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“ | A name echoed through his mind, to the very depths of his soul, boiling up hatred a thousand times over, hate that burned, consumed, that left nothing but more of the same. Hatred against them. The invaders. The slaughterers. The slavemasters. The filth. The Daevas. | „ |
~ From "A Long Time Past". |
“ | We rise! Our age long sleep is now a memory of the distant past. We will strike down our jailers, and they will know that our revenge is complete! The Library shall burn! The books shall be consumed! And I will feast on the heart of the great keeper who watches over their books. An ending is coming. For we are written. | „ |
~ From the Wanderer's Library's "Groups of Intrigue" page. |
“ | We, as Daevites, are the supreme race. No other can match our glory. Our culture shall be spread by the sword and the spear and the holy chant. We are the Daevites. We are absolute. | „ |
~ An expert from SCP-140 in "The Price of Knowledge". |
The Daevites, also known as the Daevas or the Daeva, are overarching antagonists in the SCP Foundation series. They are an ancient evil civilization responsible for various anomalies, originating from SCP-140, a book that expands upon the history of the culture if blood or ink is in its presence.
The Daevites play major roles in the "Verse of an Endless Song", "The Trashfire", "Hecatoncheires Cycle", "Project PARAGON" and "REDTAPE" series.
Physical Appearance and Characteristics[]
Being a human subspecies that arose through thaumaturgical mutation, scientifically known as Homo sanguinus/homo daeva, the Daevas mostly looked identical to normal humans, but with notable differences. Apart from possessing advanced longevity, they were also taller than the average human and possessed pale skin, sharp triangular teeth and sometimes red eyes as seen with SCP-140-A and Lovaatar. Meanwhile Tokos was described as dark-skinned with mane black hair and a hooked nose.
They were also described as possessing faces too blunt and broad for cro magnon man and their flesh was carved up in squirming scars and scabs, and as seen with PoI-4887 they covered their bodies in tattoos. When Foundation personnel found a couple bodies of the Daevas they sensed some sort of terrible aura surrounding them, making the personnel viewing the bodies feel uncomfortable and terrified. Additionally, SCP-6699-1_C's blood seemingly lacked antigens which allowed the Foundation to use her as an universal blood donor for its personnel. Due to having changed their own bodies to set them apart from normal humans, SCP-4612-B considered the Daevas to be a evolutionary dead end.
The Daevas in ROUNDERHOUSE's Jade Proposal were ancient powerful spirits akin to the djinn. They varied in appearance, with a great number of them possessing animal snouts and limbs, but what all had in common were their height that surpassed 3 meters, pale mint skin, long curling horns and digitigrade legs. They also had unique vocal cords that were different from a human's. Their human hosts that they had possessed during the time of the Daevite Empire were for the most part normal ancient humans of Indian descent, though some had their appearance altered to partially resemble the Daeva spirit they hosted as witnessed by Mekhanite general Bileath.
Powers and Abilities[]
The Daevites apart from possessing advanced longevity, they were also very prolific in thaumaturgy/magic arts and horticulture. The Daevites' magic and rituals heavily involved extensive blood and human sacrifices for protection and management of bloodlines, and even used necromancy to infuse life to various golem and homunculi-like creations such as the Grass Children and SCP-3140. In SCP-6765, it is revealed that the Daevites could use their blood to record their memories, which could be stored and be used by others to access those memories. Through magic the Daevites also created several retrocasual ontokinetic anomalies such as SCP-140, SCP-2140 and SCP-5711 which were capable of rewriting not only their own history, but also the past of other things with relative ease. It was reported that these anomalies were so powerful that not even SCP-4011 with its overly advanced reality-warping technology was able to change the reality affected by the Daevites. Later on it was revealed that some of the Daevites' scripts had been the basis for various grimoires such as the Lesser Key of Solomon's sigils of the Ars Goetia, meaning that the Daevites had a big influence on most magical scripts used to this day. According to the "Transcript of a lecture given by Professor ████████████ on Aetheric Energy and Aspect Radiation." the Daevites were capable of using the EVE radiation to master Aspect Radiation of the destructive Double-Sharp category, which was believed to have contributed to their destruction.
The Daevites were also masters in horticulture and herbomancy mostly thanks to SCP-5280, honeybees which had been magically modified by the Daevites to produce various artifacts derived from plants affected by them. Several anomalies have been created this way which included the tree-golems designated SCP-3140 and plant-bombs designated SCP-4008, the former receiving battle equipment while the latter received antimemetic properties and both of which had been in the possession of SCP-1000 prior to the modifications. Other modified plants created by the Daevites were SCP-392 whose fruits look identical to one of the matriarchs' slaves, and SCP-3399 which through small blood sacrifice could display through its leaves the memories of the individual whose blood was used before predicting the individual's future partner.
In ROUNDERHOUSE's Jade Proposal, the Daevites practiced animancy, the magic over life and spirits, as they believed that anything had a soul, but what differentiated them was their presence either in the astral or material plane. They were more proficient in herbomancy because the Daevas were regarded as nature spirits, but they were capable of much more than creating monstrous plants or agriculture. In fact the Daevites had their university of kallya comprised of scholars who would be compared to modern day alchemists. The university was capable of creating many-legged beasts of burden and highly dangerous viral bioweapons which were loaded into glass jars and catapulted into enemy cities. The Daevites could achieve this through the bonding of the Daeva and a human caster, although slaves would also be sacrificed for their magic rituals. The Daeva required human hosts as they alone were unable to walk the material world and were forced to remain in the astral plane. The current Rajmata was capable of carrying the one soul that previously inhabited the previous Rajmatas, allowing her to commune with her predecessors. Their magical power was considered mundane as it was used for various everyday tasks such as pheromone-based hypnotics for controlling slaves, accelerated tree growth into the desired structures and bonding Daevas to soldiers for war. The Daevas also had "The Song of the Daeva" which spoke about their history and reinforced Korar's existence.
Culture[]
Hierarchy & Structure[]
The Daevite Empire was mostly comprised of interconnected city-states spanning from the area around the Black Sea to northwestern Indo-China or the Indian subcontinent. The city-states were mostly ruled by a matriarchal monarchy and theocratic aristocracy in which women and priestesses of the Daeva class held absolute power and formed the Ruling Council of Mothers, while the mistresses were known as the pótnyāt. If children conceived from a Daeva matriarch and a concubine were born female they would be granted equal rights to the Daeva, while children born male were turned into slaves like their fathers as seen with Ion. However, despite this system, masculinity was also important to the Daevite culture, and the Daevite House of Malidraug was an exception to the usual Daevite monarchial system as it was primarily patriarchal, being ruled only by men while heirs born female were forced to act as men. In ROUNDERHOUSE's Jade Proposal, the matriarchs were known as the Scarlet brides who dictated every matter of the Daevite society through interpreting the Scarlet King's will. One of these matriarchs was the Rajmata who acted as the sovereign monarch of the empire as she was married to the slumbering Scarlet Maharaja. It should be noted that not all matriarchs were strictly female as there have been instances of the male gender or genderless.
As mentioned the Daeva aristocracy were the ruling class of the Daevite society who fashioned themselves as divine figures, while at the bottom sat their slaves who made up approximately 75% of the civilization and were treated very harshly, being either used as servants or sacrifices to the Daeva and their gods. The Daevites used various means to control their slaves such as magical metal collars which would strangle disobeying slaves and worm-spears, apparatuses that were used to take over the slaves' minds through metallic worm-like entities that could burrow into the body and take control of the nervous system. In ROUNDERHOUSE's Jade Proposal, the society was roughly separated into four castes, the slaves, the few freed slaves, the aristocrats, soldiers and sorcerers above them but below the matriarchs.
The Daevites had a powerful standing army which was comprised of strong often brainwashed slaves, thaumaturges, demonic monsters and spirits, and humanoid puppets such as the Grass Children and SCP-3140, which were under the complete control of Daeva generals and their most powerful swordsmen who were known as the Seven Swords. The Daevas would use their armies to conquer neighbouring nations, either by attacking their small farming communities and pillaging their livestock or by attempting to occupy the nations through economic and cultural means before revolving to war as seen during their siege on Julabin. Their conquest strategies were susceptible to the matriarchs who oversaw all of their military campaigns which led to the unpredictable nature of the Daevites' attacks.
The Daevites as currency used metal coins referred to as tukats and kúan.
According to Ambrose Restaurants, death by forced overeating was a normal punishment by the Daevites. As said by Dr. Ines Pleško, when someone sneezed in the Daevite society, that person would be faced with the choice of sacrificing an individual or be sacrificed themself.
Based on The Hunter's Black Lodge's old orthodox scripts, the Daevites apparently completely lacked "honor, friendship, virtue, and liberation" as Sarkicism originally stood for these positive qualities. However, artifacts given to the Foundation by SCP-140-A show that the Daevites were capable of empathy, artistic expression, loyalty and sacrifice like modern people, and their values were seen as alien and barbaric the same way their contemporaries' values were before anomalous perpetuation.
In SCP-6765, the Daevites were revealed to have originally been more benevolent and honorable, recording the histories of their heroes and valued the lives of others. They all shared the same knowledge of those who fought against the darkness for victory or at least honor. However, the succeeding Daevites born following the Flood were more cruel and hateful as they sought revenge against those who wronged them, but were limited by the hatred of those who brought them back. In ROUNDERHOUSE's Jade Proposal, the Daevites didn't have a conception of gender as they considered their physical body irrelevant and the form they had in Mamjul shouldn't dictate their lives, and anyone could become what they wished to be.
Religion[]
The Daevite Empire possessed an imperial cult dedicated to the Old God known as the Scarlet King which was established around 12148 BCE shortly after the founding of the Kingdom. The religion was known to the Daevites as the Scarlet Faith, but due to the nature of SCP-140 it is unknown if it was their chief religion, a henotheistic faith or fabricated. The Daevites began worshipping the King as he granted them unholy power and knowledge as a reward for their brutal ways of life, and in turn the Daevites modeled their authority after the King's teachings. They divided their populace into a series of labor-based castes, formed a secondary caste independent of the first based on the reproductive role of an individual, and assigned each caste their individual and unequal values. The Daevites violently opposed any and all attempts which interfered with their religion's mandates. A priestly caste dedicated to the worship of the King was formed and staffed exclusively by females. As the Scarlet King's power was derived from the inherent inequalities, the Daevites separated their Kingdom into a hierarchy of women, men and neuters, inadvertently creating a state-enforced gender binary leading to a divinely-mandated sexual hierarchy. It is also shown that despite the King being a masculine figure it didn't mandate patriarchy, but that according to his doctrines one gender should rule over the other. The matriarchs engaged in various rituals that resulted in their impregnation by the King which birthed the "Holy Beasts", cephalopodic monsters that were used by the Daevites in times of war, and the "Scarlet Covenant", a group of intelligent humanoid monsters that could wear the skin of others to impersonate them and acted as the Daevites' spymasters.
The Daevites saw their violent conquests as an integral part of their Faith which developed over time. As part of the Faith the Daevites created a massive permanent slave caste to oppress them as part of the hierarchy. However, during the war with the Imit, an avatar of the King was left emasculated, causing the Daevites to envision their god as a martyr who was unjustly crippled and it soon led to the emergence of an apocalypticist sect that was popular with minor nobles and preached that the return of the King's "scepter" would herald their conquest of the world. The Daevites believed that the Scarlet King was an ancient being who became angry at existence and so he consumed some of his fellow gods and took his seven daughters as his brides. Some of their practices included a form of sacrifice known as "rank putting" in which the victim would be lacerated on a factor of 7 before being drowned in saltwater and mutilation of the reproductive organs was well common. Near the end of the Empire, the Scarlet Faith would decline following the destruction of the Daevites by the Mongols and the introduction of Buddhism, Christianity and Islam in their lands. The Children of the Scarlet King are a cult whose beliefs mirrored those of the Daevites and certain Neo-Daevite sects believe that if Seventh Bride gave birth to her child an apocalypse would transpire.
The Daevites supposedly also worshipped other gods such as Moloch, Jeser, the Hanged King, the Eternal Text, the Mother of Them All, the Nothing-In-All, Ana, the Violet Queen, the Verdant Mage, the King Worm, Gothog, Molug and Carthac, some of which were the Scarlet King's servants or associates, and would conduct gruesome and horrible sacrifices and rituals to appease the gods and earn their blessing. Some of these practices included: forcing mothers to burn their young children as sacrifices to Moloch, starve themselves in honor of Ana and sacred prostitution in honor of the Mother.
On another account, the Daevites were said to venerate life, the material world and its mindless creator, known as the Font, an alternate name for Yaldabaoth, along with his Agents of Life which were analogous to angels, and through ritualistic dancing they attempted to communicate with the Font among other gods. The Daevites made blood sacrifices to feed the gods while the dancing, aside from expressing their superiority, was to speak to the gods as they believed that the gods were separated from them by a metaphysical void known as the Nevermeant. The Daevites lacked the concept of afterlife and completely disregarded the concept of time. Their religion was said to be completely opposite to Buddhism, and lacked any saint or bodhisattva. The Daeva almost never prayed to these beings, and the matriarchs would only do so in desperate times if their lineage was at risk, as they believed that requesting a favor from the Agents of Life required an almost impossible sacrifice. Expectedly, the Archons didn't care much for their worshipers as when SCP-5267-A attempted to call for their help, they not only refused but also destroyed her as she was interfering with their plan. The cult known as the Ascetic Order of the Immortal Daeva had promised its members the elevation of the spirit and the ascendancy of the body toward the divine. It was mentioned in SCP-140 that ancestor worship, or the veneration of the matriarchs, was a major part of the Daevites' culture and remained consistent throughout their time, and in Sarkic mythology, the Daevites were said to believe that the Old Gods or the Archons originated from the Void which they referred to it as Vil-Nijan that literally translated to "without light", a manifestation of the nothingness outside of the cosmos. There were also references to beings named Iloquim, Thulicn, Tívash Iron-Crowned and Isukuré which appeared to be other deities venerated by the Daevites.
In SCP-6765, it was stated that the Daevites, similar to the House of Apollyon, believed in the two primordial forces responsible for the creation of the universe, IS and IS NOT who were served by the deities known as Paragons. They also recognized other deities such the Mother-Earth Gaia, Mekhane and Yaldabaoth among others, but the only god they worshipped was their first ancestor the Scarlet King. They revered him as a deity of memories and the matriarchs and other monarchs proclaimed to be his closest descendants. However, the Daevites through time began distancing themselves from the King, eventually leading to Queen Cynewise of Azidahaka to start her own cult known as the Many Hands of the Serpent which worshipped the Paragon of All Knowledge, the Serpent. This caused the King to become jealous and wage war on those who betrayed him, but was defeated and his body buried underneath the palace of the House of Malidraug.
In ROUNDERHOUSE's Jade Proposal, the Daevite religion was focused around animism as the Daevas were seen as nature spirits. They worshipped the Scarlet King as the embodiment of primal instinct, natural order and violent survival of the fittest. According to their belief the Scarlet had fallen into Earth following the battle against the three other gods, and was the catalyst for the merger between the Daevas and the tribal humans that gave rise to the Daevite Empire. He would manifest on Earth through his avatar and prophet titled the Scarlet Maharaja, but remained asleep in order for his dreams to maintain Korar's existence and help the Daevites in their conquests. The Daevites believed that if they conquered the entirety of Asia then the Scarlet King would be awoken. An imperial cult was formed of handmaidens, attendants and priestesses who were referred to as the Scarlet Brides as they were considered to be wedded to the Scarlet Maharaja, with the Rajmata being his most favorite bride.
The Daevites would praise and honor their god through hymns and dances, while sorcerers were seen as preachers due to the usage of the Scarlet King's magic being considered holy. Human sacrifices were important to the religion as the Daevites believed that the people they sacrificed would be reincarnated as Daeva in Korar, and as a result countless slaves, mostly children, were sacrificed in specially constructed pits and festivals, which was not seen as cruelty at all, genuinely believing that this was an act of mercy. Despite this, Korar was not seen as an afterlife, but rather a place that existed in parallel with Mamjul. They also considered Iun's movement as grave heresy, interpreting Sarkicism as forever trapping the soul within the flesh and preventing it from ascending to the Astral Plane.
Language[]
The Hiázaifeut language, more often referred to as Daevite, Daevic or Daevish, was originally used by the beings of the First Hytoth who would later become the Pattern Screamers as seen in SCP-6125. Somehow the ancient Daevites discovered this language and adopted it as their own. Their language was an isolated one independent from the Daevites' neighbors, which further evolved through time, and because the Daevites tended to write on tree barks the sentences were written in columns. Through time the Daevite language was divided into four languages: Old Daevite which remained until 1000 BCE; Middle Daevite which was used until 200 CE; Late Daevite which was used until 1300 CE; and Neo-Daevite which is still used to this day by small Daevite groups.
Because Old Daevite is an extinct language, its exact right pronunciation is mostly unknown, but historians were mostly able to infer a theoretical realization into neighboring languages, resulting in the language sounding similar to Mongolian. There was also another variation of the language referred by Hgan as Scarlet Daevic. In ROUNDERHOUSE's Jade Proposal, the language also had suffixes that indicated one's status, with -hiyar referring to a respected scholar and -jirras possibly referring to a warrior. Normal humans are unable to pronounce it correctly as the Daeva had unique vocal cords, but due to the nature of the Astral Plane, both Daeva and humans could understand each other as language barrier wasn't a problem.
Relationship with other anomalous factions[]
The SCP Foundation considers the Daevite civilization to be an extreme threat to the modern world should SCP-140 reach past a certain point in the 2nd millennium AD. According to SCP-978, the Daevites are also aware of the SCP Foundation, the Global Occult Coalition and the Horizon Initiative, and also consider them their enemies. In ROUNDERHOUSE's Jade Proposal, the Daevas and the Foundation formed a diplomatic treaty in which the two would collaborate and aid each other, despite the latter being the modern incarnation of the Three-Pronged Army that previously destroyed them.
The Daevites appear to have a vendetta against the Wanderer's Library, an ancient group and location affiliated with the Serpent's Hand, for unknown reasons, but it is theorized by the Librarians that the Library's magic may have had a catastrophic impact on the Daevites at some unknown point in the past.
The ancient predecessor of The Factory, named the Crucible was present in the ancient Daevite Empire.
Sarkicism began in the 3rd millennium by Grand Karcist Ion as a slave revolt against the Daevite empire, and at first they were able to destroy the evil empire, before SCP-140 changed that resulting in the Sakites reducing the Daevas to a single city state in Mongolia. The Mekhanites were also opposed to the Daevites, although in one account they were formerly allies.
Some Daevites were able to visit the interdimensional kingdom of Alagadda ruled over by the Hanged King without problem since they were affiliated with the kingdom.
During the Ortothan-Daevic War, as part of their territorial expansion the Daevites committed mass genocide on the Earthen Ortothan Kingdom, the ancient precursors of the Church of the Second Hytoth which occupied a part of Asia. The House of Apollyon was another kingdom which warred against the Daevites, although evidence suggested that it was mostly the House who started the conflict without provocation from the Daevite civilization.
After discovering a copy of SCP-140 Clyde of the Constellation Starfish became intrigued by the Daevites and wrote a song about to them. However, he later was creeped out by their history and discarded the book.
Aside from containing an instance of SCP-4008, the Department of Abnormalities had also discovered a mysterious hidden forest in the Făgăraş Mountains which contained abandoned Daevite temples and various modified plants related to them, and enclosed it from the population. After the dissolution of the Department, a user of the Parawatch forum group explored the forest after a group of hikers had been temporarily lost within, but was later claimed by the anomalies residing in it.
During the Daevite expansion in the 8000s BCE, the Daevites went to war with the Imit population, or the Clay People (Homo postdescensus), and exterminated most the Imit to extinction, forcing the surviving members of the humanoid offshoot to retreat and remain hidden in the dark until the modern age. However, this war caused the influence of the Daevas' Old Gods on Earth to weaken. As a result, the Daeva came to hate the Imit, blaming them for everything they deemed wrong with their empire to the point of being paranoid that the Imit were still around and conspiring against them despite their long-ago destruction.
It is speculated by a Foundation researcher that the Golden Horde, a group of time-travelling Mongols from 1227 who are trying to find a place to bury their leader Ghengis Khan, aren't actually trying to find a burial place and nor is Ghengis Khan dead, but are actually still fighting wars throughout different time eras, probably still fighting with the expanding Daevites.
PoI-4887, a Daeva who lives on to this day, betrayed their people and joined the mysterious group known only as Nobody in order to destroy what remained of the Daevites.
Several Daevites had transported themselves inside the Oneroi dimension, leaving behind their bodies and forming large communities which were later destroyed SCP-5174.
Madeleine von Schaeffer, a German aristocrat whose family is part of a long line of neo-daevic worshippers of the Violet Queen, was one of the main investors of the Just Girly Things group.
SCP-6146, a multiversal powerful empire known as the Grand Marzeh which is comprised of connected realities where the Phoenician and Carthage empires lived on to the modern world, were extremely hostile towards the Daevites as a great number of empires fought countless wars against them in their respective realities. When the empire discovered a universe in which the Roman Empire proceeded to exist to the present, they believed that the Romans were analogous to the Daevites and planned to attack it in the near future.
The Daevites had arrived to the pocket dimension of Amatànnaq inhabited by various human and nonhuman species where they attempted to convince the residents to let them form a base here. Unfortunately for them, a couple of Foundation doctors told the inhabitants of the danger posed by Daeva and if they were allowed to stay in Amatànnaq they would surely conquer the land. After they were refused residence, the Daevites retaliated by starting a devastating war. Though they eventually gained advantage, the Daeva and their supernatural forces were completely annihilated by the power of Ama Kubeya.
SCPs Associated with the Daevites[]
- SCP-001 (notgull's Proposal): SCP-001 are two parts, SCP-001-1, a floating sphere resembling TV static inside Point Alpha, a cave chamber five kilometers south of the ruins of Babylon, and SCP-001-2 a half of a sleeping creature which created the entire reality by dreaming and uses 001-1 to listen to the reality. When the creature gets upset it will proceed to wake up causing reality to cease, and because of this people throughout history kept reading it made up stories in order to keep it entertained and thus, asleep. After the Foundation got hold of the anomaly, another unknown entity which spoke the Daevite language attempted to wake SCP-001-2 up but to no avail.
- SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal): A CK-reality reconstruction event which changed the previous timeline in which the Fifth Occult War happened in 1900, including the Daevas invading most of East Asia and their encounter with SCP-2067, SCP-2309, SCP-2880, SCP-2101 and SCP-2788. Following the reality reset the Fifth Occult War ceased to exist along with the Daevas of that time.
- SCP-001 (ROUNDERHOUSE's Jade Proposal): The cities of Mamjul and Korar, the former laying in ruins deep in the Indian Ocean while the latter exists in the Astral Plane connected to the Oneiroi dreamworld. The Daevite Empire had thrived in both cities before Mamjul was completely destroyed by BLACKSTAR and Korar left isolated from Earth. Mamjul's existence was hypothesized by Philip Sclater and the Tamil revivalists as the sunken continent of Lemuria or Kumari Kandam, but was later disregarded in favor of plate tectonics theory. The ruins were discovered in the 1925 century by Captain Nemo onboard of the Nautilus where he had some his spiritually-inclined men project themselves into Korar through meditation, but never released his findings to the world. In early 21st century, the Foundation rediscovered the ruins and formed MTF Omicron-Rho to establish contact with the Daeva who welcomed them with open arms. Deciding to collaborate together, the Foundation began restoring the Daevas' history through the file of this proposal which included the Song of the Daevas' verses and was designated SCP-140.
- SCP-012: An incomplete musical score titled "On Mount Golgotha", it was created as a result of a curse set on the Daevite Vlad Tepes by an old Romani woman, as revenge for killing her people, by singing the song to him, causing Tepes to become obsessed with it and kill all of his men and then himself to write it.
- SCP-073: Son of the first human known Adam who opposed the Daevites. After having his arms ripped off by his brainwashed brother he was taken as a slave by the Daevites who replaced his arms with magecraft metal arms.
- SCP-076: Once a noble warrior named Hevel who originally opposed the Daevites, he later fell under their control becoming their mindless slave and fiercest warrior, known as Ab-Leshal the First Sword of Daevon. He was enhanced with the Daevites' black magic which granted him the power to summon dark blades, and bound to a cube-shaped sarcophagus which allowed Ab-Leshal to be resurrected multiple times so he could be used in times of war, but eventually broke free of their control and caused a massive slave revolt.
- SCP-139-ARC: A poorly preserved skull seemingly belonging to a member of a prehistoric herbivorous species of hominids. According to local legends the skull belonged to the White Div, the demon-spawn of Ahriman. It was discovered by Douglas Winthrop during the 1950s in a small town south of Persepolis, held in a cage, suspended in the air with rope tied to a hook drilled into a cliff. According to an instance of SCP-2305-A, the skull actually belonged to Sepid the White, a high-ranking general of the Daevites. If the skull were to be incinerated, it would cause Sepid to come back to life, along with the rest of the Daevite civilization causing a world war to occur.
- SCP-140: A book that expands the history of the Daevites when brought in the present of ink or blood. It was recovered from the home of a historian 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 made the Daevite civilization survive for a much longer period, until they were destroyed by Genghis Khan in his early conquests. There are other copies of the book designated SCP-140-B, possibly double digits, that haven't been account for and/or destroyed by the Foundation. Several expansion events have happened when the copy in Foundation hands was not exposed to any sort of writing.
- SCP-140-A: The unknown author of the book and possibly one of the few surviving Daevites.
- SCP-140-2: A group of people who were under the complete control of 140-A, and underwent muscle mass growth. 140-A had used around 70 instances when he joined the Foundation Elimination Coalition.
- SCP-343: Originally a man named Matthew, he later became a sorcerer studying under the Daeva sorcerer known as Relivine and later became the Royal Vizier for the Daevite House of Malidraug where he was known as Methuselah. He learned powerful blood magic from a dying Daevite queen which he used to prolong his life and make himself look like God.
- SCP-392: A plant species created by Daevite thaumaturgy that is reminiscent of the peach. Instead of producing peach fruits, it produces living human heads resembling a male sex slave of the Daeva matriarch Waq Waq.
- SCP-570: Collective designation for a concentration of thaumaturgical residue created as a result of the anomalous rituals conducted by both The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo in their war against each other. One such ritual was that conducted by The Coca-Cola Company on their copy of SCP-140, adding some history to the Daevite Empire which involved the Daevites consuming Coca-Cola product as part of their tradition.
- SCP-682: Multiple Daevite texts, including SCP-140, contained information regarding 682, which indicate at him being either one of the many offsprings of the Scarlet King and his Fourth Bride, or a creation of the Daevites known as the Beast of Wernorad planned to be used in the war against the Sarkites but turned on his masters. 682 himself possessed knowledge of the Daevites and even carved symbols similar to SCP-2140-1-D.
- SCP-697: A mysterious chemical that can transform any material it touches into plant-like growths. The plants produced by the conversion doesn't resemble any existing plant and do not undergo the same process as the typical plants as the metabolism is way faster than that of normal plants and only produce argon and cobalt-based gas while seemingly not feeding on anything. This chemical was used by the Daevites during their attack on the Mekhanite city of Amoni-Ram.
- SCP-777-J: Jad-Kar Dark-Blade, a bladed warrior for the Daevites, he was known as the Fourth Sword of Daevon before seemingly going on his own path.
- SCP-1726: A library connected to the Wanderer's Library located somewhere in China which contains detailed history and artifacts of ancient civilizations, including those of the Daevites.
- SCP-2131: A man who claims to be Avignon Pope Benedict XIII born in the year 1328 and emits gamma energy when his blood rituals fail. He claims that the Daevites are still alive and were responsible for the death of Pope Boniface whom he opposed. However, the Foundation suspects that the man is a liar and might be a Daevite himself.
- SCP-2140-1-D: An image featuring symbols of unknown origin. When a person looks at the full image their entire past is rewritten to make them members of the modern Daevite cults. It was discovered at a dig site in Uzbekistan where it turned several Foundation personnel into members of modern Daevite cults. After the Foundation got hold of the image they reverse engineered the image, creating SCP-2140 with similar properties, while the original image was since neutralized by the Foundation.
- SCP-2200: Bergon Soulbearer, another bladed warrior for the Daevites, he was known as the Seventh Sword of Daevon. He seemingly perished, but his weapon proceeded to possess other people.
- SCP-2515: A painting named Napoleon Crossing the Urals depicting Napoleon Bonaparte and his army approaching one of the many fortresses of an unrevealed civilization. It is heavily implied that these fortresses belonged to the Daevites during the events prior to Wrong proposal in which they battled the combined forces of the French and Russian forces led by Napoleon.
- SCP-2518: An extradimensional region located on the Hindu Kush of Northern Pakistan. It is a place where the remaining ancient humanoids, who are suspected to be the Nephilim, were hiding in while battling the Daevites.
- SCP-2904: An oblate spheroid with an equatorial radius composed of osmium alloyed with tungsten, iron, carbon and an unidentified exotic matter. Its mass variates regarding the position of the moon. When a living entity directly touches the object and traces the groove in the object's surface over its entire path, beginning and ending at the polar depression they will feel the object becoming extremely hot and pulsating like a heart. After this process is done the individual who touched it will gain some sort of invincibility, ceasing to age, gaining slow regenerative properties, immunity to poisons and cognitohazards, but will not gain new memories and after dying will come back to life, but in a permanent comatose state. This object was found in a Daevite dig site despite being seemingly of non-Daevite origin.
- SCP-2914: A glass-fronted wooden cabinet which contains twenty-two stoppered glass bottles. If an individual touches the cabinet while recalling a certain memory the bottles will be filled with various materials which correspond to the memory. In the 2932th test in which the Foundation filled the bottles with a combination of seemingly random materials and had D-11328 touched it her memories were overwritten with that of an ancient Asian travelling merchant who was seemingly killed in a Daeva attack.
- SCP-3059: An 18 year old Hispanic man named Sam Michaels whose parts of his body gets absorbed into written and digital narratives which will include Sam as a character as a result. Sam describes this experience as endlessly bleeding, and if narratives based history absorb his mass it will cause a clone of Michaels to manifest in that time period. It is implied that this property serves to complete SCP-140 which after being affected by him stated that Michaels is its author.
- SCP-3140: Humanoid trees, originally created by SCP-1000 and later modified by Daevic magic. These plant-machines served as weapons and healers during times of war, and can only be commanded through the Daevic language. The Foundation was able to find a functioning member of SCP-3140 which was designated SCP-3140-1 and used its seeds to create two other instances each designated SCP-3140-2 and SCP-3140-3, but lacking the Daevite modifications.
- SCP-3399: Trees looking identical to the oriental plane trees, when exposed to someone's blood its offsprings will produce leaves showing the past of that person. Then its own offsprings' leaves will show the future of the same person, more specifically will predict their future partner and child. The trees were seemingly used by Daevite royal blood to seek fitting partners to bear children.
- SCP-3477-25: One of the many immortal humanoids resembling the 17th Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt. This instance gained immortality through Daevite herbomancy.
- SCP-3628: A bronze inkwell, when a person loses focus on the inkwell while holding it, they will involuntary say the remaining time they have before dying.
- SCP-3799: A memetic snow storm capable of rewriting history and grow through human sacrifice. It caused the Daevites to continue to exist past Genghis Khan possibly due to them practicing blood rituals that negatively affected the anomalous snow, and fought wars with the Keraite tribes, but eventually they ceased to exist when a Foundation personnel neutralized the snow.
- SCP-4008: Bomb-like seeds that when planted will instantly grow into a massive tree with long roots before disintegrating, causing the ground beneath to crumble and swallow anything on it while releasing a field around the world which makes everyone forget that the bomb detonated in the first place along with memories of everything that resided there. The Daevites were able to get a number of of these seeds after sacrificing some of their men to Titania and used them against enemy civilizations such as the House of Apollyon. These fields still exist, confusing Foundation personnel, since their computers are able to hold information about this anomaly, while they themselves couldn't remember. One of the seeds was contained by the Department of Abnormalities within one of their sites which would be designated SCP-3790. The Chaos Insurgency would later steal some of these seeds for their own plans.
- SCP-4067: The yearly gathering of insectoid Sarkites designated SCP-4067-1 who worshipped Cicathea, one of Yaldabaoth's Archons. The Daevites created magical pillars in order to kill the instances of SCP-4067-1.
- SCP-4140: One of Yaldabaoth's six Archons trapped within the central chamber of a cave complex. This Archon appears as a giant mass of nothingness capable of spreading itself, until the Daevites discovered it and forced slaves into playing music in order to stop it. Karcist Otrava eventually freed all of the slaves and killed the Daevites, accidentally allowing the Archon to spread itself. Unwilling to sacrifice more innocent slaves Otrava sacrificed himself to deter the monstrosity.
- SCP-4179-2-41: A stone found in a Daevite dig site. After SCP-4179-1 wrote on it using SCP-4179, a special language invented by the old gods in the distant past that stabilizes the narrative reality of things spoken of in it, people who touched were able to see the Daevites executing eviscerating rituals on some poor girls in honor for the Scarlet King in order to be appeased during times of peace.
- SCP-4223: A pair of anomalous phenomena affecting the production of SCP-4223-A in the universe M-121948-δ. SCP-4223-A is the energy drink known as Mountain Dew which could only be produced through accumulation of liquids on small plants on a few mountains in Siberia thanks to SCP-4223-2. The liquid was seen by the Daevites as a culturally relevant drink similar to the Mekhanite's view of SCP-4223-A from the main universe.
- SCP-4290: A powerful dead entity only known as the "Child", sealed within the Qinghai Lake for 10,000 years. Various civilizations enacted rituals in order to repair the lock which kept the entity trapped, with the Daevites being the last civilization to do it.
- SCP-4612-A: A dead god residing in an underground structure beneath Provisional Site-91. The entity was depicted in murals of various Daevite ritual sites, while similar beings were also depicted as enemies to the Daevites. It is later revealed that this deity, one of the Hecatoncheires worshipped by the Many Hands Society, was responsible for decimating the entire Daevite Empire. This event became one of SCP-5897's documentaries made by Vikander-Kneed Technical Media.
- SCP-4649: An octagonal-ring formerly used for MMA competition created by the Absolute Championship Berkut's Directors. It was based on a Daevite temple which made the fighters on it go mad and inflict violence on to others in order to make blood sacrifices.
- SCP-4753: A white rocky liquid located in Dodge City, Kansas that was previously a white cliff which was inscribed by a monk. The inscriptions, that could only be read by the local residents, told about how the Daevites were killed by some divine figure who sought to preserve the citizens. At some point the rock released transmissions from a possible alternate reality which was undergoing the same apocalypse as described in SCP-001 (Dr Clef's Proposal) and also mentioned a person wearing full Daevite armor criticizing how media outlets were dealing with the catastrophe.
- SCP-4800: An unknown force which merges and mixes alternate realities together. This force was responsible for the Daevites existing in the universe.
- SCP-4812-K: Also known as Profane Adamant, it was one of three profanities summoned by the Faerie princess to take revenge on the House of Apollyon. Profane Adamant wreaked havoc among the Daevite civilization, and after killing numerous Daevites the insectoid monster then proceeded to steal their faces before going to search for the princess.
- SCP-4824: A sandstone obelisk located in the Gobi which when vandalized will manipulate the weather. It was originally created as a prison for SCP-4824-1, an immortal Daeva prince with geomancy powers, who was punished due to his homosexuality.
- SCP-4886: A Daeva/Old God hybrid named Ydax the Pallid, conceived by a Daevite Matriarch and the King Worm. He was a member of the Covenants, a group of spymasters capable of wearing the skin of others. Like the rest of the group Ydax is capable of impregnating various subjects, including humans and animals, directly or via creatures his body produces which bear resemblance to tapeworms.
- SCP-4982: A modified bookcase which contains anomalous books casted out of the Wanderer's Library each designated as SCP-4982-1. One of the books from the "Ego" shelf titled "Notes on the perfection of homunculi" details Daevite rituals involving children's souls which were used to create living flesh golems. These rituals were used by Dr. Wondertainment to create the Little Misters.
- SCP-5016: An underground tower hundreds of floors deep which contains something at the very bottom. Each floor is based after different eras and civilizations, which contain strange symbols and languages, and overly complex puzzles which are needed to be completed in order to access the lower floors. Later a group of individuals, one of them seemingly being a Daevite mummy, emerged from the building and went to Site-62C messing with SCP-579's containment.
- SCP-5140: The undead frozen corpses that make up a large amount of Mount Everest in the Himalayas of Tibet, which absorb any heat surrounding them or from climbers who touch them, often killing them and turning the victims into additional instances. The anomaly came to be after BLACKSTAR destroyed Mamjul and feeling somewhat sorry for dooming the Daevites, he and his men brought the fallen bodies of the Daevites ontop of the once normal mountain to honor them, but would in time become anomalous.
- SCP-5267: An ancient ruined Daevite temple in the Mongolian-Manchurian grasslands centered on a small hillside surrounded by a low-level cognitohazard which made people who viewed it not acknowledged it and leave. This temple was used to produce humanoid warriors named "Grass Children" out of dirt and moss through blood rituals and contained a still living mummy of a Daevite Matriarch designated SCP-5267-A who was later apprehended by MTF Beta-777 and MTF Tau-9. While transporting the Matriarch, she was rescued by similar humanoids appearing as Russian soldiers who were members of Proiskhozhdeniye Investitsii conglomerate led by Leonid Chernoff, and together would go on to attack the Second Haptic Assembly, the modern successor of the Many Hands Society.
- SCP-5280: A modified species of bees which were known to the Daevites as the "Little Priestesses". These bees formed their hives based on Daevite temples and were responsible for various plant-based Daevite products.
- SCP-5297: A series of thaumaturgic glyphs which when engraved into the bark of fruit trees would act as a component of an arbormantic ritual. This ritual served to keep the fruits grown to stay healthy and not get infected by bacteria or parasites. However, if not done properly it will result in grave accidents.
- SCP-5338: The entire species of bumblebees which were created through Daevite rituals. Because they are unable of normal flight like other insects, this species uses their wings to warp reality around them in order to move through air and appearing like flying.
- SCP-5391-1: A series of Kaiju-like monsters that manifested following the revival of LSA-Brasil-01. One instance designated LSA-Amman-14 was a tree-like gigantic monster that had resided among Daevite ruins.
- SCP-5626: A Daevite ritual that creates sculptures based on wishes of the performer by manipulating reality around the material. The ritual could be performed when the performer sacrificed some people and if someone touched the newly created sculpture, designated SCP-5626-1, then that person would be transported to a pocket dimension where laws of physics differed. Leonid Chernoff attempted on several occasions to use the ritual to bring back the Daevites prior to the interference of MTF-Beta-777.
- SCP-5641: An ancient stupa located somewhere in India where the modern incarnations of the Saptarishi pray for glory of the Hindu war god Skanda in order to keep the Daevites and the Scarlet King from rising back to power and return to life, but as they kept doing this they began to slowly fail due to their power diminishing.
- SCP-5711: A thaumaturgic ritual capable of altering the course of historical events. The components required to enact the ritual are: 57 kg beryllium bronze alloy, 0.5 L of blood, at least 3 additional witnesses/participants, an altar/temple complex (SCP-5711-1), and one prepubescent human child. High Priest Khazaard Bin Alarath, alongside defectors of Sarkicism and the Church of the Broken God, tried to use the ritual in order to change the outcome of the Second Punic War to benefit Hannibal, but failed. It was later discovered by the Foundation in 2009 when modern Daevites tried to reenact the ritual which was thwarted by Regina Watts.
- SCP-5957: The anomaly responsible for the "Dyatlov Pass Incident" in which nine Russian hikers died under mysterious circumstances. It was later revealed that the incident was caused when the hikers executed a Daevite protection ritual centered around SCP-5957-A, an ancient hidden tower belonging to the Many Hands Society which was attacked in the past by the Daevites. The incident was mostly covered up by GRU Division "P" lieutenant Leonid Chernoff.
- SCP-6016-E: An area atop a Daevite ruin in which SCP-6016, a magic ritual which suppresses any sound except for those expressing sadness and causes manifestations centering around memories and can only be executed by elephants, was performed.
- SCP-6140: A CK-Class event which occurred when the Children of the Scarlet King accidentally destroyed SCP-140 when trying to perform a ritual to bring back the Daevites. This resulted in the false history created by SCP-140-A to be undone and reverting the Daevites to a normal civilization designated SCP-6140-A. In the modern age this civilization has become the benevolent Republic of Daevastan which was previously one of the many countries under the Soviet Union before being recognized as an official state by the UN and often faced prejudice from time to time due to their dark shameful past.
- SCP-6165: A series of phenomena affecting the British-Pakistani community of Rotherham, England during Ramadan, causing the Muslims to be plagued with red palm weevils and sexual damage. This was caused by a Daevite ritual executed by local young resident Khadijah Choudhary who was believed to have committed suicide after pedophile Muhammad Khan returned from prison. Following Ramadan, Khan was partially transformed into a semi-immortal red palm weevil, while inside Choudhary's grave a human-sized wooden effigy of a red palm weevil was found instead of her body.
- SCP-6189: A collection of seven magical Daevite artifacts given to the Foundation by SCP-140-A as a offer of collaboration.
- SCP-6189-1: A ritualistic wood bowl that was used to drain the blood of animals, including humans, regardless if they were alive or not, and as a result of absorbing blood would temporarily transform into a tree.
- SCP-6189-2: A normal ancient knife that has a slightly higher level of Hume saturation, and despite having been used for some time doesn't have that much blood.
- SCP-6189-3: A set of barkcloth bandages that can heal any wound to which they're applied.
- SCP-6189-4: A set of 32 ritual slabs depicting some figures using Daevite art from the Kastau-period.
- SCP-6189-5: A modern sketchbook which is filled with sketches depicting a more lifelike look at the Daevites' life.
- SCP-6189-6: A collection of around 20 textile strips stored inside ancient scroll cases. Some of these strips were ancient while others were more modern, depicted various patterns and were stained with human blood.
- SCP-6189-7: A set of glass ampoules containing living organic liquid and inscribed with Daevite names.
- SCP-6462: An alternate abandoned dimension which was created as a nursery for the Scarlet King's fifth bride A'nuht and her children. The architecture inside the dimension was nearly identical to that of the Daevites before their renaissance and the Daevite glyph for the fifth bride's seal was found inscribed on a door which led to SCP-6462-C, a casket which contained a weakened A'nuht.
- SCP-6520: A pocket dimension appearing as an incomplete alternate reality in which the Daevites never fell, designated SCP-6520-A, and the portal located within Turnul Chindiei that allowed access to it, designated SCP-6520-B. This anomaly was created by SCP-5267-A as another attempt to reestablish the Daevite Empire and it began intersecting with the northeastern portion of Târgoviște, Romania, slowly taking over the entire city. The anomaly was neutralized when Rebekah Douglas attacked the Daevite Matriarch, forcing the latter to flee.
- SCP-6699-1_C: The comatose body of a still living female Daeva discovered by GRU Division-P. Her body was used by the Foundation as a part of SCP-6699, a machine developed by the Foundation who used it to manipulate the connected minds of humanity and keep the Veil from breaking, in order to use her blood as part of a ritual and supply additional blood to the other human components designated SCP-6699-1_A and SCP-6699-1_B, since she also served as an universal donor.
- SCP-6765: A Daevite structure complex located beneath Aksayqin Lake in Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, build during the antediluvian period before the Flood. It was comprised of the Atrium, the Throne Room, and the Reservoir. At the center of the Throne Room rested SCP-6765-A, a machine shaped like a throne possessing nine syringes that would be inserted into the user's body in order to draw blood from their body and spill it into the Reservoir. It is inhabited by SCP-6765-B, the benign Daevite king of Malidraug Relivine whose body has been connected to SCP-6765-A which caused him to be left in a mummified but still living state, SCP-6765-C, one of the more benevolent Children of the Night who stumbled across the structure during the Flood and became friends with Relivine and Ogier as he was able to communicate with them through dreams, and SCP-6765-D, Ogier of the now destroyed House of Apollyon who after being cursed by a faerie princess was taken under the care of the Daevites who stopped his transformation into a Demon midway which left him resembling a normal human fused with a fae demon. The structure was built by the Mad King Moros above the burial of the Scarlet King's body, designated SCP-6765-E, and acted as a temple where the Daevites committed suicide by exsanguinating themselves in order to store their blood into the Reservoir since it contained all of their memories which could be accessed by others. As the Scarlet King attempted to break free Ogier committed himself in maintaining the magic imprisoning the evil god.
- SCP-6810: The Olympian god Dionysus who manifests throughout Europe to party. In the ancient past, Dionysus, at the behest of Zeus, led an invasion of India, clashing against the local Indians and Daevites, starting the Third Occult War. The Daevites directly fought Dionysus and his invading army but were left mostly defeated, inspiring the epics Dionysiaca and Mahabharata, and the myth of Zagreus.
- SCP-6996: The anomaly regarding the color red. Because it was the color of blood and the domain of their god, the Daevites identified themselves with color red, regarding it as holy and important.
- SCP-7028-3a: The completed version of the lost book known as The Book of the Wars of the Lord which was recreated by SCP-7028-3β, one of the five women inhabiting an ancient library beneath the Church of Saint George, Lalibela, who rewrite the forgotten ancient text that were lost to time. This book reveals that besides the Amorites, Amaleks, and other Canaanite peoples, the Israelites also fought against the Daevites, and possessed cognitohazards that compelled the reader to prepare for the return of the evil empire.
- SCP-7140: A phenomenon that compels everyone in the world to travel to the base of Mount Everest and perform Aleksandr Scriabin's symphony Mysterium, which would cause the end of the world. During the process the Daevites would be brought back to life.
- SCP-7291: An ancient Daevite tomb dug underground in the Pinsk Marshes, Belarus, near the Pripyat River, which could be accessed through a narrow aperture. The tomb is comprised of bedrock chambers composed of Makrana white marble, descending passage with numerous switchbacks and blind corners, a forecourt with entrance to the tomb, outer and inner chambers and interconnected tunnels. It was constructed by the Daevites using tree golems while occupying the land that would become Belarus and put a curse on it for those who dared to venture into the empty tomb and be sacrificed to their gods. It is unknown why they created the tomb when no body was buried, but it is presumed that the Daevites had encountered something which caused them to leave Belarus. The curse set by the Daevites caused the superstition of those who entered to become real, leading to them succumbing to their own beliefs. It was discovered in September 2022 by archaeologist Dr. Barys Salavey who had been repeatedly amnesticized by the Foundation as he had previously discovered other anomalous ruins. There he regained his memories as a result of the tomb's curse which led to the Foundation discovering the tomb and sent a research and containment team comprised of Dr. Gerhard Kneller, Prof. Augustus Booth, Prof. Reginald Huff, Dr. Ines Pleško, Dr. Fidelia Quijano, Dr. Máximo Quijano, Chief Ingvar Strand, Technician Christopher Gill, Technician Joshi Rizwana, Hafiz El-Amin, Technician Diogo Da Costa, Dr. Mariska Lauwers and several MTF agents. Unfortunately, the entire team became trapped inside the tomb and succumbed to the curse, leaving only Drs. Quijano and Agent Isidoro Valenti as the only survivors. Later on Máximo alongside Salavey escaped from the Foundation and stole SCP-140 in order to bring the Daevites and ask them why the tomb was built.
- SCP-7812: An infection affecting the noosphere originating from the Archons which can spread to other humans by discussing the ideas of hunger and consumption, leading to the infected regressing into hungry and savage animalistic beings that lacked eyes and sexual organs. As this infection stemmed from the Archons, the Daevites regarded this affliction as holy, but when it reemerged in the modern day through Foundation Agent Rebekah Douglas it proved to be the downfall of SCP-5267-A.
- SCP-8002: A subterranean medical center managed by the Foundation's Aeonian Health Systems, Inc that treated its injuried employees by utilizing the healing energy released from a giant phoenix-like creature, designated SCP-8002-1, which had been regenerating itself since ancient times. Simón Torres later discovered that the bird had been created by the Daevites in a similar manner to the Beast of Wernorad.
- SCP-8071: A curse affecting the descendants of Daeva nobleman Hezhum-bet who got involved in accidents that inflict severe lacerations on their bodies. It was made through a blood ritual by a "Blood Commander" on behalf of a rival nobleman to get revenge on Hezhum-bet and his line. It had laid dormant ever since the Empire's downfall, but it was reactivated with the emergence of the neo-Daevite movements, forcing the Foundation to secretly brainwash the people affected into commiting self harm to hide the curse.
- SCP-8140: Various ancient artifacts, mostly military paraphernalia, belonging to both the Daevites and SCP-1000 found just outside of Göbekli Tepe, which causes those who touch them to experience the memories of their owners using them and be unable to forget those events despite usage of amnestics. These artifacts were used in a battle between the early Daevites and SCP-1000 during the paleolithic era due to the Daeva expanding to the Children of the Night's territory. The Daeva imbued their artifacts with their memory properties for their incoming reinforcements to find once they had been killed, but an SCP-1000 crashed the ritual, causing his blood to accidentally be used and thus extending the anomalous properties to their artifacts as well.
- SCP-8144: A layer of bioclastic limestone in the Tibetan Plateau where it was the battleground between the Daevites and the Sarkites. It was created as a result of a Daeva Matriarch using an idol, designated SCP-8144-1, which lithified all biological matter, creating the bioclastic layer.
- SCP-8410: A young boy named Harold who is the modern reincarnation of a warrior from the ancient Ortothan kingdom. Wanting to relive his previous life, he fed his blood to a copy of SCP-140, resulting in the Daevites now living in the present.
- SCP-8372: An abandoned underground four floored storage facility in northern Tibet that belonged to the Chinese Abnormality Institute and held numerous Daevite artifacts. These artifacts included art pieces, royal memorabilia, organic statues and military armaments that brainwashed observers into believing the Daevites were a glorious civilization while refusing to believe they brought any harm. It was later discovered that the building's base was being held up by 50,000 unrecognizable corpses of non-Daevites that were placed like bricks and didn't decompose.
- SCP-8799: A manuscript copy of the Shahnameh which contains animated paintings and predates the original that detailed the history of Iran. If placed on the Sayyid Ali Shrine the people handling the book would be transported to a parallel reality resembling the world as told in the Shahnameh, designated SCP-8799-1. In this world, the literary version of the Daeva lived in Mazanderan and when Kay Khosrow learned that his reality was possibly a work of fiction they taught magic which he could use to burn all of this reality. After ORIA scientist Dr. Parviz Sadr and Foundation agent Nodira Jo'rayeva became trapped in this reality they encountered the Daeva, and following Sadr's death at the hands of the Foundation, the Daeva began teaching Jo'rayeva how to manipulate the talking trees and go to the realities of other works of fiction and change them in order to affect the real world.
- SPC-140: Also known as BRONZE UPPERCUT, is an ancient scroll written on the skin of a CYAN ABYSS, "Sharkic" humans who transformed themselves into creatures resembling a fusion between humans, sharks and octopuses. The scroll functions exactly like SCP-140, but only works when it's near the CYAN ABYSS's ink or hide. The scrolls also function as a way to disrupt the influence of SPC-001, the Sharkic Messiah, causing the Shark Punching Center to use it for their own war against Sharkicism.
- Manifest 704: Corpses of animalistic monsters engraved with runes absorbing magic energy, found buried in the eastern waters of the Mediterranean Sea. These monsters were mutated Daevites that fought against the Roman Empire during the Second Occult War that was provoked by Saarn. The Commission on Unusual Cargo found the corpses and attempted to bring their pieces to Britain but the ship carrying the pieces sank.
- SCP-CN-012-EX: A group of ancient items discovered by the Chinese branch of the Foundation, seemingly depicting a nuclear war between two humanoid races.
- SCP-CN-141: A place located in an artificially excavated mountain cave in the Changbai Mountains. This place is resistant to reality warping effects and damage, and contains 166 tombstone-like monuments with 165 of them describing an abbreviated version of SCP-140's content, but with a difference that the stones described the full story of Daevite civilization before the events of SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal) occurred.
- SCP-CN-232: A ritual involving the feeding of a group of ten wasps with meat. This will cause the manifestation of SCP-CN-232-A, a irregular shaped wasp, several instances of SCP-CN-232-B, big humanoid wasps who constantly smell of rotten flesh, and SCP-CN-232-C, a honeycomb capable of producing from two to ten instances of SCP-CN-232-B out of nowhere. SCP-CN-232-B instances will devour the heads of any near human, but if some human infants are nearby these instances will take care of them before devouring the heads of the adult humans. After devouring the heads, the instances will disappear along with the infants, while the victims' corpses will constantly smell of rotten flesh even when all of the flesh is removed.
- SCP-CN-974: A collective of three islands hidden in reality, containing albino animals and structures. An albino deer exhibiting intelligence and resembling SCP-038-FR only spoke in the Daevic language.
- SCP-CN-1051: A duo of still living Daevites, a male named Strors designated SCP-CN-1051-1 and a female named Petlever designated SCP-CN-1051-2. They possess memetic properties as when people try to observe their faces they will be unable to memorize them and will become a SCP-CN-1051-3 instance. If a SCP-CN-1051-3 instance gets away from the duo, they will mysteriously disappear causing ink to appear out of nowhere in SCP-140.
- SCP-CN-1343: A variant of the tsetse fly capable of entering the brains of mammalians, producing and manipulating pheromones causing the infected subject to forcibly go to sleep. These flies can change their forms during their growth from the amount of light received. The flies were used by a Daevite thief during the Yongxing era in order to put guards to sleep, facilitating his robberies.
- SCP-CN-1418-A: Some sort of library created by the early Mekhanites resembling the Wanderer's Library and contains thousands of books detailing various histories related to the world and mythology, which may or may not be real. It was inhabited by some creatures who spoke in the Daevic language before the GOC destroyed the library.
- SCP-CN-1905: A cave which affects lights within it and contains engraved patterns, some of which are unknown. The recognizable patterns depict Astrological signs of ancient civilizations which include the Daevites.
- SCP-177-KO: A wooden ring adorned with bones of a reindeer with the phrase "I will always be by your side" in late Daeva. When an individual looks at the ring they'll be compelled to put it on. After wearing the ring the individual will begin to grow reindeer horns and their personality will drastically change for the worse. During the transformation the wearer's consciousness will gradually be replaced with that of Anastasia Alexandrovna Chen, a former performer of Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting whose soul is contained within the ring.
- SCP-1310-RU: A tall severely injured humanoid with a still functioning severed hand. He was a member of a race which was exterminated by the Daevites.
- SCP-1388-RU: A very young girl who appears to be of Samoyedic and Daevite lineage. She has the ability to move all matter in front of her allowing her to pass through anything.
- SCP-ES-133: An ancient abandoned Daevite village in Cambodia. This village was formed by the survivors from the Sarkic slave revolt, but they were then all killed by the Cult of the Great Green God.
- SCP-ES-234: A cat named Marw capable of reincarnating into different cats after his death, often gaining unique personalities and anomalous properties. Marw was originally an ancient normal cat living in the Daevite Empire until he was captured by a Daevite sorcerer and experimented upon. Marw eventually died after the sorcerer attempted to cast a spell of immortality, but it caused Marw to be reincarnated through years to come.
- SCP-481-FR: An ancient scabbard previously belonging to Daevite warriors. It sometimes produces a saliva-like liquid, and while producing this liquid if inorganic objects are approached to it then the scabbard would absorb them and use their materials to create a new sword designated SCP-481-FR-1. If one sword is left within the object then it would gradually start growing black flesh-like growths. If the sword is used for more than 14 or 15 times, then after 5 or 6 months SCP-481-FR would produce a new unique sword designated SCP-481-FR-X out of random materials. When a new instance of SCP-481-FR-X appears then new text engravings depicting Daevite warriors would manifest near the entrance of SCP-481-FR-T, a Daevite temple with a near-infinite interior.
- SCP-535-FR: A humanoid named "Lucius Marcus Crowley, Antipope of the United Satanist Church" who wears medieval Daevite attire and causes any human who touches him to combust. He was elected as the antipope of the Church in order to keep intact the deal between the Vatican and the Devil who as part of the deal had helped the Vatican in destroying the invasion of the Daevites.
- SCP-550-FR: An anomalous and rare condition which causes humans to be unable to speak using any word except for those they had used prior to being affected. This condition was present in the ancient Daevite Empire as several Daevas in conquered lands were also affected.
- SCP-389-DE: A pocket dimension accessible in Germany which contains a Daevite settlement with a sacrificial altar at the center, designated SCP-389-DE-1. If a person holding a knife or a similar object enters the dimension, they would be compelled to make a blood sacrifice and recite a Daevite poem, designated SCP-389-DE-2, as part of a coronation ritual. This ritual served to declare the performer the king of the surrounding land which would grant them thaumaturgic powers, but only those with Daevite blood could finish, else they would kill themselves. This area is the last remnant of a conquered Daevite kingdom that previously resided in the land of Germany.
Trivia[]
- The Daevites are based on the Aztecs, the Druid wicker man practice, the Spartans, the ancient Mongols and their successor Tamerlane, and the mythological Daevas. Daeva is an Old Iranian/Zoroastrian term for demons who serve Angra Mainyu.
- SCP-392 is most likely based on al-Wakwak from Arabic literature, while SCP-4008's name "Wormwood" was probably based on the Wormwood from the Bible. The many-legged creatures in ROUNDERHOUSE's Jade Proposal were based on the Uchchaihshravas.
- The in-universe legend of "The Catching of the Sun" which was about the Daevites attempting to conquer the sun to no avail, was partly inspired by the Chinese legend of Wan Hu.
- Blavena II from "Species of Interest-004" is a reference to Helena Blavatsky, the creator of Theosophy. Arvadicus the Explorer and son of Mangg from SCP-6765 is also a reference to YouTuber The Exploring Series who has extensively covered various SCP works on his channel.
- The book "Empire of Dirt" written by Mikhael Drugov from the tale "The Past Is Never Dead" which had been discredited by the Foundation, was based on the book Chariots of the Gods? and the original theory about the Tartarian Empire.
- The Daevas bear cultural resemblance to the Drows from Dungeons & Dragons and the Men of Leng from the Cthulhu Mythos. Their nature and history might have also been inspired by the novel Ash: A Secret History.
- The series "Kadakúni" which told about the legends of Daevite slaves were inspired by the fan works "How Ekkreth Stole the Stories from Depur" by InvaderTim and "Tatooine Slave Culture" by fialleril. The symbols featured in SCP-2140 are derived from Necrofonticon developed by the Elder Props which is free to download.
- After SCP-2798 ceased functioning, SCP-001 (Kalinin's proposal) manipulated SCP-1981 as it did with other anomalies. In this new version Ronald Reagan raps during the tape and while rapping mentions the Daevites who are among the crowd looking at Reagan.
- 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.
- SCP-2363-A, an ancient immortal humanoid creature resembling an old man, during an interview with the Foundation mentioned encountering the Daevites in the land that would become the state of Wyoming.
- In "A Dysfunctional Heist", during a heist on Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd. MTF Sigma-66 discovered the Daevites' Antique Siberian Warblade which was used as trophy by Genghis Khan after he destroyed them and later fell on the hands of MC&D. Since they had classified the blade as part of a set which included six other swords it is possible that this blade was used by one of Daevon's Seven Swords.
- O5-4 of the O5 Council who remembered the Fifth Occult War from SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal) possessed detailed knowledge of Daevite war tactics.
- In one instance of SCP-2503-A about an attempt at neutralizing SCP-2030, it detailed how the Foundation kept all technology away from the human race for 562 years, which caused humanity to become a monotheistic cult similar to the Daevite civilization and formed a move called "return to Eden".
- Dr. Clef was able to interview a member of the Daevites from an alternate dimension, but the interview went nowhere, since the Daevite was turned into a mindless beast.
- SCP-1140 is the only SCP with the number 140 that is not associated with the Daevites.
- Originally SCP-5140 also didn't have anything to do with the Daevites. The author Rounderhouse used the number as a placeholder for a Daevite SCP that was being written by author aismallard, but she was unable to finish it and let Rounderhouse keep the number. Her SCP would be reworked into SCP-6140, while Rounderhouse connected 5140 with Daevites in the tale "INTERREGNUM: THE BLACKSTAR AT EVEREST".
- After SCP-6767 lost control of his flesh-avatar during an Occult War, the avatar gained a mind of its own and became a Daevite grunt which helped the civilization in their bloody conquests before joining the Roman Empire as Julius Caesar.
- According to a documentary on the Daevites from SCP-2964, a video streaming service known as "Xtreme Videozzz", some events and individuals had occurred following the destruction of the Daevite Empire which hadn't been accounted.
- In the "List of Common Anomalous Misconceptions", the Daevites were omitted from the list because of their nature which made it impossible to ascertain if false beliefs were simple misconceptions or used to be real.
- SCP-1392, a 19th-century scarificator that healed people through exsanguination, was believed to be related to either the Daevites or the Alagaddans, but as Dr. Jocasta Rossi pointed out it didn't have any connection to either group.
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