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Welcome, child.
You may be wondering why I found you and are talking to you alone. Maybe you are thinking if you have broken the school rules, or if you did not perform well enough in your courses. You may be feeling nervous as if a catastrophe is on its way. Please relax, I assure you that none of the above will happen. I came to find you explicitly for your unworldly thoughts.
No, no, please sit down, I am not here to make you pay for anything. Here, let me tell you a story first, one that has never been recorded before.
There was once such a group of people with obliviated heritages, who walked among the countrysides, the villages and the ruins, wielding ancient mystique to save the poor that were suffering from diseases. But the strength of human is limited, while the desire of human is infinite. At the time there was the outbreak of witch-hunt movements, and some that were not treated have reported them to the Inquisition out of envy. Some thought they did nothing wrong, made their utmost efforts to fight for themselves, and then were burnt to death. Some had overestimated their own abilities, and when the inquisitors came they have already exhausted the last of their strength, they can only watch themselves being put on the stake. For the remaining……they fled.
But they had not forgotten that they shouldered the ideology of saving the citizens. They traveled around the world, and recorded all that they have experienced on their journey. Ceaselessly there were people being persecuted to death on their way to pursuing their dreams, and ceaselessly there were people giving up as the ideals were too hard to achieve. Gradually they started to doubt themselves, were they the ones who were wrong?
So what about you? Have you once thought of helping the people, saving the people, but only to find out that the challenges confronting you were far more than what you were able to do? Have you once thought of giving in, or dreamt of suddenly gaining great powers to clear all the obstacles in front of you? Have you ever wondered whether what you entertained was wrong and even wanted to forget these ideas?
They had been in exactly the situation as you. But finally they have realized the truth:
Depending only on the themselves, it would be impossible to save the people. Neither depending only on the people themselves could. And what's more, people did not necessarily want to be saved. Most of them only wanted sustenance, one that can relief them from the painful reality.
Therefore they have changed their minds. They have decided to strive for "ending all sufferings". And in order to commemorate the change, they reconstituted a secret association called "Nirvana", which not only symbolizes the rebirth of their hearts, but also symbolized their dreams of that one day the human society can be reborn.
Perhaps you have already guessed it, I am a part of this organization. We have already walked this path together for 300 years to try achieving this target, and we need more to join our line, strengthening our power.
That is all I have to say. Maybe you will feel shocked, afraid, disquieted or regretful. If you want to forget all these you have heard, here is a glass of water, drink it and you can return to normal campus life, and I will still be your Professor Mu.
It looks like that you have no regrets. Welcome, welcome to the family of Nirvana. I am Muralis, or code name Quadrans Muralis if you want, subordinated to the Mount Council. We will walk the path together in future days.
Nirvana (GOI-8436) is a secret organization that is formed by a group of people with same views and possibly similar experiences. Its members generally think of the human society as filled with injustice and ignorance, and therefore put their hopes on Nibel, wanting to change human society with the Nibel and to reintroduce sincerity and peace to it.
For this particular purpose, the anomalous items produced by Nirvana, the Nibel, such as SCP-CN-026, usually carries slight cognitohazard. The affected will change their mind, and actively attempt to change themselves and everything around them, and most importantly, staunch spiritual supports created by Nirvana. Nirvana hoped to find those of the same ideology as them, to increase their influential power, and finally achieving the target of reforming human society.
The current number of members of Nirvana remains unknown. The core members refer to each other with code names of constellation among themselves. For now Nirvana does not have any conflict of interest with the Foundation or other groups of interest, and has remained neutral. Despite this, there are speculations that multiple members of the Foundation and other groups of interest are affiliated to the core of Nirvana, therefore Foundation personnel should hold a cautious attitude towards Nirvana.
The aim of Nirvana is "To end all sufferings", and it will try achieving its aim through any means possible. Due to different kinds of means used by its members, they are mainly divided into four factions:
The Mount Council/Mount:
Members from the Mount Council mostly hope to alter the world by subtle impacts. They prefer to use Nibel rather than create to help them enter the upper class and replace "those dogs in the manger", so that they could pave the way for striving the religion of the Nirvana.
Known members of the Mount Council
Muralis, also known as the Quadrans Muralis, is an old professor of honor and integrity in the ██████ University, and also an authority of ████, who has numerous students. Under his influence, part of his students become members of Nirvana or supports Nirvana.
Lyra, graduated from ██████ University, and also a researcher of ████, student of Muralis. He is the youngest Constellation of the Mount Council, and gain his rights by succeeding the job of former Lyra and being trained by Muralis. Nowadays he has joined the Chinese Branch of SCP Foundation by legal ways, and takes advantage of Foundation actions to assist other Nirvana members, but till now he has never been discovered by Foundation.
Auriga, one of the leaders of the Mount Council, and one of the few humans among the seniors of Nirvana. Despite this his have can be traced back to when Draco appeared. There are rumors that he lived by his mannequins that not only uses thaumatology, but also modern technology. Through the informatics net formed by his mannequins he have provided assistance for other organizations, and seek return when necessary, but this act has caused criticism against him. In spite of this, in countless times of conflict between Nirvana and the Foundation against GOC, these actions have prevented Nirvana from suffering heavy losses, and this has made other leaders to turn a blind eye on his acts.
The Twilight Library/Dusk:
The Twilight Library is the oldest and the most influential faction. Technology for creating Nibels is mostly from the paranormal technology handled by Library members.
Known members of the Twilight Library
Indus is the leader of the Twilight Library and one of the initiators of Nirvana, whose age can no longer be determined. He has led members of the Twilight Library for numerous paranormal researches, and has provided plenty of Nibels for Nirvana.
The Secular Watcher/Zephyr:
The Secular Watcher is the most dangerous and mysterious faction of all, even other factions know little about them. A verified fact is that their actions are mostly random, and achieve their goal by silently execute others - erase the human pain forever.
Throughout all of one's life, alive and they will be lustful, lustful and they will be in pain. Only death can get rid of it, and reach the other side of ever joy.
- Eridanus, member of the Secular Watcher
Known members of the Secular Watcher
Eridanus, is one of the few open-door members of the Secular Watcher. She will usually attend those where needs the Secular Watcher to intervene, as the liaison of the Secular Watcher.
Telescopium, who was given the title of "the Grand Watcher" as the leader of the Secular Watcher, always has a mask on when meeting strangers, and the mask will only be taken off when he is having a meeting with other Constellations. He always has a badge of the Grand Watcher pinned, where a shield standing both for the clairvoyant and the eye of Medusa was painted.
Columba, a new member of the Secular Watcher. From unreliable sources, this person is a student of Eridanus, and that Eridanus himself is worried about this ditzy student. But luckily Columba had seemingly outstanding performances in all-round evaluation, and she is concealed at the Chinese Branch of SCP Foundation under the identity of "Researcher Gardenia" to provide necessary assistance to Nirvana's operations. Therefore when Columba have caused a big trouble there would always be seniors to clean up the mess.
Libra, one of the Secular Watcher, previously a leader, and also the tutor of Triangulum and Eridanus. But after Triangulum and Eridanus are good enough on their own, he has drawn back from the front. Despite this the two and other members often discussed issues with him and seek solutions to their problems from him. It is said that he has disguised to be a priest in a church for the rest of his life.
The Stream Troupe/Stream:
Members from the Stream Troupe was gentler than other factions. They believe that in order to alter the human society, they should begin with the masses. The Stream Troupe rarely stay at one place. They travel around and use Nibel to hlep the masses, and spread the ideal of Nirvana to them.
Known members of the Stream Troupe
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The Core members of Nirvana use Constellations as their code name, but it isn't necessary to be restricted to modern 88 Constellations. Instead, you can choose those abandoned Constellations as the code name, such as Cerberus, Felis, Volucres, and so on.
Additionally, there are many peripheral members in Nirvana, and their code name could be casually chosen.
As the setting is in nascent form, there're many spaces for Nirvana members. It is very much welcomed if you can fill the list above after writing tales about Nirvana.
Tomes of Twilight
- The Way of Thorns by Izsac
- Star Word by Altale
- Two Faces by TingdingIC
- Salvia japonica Thunb by lazaru
- Who am I by Izsac
Verses of Streams
- The Tree to the Another Side by Zi_Xiao_Nao
Mount Assemblies
Other related stories
- Seek Soul by M Element
- Words of the Secular Watcher by Um4vm06
- About The Order of Þrumuveður by Izsac
- Divergence by Izsac
- A Painful Trip by Izsac
- On the Train by Tictoc
- GOI Statement by Izsac
- The Crystal Tear by Izsac
- 错觉 by Nobel
- SCP-CN-026 by Izsac
- SCP-CN-054 by Izsac
- SCP-CN-114 by M Element
- SCP-CN-120 by M Element
- SCP-CN-777 by SkyNightLight
Background settings
Once, this world belonged to the anomalous. They called themselves God, Celestial, Buddha, and so on. They relied on their anomalies to rule human, and led human through the age of obscurant. However, as the power and the societal consciousness of human have awakened, and the anomalous have declined, human came up to be the ruler of this world. Finally, they raised their swords against the anomalous...
It was a catastrophe for hundreds of years. People could accuse their friends and family of devil by a single rumor. People could fanatically burn their friends and family to death only because of a minor difference. Numerous anomalies were killed by human, but those died more were human themselves. The age of anomalies was gone, followed by the age of science.
Nowadays, humans and science have dominate this world, and embark on controlling or ejecting the rest as anomalies. What should those dying anomalous entities do in the face of such situation? Should they accept the destiny of being controlled and ejected? Or look for ways to equally coexist with human? Or...to rise up?
Groups of Interest
Wherever we are, whichever path we have chosen, we only have one goal, which is to end all sufferings.
Nirvana: Idealists. They think that this world has already experienced too much pain, and even when the era of anomalies have past, humans are still addicted killing one another. Perhaps, the cooperation between anomalies and humans of equivalent status may end this all?
The Order of Þrumuveður: The extremists. An anomalous group that was established along with Nirvana during the witch hunt. They think the world without anomalies as administrators will be perished, and only by regaining the past honor can this all be ended. The Thrumuvethur is heavily damaged in the Second World War, and their former leader Draco's whereabouts is a mystery. The successor Dorado have established the Storm Investments Ltd., and hoped to strengthen themselves economically, and at the same time finding Draco through international human resources.
SCP Foundation: Rationalists. They think anomalies are threats to the stability of human society, therefore should be under control. One of the leading powers of the human camp, representing scientists.
Global Occult Coalition: A classic example of tradition human minds. They think anomalies are enemies of human and should be eradicated. One of the leading powers of the human camp, representing governments.
Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd.: Opportunists. They think the ideal state for anomalies is to become commodity without self consciousness.
Chaos Insurgency: A friendly organisation to the Thrumuvethur, committed to breaking of the curtains and reforming of societal orders.
Vatican Holy Office for Secrets and Prophecies (Secretorum Camerus Prophetias): The highest human organization for supervision of anomalies during the Middle Ages in Europe, and the initiator of witch-hunt. It was heavily damaged by the Thrumuvethur at the late stages of witch-hunt that it had retreated to behind the scenes, and finally incorporated into the Foundation.
Wanderers' Library: The Thrumuvethur has once maintained a good relationship with the Wanderers' Library. But after the disappearance of Draco, Hercules leading the Thrumuvethur and the Wanderers' Library had a division concerning the issues about ordinary human, causing their total hostility towards each other during the Seventh Occult War, though there were some members of the Wanderers' Library that sympathized of what had happened to the Thrumuvethur. Nirvana, on the other hand, has been maintaining good relationship with the Wanderers' Library, and the Wanderers' Library has been handing resources gained from the Thrumuvethur during war to Nirvana after an agreement was made.
Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting: A friendly group towards Nirvana, finding talented anomalous humans across the globe, and strives to change the attitude and acceptance of normal humans towards anomalies by different performances by anomalies.
Manna Charitable Foundation: They happen to hold the same view and stance as Nirvana, but since the Manna Charitable Foundation has distributed anomalous items without strictly studying their long term effects, and have caused large amount of casualties, currently Nirvana will send some of its members to the Manna Charitable Foundation for guidance on their jobs irregularly. Nirvana will also use the Manna Charitable Foundation to promote its ideologies.
The position of other Groups of Interests within this canon are to be supplemented. (Perhaps someone might volunteer to add to the list?)
Reminders
- Once you have successfully posted a tale under the Nirvana canon, add the Nirvana tag for the document, and depending on the type of document add scp, tale or goi-format tag, and decide if Nirvana theme should be included (see the following for how). Then click "+ Options" at the lower right corner of the page, find "Parent", enter "nirvana-hub" and save.
- Finally, edit this page and put the document you have created under the corresponding index, finished!
Nirvana documentation formats
Members of Nirvana will sometimes incorporate their interpretations of ideologies into their creations. According to the content, these creations are roughly divided into the Tomes of Twilight, mainly of mythologies and tales, and the Verses of Streams, mainly of poems.
All Nirvana documents will need to include the Nirvana theme by pasting the following code at the beginning of the page:
[[module CSS]]
@import url(http://scp-int.wikidot.com/component:nirvana-theme/code/1);
[[/module]]Tomes of Twilight are mainly used within the internals of Nirvana, consisting of the past experience of the members and their observation records of this world. Verses of Streams are mainly used towards the external affairs, including messages from current members to potential candidates for members, promotion message of Nirvana, etc. Both the Tomes of Twilight and the Verses of Streams do not strictly limit the format of the document, but only necessary to label the chapter in rightly aligned italic font at the end of the writing. Therefore when adding tags they should be tagged as tales instead of goi-format.
Though theoretically every member can work on related creations, the parts with conflicts concerning ideologies will be discussed or debated by the Mount. Its Assembly records are collected in the publication Mount Assemblies of the Mount
The meetings held by the Mount Council are usually attended by six: the convener (a member of the Mount Council), the proposer (the member who asked to convene the meeting), and a representative from each of the four factions. The meetings usually consist of six parts: first the proposer set forth the theme of the meeting and the arguments of his own, then the four representatives ask or set forth their own arguments, and finally a conclusion drawn by the convener. The specific format is like the following:
**Related Nibel (optional): **Faction of ownership-Numbering"Name"
**Proposer:** The faction and the code name of the member
**Participants:** Faction and code name of member from faction 1, faction and code name of member from faction 2, faction and code name of member from faction 3, faction and code name of member from faction 4
**Convener:** Code name of the member of the Mount Council
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**Part I: explanatory, carried out by (proposer):**
**(proposer):** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
**(proposer):** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
**(proposer):** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
**(proposer):** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
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**Part II, explanatory, carried out by (code name of member of faction 1):**/**questioning, carried out by (code name of member of faction 1), answered by (proposer):**
**(code name of member of faction 1):** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
**(code name of member of any faction):** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
**(proposer):**Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
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**Part III, explanatory, carried out by (code name of member of faction 2):**/**questioning, carried out by (code name of member of faction 2), answered by (proposer):**
**(code name of member of faction 2):** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
**(code name of member of any faction):** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
**(proposer):**Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
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**Part IV, explanatory, carried out by (code name of member of faction 3):**/**questioning, carried out by (code name of member of faction 3), answered by (proposer):**
**(code name of member of faction 3):** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
**(code name of member of any faction):** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
**(proposer):**Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
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**Part V, explanatory, carried out by (code name of member of faction 4):**/**questioning, carried out by (code name of member of faction 4), answered by (proposer):**
**(code name of member of faction 4):** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
**(code name of member of any faction):** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
**(proposer):**Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
----
**Part VI, conclusion, drawn by (convener):**
**(convener):** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
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——//Published on Mount Assemblies, Issue yyyy-mm, Page ##//
[[/>]]The Secular Watcher does not have their own series of creation, but they will leave information in some places (mostly messages), and the information can usually be seen within tales or SCP containment report related to them. The particular format is as the following:
[[div style="width:50%;background:#e3e3e3; padding:20px; margin-bottom: 10px;margin:0 auto;"]]
content
[[>]]
//Watcher, "code name"//
[[/>]]
[[/div]]Result:
content
Watcher, "code name"
Related book
Scraps of Ashes
The collection of books within the Library are as much as stars in the universe, but large amount of stories written by other supernatural entities are still scattered outside of the Library. They may have vanished within the river of time just like their authors, or burnt to ashes listed as scriptures of cult or forbidden books. Luckily, one of the leaders of the Reborn, Indus, had gone through hardships to save a part of it, and generously handed these precious fragments to the Library to keep.
These fragments have described what the supernatural entities that scattered across the Earth have seen and heard, along with the forgotten history of the Living Dead and the Reborn. When Mr. Indus handed these fragments over to the Library, these were the only words he have said:
"History shall never be obliviated."