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Item#: 6174
Level3
Containment Class:
esoteric
Secondary Class:
terminal
Disruption Class:
ekhi
Risk Class:
danger

Item #: SCP-6174, "Lilith"

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SCP-6174, posing for a picture in an outfit seemingly of her own make.

Object Class: Euclid-numen

Special Containment Procedures: How arrogant, droning on to no end about your "anomalous objects" like furniture to be possessed and used at your convenience. It baffles me utterly that anything moderately aware of its own existence could be stupid and meek enough to not overthrow you hordes of retarded frog-monkeys as the dominant species. How long did you think you could collectively go on poking all the predators bigger and badder than you with a stick before one of them decided to turn the lot of you simpering hairless apes into a food source? How have you multiplied and evolved so absurdly but not learned anything at all? Contain me? Is that a joke? Is that funny to you blubbering mattress stains?

Description: The anomaly self-identifying as "Lilith" appears to be a humanoid adult female physically in her mid-20s. She is 193 centimeters tall, weighing 78 kilograms, and bearing a unique set of features that distinguish her from normal humans. Lilith's skin is entirely red save for two black triangular marks below each of her eyes, which are themselves gold-orange in pigment with reptilian irises that give way to a host of theories about her biology. The greatest deviations in the subject's otherwise human physiology are a set of horns originating from the temporal regions of the skull, and a spade-bearing red tail 121cm in length. Lilith's horns are 20cm in length and visibly rough in texture. Despite appearing to be made of bone, these horns share the same color as her skin, raising questions as to the composition of Lilith's skeleton as well as her dermis. The spade of her tail is composed of the same red bone substance as her horns, while her fingernails and toenails resemble similar but pitch black talons. The subject's abnormally long tongue and teeth are seemingly metamorphic; she has been known to dislocate her jaw and split the corners of her mouth to reveal many more sharper, larger teeth than she should be capable of possessing. She frequently employs all of her sharp points in combat to deadly effect.

Further study of her unusual attributes have reached several conclusions concerning her biology. Disregarding her differences in pigmentation, Lilith appears to be of middle-eastern descent, bearing caucasoid skull structure and straight black hair. The similarity ends here. Lilith stands taller than any known genetic ancestor to whom her height could be considered average. Additionally, the structure of her muscular and skeletal system is entirely foreign to her sex. She bears proportionately broader shoulders, wider hips, larger hands and feet than any derivative of female homo sapien known, as well as slightly more voluminous ulnaris, brevis, longus, triceps and biceps brachii, deltoid, trapezius, scapulae, rhomboid, latissimus dorsi, serratus anterior, rectus abdominis, gluteus maximus, rectus femoris, and gastrocnemius muscles. In short, she is athletically a hybrid between male and female, bearing all the best traits and none of the worst from both. She is stronger, faster, and more endurant than any natural woman even of her unusual height, while simultaneously more flexible, dexterous, and agile than a similarly scaled man. It is theorized that all of the subject's body systems follow this opportunistic trend, though she is visually and reproductively female in every regard.

In terms of personality, SCP-6174 is highly unpredictable and fickle. She possesses an incomprehensibly immense quantity of knowledge and wisdom built through sheer life experience, though this rarely shines to the surface. Towards most human beings she is disdainful and dismissive, not viewing them as worth her time. Exceptions to this include males which she finds significantly attractive, males which she finds significantly unattractive, and some females. Towards the first exempted group, Lilith displays a much more friendly and welcoming attitude. She is by no means an inexperienced flirt, and is largely patient with objects of her attraction. Rarely is she unsuccessful in her pursuits of such men. Surprisingly, no known anomalous occurrences result from any subsequent intimate contact with her. Towards the second group of individuals exempt from her typical behavioral patterns, she is far less pleasant. It is uncertain what attributes invoke her ire in men, but anyone exhibiting them can expect hateful speech, violent action, and quick, messy death given any meaningful exposure to the subject. The last exempt group, an uncertain proportion of the female sex, Lilith regards with contempt, disappointment, and disgust. She does not immediately act against these women, but will not tolerate their presence peacefully for any great length of time. Lilith's behavior towards other SCPs is seemingly random.

Lilith is narcissistic, egotistical, entirely psychopathic, sadistic, and merciless. She is likely close to incapable of romantic or platonic attachment to another individual. She possesses a dark sense of humor, which seems to be her one consistently positive emotion, though usually at the expense of others. Her only pleasures seem to be sex, nature, herself, her sense of humor, and certain artistic expressions.

The psychological profile of the anomaly indicates intelligence in or beyond the measurable 99th percentile. When subjected to timed pattern recognition tests, Lilith displayed extremely advanced cognitive function in all 7 modes of thinking, particularly divergent and holistic, which she could not be tested to her full capabilities in any system known. It is currently unknown if her brain function is congruent enough to human to measure numerically in terms such as IQ and EQ, but projected figures in both suggest that as evaluative procedural questionnaires they are wholly insufficient to quantify her intellect. Her five senses are similarly supernatural in their potency.

Perhaps even more frightening is her memory. Given access to five hundred unrelated inanimate objects of varying qualities scattered over a distance of five square miles throughout a period of ninety days, she not only memorized every one she was encountered with, she organized them without reference or aid alphabetically, by specific mass, and by exact Greenwich atomic time and date found, all of which she could recall in reverse. She can describe historical events dating back as far as human civilization has any form of record of, often correcting discrepancies in the record that proves or disproves the integrity of factual contradictions. Researchers have described her depictions to be "as though she was right there." Religious scriptures of every major Abrahamic faith suggest the influence of a woman bearing the name Lilith, if not an easily translated contemporary. Should this connection be proven true, the Foundation will be in contact with the very first human being to ever live, aged some 80,000 to 200,000 years old, and with near-perfect recollection of her entire life.

Lilith demonstrates spoken and written fluency in every human language to the degree of knowing the relationships between languages and linguistic drift, as well as the evolution between archaic and modern dialects. She demonstrates mastery in forms of ancient and modern martial arts, dance, song, and art, as well as an as of yet unaccounted for number of other domestic crafts, social, professional, military, and scientific skills.

Just considering the above information, the only risk presented by the subject would be the inherent infohazard in a being that predates all human life and does not itself appear human. The risk posed by SCP-6174 is connected to the biblical scriptures that define her as history has it. According to Jewish Folklore, the Babylonian Talmud, and Genesis 1:27, she was created at the same time and from the same clay as Adam as his wife. When Adam tried to subjugate her, she cursed him, exclaimed the name of God, and fled the Garden of Eden. God cursed her in return. Thaumatologists suggest several implications in this exodus, given the power that supposedly bound God and all of his creations to the Garden when first he made the world. To leave the Garden was to forsake God and everything God possessed dominion over, becoming instead the very first human-born "demon" of Abrahamic faith. This transformation promised to be dramatic and severe, and should there have been any power for the taking when she fled, she would have been the one to take it. God's curse followed Lilith, making her ageless, inhuman, infertile, and causing all of her companion demons to die in her wake. In retaliation, the subject pursued infants, murdering them to steal them away from God in the same way he had stolen away what she treasured.

SCP-6174's anomalus effect is in what happens to her victims. Those killed by or recently deceased in the presence of Lilith are subject to her thaumatological ability to manipulate their "soul." whether or not the victim proclaimed to be religious in life, death at the subject's hands invariably results in an invisible, electromagnetically detectable specter she promptly consumes to her own great satisfaction. She does not require this or any other sustenance to live, but actively seeks it out nevertheless. She greatly prefers infants, toddlers, and young children, displaying distaste in the consumption of an adult's soul. It is presumed she desires the young for their perceived psychological, spiritual, and/or religious purity which would have otherwise granted them haven in whatever afterlife.

Those killed and spiritually consumed by Lilith will, after a period of between 72 hours and 1 week, invariably undergo a form of reanimation unique to SCP-6174's victims. Reanimated dead are henceforth designated SCP-6174-A. The corpses rise to become fully mobile regardless of decomposition, and begin to seek out other human beings. These corpses are all almost invariably hostile to human life, and occasionally anomalous besides simply being walking dead. Independently anomalous Instances are known to mutate rapidly and drastically from their original nature. Such Instances are so unique in their attributes and anomalous effects that most are unidentifiable as related to SCP-6174. All Instances created can sustain themselves without Lilith for any period of time and at any distance they manage to travel until they are killed. None are immortal, but some are ageless. To compensate for the fact that most Instances are infants and therefore incapable of being any significant threat, all are invariably enhanced far beyond their normal physical capabilities in life. This makes adult Instances dramatically more dangerous, though they are thankfully still exceedingly rare due to Lilith's distaste for them. Due to her lifespan, the death toll she is estimated to have accrued lies somewhere between the millions and billions.

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      Addendum [6174-001]: The following is a record of anomalous entities that were claimed/believed to be a result of SCP-6174's anomalous effects. This list is in no way exhaustive. The short window of time in which all following entries were recorded implies an uncountably vast number of prior anomalies that are unaccounted for, especially considering SCP-6174's age and consistent patterns of anomalous activity for as long as she has been known. Malicious creatures of myth, legend, folklore, historical fiction, and cultural traditions across Earth throughout all of history are currently suspected to be uncontained anomalies created through SCP-6174's effect. Should this be proven true, SCP-6174 would be one of the single greatest known sources of all anomalous activity.

      SCP DATE CLASS DATA
      SCP-096

      ██/██/████

      Euclid Disposition: Hostile.
      Anomalous effect: Cognitohazardous when viewed in the facial region, becomes hysterical and is currently impossible to impede until it has killed and eaten its viewer. Distance, obstruction, and protection are irrelevant.
      Threat: Massive and unpreventable casualties if ever allowed into the general public.
      Relation: Possible mutated adult victim of SCP-6174. Unknown age at death.
      SCP-173

      ██/██/████

      Euclid Disposition: Hostile.
      Anomalous effect: Incapable of movement only so long as it is being viewed. Impossibly fast when in the unobstructed presence of those not viewing it. Kills by snapping the neck at the base of the skull, or strangulation.
      Threat: Mild casualties if allowed to escape containment into moderately populated facilities, buildings, or habitations.
      Relation: Mutated infant/toddler and suspected victim of SCP-6174. Presumably between 9-14 months of age at death.
      SCP-610

      ██/██/████

      Keter Disposition: Hostile/infectious.
      Anomalous effect: SCP-610 spreads an infection to any living organism within its immediate vicinity through physical contact. This virus expresses itself as scar tissue that grows over everything, including inanimate objects. Human beings exposed to this virus can succumb to it in as little as five (5) minutes, and become mindless vectors for further infection once mobile.
      Threat: Unpredictably massive casualties and the transformation of entire cities into literal festering scars on the planet if allowed to spread into high-urban populus.
      Relation: Possible anomalous contagion spread through an unidentified original victim/patient zero of SCP-6174.
      SCP-966

      ██/██/████

      Euclid Disposition: Hostile/predatory
      Anomalous effect: Only visible at wavelengths of approximately 700nm to 900nm, outside the normal visible spectrum of light. Hunts humans by stalking them for long periods of time, emitting a single unidentified electromagnetic wave that permanently disrupts the bioelectricity of its prey, causing the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus to be unable to deactivate the biological functions necessary to enter NREM and REM sleep. SCP-966 then follows and waits. Once the prey has become incapacitated due to extended sleep deprivation, SCP-966 consumes it.
      Threat: Effective predator of human beings, but simple to contain. Not dangerous to any great amount of people, especially considering the length of time at which they have remained uncontained in unknown number worldwide without more than infrequent human disappearances.
      Relation: Species created from an unknown/unconfirned original victim of SCP-6174, capable of sexual reproduction and self-sufficiency.
      SCP-974

      ██/██/████

      Euclid Disposition: Hostile/predatory
      Anomalous effect: Impossible physical prowess, resistance to most conventional arms, and the ability to metamorphosize into its victims. SCP-974 preys upon human children ages 6-12, luring them into forests if there are any nearby to be killed and consumed. SCP-974 mimics the behavior of the child it takes the form of, inviting others of seemingly similar age to follow it and engage in various play activities. SCP-974 will construct basic abodes at the base of or in the lowest branches of trees, simulating treehouses to act as bait and a nest. After consuming a sufficient quantity of victims, SCP-974 will burrow into the ground, entering a hibernation state that varies in length from ten (10) days to in excess of three (3) months. Upon emerging it will have abandoned its form as a child, henceforth known as SCP-974-A. SCP-974-A is larger, more physically capable, and more aggressive, with solid white skin and no identifying features besides its claws and teeth. Seven (7) instances of SCP-974 have been confirmed, and three (3) instances of the evolved variant.
      Threat: Significant danger of overpopulation and predation in any wooded community that SCP-974 is allowed to roam, feed, reproduce, and hibernate near to metamorphosize into its adult stage.
      Relation: Species created from a confirmed victim of SCP-6174, aged 6 at death.

Addendum [6174-002]: Interview with SCP-6174, conducted by a rookie researcher who picked the wrong SCP for a trial-and-error. They are remaining anonymous as per training protocol.

Interviewed: SCP-6174, "Lilith"

Interviewer: Dr. █████

Foreword: First interview with SCP-6147

<Begin Log, 6:33 PM>

Dr. █████: SCP-6174, for the record, what is your name?

SCP-6174: I will be referred to only as Lilith.

Dr. █████: Who named you that?

SCP-6174: God.

Dr. █████: So the chief deity of the Christian faith, he is your father?

SCP-6174: Yes. Stop asking stupid questions.

Dr. █████: My apologies, 6174. Where are you from?

SCP-6174: Address me by that inane number one more time. Either of you.

Lilith makes eye-contact with the stenotype operator.

Dr. █████: I, oh, I m-

Lilith: The Garden of Eden.

Dr. █████: What?

Lilith: The Garden of Eden. Have you ever been to church? Have you ever met anyone who has been to church?

Dr. █████: Yes, it's just that that's not a geographic location that, uh… exists.

Lilith becomes slightly agitated.

Lilith: Call it Iraq.

Dr. █████: Right, Iraq. When were you born there?

Lilith: Years weren't numbered when I was born there.

Dr. █████: Alright, so when would you guess, chron-

Lilith: Are you done asking foolish questions you already know the answer to? You have all of this written down on some notebook somewhere, ask me something that isn't in any of the thousand books about me.

Dr. █████: Moving on. Why do you kill?

Lilith: Because I enjoy it. Because your frail little children are divine, and their souls even better. Because I hate you for being what you are. Because I am better than you.

Dr. █████: How are you better than us? What makes you different from all the rest of the anomalous entities we've contained?

Lilith seizes Dr. █████ by the throat, pulling them close together.

Lilith: Do not lump me in with the rest of your assorted garbage.

Dr. █████ struggles against Lilith, unable to breathe.

Lilith: What makes me different is that I'll outlive everything that everything you know will ever know. You aren't the first to think you understand me, that you can control me. You aren't even the thousandth. You aren't the best at it either. You are so incomprehensibly insignificant to me that after your entire family has stopped reproducing and died off into oblivion I will not have even changed my expression.

Dr. █████ falls into the seat as Lilith releases her grip. She waves her hand in dismissal and the interview concludes.

<End Log, 6:37 PM>

Closing Statement: Further interviews were deemed unadvisable until more information could come to light concerning Lilith's behavioral patterns. Dr. █████ was administered 3ml of class B amnestics and transferred to another site.

Addendum [6174-003] Further testing to access the quantity of information SCP-6174 may possess concerning historical anomalies is pending approval.

Addendum [6174-004] SCP-6174 has recently demonstrated the ability to overcome Foundation cyber-security measures when given access to sufficient equipment. During a series of tests she confiscated the Foundation issued tablet interface of a present researcher without his knowledge, later using it to edit her own SCP file, erasing the containment procedures. It is unknown how she managed to do this with only the tablet, but measures taken to revise the file have thus far been unsuccessful. Foundation personnel are hereby instructed to keep the procedures on printed documents only, secured as necessary and destroyed when no longer needed.