SCP 8400, The Birch Knight and the Game of Three Chestnuts.

A common saying that you're likely familiar with is that the pen is mightier than the sword.

What it means, of course, is that words, written, or otherwise, can often cause far more

change in the world than violence can.

Great upheavals in societies can occur without a drop of blood being shed, although

blood does often follow.

The point is that words do have power, as do names.

And with that, we get into SCP-8400, an article that uses the power of words in more ways than one.

Let's take a look.

The article begins by informing us that this document has been flagged for possible sentience,

which I'm pretty sure is a line that you'll only find in the SCP universe.

The containment procedures mention that no new names or designations are to be used in reference

to SCP 8400, so we already know what kind of anomaly we're dealing with,

one associated with the Faye.

The fair folk of SCP 4,000 have a special connection with names, as theirs have all been taken

from them, so they can use a specific type of magic to steal names given to them.

SCP-8400 is an abstract, logomorphic entity, which interfaces with baseline reality via

avatars, composed from scraps of birch bark arranged into a humanoid shape.

These avatars consistently possess heads resembling the skull of a male deer without a lower

jaw and with a dense cluster of branch-like antlers.

Soft tissue organs resembling lidded eyes constantly shift across the surface of the antlers, moving

in no discernible pattern. These avatars take on an extra-physical and or demi-conceptual level

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