Iravat

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be kept in a log cabin fifteen miles out of [DATA EXPUNGED], Russia—which cabin is hereafter referred to as SCP-XXXX-1. SCP-XXXX-1 to be biannually stocked with rations and various devotional objects (including, but not limited to: crosses, prayer ropes, ikons, and censers).¹ SCP-XXXX-1 is to be guarded by two low-level security personnel of the Orthodox Christian faith, who are to be rotated out on the arrival of any new shipment of provisions. SCP-XXXX is not permitted to leave containment without the express permission of Dr. [REDACTED]. In the event that the subject requests a priest or other religious official to officiate a rite, a clergyman (preferably of low standing) is to be flown in to celebrate the ritual with SCP-XXXX. Following the celebration of whatever rite SCP-XXXX has requested, the clergyman is to be given a class-A amnestic.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a piece of sentient Orthodox Christian iconography first discovered by the Foundation precursor 'The Royal Office for Christian Artefacts' in [DATA EXPUNGED], Russia, during a routine search for objects of religious or liturgical interest in [REDACTED]. The two Royal Office agents that discovered the entity noted that it lacked any apparent hostile intent, and remained markedly inert in its domicile (SCP-XXXX-1). Early records of communication with the entity indicate that SCP-XXXX identified itself to the agents as 'Andrei Rublev'.² SCP-XXXX stands at 2m in height, with no discernible width.
SCPP-XXXX is wholly nonviolent and fully cooperative with all Foundation containment procedures. Since its discovery in [REDACTED], SCP-XXXX has willfully remained in SCP-XXXX-1. Beyond the subject's anomalous locomotion and composition, it is capable of painting, and temporarily animating, any figure in Christian iconography. These instances appear to be as sentient as SCP-XXXX itself. These instances are hereafter referred to as SCP-XXXX-2.
SCP-XXXX-1 is a generic log cabin of medieval Russian design. Its dimensions are 12.5mx9.5m. The interior of the cabin is spartan, the only apparent furniture being a large bookshelf in the left corner, and a large canvas in the right. Analyses of the canvas and SCP-XXXX indicate that they are composed of the same material, hardened wax.
The mechanism behind SCP-XXXX's animation is as yet unknown.

Addendum:

Interview SCP-XXXX-A

Interviewed: [The person, persons, or SCP being interviewed]

Interviewer: [Interviewer, can be blocked out using █]

Foreword: [Small passage describing the interview]

<Begin Log, [optional time info]>

Interviewer: [speech]

Person: [speech]

[Repeat as necessary]

<End Log, [optional time info]>

Closing Statement: [Small summary and passage on what transpired afterward]

Footnotes

1. SCP-XXXX's use of these provisions is contingent on his continued cooperation with Foundation containment and research.

2. Subject's physical parameters and personality roughly correspond to the personality and likeness of the Christian iconographer Andrei Rublev, though Rublev's corpse has been identified by Russian Foundation operatives as being in its coffin at Spaso-Andronikov Monastery in Moscow, Russia.