- "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
- ― H.P. Lovecraft
The trait of characters or archetypes who have a unknown and fathomless existence. Not to be confused with Mystery Embodiment and Undetermined Existence.
Also Called[]
- Fathomless Existence
- Unknowable Existence
Capabilities[]
User is or has an fathomless/unknown existence, as all information, knowledge, history, origin, etc., is either totally unknown or a complete mystery, therefore they cannot be compared with/to any other existence. Looking up their history, how they came to be, what allowed them to exist in the first place, or even if they exist would prove impossible.
Since their origin and even the very basis/nature of their being is a mystery, it's impossible to categorize them in any way, including whether or not they're alive/living, dead, undead, amortal, undetermined, self-created, non-created or possibly something else entirely even if they're a human, demon, god, spirit, beast/monster, a threat, friend/foe, eldritch horror, powerful/weak etc. If they even have a history or origin of some kind, then it cannot be traced or understood by anybody/anyone or anything. Unlike Absolute Concealment, their natures aren't covered or blocked in a way. They are just not known or even existing, making them incomprehensible even when they act.
If users of Living Anomaly are beings that escape the rules of a system while still being a part of it, then these are beings who suddenly come into existence inside or outside of the system with no rhyme or reason.
Applications[]
- Alien Mind/Fathomless Mind
- Alternative Communication
- Anti-Storage
- Control Immunity
- Form Transcendence
- Freedom
- Life and Death Transcendence
- Imaginative Condition
- Incomprehensible Form
- Interexistence
- Origin Transcendence
- Personal Existence Manipulation
- Physical Law Immunity
- Reality Separation
- Power Source
- Singularity
- Spatial Temporal Transcendence
- Uncertainty Manipulation
- Unknown Inducement
- Unknown Power
- Unpredictability
Associations[]
- Altered Physics
- Conceptual Transcendence
- Living Anomaly
- Nameless Existence
- Omnilock
- Self Origin Manipulation
- Trans-Reality Manipulation
Limitations[]
- Ineffective against Omniscience/Infinite Experience on account of being privy of even incomprehensive matters such as the user.
- Nigh-Omniscience users might know what the users truly are.
Known Users[]
See also: Unknown Character, Mysterious Past, Nothing Is Scarier, Mysterious Stranger, The Spook
- Life's Father (Adventure Time)
- Prismo's Boss (Adventure Time)
- The Door/Pathway Between Worlds (Coraline); novel version.
- Schwick's Pet (Courage the Cowardly Dog)
- The Yellow King (True Detective)
- The Midnight Entity (Doctor Who)
- The Perfect Hider/The Figure (Doctor Who)
- The Employers (Hλlf-Life series)
- Ms. Bitters (Invader Zim)
- Tom Bombadil (The Lord of the Rings)
- The Phantom Stranger (DC Comics)
- Patriot Costume/Patriot Entity (Marvel Comics)
- Zom's Creator (Marvel Comics)
- Sephiroth/Unknown Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII Remake), from the Edge of Creation
- Null (Minecraft Creepypasta/AlongCameJosh)
- Mio/The Spider of Calamity (Moon-Led Journey Across Another World)
- Dark Powers (Ravenloft)
- SCP-2740 - It Wasn't There (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-2950 - Just A Chair (SCP Foundation)
- SCP-4028 - La Historia de Don Quixote de la Mancha (SCP Foundation)
- The Demonkind (Steel Angel Kurumi)
- The Creatures (Bird Box)
- The Curse Entity (It Follows)
- The House Invading Entity (Skinamarink)
- The Smile Entity (Smile/Laura Hasn't Slept)
- Soul Eater (Valkyrie Crusade)
- The Roaring Blackness (The X Files); script version only.
- Scare Bear (The Venture Bros.)
- The Pale Wasting Entities (Warhammer 40k)
- The Harrowing (Warhammer 40k)
- The Shadow (Supernatural)
- The Shedim (Supernatural)
- The Demonic Spirit (Samurai Jack)