SCP-001 Black Adetum Part 4

So far, Grand Carcest Ayyoun and the Black Adetum Initiative have encountered three of her four

clavigars, which have had drastically different reactions to Ayun's return and memory loss.

She has already been through quite an ordeal of emotions along the path, as new revelations

shake everything she thought she knew about who she is, and she has taken to confiding much

in an artificial construct.

Now there's only one clavigar to go, before the time will come to seek out black additum itself.

Let's continue.

We pick up where we left off with Chapter 4, the Vault of Lovatar, and are given the second truth of Ayun, which reads,

Temptation does not make itself known. Temptation clothes itself in the skin of good intention,

beckoning those most faithful, guiding them forward. The tempted do not realize they are aflame until the fires eat through their flesh. You must be wary for it, always. We're then also given another excerpt

from the records of Ayun, which reads, And as the Nalka raged for five days against the old masters, rousting them from

the city until the canals of the nameless city ran rich with blood, Ayun, the scarred prophet,

knelt in the deepest tunnels of Atatum before the flesh of the fell god,

the same god that he had supped from and whose blood filled his veins now. It was vast,

tendrils stretched all across the city, reaching desperately out to where the slaves had unearthed it from its tomb.

Far beneath the earth, far removed from the sounds of battle, the devourer spoke to Ayun.

This is not a city. You see this now, in the tunnels and in the carvings. This place was never meant for the

living to inhabit. This is a tomb, a mausoleum, meant to hold me. The scarlet is a jealous

God, and he has instructed his children to bind me here, far from the eyes of the living.

They fear me. They fear you, too.

The wall poured with its lifeblood, with its power.

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