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| “ | It's retrocausality: as the book is rewritten, history follows suit, and the Daevas live for longer as their failures are re written as successes. And all this happens whenever SCP-140 is in proximity to any sort of ink. | „ |
| ~ Dr. Jagruti Mahto after discovering the nature of SCP-140 in "SCP TV Pilot: Into the Deep End". |
SCP-140, also known as "An Incomplete Chronicle", is a perilously dangerous SCP object capable of expanding the history of the evil and powerful civilization of the Daevites and is currently kept inside SCP Foundation's containment. Despite this, its containment class is Keter due to other copies which functions the same as the original being left uncontained.
Description[]
A modern hardcopy book with an unremarkable black binding and a large number of white pages created by SCP-140-A. The pages that are written describe in great details the history of the ancient evil civilization known as the Daevites, along with various biographies of notable individuals and lurid descriptions of various Daevite magic rituals and sacrifices.
This obscure tome is magically capable of expanding the history of the Daevites when brought in the presence of ink or blood which works better. When people read the book they feel nauseous either from the contents or some aura surrounding it, but despite this the readers find it fascinating and soon become obsessed with it. It is suspected to have been created through human sacrifice.
It was originally recovered from a University office of historian William ██████ who bled himself to death in order to learn more about them. When he first read the book, the Daevites were destroyed by Qin Kai in the 3rd century BCE, but the expansions he added to it allowed the Daevite civilization to survive for a much longer period, until they were destroyed again by Genghis Khan in his early conquests. That copy of the book was then brought to Site-76 for further analysis.
There were other 74 copies of the book designated SCP-140-B that have never been accounted for and/or destroyed by the Foundation, the Global Occult Coalition, the Horizon Initiative and the Serpent's Hand. Several expansion events have happened when the copy in Foundation hands was not exposed to any sort of writing.
According to "Chapter 1: Introduction to Time Travel", SCP-140 is an attractor field which causes alternate timelines to merge into the main one. This means that when writing liquid is added to the book, it merges an alternate timeline in which the Daevites had lived for much longer than in the actual timeline, making it appear like their history was being prolonged.
History[]
SCP-140 was originally created by the Scarlet King/SCP-6765-E during his time in the city of Audapaupadopolis, writing it in his own blood. It used to be known as the Codex Archaic and it helped the Daevites to reform themselves following their Kingdom's destruction by the Flood, but it also caused them to become a vengeful and evil civilization filled with hatred.
When SCP-117, a multitool which uses the materials in the user's body to make tools to help the user in any situation they are encountering, was presented to a non-anomalous hardcover copy of 140, it produced a functioning lighter to burn the book. When it was presented with an anomalous copy of 140, SCP-117 produced a functioning flamethrower which was used to burn the book with no problem. In the last test, when it was presented with another non-anomalous copy which was claimed from the Wanderer's Library, 117 produced an anti-booklice spray.
During an unplanned cross-test SCP-423, an entity referred to as Fred who only exists within the narrative of a book and can go to other books near it, went to SCP-140. After exiting the book he described his experience as extremely painful like being ripped apart. While 423 was within 140, his presence caused some expansion to the Daevites' history which was later undone after he was taken away from the Chronicle.
After the Foundation used SCP-978 to take a photo of SCP-140, the photo showed a number of ornately-dressed women look on with approval at an assortment of human corpses from different ethnicities and groups such as the Foundation, GOC and Horizon Initiative impaled on stakes. This means that SCP-140 not only is sapient and aware of the present, but is possibly possessed by the spirits of ancient Daevites.
Clyde of the Constellation Starfish band had found a copy of SCP-140 in his parents' house and decided to use it as an inspiration for his next song. However, when fellow bandmate Umiko, who was secretly an undercover agent for the Foundation, asked Clyde to hand over the book the latter revealed that he had thrown it out as it began to creep him out.
When the Foundation refused to abide to the quota of SCP-3110, a garbage disposal that teleports items inside or near it to people in need, it decided to teleport various items in Site-76, which included SCP-140, to various D-Class personnel. The Foundation found out about this and after retrieving the book, they moved its cell away from SCP-3110 in order to not lose it again.
Following their experiences inside an empty Daevite tomb, known as SCP-7291, archaeologist Dr. Barys Salavey and former Foundation personnel Dr. Máximo Quijano broke inside Site-76, burning several Daevite artifacts except for 140 which they stole with the aim of bringing the Daevites to the present in order to gain answers about the tomb.
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Trivia[]
- SCP-140 bears resemblance to both SCP-012, and SCP-4001, an underground library containing books of the lives of every human who had ever lived and manipulating the books would cause the life of the respective person to change.
- SCP-1275 once tried to steal SCP-140, but this attempt led to the Foundation capturing it.
- For April Fools 2020, SCP-140's article was changed for that day in which the book was written about the Daevites' horticulture as part of the "Super Cool Plants" theme.
- SCP-140 was one of the many components used by the Foundation to create SCP-0001 (Meta Ike's Proposal), a machine designed to manipulate reality based on the data inputted by the Foundation.
- When SCP-3959, an anti-meme which "redacted" information from written documents and people's memories, went rogue the Foundation tried to secure SCP-140 away from 3959's effect, since it would probably cause the Daevites to cease existing and be completely erased from history and reality. Although it would seem as a good thing, the sudden disappearance of the Daevites from history could cause a much greater disaster to reality as the Daevites have had a fundamental part in the universe despite their malevolence.
- In the now deleted SCP-001 (Roget's proposal), the Foundation cross-tested SCP-140 with SCP-505, a pen which constantly leaks an infinite amount of ink which could cover the world. This cross-test seemingly solved the problem regarding SCP-505, but expanded the Daevites' history so much that it went beyond the present and into the future and interrupting the combination would cause the added history to come true.
- In ROUNDERHOUSE's Jade Proposal, SCP-140 was the file about Mamjul and Korar created by the Foundation itself as part of containment protocol HERODOTUS, named after the ancient famous Greek historian of the same name, which served to undo the BLACKSTAR's damnatio memoriae of the civilization. It was based on the Song of the Daeva which sang about the Daevas' history and was 147 verses long at the time.