Beholder of Oblivion

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is kept in a small sized research area situated with incinerators around the room. In the event that SCP-XXXX is read by personnel without proper clearance, said person is to be interrogated on what they have read, and if required, given the appropriate amnestics deemed necessary for the situation. Testing on SCP-XXXX with D-Class personnel is restricted for security concerns, and to ensure the legitimacy of the findings inside of SCP-XXXX. In the event that during a breach SCP-XXXX has an attempt on it to be stolen, incinerators in the room will be turned on, burning everything in the room, including SCP-XXXX.

Research teams for SCP-XXXX are separated into three different groups, and operate on eight hour intervals every day. These groups consist of the Terra Definition Research Team, the Local Celestial Definition Research Team, and the UAS (Unidentified Alien Species) System Definition Research Team. Each team consists of three members, two designated to reading both pages in SCP-XXXX, and one to transcribe important findings into documents for ease of access. Testing outside of reading the contents of SCP-XXXX must be accepted by Lead Researcher Fraymore before gaining approval. Study of the contents of SCP-XXXX are still ongoing.

Description: SCP-XXXX holds the appearance of a standard 1933 Shorter Oxford Dictionary, and remains fully intact and lacking any signs of aging; despite this, changes can be made to the pages and cover, though no reason to change the cover exists to date. The feature that makes SCP-XXXX immediately unique compared to other dictionaries, is that it does not put the words inside in alphabetical order; for this reason, SCP-XXXX’s anomalous properties are difficult to discern at first. SCP-XXXX does not appear to have an end, and attempting to reach an end does not appear to be possible.

Tests involving tilting SCP-XXXX in such a way that the pages would quickly give way have shown to put the pages falling in an indefinite loop, continuing on for a recorded maximum of 75 days, 14 hours, and 46 minutes. Attempts to reach the final page by opening SCP-XXXX from the back have proven insufficient. Instead of revealing the back cover interior, it instead causes the pages to enter a free-fall, just as is caused by SCP-XXXX being tilted on its side in the above mentioned experiment. Attempts to stop this reaction are successful, but pages can not be lifted in such a way to reveal the final page or the back cover interior. Instead, SCP-XXXX will proceed based on how many pages had already been turned.

For SCP-XXXX’s infinite page limit, it boasts an unprecedented amount of knowledge on seemingly everything. All definitions within SCP-XXXX are written in English appropriate to that written within a standard 1933 Shorter Oxford Dictionary, but not all the words being defined are written in English. Seemingly at random, definitions will appear for things that are not known to science, which has led to startling and ground breaking discoveries. Thankfully, SCP-XXXXs pages stay the same at all times, but due to the sheer size of SCP-XXXX, and the lack of words in alphabetical order, specific knowledge is hard to extract, especially since the knowledge within is limited to a definition, and nothing else.

Attempts to mark SCP-XXXX's page with sticky notes have proven insufficient. When non-living matter is placed inside SCP-XXXX to mark the pages from the outside, the object placed is cut. The smoothness of the cut varies on the size of the object and its strength. This effect does not apply if the object stops the corners of the top and bottom pages from touching, and instead successfully holds open SCP-XXXX. Note, that all objects place inside SCP-XXXX stay there until within 40 pages of where the object was placed, in which an indent can be seen if the object is big enough, such as a rock.

Despite not being alphabetical in nature, SCP-XXXX is not completely disorganized. At the 1 billion page mark, the page number is reset back to one, followed by the letter A. This cycle continues down the alphabet until it reaches Z, where it will continue onto another language's lettering system. SCP-XXXX will start listing letters from no known languages at a certain point after it has exhausted all known human languages. Definitions in SCP-XXXX seem to be sorted by language, species pertaining to celestial objects within the solar system of said sapient species, and then it is assumed to describe objects special to that solar system. SCP-XXXX appears to name anything not given a name by any species a completely made up name written with English characters and does not appear to have a pattern of any sort when naming said creatures/objects.

Definitions within SCP-XXXX that go outside the realm of human knowledge begins to increase with intensity the further that one reads into it. At a certain point, SCP-XXXX begins to list off definitions assumed to be closer related to other planets. With this knowledge, it appears alien life of some form exists on [DATA EXPUNGED], though, no other sentient life appears to exist in our solar system. that SCP-XXXX appears to describe what planet each creature it lists off exists on, and for this reason, at a certain point SCP-XXXX begins to relay the information present on another planet of an unknown location with a name that takes the form of symbols not matching any known language. Attempts to read through everything on this solar system are still ongoing, and personnel closely following the research into SCP-XXXX should see the appropriate document given to them listing these discoveries.

Despite SCP-XXXX’s definitions expanding upon many things in our solar system, it does not appear to identify anomalies as a part of our solar system, nor does it count things present in other solar systems in this list either. However, SCP-XXXX does still include all definitions of each individual word in all languages associated with the species existing on our planet, and with the discovery of the other alien species listed above, it seems to do the same with them as well. Regretfully, this means that discoveries at an atomic level, and of other materials and alloys, will be limited to what the dictionary and neighboring civilizations know about, and what the dictionary randomly decides to include.

Definitions of random things seem to appear in SCP-XXXX, and it is assumed that these definitions include only random definitions if no other species has discovered said thing. Evidence for this stems mostly from the discovery of the definition of the "Higgs Boson," written instead of "Judxcarati." This is not grounds to assume no other civilization has found such a particle before 1933, but may instead imply that other aliens use our lettering system or similar letters to our own.

It appears that SCP-XXXX has an extensive list of all SCPs, but has spread them out in random pages, making it nearly impossible to pinpoint ones not previously discovered. It is interesting to note that SCP-XXXX seems limited to definitions already present in 1933, meaning that a great many SCPs past a certain point likely are not listed by their designated number, and if the SCP was previously named something before the SCP Foundation gave the anomaly it’s definition, the SCP would likely be listed numerous times with each individual name given to it. Why SCP-XXXX treats their names as words is unknown, but the current theory is that SCP-XXXX simply tries to define every unique item it can, and takes the nearest thing to a name it can find.

Certain definitions have been manually redacted within the dictionary itself, and have been placed in a seperate file complete with said redacted entries. The most notable redactions included the definitions of SCP-███, SCP-████, and SCP-████-█. No further entries on SCPs have been discovered to date. SCP-XXXX, on record, has contained 46 cognitohazards and 12 memetic hazards; some of these have been due to the text used in the entry, and others for the definition alone.

Note from Lead Researcher Fraymore: A complete archive of all definitions pertaining to our solar system in SCP-XXXX is not currently possible, despite many years of study. Two groups of researchers are dedicated to studying information within specific areas of the book, and will continue to document their findings until further notice.

Level 3 Access Required

Level 3 Access Accepted: Showing Notable Research Logs....

Research-Log-XXXX-A - Terra Definition Research Team:

Discovery-XXXX-87-A: A complete and comprehensive list of all Sumerian words was identified, but some definitions of certain words were completely wrong to our modern day understanding. It is assumed that SCP-XXXX took the immediate understanding of the translated words as the modern updated version, meaning that any words redefined within the moment of SCP-XXXX’s creation are what it takes as the official definition.

Discovery-XXXX-95-A: Descriptions of random animals were discovered at the end of the human language definition list. These names all fit no coherent patterns in how the names were written, but none of them fit any standard human language. A wide diverse list of animals were described such as crows, dolphins, octopi, squids, pigs ect. How SCP-XXXX is able to determine how these creatures would write their names is unknown. It is unlikely that all creatures listed could evolve to a point of being capable of writing, since there are over 13,000 entries written. Current hypothesis is that SCP-XXXX is capable of determining based on a sapient creature’s philisiology how they would write their species’ name.

On top of this list, animals such as Crows and Dolphins that possess their own form of verbal communication have their language transcribed into definitions into SCP-XXXX as well, with the same lettering used for their names.

Discovery-XXXX-1677-A: To keep it professional, it seems that SCP-XXXX possesses the ability to document made up words. On a less professional note, this damned thing is making me hate artistic freedom to make up words.

Note from Researcher Fraymore: While the documentation is appreciated, please input future discoveries with more professionalism.

Discovery-XXXX-1943-A: [DATA PENDING DECLASSIFICATION BY THE O5 COUNCIL]

Research-Log-XXXX-B - Local Celestial Definition Research Team:

Discovery-XXXX-43-B: The existence of ███ moon sized objects have been discovered, along with █████ asteroids. 1 planetoid object, described as beeing 10 times as massive as the Earth, has been discovered in the kuiper belt. The planet is named “Planet X,” apparently due to the name being denoted to it caused by speculation of another planet beyond Pluto was hypothesized due to the recent discovery of the former ninth planet in 1930.

Note From Lead Researcher Faymore: While it would seem wrong to hide the existence of an entire planet from the general public, questions would be asked. I have received a good number of requests to share this information with local space agencies, so I'm making a formal statement that anymore requests to reveal classified Foundation discovery logs with government and civilian founded agencies will be grounds for your immediate dismissal.

Discovery-XXXX-F-6741-B: Over 456 of the species described on [REDACTED] have been given names not written in English. Letters used to name these species do not match any known language, and letters are not similar to any known written language used. It has been hypothesized that an alien civilization had visited [REDACTED] and decided to document their findings, leading to the names given to them.

Research-Log-XXXX-C - UAS System Defintion Research Team:

Discovery-XXXX-153-C - While it was hoped that SCP-XXXX would immediately describe the alien species for their name alone, it would appear it will not be as simple. SCP-XXXX has simply defined them as "That is which is like us."

Discovery-XXXX-173-C - Upon further inspection, the alien species has a few definite defining features listed in SCP-XXXX. When words that describe their species are used, the definitions consistently use the word "us" when describing what it does. The anatomy of the species has been determined to be different from human anatomy. The species in question possesses something that "cuts into the weaker ones," assumed to be a kind of claw or other appendage that inflicts physical damage. They have been determined to have eyes and a mouth, but no definitions pertaining to a sex or reproductive processes has been found as of yet.

Discovery-XXXX-241-C Species has been identified to possibly possess stealth capabilities, or at least have created something aid in stealth. An untranslatable word as of yet has been found with the definition "It which helps us with stealth."

Discovery-XXXX-303-C Species is assumed to be in the tribal stage, or SCP-XXXX has yet to transcribe more advanced architecture. All that has been listed is more tribal creations such as huts and fires. It should be noted that the time between SCP-XXXX's creation and now might make this information less than accurate, and we should take into consideration the possibility of this species progressing further into a more civilized society.

Discovery-XXXX-567-C The conclusion has been reached that this species is insectoid in nature, or at least similar to that of an insectoid. SCP-XXXX has provided invaluable information, regarding this species having "six legs" and what are assumed to be wings from the description "that which helps us fly." Along with that, something that could be related to an exoskeleton was discovered with the definition "The hard exterior of our body." Further research to try and assess if this is accurate is required.

Discovery-XXXX-854-C An entry of interest appeared with the definition "that which has four legs, but walks on two. Our God, now and forever." It is impossible to tell if this is related to an anomalous entity or not unless SCP-XXXX is able to relay more information on their religion.

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