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As long as so many people believe we are doing terrible things, the monster will continue to believe we are doing terrible things. There is power in symbols, doctor. The old gods know this, and the old gods are bound by it. The Scarlet King does not have eyes to see brutality, does not have ears to hear screams, does not have a nose to smell blood. But the Scarlet King can sense fear, and we have given it fear. Fear alone is all that it ever required.
~ Dr. Oliver Targus about the Scarlet King in "Fear Alone".
I know that the Foundation does not approve of using the term, but it is still the case. The Stag is a god, and it is not a petty local god. It is not one of the mild gods of Earth, or some weaker spirit that is bound by the strength of man’s belief.
~ Consultant ██████ ████████ describing SCP-2845.

The Old Gods are one of the overarching antagonists of the SCP Foundation series. They are a group of mostly malevolent gods who disregard all life except their own, forcing lesser beings such as humanity to worship them, and are responsible for various anomalies plaguing the world. They appear to be more of a grouping rather than an actual race, and each of one of them range in power and threat.

They play major roles in "Verse of an Endless Song", "Competitive Eschatology" and "The Trashfire" canons, and "REDTAPE" series.

Overview[]

(Note: Due to the SCP Foundation-universe having no official canon, the Old Gods are a very loose concept within the mythos, though subtle connections exist in different tales and articles.)

Inspired by the Great Old Ones from H.P. Lovecraft (though also being based on real religions, myths, and folklore), the Old Gods are a loose pantheon of eldritch deities and among the most powerful beings in the multiverse, usually being beyond the comprehension of humans in terms of scale, power or motivation. Despite this, unlike their Lovecraftian inspiration, it appears that humanity can, at least sometimes, hold up against the Old Gods.

An example of this is SCP-2845: The entity came to Earth on a comet and started to cause havoc, but with much effort, the Foundation, with the help of the Global Occult Coalition and at least another occult organization managed to contain the being with a six-step ritual.

The attitude towards humanity also varies from deity to deity. Some seem to have an interest to improve mankind (Mekhane), while others appear indifferent about them (SCP-3000), and others want to conquer and/or destroy all life (Scarlet King).

The Old Ones also have alliances and conflicts among themselves: Mekhane and Yaldabaoth appear to be opposite enemies, while many lesser gods, like Jeser or the Hanged King, serve stronger ones, such as the Scarlet King. It is also speculated that Yaldabaoth for example is the aunt/uncle of the Scarlet King.

It is believed by certain cults, such as Sarkicism and the Chosen of God, that the old gods created the universe. The most well-known gods are actually part of the Low Elder Gods as they are way less powerful than the High Elder Gods, similar in a way to the comparison between the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods, being superior to the Brothers Death which are superior to the Low Elder Gods.

However, in other continuities, the gods are depicted as not being physical ancient beings, but rather platonic ideas that had come to life after humanity began believing in them, similar in a way to Tulpas. These gods in fact inhabit the noosphere, the human collective consciousness, in which they were created as a result of humanity, as seen with the Scarlet King, the Serpent, Mekhane/WAN, SCP-3125 and possibly SCP-682. The gods that appear directly to humans are in fact their physical projections as the gods don't possess a true form and cannot directly interact with the normal physical world, requiring worshipers and/or avatars in order to exist and affect humanity and the world.

Other already existing beings were able to achieve apotheosis and become gods through the belief of others. In one tale, the Hanged King was able to achieve apotheosis only after his Ambassador convinced his entire Kingdom that after his death he would become a god following the numerous sacrifices he did. The same also happened to SCP-3000 which was originally just an abnormally large eel that became the Hindu god Anantashesha after a large number of people believed they were the same being. The Xia Dynasty believed that this was the case for the gods, their worship causing the manifestation of the gods, meaning that humanity and its beliefs are responsible for the creation and the manipulation of the gods, even retroactively changing the past to make those gods appear as if they always were there despite not existing previously.

List of Old Gods[]

Old Gods[]

Referred to as an Old God[]

Associated with other Old Gods[]

  • Pangloss (associated with SCP-2845, the Scarlet King, Mekhane, and Yaldabaoth)
  • Nahash (sibling of Mekhane)
  • Sanna (previous "bride" of the Scarlet King)
  • Saturn Deer (sibling of Pangloss)
  • He Who Walks Beneath Dreams (associated with Pangloss)
  • SCP-4043/SCP-6789 (associated with Mekhane and Yaldabaoth)
  • SCP-2439 (Scarlet King's Mind)
  • SCP-2662 (father shown to be an Old God)
  • SCP-3000 (sibling of the Serpent)
  • SCP-3125 (associated with Mekhane, the Scarlet King, Yaldabaoth)
  • Jalakåra (associated with Mekhane and Yaldabaoth)
  • Djlp
  • Djrr
  • Dm'axx
  • He Who Walks Beneath Dreams
  • Sheogorath
  • Shredded Cabbage of Misfortune
  • Ssvlsrr
  • Voice of Ages
  • Yni-Yni
  • Zinn

Called something similar[]

  • SCP-426 (called as an "Eldritch Horror" known as "I, Who Will Be One With All")
  • SCP-682 (referred to as an Elder God)
  • White Sun (called "some eldritch entity from the 'Outer Dark', whatever that is besides Lovecraft's wet dream.")
  • SCP-2698-A (called a "Great One")
  • SCP-3004-1 (grouped with "The gods of the old world")
  • SCP-3388 (referred to as an Elder God)
  • SCP-4612-A (referred as an ancient creation god)
  • SCP-4950 (referred to as "the Archon Lord")
  • SCP-6091 (referred to as an Elder God)

Theorized[]

Powerful beings serving the Old Gods[]

Organizations & people serving the Old Gods[]

Quotes[]

The Oneiroi who brought dreams to reality could not do their work if the dreams were tainted with what is known as the eldritch, the old ones, and the elder gods. At the same time, they could not fight them or touch them. Instead, they were hapless to watch their precious herd of dreams be eaten by these wolves from the void beyond sleep. They needed people like Nobody, who were perhaps just a little bit eldritch themselves, to play the sheepdog.
~ Nobody in "To The Dreams He Is No Nobody".
The old gods were fickle, twisted, and brutal things. They had no purity in them, and they sought to shape worlds for their own amusement.
They created figures in their image, to serve them, and to venerate them. Hundreds of worlds and realities were created, blooming into existence by the hands of the old gods.
~ The Chosen of God, about the Old Gods.
There is a god, called Anantashesha. A serpent, the king of serpents. Said to lie beneath Vishnu in the cosmos. A six headed snake god, isn't that something? (...) I believe that SCP-3000 is Anantashesha. I believe that this… this aberration, this treachery against cognition, is the result of us being in the presence of a god.
~ Venkat Krishnamoorthy.
It does not think in the way we think. Truth be told, I would not say that it thinks at all. This is an old god, it does not dabble in decisions. Decisions are for creatures who may act erratically, variably, or out of line. A god of this strength simply Is. It is an absolute. It acts as a force.
~ A Foundation consultant to Site Director Dell.
Many gods fell to the service of the King: The grinding machinery of the Factory, who consumed all, leant its mindless strength in blood and steel. The King on the Gallows, He Who Was Hung, tore at the Tree’s knowledge from within. The Prince of Many Faces warped the wills of mortals, and Moloch the Horned One brought forth their shame. Many more whose names have been erased also served. The King’s many mortal servants recreated the establishment of his line in living effigy.
~ From "Dust and Blood".
These gods also bore neither crowns nor facets: they needed no signs of authority, for they were old gods, and they had no facets, for they were immutable. They were few in number compared to the gods who wore facets and the gods who stood before Yesod-With-Faces, but their power filled me with awe.

Speaks-With-Self spoke to me then, and said “Their age has rendered them mighty, but they are separated. See, their Ways are few, and they do not bicker about about like the gods who wear facets and the gods who stand before Yesod-With-Faces. They are quiet gods, slow to act, and distant. Do you understand the meaning of this?”

I answered: “As one can be said to hold his breath in his hands.”
~ From "Vision At Betar".
From the dawn of time, terrible impossibilities have spawned from the darkness between stars, not hating life, simply being indifferent to it. We are as ants to these abominations, these demented Gods. I use this term as this is what they are called in older texts. You will not find any biblical God here. Or perhaps you will, I do not know. The use of ‘Gods’ here is this specific form of creature, born from the primordial chaos of this reality, not just a powerful being. Simply powerful beings do not reach the uncaring depths of cruelty and depravity that the Gods do.

They are so far above us that we are but insects. Accordingly, we shall look as such. In order to gain the forgiveness and favour of the Gods, we must learn to know our place before them.

Each of these things seeks dominion over the laws of reality itself, imposing the nature of their twisted existences upon stars and planets and people. The only answer to this threat? These Gods must be destroyed, the slate wiped clean. We could not do this, by no means, no. But we cannot allow these things to exist. A kingdom cannot have a billion kings. We cannot kill the Gods, no, only a God can kill a God.

We will bring them here and bind them. Bind them until their bloodlust is sated, until all but one is dead. Always a single God remains: the Victor, who returns to whence they came as the only God remaining. But their primordial chaos eventually spawns more Gods, more twisted angels and demons. And so it all comes to pass again. Our vigilance must be constant, for a new Victor must be found again and again. We will leave a mark in creation, but it will fade. It will heal.
~ Reverend Hawshore of the Victory Society.
Our Great Work is incomplete. For as long as the gods remain, we will never be free. Take pity on the Daeva, for they are but shadows upon the wall - harbingers of those that cast its darkness; a darkness we must dispel.

But as long as humanity remains divided, as long as they believe the lies of the gods, we cannot know victory.

We will sail the vast seas; we will march through the highest mountains. We will spread our ways until the whole of the world knows our Truth.
~ Grand Karcist Ion in a Sarkic scripture from "An Anthropological Approach to Sarkicism - Case Study 01: The Vaśńa of Sarvi".
But are the gods not the ones who brought life to this barren soil? Why would they need to replenish that, which they are able to create? Which mother would devour her own children just to fill her belly again? If what you speak is true, then the gods are no gods at all, but mere thieves that steal the lives they claimed to have created!
~ A disillusioned Daeva priest in "The Legend of the Verdant Sea".
Great beasts were bred there, where they fought and bled and consumed one another; great gods were drawn there, licking this wound of the universe like parasites. But an even greater beast had been there, the God Eater, a titan among them, who had lurked there for aeons. A godly beast of enormous size, she had consumed countless, and all that were in her path would find no escape.
~ "The Maker and the Beast" about Yaldabaoth.
It is pretty insane. There are planets and stars like in your universe, but life ain't the same. We've got stuff like planet-sized, star-eating crystal serpents, sick lightning storms that fertilize the ground to create clockwork plants, some chill oceans filled with diamond corals and also winged carnivorous eggs that never stop singing Spice Girls songs. And yeah, there's like a bajillion guys like me. It's hella hard to stand out from the crowd to get someone to summon you and give a sacrifice, but I get by.
~ Zsar Magoth about his homeworld.
The other day, a man walked up to me and talked to me about his one true god. I told him that there was no one true god, for all gods were true if they were believed in. And if there was indeed a one true god, it must be his belief that made it so, and framed the others as fairies and demons. But in truth, gods were no different from demons or fairies, for they were all creatures created by our minds, merely under different titles.
~ A member of the Xia Dynasty in "Theology of a Snake".
Once in the Great Abyss there was a place of joy, where gods gathered and— No, you know what DEER, this is just stupid, I don't even care if those two actually got a room. I'm outta here.
~ Pangloss writing his poem to SCP-2845 in "Not a contest entry, but a crackfic about gods anyways".
Not a single obol. I don't know if you're aware of this, but there's a lot more mortals than there were just a few centuries ago, which means a lot more souls here on the astral plane. Combine your increased population with secularization, and you got a recipe for biblical numbers of displaced souls. Sure it's sad, but it was also bringing property values down, you know? Anyway, bunch of the Old Gods decide to have a gala, raise some funds, and here we are. You don't have to wander limbo for eternity and the Old Gods get a tax write-off.
~ SCP-3806-A.
Gods are the greediest and the most foolish of all beings, and men are descendants of the Dragons. Now that the two Dragons are both gone, the gods will surely feed upon the Nine Children and men. And when the Dragons return, they will surely consume all gods in turn. I only wish to avoid such disaster.
~ Qilin (SCP-2845) explaining to the Faceless God why it was leaving the Great Abyss in "About the Serpent".
Did you know gods can't die? They just… fade, waiting for their time to come again. But they still leave corpses. Something to jam a spigot into and tap into whatever power might be left lying around. The old man must have gotten desperate. Brass wasn't enough, even as big as the corpse he got pulled from is. A Broken universe still yields a Broken power, and a sliver of a fragment isn't worth much of anything. So he tried something a bit more intact, and…
~ Mr. Redd
You must understand, a god isn't… analogous to a human. A god is pure will, and only intersects with our realm when necessary. But he… he did more. He forced his will into this world, made himself flesh. With flesh comes power. But also mortality. I do not know the exact cause, but he was dying.
~ SCP-2970 about the Lord of Endowments' demise.
Surely when one feasts upon mortal flesh, one should in exult in the glory of the self, but when one feasts upon divine flesh, one should exult in the glory of the gods.
~ From "The Parables of Pseudo-Nadox".
Only we understand. The true gods are descending, and only we can see them. Will you join me with them? Will you help me sprout the seeds of the world?
~ A Fifthist in "Theogenesis".
It's just… It's just every time I turn around I'm being sent another cult by my father. He says it's my destiny to have a sex cult like him. It's a family thing. He's a sex god, his father-mother-parent was a blood lord, his-her-its progenitor was the Marrow-Mother… Do you know what it's like growing up in a home with him always bringing his work home? Thanks, Dad, black chicken for dinner again. Thanks, Dad, another dead baby for my birthday. Can you turn the chanting and wailing of souls down, Dad? I'm trying to sleep. Some of us just aren't into kinky shit, right? And he's been shoving it down my throat ever since I was a baby. Doesn't he get it? Why do I have to be like that?
~ SCP-2662 lamenting about his life in "Skeeve Online".
Given the fact that Cétlaidí were upright members of society, one can imagine that the resonance within their rituals that 3004-1 felt were mere happenstance. In my opinion, there is no reason to assume that this entity is at all related to the Cétlaidí and their beliefs. Something in them, I hypothesize, spoke to this thing, and it acclimated itself to their belief system. Think of it as something floating in a place close to ours, maybe layered above or beneath. Perhaps there are many creatures like it there. I doubt that an entity like this would exist alone, although I have no proof of this besides the certitude of my gut. Through these repetitions of behavior, through these beliefs, it was able to act on our plane. And it became what it was molded by.
~ J. Clark, S.J. on the nature of SCP-3004-1.
Kill it? How do you kill a god? You can't kill it, not with all the bombs and bullets in the universe. It is sustained by rituals. Not just rituals involving goats and blood and the full moon. Smaller rituals, smaller sacrifices, made by everyday people. Even those that your Foundation performs, to keep the dark things hidden away. That's how you kill it. You stop performing rituals, you stop making sacrifices, and The One Who Knows Silence In The Earth will disappear. Just like that.
~ Anna Christian on SCP-4971-▽.
Think about how many people go through. Two months. Five people per girl. So in the beginning, in 1989, that would be 30 people per two-month period. 360 people per year walking away with the red right hand of god on their shoulder. In less than 3 years, 1,000 people are changed. The will of a god is the control of the worshipper, and it’s a funny thing, Montauk, because what do you do? What does it mean to be controlled by fear? Do you cure yourself of it? Do you learn to live alongside it? Do you kill yourself? Do you strive to live? How do you free yourself from the Montauk procedure; how do you kill a god?
~ Lady Agora about Procedure 110-Montauk.
And Mathisi said, I come seeking wisdom from thee, For I hail from afar, and I have seen that which would make men tremble. Yea, I have even seen those things which men would call Gods, for they are truly mighty. But what sayest thou? For what thou would call the false Gods of men, they are indeed powerful, and they speaketh with a voice of thunder, but you claim your Father to speak with a calm and quiet voice. And their Gods are cruel, but you claim your Father to be a God of love. And their Gods are made from stone, and metal, and are of curious workmanship, yet your Father takes the form of man.
~ Mathisi to Jesus Christ in an excerpt from the Horizon Initiative's "The Book Of Mathisi, Chapter 1: The Parable Of The Three Princes".
His exact words were ‘Titans birthed from the Primordial Chaos’. I think that means anything on par with Mekhane, Yaldabaoth, the Scarlet King, gods like those.
~ Iris Dark when questioned what type of Old Gods she was referring to in "Freaks, Friends and Fiends".
But wait, you might be thinking, what happened before that? The short answer is, we don't know. Human beings are the only creatures on this planet that have a written record of their history that we can translate over long periods of time, so anything else that existed at the time is lost to us, in one way or another. But there were other beings in existence back then, and this is when I need to tell you to take my hand and step blindly off the cliff, because we need to have a discussion about gods. Yes, gods exist — if working for the Foundation had not yet convinced you of this, trust my words now. They exist, and they are powerful, and their actions are felt in our daily lives even now.
~ Dir. Malthus when discussing about the ancient history revolving around SCP-6666.
I would love to tell you that all of this was because your little blue planet was of grave importance, that these primordial beings came here because they revered or reviled your existence. But it's not. It's because they fear us, even in our fragmented and bound state, they fear what we are, they fear what we can do. And they are right to be afraid, because we will personally savage and grind the nine who bound us in those cursed chains into oblivion.
~ SCP-6700-04 explaining why she and the other gods chose to go to Earth.
The “Divinity” Hypothesis is that an extra-extradimensional entity (entities?) of great power is trying to slip into our reality and Fifthism is this entity’s attempt to wrest control of this reality from the powers that currently lay claim to it.

This hypothesis is oddly comforting to me. Dark gods are terrible indeed, but we already have many of those who lay claim to the multiverse. They will not give up their claims to the Five Terrors without a fight.

Who will win and whether anyone will survive the crossfire… Well, let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.
~ The Fifth Wandsman of Chelon on Fifthism in "A Pathetic Attempt to Explain Fifthism".
When we talk about gods in the Foundation, we talk about the Broken God, or the God of Flesh, or the God of Dreams. Gods of ideas, these aspects of one thing or another. The Broken God is a god of Order, the Flesh God is a god of Fertility, and so on. Then there are creator gods, and gods of death. So on and so forth, an endless parade of divinity.
~ Unknown Overseer when talking about SCP-5935-1.
Some people say that the gods put us here.

Others say that the gods merely allowed us to put ourselves here.

But really, what about it mattered? Between the shouts of strangers and whispers of the ones I work alongside, I didn't have time to bring up the new perspective I had.

The perspective that the gods were built to tear us down.
~ A Sarkite in "The Great Cult Escape".
Gods exist because we believe in them, and to make us believe in them. The very nature of our relationship with the divine is reciprocal: we create beings of parahuman ability, whom we then elevate beyond ourselves and imbue with significance; these beings, in turn, rely on this recognition to define the scope and breadth of their influence and existence.
~ John Blake in his Journal of Tactical Theology from SCP-6659.
And before the Old Gods fought their war and broke the sky
And laid the foundations for the next civilizations of the earth
There were once four. Four gods and their four cities
But of the fourth was committed an act of heresy
In raw defiance of the oldest laws that underpin our world
And as the world came apart, his brethren acted
They cast out their fourth and labeled him as unclean
The Abominate, the Wretch, the First Apostate
He fell from the heavens and landed deep in the waters of the West
Drowning while the war in the heavens raged on unabated.
~ A Mekhanite poem about the Black Moon in "INTERREGNUM: THE BLACKSTAR AT AMONI-RAM".
There’s an old saying in the Foundation: “If you can kill it, it’s not a god.” Cute, right? Not really. The Department of Tactical Theology has struggled with the exact parameters of “god” since their inception, but even they can’t change the fact that a god is a human creation. A god is a projection of man; it's given life and form through the strength of the collective, universal force of belief. And if it can be made by man, we can destroy it, too. Of course, not every god can be killed, and even if it can, it won’t be easy.
~ Sovent-Anth of MTF Kairos-01 in "DEICIDE".
Gods are the forces of the Cosmos given thought and will. They are born from it, made from the very fabric of existence. From their own flesh, they build worlds and seed life. They were here when Creation started, and they will guide it until its end, when only the All-Death remains. As such, trying to kill them is like trying to kill gravity, or fire, or war or philosophy. Yes, they can be bound, banished and defeated. Their temples can be ransacked, their followers exterminated, and their avatars destroyed. They can be cast down and their spirit sent tumbling into the Halls of Death. Yet the gods always return. It may take them millennia, even eons, but they will always rise from the Pit and continue to lord over Creation. Such is the nature of all gods: deathless patrons and guardians, protectors and lawmakers.
~ Viai Somn in the Wanderer's Library's "On the Gods of Amvat".
Despite the name, gods can die. A better name for them might be archetype manifestations, but it’s too bloody long. Gods die when everything they stood for vanishes. Gods are tied both to the culture that venerated them (if one did- if one didn’t they’re much less powerful without the link to the ideals of a human culture with a massive impact) and to what they were the archetype of.
~ From the Wanderer's Library's "And I Was Present At The Death Of A God".
Ireta K'éri was just a normal town. When they found themselves besieged by drug gangs and corrupt officers they had no way of resisting. Outgunned and outmatched they would have soon become another ghost town. One among many. But the memory of the Hot Lands goes back a long time. The people of Ireta K'éri decided it was time for remembrance. The Church had forbidden them to commune again with the Old Gods, but why should they listen to a Church that would not move a finger to protect them? So they dug the old statues and rebuilt the ancient temples. They offered maize, cacao, and even their own blood to the forgotten altars. And soon the magic of the Old Ways was alive in the Hot Lands again. The primordial fire of Curicaueri gave the people of Ireta K'éri the power to fight back. And for a time, their land was free.
~ The Fifth Wandsman of Elysium in "A Wandsman in the Navel of the Moon".
Long and far from here, before the beginning
The builder of the father of old gods
The womb-forge of the unstruck spark
life was made

Soft and hard, wet and dry
it was made in the way of clay and stone
it pleased the beginner-of-beginnings
for a time

in the way of woman and man, of sun and moon
anger bled and rusted into the world
Soon great eyes and thunder rolled, and hate
ate the world

Seas of blood and death, skies of smoke and poison
death bloomed and swallowed all
stillness ruled all the land and sky and water
yet life endured

we speak to you now, the children that will be far and away
know there is no truth, and the gods lie
all that is, was, or will ever be is but maggots upon
the dead God
~ A tablet found within SCP-7980.
A god has desires. Take advantage of them.
A god will only listen when they're staring down a rifle's barrel.
A god bound by chains will not end the world.
A god not believed in cannot fight back.
A god feeds on fear. Make sure you have hope.
A god cannot stay, even if they ask nicely.
A god can easily put you in checkmate. Always hold a match, so you can light the board on fire.
A god is like foreign bacteria. Our world is not used to its presence, and not ready to handle it.
A god will want to make its presence known. Do not let it.
A god can end the world. Don't let that happen.
~ Advices in "How to Summon A God Safely".
Consider that these two Deities are real. Then They would not, as the Mekhanite claims, be in Opposition.

I can imagine these two as an ideal partnership, more ideal than the current institution of Marriage… for we may define the Social Spheres for the Man and the Woman, but we know that these are imperfect… the Woman is in charge of child-rearing, the Man in charge of hard labour and serving as bread-winner, but so doing, the Man brings home evils such as Alcoholism into the Woman's sphere, and the Woman is incapable of properly raising a son in the image of a Man… We must admit our society is unfitting for manly women and womanly men…
~ Excerpt about Mekhane's and Yaldabaoth's relationship from "HIST.327: Comparative Mythology of Mekhanism and Nälkä".
That's when they released the truth. Their siblings. The Behemoths. They were not the rulers of the realms. They were nothing but vandals. Destroyers. Timewasters. Hidden behind their ridiculous philosophy and sense of nobility, they were just monsters. And Nahash was a monster themselves. The lives they had ruled, ruined and twisted were different. They saw the realms as a place to explore. A place to learn. A place to create. Even if they're time was short or often ill-spent, it had more purpose than any Behemoth.
~ Nahash's inner monologue in "History of Behemoths"

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  • Much like some mythologies, the gods are described as transcending gender, being neither male nor female, but in most cases have been referred to using both male and female pronouns and appearing as androgynous. This can be seen with Mekhane, Yaldabaoth, the Serpent, and other gods, who have been referred to as both male and female and often display both characteristics. When he first met the Serpent, the Scarlet King took the appearance of a little girl.
    • This could be because since the gods are basically ideas shaped by human belief, they often appear in different genders as some people believe the gods are the opposite gender.
  • Other deities or god-like beings that have questionable affiliation with the Old Gods include: Srqnabotf, the Eucestodel, Eov-leusan, the Judge of sea and river, Myran-leusan, Nesren-leusan, Rakmou-leusan, SCP-426, SCP-582, SCP-1108, SCP-1348, SCP-1541-1, SCP-1843, SCP-1902, SCP-2004, SCP-2257, SCP-2439, SCP-2670, SCP-2788, SCP-2950, SCP-2992-1, SCP-3473, SCP-3547, SCP-3883, SCP-4511, Sri Ahni, Taros'zedbreet, the Tethyans, Tree Critter, Uron-leusan, Yorun-leusan, Zargoth, Zeyu-leusan, and other gods from differing mythologies.
  • It is believed that a lot of the Old Gods come from a place that represents a sort of "nothing", the Scarlet King came from the "deep waters of the Darkness Below and the vaults of Darkness Above", Pangloss and Saturn Deer came from a great Nothingness, Yaldabaoth and Mekhanite came from the Great Abyss or the Void outside the Multiverse and Ma'tol and Xiolt-la came from Mother Void.
  • In "The Leak" forum thread SCP-1741 was described as a reality show created by the elder gods.
  • There are other beings created out the belief of humanity besides the gods, some of which include SCP-2615-A, djinn, SCP-4736, Sloth's Pit's Legends among others.
  • Goldbaker-Reinz Insurance Group Ltd. didn't cover damages the Private Military Companies received during wars with the Old Gods.

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Organizations
Major Organizations
Ambrose RestaurantsAnderson RoboticsArcadiaAre We Cool Yet?Black QueenChaos InsurgencyChicago SpiritChildren of the Scarlet KingChurch of the Broken GodDaevitesThe FactoryFifth ChurchGamers Against WeedGlobal Occult CoalitionGreazeburger IncorporatedGRU Division "P"Herman Fuller's Circus of the DisquietingImperial Japanese Anomalous Matters Examination AgencyJust Girly ThingsMarshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd.Office for the Reclamation of Islamic ArtifactsSAPPHIRESarkicism (Adytum's Wake, Church of the Eternal Mother, Church of the Red Harvest, The Hunter's Black Lodge)SCP Foundation (O5 Council)Serpent's HandTotleighSoftValravn CorporationVikander-Kneed Technical Media

Minor/Recurring Organizations
Accelerate the FutureAhnenerbe ObskurakorpsBrazen HeartCowboysChildren of the TorchChosen of GodCrystal Elms ProductionsFoundation Elimination CoalitionGiftschreiberHANSARPHouse of ApollyonHouse of StarsLight Courier EnterprisesMyrmidon InternationalPENTAGRAMProponents of Paranormal RightsPokémon CompanySecond Haptic AssemblySin NombreSugarcomb ConfectionerySyncope SymphonyTwelve StarsWesthead MediaY.W.T.G.T.H.F.T.

International Organizations
AnnihilismHiveJapan Organisms Improvement and Creation LaboratoryMeat CircusP.O.R.A.SAPPHIRE

Safe SCPs
Bobble the ClownSCP-072SCP-245SCP-343SCP-432-1SCP-553SCP-695SCP-875-1SCP-875-3SCP-984-1SCP-1049SCP-1285-3SCP-1312-1SCP-1312-2SCP-1357-ASCP-1599SCP-1646-1SCP-1757-ASCP-1888-2SCP-2069SCP-2851-1SCP-3148SCP-4338SCP-4812-SSCP-4950SCP-5000-█SCP-(5.782×10⁵⁴)-567SCP-5705-1Suburb SlasherSCP-6789SCP-6977SCP-7091-1SCP-7898

Euclid SCPs
SCP-023SCP-031SCP-046-1SCP-049SCP-071SCP-075SCP-079SCP-080SCP-082SCP-087-1SCP-096SCP-136-2SCP-137SCP-153SCP-157SCP-173SCP-178-1SCP-230SCP-277-R█SCP-286-1SCP-286-2SCP-303SCP-312SCP-333-CSCP-372SCP-401SCP-428SCP-439SCP-457SCP-511SCP-513-1SCP-526-2SCP-542SCP-548SCP-567-9SCP-569SCP-617SCP-625SCP-631SCP-647SCP-650SCP-666-1SCP-681SCP-693SCP-701-1SCP-735SCP-745SCP-747SCP-767-15SCP-777-1SCP-797SCP-811SCP-844SCP-847SCP-899SCP-924SCP-930 EntitySCP-932SCP-956SCP-965SCP-966SCP-973-2SCP-974SCP-1051SCP-1111-1SCP-1120SCP-1145SCP-1299-1SCP-1316SCP-1337SCP-1451SCP-1471-ASCP-1499-1SCP-1701SCP-1749-2SCP-1897SCP-1913SCP-1919-1SCP-1972-BSCP-2014SCP-2059SCP-2254SCP-2315-1SCP-2363-ASCP-2396-BSCP-2401-AlphaSCP-2419-ASCP-2424SCP-2427-3SCP-2522SCP-2611-1SCP-2901SCP-2940-BSCP-2999SCP-3008-2SCP-3019-ASCP-3114SCP-3166SCP-3280SCP-3388SCP-3428SCP-3631-1SCP-3786SCP-3785-1SCP-3838-8SCP-3860SCP-4162SCP-4166-2SCP-4187-1SCP-4231-ASCP-4310SCP-4434SCP-4670SCP-4680SCP-4812-ESCP-4924-ASCP-4959 (SCP-4959-A)SCP-4975SCP-5045-1SCP-5935-1SCP-6076SCP-6198SCP-6618-ASCP-6661SCP-6979SCP-7533SCP-7725-CSCP-7785SCP-7840SCP-7983

Keter SCPs
Past and FutureThe PrototypeSCP-017SCP-019-2SCP-029SCP-035SCP-058SCP-060-AlphaSCP-076-2SCP-090SCP-106SCP-140-ASCP-165SCP-204-1SCP-231-1SCP-280SCP-307SCP-352SCP-354 EntitiesSCP-363SCP-339SCP-427-1SCP-435-2SCP-469SCP-575SCP-582SCP-589SCP-610SCP-682SCP-718SCP-752-1SCP-783SCP-823SCP-939SCP-940SCP-953SCP-968SCP-1000SCP-1048 (SCP-1048 Duplicates)SCP-1128SCP-1155SCP-1322-ASCP-1368-1SCP-1447-1SCP-1500SCP-1736SCP-1739SCP-1765SCP-1788-1SCP-1790SCP-1984-01SCP-2030-1SCP-2075SCP-2191-1SCP-2191-2SCP-2191-3SCP-2200-2SCP-2316 EntitySCP-2317-KSCP-2399SCP-2385SCP-2408-4SCP-2439SCP-2440SCP-2490SCP-2521SCP-2747SCP-2774-ASCP-2803-ASCP-2807SCP-2846-ASCP-2852SCP-2863SCP-2877SCP-2935 EntitySCP-2950SCP-3002SCP-3003-2SCP-3004-1SCP-3007 EntitySCP-3033SCP-3125SCP-3167SCP-3199SCP-3288 (Emperor Maximilian)SCP-3333-1SCP-3340SCP-3456SCP-3503SCP-3643SCP-3799SCP-3760SCP-3997SCP-4105-BSCP-4205SCP-4290SCP-4293SCP-4315-2SCP-4335SCP-4666SCP-4715SCP-4812-KSCP-4833SCP-4840-BSCP-4856SCP-4885SCP-4886SCP-4910SCP-4947SCP-5049-ASCP-5167SCP-5172SCP-5267-ASCP-5284SCP-5423SCP-5598SCP-5653SCP-5659SCP-5683SCP-5761-1SCP-6004SCP-6013SCP-6096SCP-6427SCP-6455SCP-6596SCP-6789SCP-6810SCP-7219SCP-7380SCP-7436SCP-7569SCP-7776-ASCP-7932

Apollyon SCPs
When Day BreaksSCP-3999SCP-6820-ASCP-7853

Thaumiel SCPs
SCP-122-2SCP-3000SCP-4884SCP-5001-A

Esoteric SCPs
SCP-UBUSCP-2085-1SCP-2744SCP-2845SCP-3396SCP-3700-2SCP-3895SCP-4444SCP-4971-▽SCP-5004-ASCP-5034SCP-5651-1SCP-5346 EntitySCP-INTEGERSCP-6004SCP-6061-1SCP-6666SCP-6747-CSCP-6987SCP-7450SCP-7660

Explained SCPs
SCP-1548-EXSCP-1933-EXSCP-5025-1

Neutralized/Decommissioned SCPs
SCP-083-DSCP-531-DSCP-1682SCP-2480-1SCP-3999SCP-4290SCP-5002SCP-5277SCP-5281-DSCP-5739SCP-6097SCP-6373SCP-6624-1SCP-6624-2SCP-6624-3SCP-7115-ASCP-7404

Joke SCPs
SCP-049-JSCP-729-JSCP-777-JSCP-900-JSCP-1344-JSCP-2103-J

International SCPs
Spanish Branch
SCP-ES-045SCP-ES-081SCP-ES-113SCP-ES-138SCP-ES-150SCP-ES-156SCP-ES-156-1SCP-ES-266

French Branch
SCP-006-FRSCP-023-FRSCP-025-FRSCP-054-FRSCP-060-FRSCP-075-FRSCP-089-FRSCP-096-FRSCP-109-FRSCP-174-FRSCP-181-FRSCP-218-FR

German Branch
SCP-069-DESCP-077-DESCP-149-DE-A

Italian Branch
SCP-013-ITSCP-015-ITSCP-022-ITSCP-055-IT

Japanese Branch
SakuranushiSCP-███-JPSCP-030-JPSCP-036-JPSCP-070-JPSCP-173-JPSCP-192-JP-1SCP-268-JPSCP-272-JP-2SCP-444-JPSCP-489-JPSCP-835-JPSCP-910-JPSCP-1326-JP-K

Korean Branch
SCP-056-KOSCP-444-KO-5SCP-750-KO

Russian Branch
SCP-1026-RUSCP-1030-RU EntitiesSCP-1109-RU

Chinese Branch
SCP-CN-801SCP-CN-1101

Traditional Chinese Branch
SCP-ZH-111SCP-ZH-282SCP-ZH-613

Portuguese Branch
SCP-050-PTSCP-101-PT-6

Ukrainian Branch
SCP-086-UASCP-089-UA

SCP-001 Proposals
SCP-001 (The Council)SCP-001 (The Database)SCP-001 (Atonement)SCP-001 (Past and Future) (The Man at the Threshold)SCP-001 (The Prototype)SCP-001 (The Factory)SCP-001 (The Scarlet King)SCP-001 (The Way It Ends)SCP-001 (The Black Moon)SCP-001-A1 (The Preserver)SCP-001 (When Day Breaks) (SCP-001-A)

Canonical SCP Beings
AbsenceAdam el AsemAlagaddansAnnouncerApakhtAuthorsBlinkersBrothers DeathChildren of the NightEndFaeriesHe-Who-Made-DarkHe-Who-Made-LightMalidramagiuanNeon GodNeverwerePattern ScreamersQueen MabSCP-5000-█StridersStudio GuardiansTherionUnclean

Old Gods
Black MoonCarnegiasCrocosquidThe FactoryHanged KingHe Who Walks Beneath DreamsHr'sthnpolJeserLord GoranMa'tolMolochSaturn DeerScarlet KingSCP-682SCP-2845SCP-3000SCP-3004-1SCP-4315-2SCP-4947SCP-4950SCP-4971-▽TeranThothTitaniaViolet QueenVerdant MageVoruteutXiolt-laYaldabaothZsar Magoth

Old Gods' Servants
Adytum's Wake (Cornelius P. Bodfel III)Ambassador of AlagaddaArchonsBLACKSTARBobble the ClownChosen of GodChildren of the Scarlet King (Elder Rockwell, John Yttoric)Church of the Broken God (Robert Bumaro, Trunnion, Hedwig)Daevites (Orvo, Lror, Ydax)Fifth Church (Celebration 'Big Cheese' Horace)Grand Karcist IonJames AndersonMr. ReddSCP-035SCP-076-2SCP-096SCP-2852SCP-3456SCP-3700-2SCP-3785-1SCP-4231-A

Personages
Adam el AsemBlack QueenCalvin LucienCarl FraserCornelius P. Bodfel IIICynthia CordierD-3826D-4986D-7294dadoDaniel DeVornDr. DämmerDr. Elliott EmersonDr. Jack BrightDr. Madison CraggsDr. WDraga NegrescuEdwin FalkirkElijahElizabeth CrockerEnigmaENTITY-NaClOEvelyn MayEzekiel ClarkFather PatGeneral BoweGrand Karcist IonHedwigHerman FullerIris DarkJames AndersonJames FranklinJean Durand and Mátyás NemeşJoseph LowryKeeLeeKonrad WeissLaurence MichaudLeonid ChernoffLeopold ILovataarMadeleine von SchaefferMarshall Ford EverettMavra IsimeriaMilo IgorvichMikkel BorovMr. ReddMr. NightNadoxO5-0OrokOtari IosavaParis KiranPico WilsonPit SlothRandolph MetzgerRasmin YelkovRichard ChappellRobert BumaroRobert GatesRuprecht CartetRuiz DuchampRyoto HishakakuSaarnSamuel DecardSCP-2089-1's CaptorSerViper1995Simon OswaltSkitter MarshallSmiling ManThomas GrahamTravelerTrunnionUIU 1933-001Vincent Anderson

SCPs in Video Games
When Day BreaksSCP-035SCP-049SCP-079SCP-087-1SCP-087-B EntitiesSCP-096SCP-106SCP-173SCP-178-1SCP-372SCP-513-1SCP-553SCP-682SCP-735SCP-860-2SCP-939SCP-966SCP-1026-RUSCP-1048SCP-1048 DuplicatesSCP-1499-1SCP-3008-2SCP-XXXX

Disambiguation Pages
SCPSCP-001SCP-087

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