NPC's appearance at their first introduction