What is the Malidramagiuan? It is probably the most mysterious, the worst, the deadliest,
the craziest of the many entities the SCP Foundation encountered inside SCP-1730.
A classic SCP tale written by the legend Djkaktus, a very well-known and respected SCP author.
Today, we are going to learn everything there is to possibly learn about this entity so far.
Right, so first things first, let’s build the character, what does this thing look like?
Fortunately for us, we are given a very detailed description. It’s a floating
cross-legged humanoid. It’s massive by the account given and has dark grey-brown skin.
It has six legs and eighteen arms; these arms then branch off into thirty-six forearms and
then once more onto seventy-two hands. General Grievous has got nothing on this guy. Seriously,
imagine all those lightsabres. On each of its arms is a gold band and a chain covered in glyths.
Moving up, it doesn’t have a head, but rather a large circular structure sits on top of its upper
chest. This disc is covered in symbols and glyphs that glow with a bright light. Also, bound to the
disc of this creature is the still living heavily emaciated and heavily burned Emerson. Emerson was
the director of Site-13. He gave the orders to imprison and kill many entities and humans alike.
Right, we now know what it looks like so what does it do?
Even with the just the small nuggets of information we are given, we can tell this is one
nasty and potentially world ending entity. As soon as the team step into the sever room with it,
the temperature plummets to -20 Celsius. Also, there is a sudden absence of sound. Like,
there is no sound at all except for the agonised whimpering of Emerson, bound to the creature,
being burned every now and then by the glyphs on the creature’s top.
It is explained that it is the Malidramagiuan’s Kinetohazard abilities causing this muting effect.
Quote, “From the Site-13 research file on kinetohazards,
“Using seven of its hands, 86243AR-001 is capable of producing an advanced kinetoglyph
called “Aillili” in the Sacred Hratak of Azt, which silences all
but the most intense sounds in an area.” A Kinetohazard is a very powerful weapon,
it appears that this entity was the very thing that birthed this ability. It wasn’t a thing
before the Foundation discovered this creature. Quote: “Study of the activated 86243AR-001
has led to the advent of Kinetology, the study of Kinetocism.”
A Kinetohazard is described as a mental or physical hazard
that occurs when an entity performs specific gestures and motions that interact with multiple
spatial dimensions simultaneously, often with disastrous consequences.
Now, this entity is constantly moving its many limbs about in a random jerking manner.
Now we know that just moving 7 hands in a specific manner
can create a glyph that causes a muting effect. Now picture it moving the other 65 at the same
time creating god knows how many more glyphs with god knows what effects.
And imagine if these glyphs can interact with other glyphs to create even bigger
and more terrible effects. Or imagine if the gestures of one set of hand and another set
of hands can in turn build not just the first 2 but a bigger 3rd or even a 4th. You see how
this quickly begins to stack up? Now, I don’t have the brainpower to do the maths but that
must be a colossal amount or even a near endless number of possible glyphs that it
could create and so you begin to see just how much destruction and chaos this thing can bring down.
We are even given a sampling of this. If the extent of its powers were visualised
metaphorically as a loaf of bread, we are given just a crumb of its potential, I think. As the MTF
team are trying to get away from this thing, it begins manifesting glyphs on the floor turning it
into sand that the team begin sinking into. More glyphs begin appearing in the air around them as
well. One of the team members has the misfortune of catching their arm on it, causing it to burst
into flames. The glyphs on the creatures disc also glow periodically searing the flesh of Emerson who
is bound to the top of it. Presumably as a form of torture and hell and punishment for what he did.
We are given just two words of warning. They are written on the walls of the server room
and they say “DON’T LOOK” and “SILENCE”. The power this thing has is so great
that it short circuited the SCRAMBLE equipment built for the MTF,
so it would filter out various cognitohazards so they wouldn’t be exposed to the threat.
The amount of calculations required to filter out this threat
actually caused the equipment to overheat and it burned right out of MTF Samsara’s eyes.
And because the creature used its abilities to mute all the sounds in the area,
the MTF didn’t receive an audible warning tone to alert them to this thing’s presence.
Just let that settle in for a moment. MTF Samsara are one of the most powerful MTF
forces the Foundation has, built from the flesh of a dead god and adorned in equipment
that no other human could handle. They barely even laid eyes on it
and they had to run for their lives, drop 2 reality anchoring devices
just to get out of the room and one of their team members lost an arm in the process.
So, what the hell is this thing?
The multiverse exists in the world of SCP. This is very well known. There are many SCPs that
cross dimensions to other alternate versions of Earth where things are slightly different.
You’ve got the Red Reality, The Infinite IKEA, you’ve got The Red Pool, The Endless Staircase,
SCP-093 and SCP-2935 just to name a few. Well, I’m about to drop a bomb shell on
you. SCP-1730 came from another reality and in that reality, the Malidramagiuan is
that universe’s version of Dr Gear’s 001 proposal better known as The Prototype. Look at the
footnotes for 1730 and the official designation for The Prototype, they are the same. 86243AR-001.
The only difference 1730 version is that it is “Activated”. Now we don’t know what that means but
it’s a long a skip and jump from The Prototype that we are familiar with.
Djkaktus himself said, quote, “the Malidramagiuan is both a character of my own design,
and a nod to Gears' Proposal and how things are different in the 1730 universe compared to ours.”
This entity was once upon a time contained. The gold bands on its wrist are branded with
antikinetohazards, which are described as being the inverse to the actual
kinetohazards it performs. Attached to these bands are lengths of broken chain.
From this and from what the file says, we can infer that once upon a time,
something or someone rose up against this creature and used such sophisticated levels of science,
heck I even suspect possible thaumatology; that they were able to bind this creature in chains.
Its bands were etched in powerful antikinetohazards to stop it from
ever escaping its prison. Should it try to use its powers to escape,
the antikinetohazards would just reverse it. Like throwing water on a flame.
There are two possible theories that I am working with here.
Theory 1. Something broke it out of its prison and moved it into Site-13. We don’t know what
but given this realities attitude to both containing and destroying anomalous objects,
courtesy of the GOC taking operational control of the Foundation, my money would be on the
Foundation doing so. Given they were able to get it into Site-13, they must have used some form
of antikinetohazard in its containment measures. Theory 2. It was originally contained at Site-13
and those broken chains actually linked to its containment cell.
Now, the nature of how the creature ended up in Site-13 isn’t that important, what is important,
is once the power failure crippled the site, it found and bound Emerson to its body
to suffer for all eternity in perpetual agony. It branches off here into another 2 possibilities
because why would it target Emerson? Maybe it has prior history with Emerson or maybe it’s
just all knowing and knows what Emerson did and is just punishing him for it.
The Malidramagiuan is a god. The God with many hands DJKaktus himself referred to it. This is a
god of pain and suffering. One of the MTF members who saw this creature was shown visions by it.
They described seeing humans, with their hands removed screaming up at this creature that sat
in the sun. They saw the sky made of light, storms of souls, a voice screaming at them from a hole in
the centre of the universe. They saw a figure walking between rows of endless crucifixions.
It then showed them our own world, our own universe where it sank into the sea.
Now, DJKaktus has not said much about the Malidramagiuan its expanded lore or anything
else about its character. But what he has said or rather alluded to is potentially using it again
in future tales. I really hope to see this entity get its own file or at least just another tale
where we learn just that little bit more about it. While the vagueness and obscurity of this thing
has great value in building its overall reputation and legacy as one of those creatures, that we know
just enough information about to be both fascinating and terrifying,
I can’t be the only one that has that voice at the back of our heads screaming “I NEED MORE”.
Now, if DJKaktus decides to make more content on the Malidramagiuan,
I might make a follow up video but we will cross that bridge when we come to it.
Please leave your thoughts and ideas in the comment section. I really want to hear your
ideas on what you think this creature is and I am sure DJKaktus would appreciate the discussion.
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