The Foundation's primary directive is to order the anomalous by designating instances with four-digit numbers and methods of containment. One of the tools used to accomplish this is the Object Class, a process of parsing anomalies into groups based on the difficulty of containment. Full dossiers are available for readers wishing to familiarize themselves.
Despite this, some anomalies warrant entirely new object classes beyond the standard Safe, Euclid, and Keter, and sometimes even beyond Thaumiel, Neutralized, and Explained. These Esoteric Classes are exceedingly rare, and many are not viable for standard documentation due to their specialized natures. The following lists serve as a collection of these classes.
See Also
- Primary Sources
- esoteric-class - An automated list of articles tagged with "esoteric-class", although it does not include all examples of esoteric classes.
- Object Classes Guide
- Threat Levels Guide (Hosted on the International Wiki.)
- Anomaly Classification System (ACS) Guide
- This also has an automated catalog (Jump?) of articles using ACS.
- u/Cooldude971's Guides - These go into much greater detail on the definitions and histories of various classes than this guide will.
- Master list of non-standard object classes (Hosted on Reddit.)
- Master list of canonized and lost non-standard object classes (Hosted on Reddit.)
- Where object classes came from: a history (Hosted on Reddit.)
- The Origin of Object Classes
- If you want more cool ACS secondary class icons
- Object Class Flow Chart (Hosted on Reddit.)
- List of Esoteric Class (Depreciated, hosted on KaktusKontainer.)
- SCP Object Classifications (A forum post; origin of several theoretical classes; linked for historical purposes.)
A Guide For Contributors (Please read before editing!)
Established Esoteric Classes
The following object classes were created by the Foundation to describe the containment of certain anomalies, or the anomalies themselves.
Subclasses
Because several anomalies do not totally conform to standard object classes — while not warranting the creation of a new class themselves — several subclass systems have been created to further describe their properties and/or their containment.
System Classes
The following classes do not describe the anomaly they are assigned, but are rather a placeholder or the result of a system error.
Informal Esoteric Classes
The following classes are presumed to have been influenced by an anomalous property or another third-party; generally, they are the result of an infectious memetic agent or an infohazard.
Foreign Esoteric Classes
The following are object classes created by non-English affiliate branches of the Foundation which are considered "Established".4
Thank you to Ziakial for originally compiling this list.