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 archivists 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.
This is an open, collaborative project. If you discover a class which is absent or has been improperly cataloged, feel free to add it.
See Also
- Mainsite Sources
- esoteric-class - An automated list of articles tagged with "esoteric-class", although it does not include all examples of esoteric classes.
- Object Classes
- Threat Levels Guide
- Anomaly Classification System (ACS) Guide
- This also has an automated catalog (Jump?) of articles using ACS.
- u/Cooldude971's Reddit Guides - These go into much greater detail on the definitions and histories of various classes than this guide will.
- KaktusKontainer List of Esoteric Class
- Object Class Flow Chart
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 abnormal anomalies, or the anomalies themselves.
Subclasses
Some archivists have determined that the anomalies assigned to them do not entirely conform to standard containment classes. As such, several subclass systems have been created but rarely implemented.
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.
Anomalous Esoteric Classes
The following classes are, generally, the results of infectious memetic agents and infohazards; personnel lacking a Cognitive Resistance Value (CRV) of 16.3 or greater are advised to read at their own risk.
Foreign Esoteric Classes
The Foundation is an international organization that employs researchers and archivists from almost every nation. The following are object classes created by non-English affiliates of the Foundation which are considered suitable for proper documentation.4
Theoretical Esoteric Classes
The following classes have not been officially implemented, but have been tentatively proposed. Their exact definitions may differ if they are eventually used in an official capacity.
These classes are, generally, those which were used on the EditThis wiki or in the original 4Chan threads, have had some sort of cultural relevance on the site, or have been stated to exist but never actually used.
