It more or less comes from the elder scrolls series, with the phrase "sithis shaped hole" being used to refer to a couple gods in the franchise. Sithis being a god of nothingness and entropy, and possibly not even a deity in the traditional sense, it has a similar effect
Some references to Satan and hell describe them as merely that small part of creation where god does not reside. If your entire existence, bad and good, has nevertheless been within the light of some protective deity, how else would you describe such a monstrosity and location? If not a god shaped hole? (I'm a-religious, but I love the turns of phrase that exist within superstition/religion.)
wait, the plague doctor was described as his robes and mask been a part of him, like the clothes that the agents were given feeling organic, he could be a lord, which would explain his link to the mask
@@thorshammer7883 Uh, where did ya hear that? I've never seen or read anything about that idea before. I didn't know there was anything at all on 049's origins.
@@noneofyourbusiness2437 049 being created by the Brothers comes from the tale series "Death and Doctors". You can find it here: www.scp-wiki.net/death-and-the-doctors-hub Bear in mind that its not written by the original author of 049.
At some point, there will be a story of Dr. Bright involving every organization, SCP, and person everywhere, and all of them will be reasons why he isn't allowed to do/interact/go anything/with anything/anywhere.
The Void Is My Home its a very short but interesting read. It takes part in the future where dr clef finally succeeded in killing the witch child. Dr broght dies by joining the serpent hand
the SCP universe has some damn deep lore, would make for some pretty interesting RPGs set in exotic worlds. Makes me wish bigger publishers/developers weren't so damn afraid of taking chances with original content.
The biggest problem with that would be that no big publisher would probably be willing to invest time and money into a work that is licensed under the SCP wiki's Creative Commons license.
@@A.Tolonen The license of works on the SCP wiki is CC-BY-SA, simply meaning that if you are to use the work, you have to attribute it to the original author, and if you change it, your changed work has to be released under CC-BY-SA as well. There's nothing stopping anyone from using these works for commercial (or not) purposes - the license isn't a parasite, it doesn't force you to make your original work (like the performance, or the script, or the videogame) CC-BY-SA as well.
@@zatherz2498 You might want to check out the Licensing Guide: www.scp-wiki.net/licensing-guide To quote : "Any content based on the SCP Foundation is itself going to be under Creative Commons. So anything you make, you agree to share as well under these same rules." "In short, this means that your derived work must be released under the CC-BY-SA, so that other people can use the same license. It is not enough to simply attribute the SCP Foundation." Any derivate work based on the SCP Foundation has to be released under CC-BY-SA and as such anyone can freely copy and use that stuff, as long as they follow the same rules. Obviously, this doesn't stop anyone from making commercial derivates. But for big companies, it's an unnecessary risk to make something that can be shared and copied freely, when they can instead make things they have control over.
@@A.Tolonen I'm not a lawyer but it seems like you are right, although the SCP Wiki is a pretty bad page to read about Creative Commons in detail. This is the key paragraph I didn't read: "Derivative Work" means a work based upon the Work or upon the Work and other pre-existing works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which the Work may be recast, transformed, or adapted, except that a work that constitutes a Collective Work will not be considered a Derivative Work for the purpose of this License. For the avoidance of doubt, where the Work is a musical composition or sound recording, the synchronization of the Work in timed-relation with a moving image ("synching") will be considered a Derivative Work for the purpose of this License."
@@sammuelmccall56789 Alright, so: the plague doctor in this isnt 049, plague doctors are a common trait for strange looking individuals, and this man happened to be wearing its mask. He has no desire to cure anything, making him unrelated to 049 in any way.
The entire concept of the Hanged King, from the play to the concept of a 'hanged king', to the Alagadda hierarchy, nobility, and masquerade-theme makes this by far my favourite SCP
@Zoomer Waffen I mean the entire SciFi genre is derivative of older SciFi works. It's iterative, not plagiarism (usually). Like, this is a SCP-ified take on The King in Yellow. Although I haven't read the book yet, I plan to soon.
@Zoomer Waffen I get your frustration sure. Technically it's not IP theft if the work is in the public domain. But I understand you're using it as a figure of speech
@Zoomer Waffen For instance, I first discovered HP Lovecraft when I found Call of Cthulhu posted on some fanfic site when I was 12. In that case, plagiarism of a public domain work brought some net-good. If it's introducing people to new literature, and no ones being financially hurt, it's permissible.
So if artists who survived the city made art about the events of the hanged king do you think Shakespeare was one of the people who survived and made hamlet?
"A god shaped hole. The barren desolation of a fallen and failed creation. You see the light of long dead stars. Your existence is nothing but the echo of a dying god's screams. The unseen converges, surrounds you, and it tightens like a noose." The absolute wave of dread I felt after hearing that.
someone needs to write this play and have it really preformed and maybe do an "anonymous" night where they do the version where the actors kill each other (staged of course not real)
The wandsman seems like fun character to explore, just a The Doctor/Stanford Pines/Rick Sanchez-esque dimensional explorer from some other dimension, and is chill enough to relay info and advice to this squishy human doctor who clearly doesn't know what he's gotten himself into.
@@LanieMae No Ickis the wayward is a separate entity from the universe of Kul manas...you can read about him on 2264 and he even reacts with Iris Dark and Lolly in the Marshall carter and dark hub in the episode "dark and disquieting". 049 was a doctor in the hanged king's court as said in the series "Hanged king's comedy".
Hello my good sir,do you have some times to spare for our beloved king in Yellow? And also,have you seen the yellow sign any where? If you have then please join up for our king Hastur's army.
*_“It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”_* is a direct quote from the NT book of Hebrews (ch. 10, vs. 31) I don't know if there's any significance to this as it correlates to the story, but I thought it an interesting choice of words, nonetheless.
When you were telling the story that The Hanged King play was based off, I thought you were just reading out a synopsis of Hamlet. The differences are so minuscule it's hard to believe Shakespear didn't come back from the dead just to sue the creator of this SCP for plagiarism
@@Ultimus31 that's what i was thinking lmao. it was the birthright/murder elements from hamlet with the edginess and cannibalism of titus. most of my reaction to this video was just "i'm not saying it DIDN'T pull from the king in yellow i'm just saying maybe that's not the body of literature it nabbed the most from."
Do you think that might be were he came from? Even the 'Mask' and the plague doctor might save seen each other at some point maybe this is were they first met perhaps and somehow got into other world. Edit: But thats just a theory A GAME THE.. oh nevermind lol
Shades of Mcbeth, otherworldly cities, The King in Yellow, and eldritch horrors? Man why hadn't I heard of this one sooner?! Great job on the narration!
There comes the King and his crowd, His subjects turned against him, taking his crown. The cheering comes with flames of hate, Burning and raging, bring the palace down. 乌声了却 黑星灿然 所谓缢王 凄凄艾艾 Gold and diamonds scatter on the ground, Bodies of the royal lie around. A mask from masquerade stained and broken, As is his ruling falling apart. 座有荆棘 冠如锁链 异鬼幽冥 环伺其间 Rags on his body chains all around, The King old and weak, losing his power. A crow laughs and the jester cries, The skeleton of a lion roars but halts. 舞宴盛然 裙裾招展 若是假面 笑乎悲哉 Upon the old tree the King was hanged, His former subjects silently watch. The chains are rusted and the rope is long, Strangles and tightens squeezing the breath out. 高低楼阁 若虚若幻 迷墙回环 去不复返 The King mumbles and whispers as he lingers, Praying to the dark gods we know not about. Life slips from his body but deaths comes not, His eyes cold and empty, his voice speaks of dark. 群氓列王 惊其辉煌 诸魔众神 怖其伟岸 Half-alive when he is buried, Half-dead when he escapes. Coming back to reclaim his kingdom, With blood and rage and horrors from beyond. 庶民之血 缢王享之 愚者之血 尽献堂前 But a dead King rules not the living, Until the living too find their tombs. So the old kingdom is destroyed once more, Only to build a new one for no mortal soul. 乌声纷然 黑星黯淡 所谓缢王 呜呼哀哉 And thus the Hanged King sits in his palace, His lords serve him with broken masks. But the chains bind him with pain and torment, And the crows of death shall forever watch. 如是群鸦讪笑不止
so 035 was a ruler of Alaggada, and 049 was a schoolar who try to help his people and for that was punished and traumatized... and now he sees the human empathy like the pestilence
@@high.fructose7534 I think 49 is the black lord and 38 is the mask. So when they met up again they were all happy but his mind became corrupted like you said and broke the mask.
even after his death [REDACTED] years from now videos will still be uploaded, only this time they will be the REAL SCP's and the foundation will have a lifted vale scenario on their hands.
HELP if anyone reading this is an SCP expert, I'm trying to recall a specific one which was a supposed cognito hazard on paper and therefore only D-class were allowed to read. It "supposedly" makes you forget stuff but in actuality were just instructions from the previous D-class to play along and pretend they forgot things after reading the piece of paper. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Edit: someone found it! Its 1693. Thanks to everyone who helped!
"You see the light of long-dead stars. Your existence is nothing but the echo of a dying God's screams. The unseen convergence surrounds you and it tightens, like a noose." HOLD UP. I wonder if this is the hint behind the reason the 5000 verse went to pot? Maybe what the Foundation discovered is that Humanity is not "real," but we are merely constructs of some Pattern Screamer, being manipulated subtly? Part of why this comes to mind is that there's some backing to this statement. Specifically, SCP 2154 is a Real-Time Telescope that shows that, yes, 72% of all stellar objects we normally see are, in fact, dead or otherwise hidden. If this theory is true, it would explain a few things: 1) why Humanity is capable of Reality-Warping, either intrinsically or gained (like alchemy/thaumaturgy/anomalous art) and 2) how we can make things more "real" by believing in them. If we aren't a naturally-occurring form, but rather something conjured up by a Pattern Screamer, than we wouldn't "fit" with the typical rules of the "pattern." Between SCP 2000's existence and how liberally the GOC & Foundation [expunge], Redact or hide dangerous info (including with Amnestics) the question is raised of "Just how accurate IS our recorded history and knowledge base?." Maybe the World isn't anomalous. WE ARE.
Mate, you don't need to let them know the truth. Take a moment to respirate and look at the space between your reflection touching the mirror's surface and your own hand, and think of the absence of nothing. If that made any sense to you, welcome to the world of the aware, things are about to get strange.
Wow, this was another outstanding video. The connection to scp 035, the sarkics, deavites, and SCP 507 was amazing. This is definitely one of my favorite scps now.
Just recently started getting into SCPs and honestly?? These are my favorite ones. IDK what it is about it, I just really like all the imagery of Alagadda.
Just gotta say: I would love to see an epic continental spanning war between the followers of the hanged king, scarlet king, the Church of the Broken God and the Sarkicks
Honestly it sounds a lot like like Planescape, maybe that strikes yoi fancy, it's mostly known for it DND Module and Video game Planescape Torment though
A movie about the hanged king's tragedy would be dope. The weird thing is the king in yellow is itself derived from superstitions around the Scottish play. So the it's almost like this whole thing is a cognito hazard that keeps evolving and breaking another 4th wall. First by effecting the player, then effecting the audience making them part of the play, then evolving further to effect the audience of the audience.
How much are these agents paid exactly? Tons of them die in missions so how do they sustain all these loss? Surely there must be a very tempting contract for these people to sign up to certain madness/death/ worse.
I would imagine that they would get paid quite well and potentially receive notable benefits (if they survive of course). Also, I feel that the actual losses are not quite as big as they seem, as the dangerous ones (that kill more people) are more likely to end up as SCPs, while the more harmless items don't. So maybe for every mission that involves people dying, there are a couple dozen that have no casualties. However, this is really just a question of personal interpretation.
Noob Noob There’s lots of tales that explain that all agents are compensated extremely well. Specifically the riskiest MTF’s get paid a lot and their families are looked after if they are killed in action. Agents are also sourced from the military - so they’re all highly trained and in the grand scheme of things, not that many MTF agents are actually killed. The highest casualties mainly seem to stem from alternate dimensions where the foundation is biting off more than they can chew - for instance it’s stated that only a minimum of 3 agents are required to recontain 682.
How can they train new recruits with how quickly and often they die? That's a far more interesting question, IMO. Skilled fighter pilots, for example, were not just given a 6 week flying lesson and tossed into a jet.
That's one of the issues with the expanding SCP universe. Before a few hundred anomalous objects that require 1-2 thousands of personnel to keep away from the world might be believable, but now there are thousands of SCPs, some require the full might of a small nation to contain. One canon is that the Foundation is never that big, and due to end-of-the-world scenarios, never really had as many SCPs as the wiki contains at once. One canon is the Foundation uses anomalous means to create manpower. The other is that the anomalous community truly has more control over the non-anomalous one, such that thousands or even tens of thousands of personnel are hidden from the light of day and no one really notices it because they control everything.
The Sheet of Music, SCP-012 is possibly related to the Hanged King, seeing as it's something that makes the subject unwillingly trick itself to finish the piece of sheet music. The Coffin, 895, could also be related due to having the same effects, only via through the screen if i remember correctly.
Earlier this year, before the outbreak, my schools drama department put on a production called Trap, a sort of horror-thriller that ends in a final scene where audience plants “die” in their seats. This SCP reminds me of that production, now I want to write a Hanged Kings Tragedy where audience plants go mad and assault each other, while the King sits onstage surrounded with the “corpses” of the actors, crew, techies, and even the director who all took each other’s lives in fits of massive violence Brb I’m gonna pitch this idea to my more creative friends and see where this goes
You always make high quality content, but you really knocked it out of the park with this one! I especially enjoyed many of the paintings used throughout the video, heavily reminiscent of Zdzislaw Beksinski's style.
This is by far my favorite SCP! It’s just so beautifully written, the designs, everything! I would love to read a whole book series based off this whole thing! God do I love this one
After sparrow Three times called After gull does Three times fall Come, maiden, mistress, mouse and hen Come, fisher, farmer Frog and wren Once a king dressed in red Warmed by the flames on feather bed While all the town starving cried Chilled by winds, the Month of Ice Eat them of frost Eat them of snow The monarch decreed To them below Up on a spike They perched his head Cursed his name Burned his stead Hush-a-bye, dont be afright Mama will sing through all the night Many an hour before morning sun Don't dream of horror yet to come... I thought "The Brigmore Lullaby" fit this SCP well,so i wanted to share it.
Thank you so much!!! This is one of my favorite SCPs and I can’t think of anyone else who could do it justice in explaining it! Edit: After listening to it, the amount of detail and research in tying this to other SCPs and tales is amazing! Thank you!!!
wow this was one of the best yet, it's so incredible that people can come up with this, just imagine making films based on this stuff. I really do love your scp videos, they're the best of all scp videos on TH-cam
There is the possibility that SCP-3812 seems to have erased Alagadda from the existence on whatever the main universe of the canon is. While I am not sure how I feel about this, it certainly does explain why, if that tail is taken as true, the kingdom no longer exists on earth
Ugh. I would hate that personally but 3812 is an OP SCP for sure. I prefer to think the Kingdom itself is abstract and that it's a lot harder to remove it then just nuking a city. It is a concept, then again 3812 can destroy concepts and ascend as it seems.
To me it seemed more like 3812 is saying that 3812 is the reason Alaggada is so distant from our world, it started as part of ours, but was removed by the entity and now exists in this interdimensional limbo.
I personally don’t think the tale is canon, because major timeline issues and the fact that 701-1 is an extremely ancient eldrich entity, as described in the Wanderers library
"Alagada" means "Flooded" in portuguese,maybe "Alaggada" is in Latim,wich has many words similar to the ones found in the portuguese lenguage. The last letter in "Alagada" ((letter "a",obviously)) makes it a feminine word,since some words like "tree" ((Árvore in portuguese)) are considered a feminine word,even tho it has no relation to genders.
I absolutely love the SCP universe. I used to be obsessed with Lovecraft's universe (still slightly am), but have since become more obsessed with the SCP universe.
Man The Exploring Series man I love when do these long in-depth SCPs like these please keep up the great work and idk why (at the time of watching this) 11 dislikes is beyond on me how could anyone dislike this this is amazing work you’ve done
outside of the Lovecraftian lore: The Hanged king could also reference Odin, God king of the Norse Pantheon. It is said that he hung himself form the world tree, Yggdrasil, for nine days and nine nights in an attempt to learn more of the world and the realms that inhabit it.
You're one of the best scp channels out there, you don't just read what's on the document like most of the scp channels, you explain them, use a fitting music and make things more interesting which adds a lot to the overall mystery
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"The black lord was exiled to a dreadful dimensional backwater, this dimension is of course ours." So other dimensions are talking shit now?
I mean, it's kinda warranted lmao
@@apassionatenerd.3564 lmao
We deserve it....our universe is a bloody shit show that shall make those Saturday night soaps on the telly seem bloody ace.
Earth dimensions are really overrated to them, huh?
"You people have gravity? You walk on the ground like some law obeying little pussy? Disgusting"
“A god shaped hole” is one of the most interesting phrases
I like to think that it is just a fancy word for asshole
In context it’s perfect. What is more horrifying than something you can’t visualize. It’s so much and so little
It more or less comes from the elder scrolls series, with the phrase "sithis shaped hole" being used to refer to a couple gods in the franchise. Sithis being a god of nothingness and entropy, and possibly not even a deity in the traditional sense, it has a similar effect
That's actually one of the more mundane and obvious references
Some references to Satan and hell describe them as merely that small part of creation where god does not reside. If your entire existence, bad and good, has nevertheless been within the light of some protective deity, how else would you describe such a monstrosity and location? If not a god shaped hole? (I'm a-religious, but I love the turns of phrase that exist within superstition/religion.)
"the SCP universe wears its Lovecraft on its sleeve"
SCP-2662: Cuthulu is a gamer.
And annoyed people worship/sacrifice things to him and try to break him out then tells them he went to scp to keep away from the cult.
Honestly even though there isn’t much about it the king in yellow is my favorite being in the mythos
I love that the dimension hopper just shows up at places. The people are just like "Yeah, we should write that down."
BrokenArrow where
Wasem Zahr 16:02
A place that's exceptionally difficult to get to, and some confused nitwit just pops in panics then disappears sounds notable to me.
I feels like this man is in all the important places where even the goddamm scarlet king would dream of getting in and wouldn’t realize it.
@@ivanpetrov8268 ha I love this idea
"The hanged king" definetly sounds like a dark souls boss.
Round 2 you get to fight the ambassador
I was going to say that this guys probably have insta kill, but then i read you comment again and... its dark souls, all the bosses are half way there
what kind tho.
normal one, or Bed of Chaos kind?
@@chosebine2169 Yhorm but with more stages
@@yannickgobel2431
With a final stage similar to the Nameless King, a less jarring arena. And much, much harder to beat.
King’s guard: your highness, are you all right?!
Hanged King: oh you know, just *HANGING* around.
MiniLadd: Symbols Ty, Symbols!
The Symbiote Nation. Ah, so you are man of culture as well?
@@tokusatsukeyblade797 indeed
The Hanged King was filmed in front of a live studio audience.
Oh loosen up
"Curves in all the right places to avoid the tentacles".
That is certainly an interesting description.
I have seen that before, not that wierd
Tentacle hentai is beautiful
That would be a weird boner for sure
@@GnomishProductions indeed brother
Hentai Fans: I dont see problem here
wait, the plague doctor was described as his robes and mask been a part of him, like the clothes that the agents were given feeling organic, he could be a lord, which would explain his link to the mask
Well he was created by the Brothers Death.
@@thorshammer7883 Uh, where did ya hear that? I've never seen or read anything about that idea before. I didn't know there was anything at all on 049's origins.
@@noneofyourbusiness2437 049 being created by the Brothers comes from the tale series "Death and Doctors". You can find it here: www.scp-wiki.net/death-and-the-doctors-hub
Bear in mind that its not written by the original author of 049.
What if the 'great pestilence' he refers to is the presence of the play or the hang king?
@@williamaldred335 the pestilence is humanity. He thinks that he has to cleanse all humans from earth.
My school: what should we do for a play?
Me: *I HAVE AN IDEA*
Do it, brother
Looking for a girl willing to wear tentacles and has "curves in all the right places" is going to be kinda hard, HAHAHA
Me: Axel why is there a van outside the school?
It's alright
*HES ARRIVED*
It's alright
*HES ARRIVED*
I want to see a tale called... "The Adventures of Dr. Bright in Alagadda and Why He Is Not Allowed There Again..."
At some point, there will be a story of Dr. Bright involving every organization, SCP, and person everywhere, and all of them will be reasons why he isn't allowed to do/interact/go anything/with anything/anywhere.
@Chase Gillingham 15 (STUDENT) Of course. The Foundation thinks of D-class as lesser, and therefore Bright thinks of them as infinite respawns.
The Void Is My Home actually dr bright is dead already. Search “scp suicidal note”.
@@poggers4392 T_T
The Void Is My Home its a very short but interesting read. It takes part in the future where dr clef finally succeeded in killing the witch child. Dr broght dies by joining the serpent hand
the SCP universe has some damn deep lore, would make for some pretty interesting RPGs set in exotic worlds. Makes me wish bigger publishers/developers weren't so damn afraid of taking chances with original content.
The biggest problem with that would be that no big publisher would probably be willing to invest time and money into a work that is licensed under the SCP wiki's Creative Commons license.
@@A.Tolonen The license of works on the SCP wiki is CC-BY-SA, simply meaning that if you are to use the work, you have to attribute it to the original author, and if you change it, your changed work has to be released under CC-BY-SA as well. There's nothing stopping anyone from using these works for commercial (or not) purposes - the license isn't a parasite, it doesn't force you to make your original work (like the performance, or the script, or the videogame) CC-BY-SA as well.
@@zatherz2498 You might want to check out the Licensing Guide: www.scp-wiki.net/licensing-guide
To quote
:
"Any content based on the SCP Foundation is itself going to be under Creative Commons. So anything you make, you agree to share as well under these same rules."
"In short, this means that your derived work must be released under the CC-BY-SA, so that other people can use the same license. It is not enough to simply attribute the SCP Foundation."
Any derivate work based on the SCP Foundation has to be released under CC-BY-SA and as such anyone can freely copy and use that stuff, as long as they follow the same rules. Obviously, this doesn't stop anyone from making commercial derivates. But for big companies, it's an unnecessary risk to make something that can be shared and copied freely, when they can instead make things they have control over.
@@A.Tolonen I'm not a lawyer but it seems like you are right, although the SCP Wiki is a pretty bad page to read about Creative Commons in detail. This is the key paragraph I didn't read:
"Derivative Work" means a work based upon the Work or upon the Work and other pre-existing works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which the Work may be recast, transformed, or adapted, except that a work that constitutes a Collective Work will not be considered a Derivative Work for the purpose of this License. For the avoidance of doubt, where the Work is a musical composition or sound recording, the synchronization of the Work in timed-relation with a moving image ("synching") will be considered a Derivative Work for the purpose of this License."
@Zetta Pirate guess how I knew you would have anime shit on your account before I even clicked
I like how 035, 049 and 507 are involved here, just shows how mysteriously the SCP universe is connected
ik the first two but what is 507 again?
@@finalistburrito2499 A man that randomly hops dimensions
@⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ He just saw “plague doctor” and immediately though 049.
@@Zoobydeeby plague doctor came from alagadda
@@sammuelmccall56789 Alright, so: the plague doctor in this isnt 049, plague doctors are a common trait for strange looking individuals, and this man happened to be wearing its mask. He has no desire to cure anything, making him unrelated to 049 in any way.
I love how this started as an scp and slowly evolved into something straight out of the lovecraftian mythos
I mean... its literally based off that mythos, soooo
Lovecraft would be proud of what SCP fans have created
@@spiralyt309 As long as they're white people doing it.
Lovecraft was weird and creative but also suuuuuper racist.
Conbz wow did not know about that
@@spiralyt309 Yes, his cats name was n-word man (with Hard R's)
The entire concept of the Hanged King, from the play to the concept of a 'hanged king', to the Alagadda hierarchy, nobility, and masquerade-theme makes this by far my favourite SCP
Same here
Same
@Zoomer Waffen I mean the entire SciFi genre is derivative of older SciFi works. It's iterative, not plagiarism (usually).
Like, this is a SCP-ified take on The King in Yellow. Although I haven't read the book yet, I plan to soon.
@Zoomer Waffen I get your frustration sure.
Technically it's not IP theft if the work is in the public domain. But I understand you're using it as a figure of speech
@Zoomer Waffen For instance, I first discovered HP Lovecraft when I found Call of Cthulhu posted on some fanfic site when I was 12. In that case, plagiarism of a public domain work brought some net-good.
If it's introducing people to new literature, and no ones being financially hurt, it's permissible.
I love that the SCP universe basically uses multiverse theory to be like “Canon? What canon?”
Oh. It’s a even more edgy version of Hamlet. I didn’t think that was possible
AnhTuanito Yep, welcome to Series one, where we have so much edge we don’t know what to do with it!
Edgier than the knife i use to cut myself
w a i t
So if artists who survived the city made art about the events of the hanged king do you think Shakespeare was one of the people who survived and made hamlet?
@@odscanadiann1453 then he'd be a madman that's still sane apparently
oDs Canadiann If that’s so, why we dont get mad when see hamlet?
He says hastur, then immediately flashes the yellow sign. Anyone who was watching is now mind controlled. Good job.
Don't be silly. Everything is fine. Tell me, have you seen the yellow sign?
Everyone during the hanged king plays: Bro im straight up not having a good time
i love you for this
This play makes me irked adjacent
The Ambassador: Aren't you tired of being nice? Don't you wanna go apeshit?
Bloodborne 2: Alagadda?
Thank you for making these
No do more scp
I love you
No homo
The Exploring Series I wonder if Pizza Cutter works as well on the Hanged King as it does most Bloodborne bosses?
Really does sound like Bloodborne.
"Located on the border of Never Meant."
The doctor: "Lets just forget.....EVERYTHING SAID!"
EVERYTHIIIIIIIINGGGGG WE DID, BEST FRIENDS AND BETTER HALVES
A+
"A god shaped hole. The barren desolation of a fallen and failed creation. You see the light of long dead stars. Your existence is nothing but the echo of a dying god's screams. The unseen converges, surrounds you, and it tightens like a noose."
The absolute wave of dread I felt after hearing that.
I love it when multiple SCP's overlap, it adds so much depth and story to the verse.
Ok
someone needs to write this play and have it really preformed and maybe do an "anonymous" night where they do the version where the actors kill each other (staged of course not real)
They did. Its called hamlet.
No, they *actually* kill each other on stage.
Yes, I'd watch that along with the SCP musical
@@JackClockerinos scp 012
do it for real
17:47 “a native who was described as ‘having curves in all the right places’”
Me: Oh yes.
“Which made it easy to ignore the tentacles”
Me: *Oh YES!*
bold of them to assume the tentacles would be anything but an extra incentive
Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well :D
I want to invent unsee/unhear juice
Okay buddy calm down
Nice pfp.
The wandsman seems like fun character to explore, just a The Doctor/Stanford Pines/Rick Sanchez-esque dimensional explorer from some other dimension, and is chill enough to relay info and advice to this squishy human doctor who clearly doesn't know what he's gotten himself into.
omg you're right XD
049 👀
@@LanieMae No Ickis the wayward is a separate entity from the universe of Kul manas...you can read about him on 2264 and he even reacts with Iris Dark and Lolly in the Marshall carter and dark hub in the episode "dark and disquieting". 049 was a doctor in the hanged king's court as said in the series "Hanged king's comedy".
Gravity Falls?
have you seen the yellow sign?
Hello my good sir,do you have some times to spare for our beloved king in Yellow?
And also,have you seen the yellow sign any where?
If you have then please join up for our king Hastur's army.
Well I've got a tattoo of it so yeah
Hello there sir, i need you to say the true name of the king in yellow right now for your chance to win 200 dolins
hastur?
@@johnnygreenface jesus
*_“It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”_* is a direct quote from the NT book of Hebrews (ch. 10, vs. 31)
I don't know if there's any significance to this as it correlates to the story, but I thought it an interesting choice of words, nonetheless.
I can't BELIEVE this dude just flashed the yellow sign when he said "Hastur"
Speaking of, have you seen it?
I've had seen it.
It's just an "artistic representation" as are all drawings, illustrations and pictures of 096 so we're fine... I think .
I see what you did there!
Yup
I don't get it
When you were telling the story that The Hanged King play was based off, I thought you were just reading out a synopsis of Hamlet. The differences are so minuscule it's hard to believe Shakespear didn't come back from the dead just to sue the creator of this SCP for plagiarism
Hamlet if Clive Braker and Lovecraft wrote it.
Definitely had elements of Titus Andronicus as well.
...SCP ...addendum ...Shakespeare's vengeance
@@Ultimus31 I was also thinking Othello in some ways
@@Ultimus31 that's what i was thinking lmao. it was the birthright/murder elements from hamlet with the edginess and cannibalism of titus. most of my reaction to this video was just "i'm not saying it DIDN'T pull from the king in yellow i'm just saying maybe that's not the body of literature it nabbed the most from."
Organic clothings, masquarade masks that can't be removed.... kind reminds me of the Plague Doctor
Do you think that might be were he came from?
Even the 'Mask' and the plague doctor might save seen each other at some point maybe this is were they first met perhaps and somehow got into other world.
Edit: But thats just a theory A GAME THE..
oh nevermind lol
Shades of Mcbeth, otherworldly cities, The King in Yellow, and eldritch horrors? Man why hadn't I heard of this one sooner?! Great job on the narration!
Ðêrêk see, I’m just getting hamlet with that play with a few alterations
Exploring the SCP Foundation: The Never-ending Pizza Box (SCP-458)
*It's an interesting SCP on the wiki*
EchoTheWorld great suggestion
@@333hunnit8 ye
_PIZZA TIME_
Or the Never-ending Cupcake
@@luisiana1121 go on the wiki, it's an amazing scp
So, we're THAT dimension
We are now
Well, Yes you all are...
There comes the King and his crowd,
His subjects turned against him, taking his crown.
The cheering comes with flames of hate,
Burning and raging, bring the palace down.
乌声了却
黑星灿然
所谓缢王
凄凄艾艾
Gold and diamonds scatter on the ground,
Bodies of the royal lie around.
A mask from masquerade stained and broken,
As is his ruling falling apart.
座有荆棘
冠如锁链
异鬼幽冥
环伺其间
Rags on his body chains all around,
The King old and weak, losing his power.
A crow laughs and the jester cries,
The skeleton of a lion roars but halts.
舞宴盛然
裙裾招展
若是假面
笑乎悲哉
Upon the old tree the King was hanged,
His former subjects silently watch.
The chains are rusted and the rope is long,
Strangles and tightens squeezing the breath out.
高低楼阁
若虚若幻
迷墙回环
去不复返
The King mumbles and whispers as he lingers,
Praying to the dark gods we know not about.
Life slips from his body but deaths comes not,
His eyes cold and empty, his voice speaks of dark.
群氓列王
惊其辉煌
诸魔众神
怖其伟岸
Half-alive when he is buried,
Half-dead when he escapes.
Coming back to reclaim his kingdom,
With blood and rage and horrors from beyond.
庶民之血
缢王享之
愚者之血
尽献堂前
But a dead King rules not the living,
Until the living too find their tombs.
So the old kingdom is destroyed once more,
Only to build a new one for no mortal soul.
乌声纷然
黑星黯淡
所谓缢王
呜呼哀哉
And thus the Hanged King sits in his palace,
His lords serve him with broken masks.
But the chains bind him with pain and torment,
And the crows of death shall forever watch.
如是群鸦讪笑不止
That's a nice one
👏👏👏
Woah~
What is it
Very nicely written what's the other langue? Also is this a transcript of the king in yellow?
17:44 I have seen enough hentai to know where this is going.
That MTF member was a man of culture, I can't fault him at all.
Scp 395
How is dis comment from 2 days ago
18:34 yknow when i read that i thought of DR.Blasphemy from Brat Pack the comic
My lord..... is that what you have been doing while i was gone?
This is probably the most fascinating SCP I’ve ever heard of. The creativity of randos on the internet will never cease to impress me.
so 035 was a ruler of Alaggada, and 049 was a schoolar who try to help his people and for that was punished and traumatized... and now he sees the human empathy like the pestilence
That explains their connection to one another
@@high.fructose7534 thank you
i finna yeet
@@high.fructose7534 I think 49 is the black lord and 38 is the mask. So when they met up again they were all happy but his mind became corrupted like you said and broke the mask.
@@sirswag1802 Either way someone lost their marbles
31 Minutes hell yeah! Keep making SCP videos forever
I really hope he does
even after his death [REDACTED] years from now videos will still be uploaded, only this time they will be the REAL SCP's and the foundation will have a lifted vale scenario on their hands.
So the plot of the play is basically the most brutal parts of Hamlet and Titus Andronicus? N i c e
I love these longer in depth more obscure SCP videos.
This one is actually one of the most upvoted to the point that it was given heritage status thusly it can never be removed.
When you have an essay due tomorrow but The Exploring Series just uploaded.
Shrinch FACTSSSSSSS
Fuck me we really living the same life
Yooooo me to
Write the essay on the hanged king. Problem solved
When you have an essay due ten minutes ago but this in on your notifications
"But guys, she's got curves in all the right places"
L9 look[9 ok mo9 OP[koi P im ok iui
"Just ignore the tentacles. Seriously. It's not a big deal."
Plus tentacles. That's an added bonus
The tentacles made it better
HELP if anyone reading this is an SCP expert, I'm trying to recall a specific one which was a supposed cognito hazard on paper and therefore only D-class were allowed to read. It "supposedly" makes you forget stuff but in actuality were just instructions from the previous D-class to play along and pretend they forgot things after reading the piece of paper. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Edit: someone found it! Its 1693. Thanks to everyone who helped!
No I can't remember
leaving my comment to see the answer
@@boulderthefat154 😂😂😂
Wait what? What're you asking again?
Yeah
Scp 2521
I'm pretty sure that's the righ
The king in yellow is awsome really creepy mysterious entity.
"You see the light of long-dead stars. Your existence is nothing but the echo of a dying God's screams. The unseen convergence surrounds you and it tightens, like a noose."
HOLD UP. I wonder if this is the hint behind the reason the 5000 verse went to pot? Maybe what the Foundation discovered is that Humanity is not "real," but we are merely constructs of some Pattern Screamer, being manipulated subtly? Part of why this comes to mind is that there's some backing to this statement. Specifically, SCP 2154 is a Real-Time Telescope that shows that, yes, 72% of all stellar objects we normally see are, in fact, dead or otherwise hidden.
If this theory is true, it would explain a few things: 1) why Humanity is capable of Reality-Warping, either intrinsically or gained (like alchemy/thaumaturgy/anomalous art) and 2) how we can make things more "real" by believing in them. If we aren't a naturally-occurring form, but rather something conjured up by a Pattern Screamer, than we wouldn't "fit" with the typical rules of the "pattern." Between SCP 2000's existence and how liberally the GOC & Foundation [expunge], Redact or hide dangerous info (including with Amnestics) the question is raised of "Just how accurate IS our recorded history and knowledge base?."
Maybe the World isn't anomalous. WE ARE.
Holy shit the "dying god" mentioned possibly being the entity in 5000 is actually a really good theory
Bruh, im trying to enjoy the video on my break at work. I didn't need to think like this, so damn you and thank you.
Mate, you don't need to let them know the truth.
Take a moment to respirate and look at the space between your reflection touching the mirror's surface and your own hand, and think of the absence of nothing.
If that made any sense to you, welcome to the world of the aware, things are about to get strange.
There is an SCP-5000 explained article on Reddit which was confirmed by the SCP's author to be correct.
Wow, this was another outstanding video. The connection to scp 035, the sarkics, deavites, and SCP 507 was amazing. This is definitely one of my favorite scps now.
Also percival Darke ( deathless merchant of London) and Iris darke actually visits the universe of kul manas in the All that glitters cannon hub .
I gotta say no other person has gotten me interested in scp lore like you have. I love your work and other series so please keep up the good work!
Try Volgun then. He does fantastic SCP videos.
Yes, and do definitely try Volgun
Check out Lord Bung's series valled confined
I recently dove into the King in Yellow and appreciate how well the author captures the original writer’s vision in this adaptation
14:21 I looked away from my screen for a second and looked back I almost shit my pants.
@ the exploring series: why would you do that to us?
no i almost pissed myslef
I really enjoyed that edit, really nice touch which shows the mask's ability.
I touched my screen as soon as that happened and it freaked me the fuck out
Thanks for the warning
I lovr how you delve into the stories rather than just reading them verbatim.
This is probably one of my favorite SCP stories, connections to other SCPs and the world building is phenomenal
14:21 I saw the change out of the corner of my eye and almost had a heart attack
Paoluccio 64 Me to
I felt Like "oh hey" when i saw the change
@@cmanmonkeydog Yeah I was like, "Oh hello there!"
This is so eerie and unsettling on so many levels I absolutely love it
This is the most horrifying,unsettling,amusing, thrilling and in my opinion the best scp tale sever it truly is something out of this dimension
Just recently started getting into SCPs and honestly?? These are my favorite ones. IDK what it is about it, I just really like all the imagery of Alagadda.
"Left with far more questions than answers." well that's Lovecraft fiction down to a t.
When you have class in five hours and you haven't slept but the new Exploring the SCP Foundation vid is only 31 minutes long
The Alagadda and Hanged King narrative is easily the best in the whole SCP universe.
Just gotta say: I would love to see an epic continental spanning war between the followers of the hanged king, scarlet king, the Church of the Broken God and the Sarkicks
Watched the mask change, jumped, and instinctively yelled "Oh Fuck You!". Not the best thing to say at work but I stand by my statement.
ElementalDAR when does the mask change?
JJMusic217 14:13-14:22.
I just got to that part and that’s exactly what I thought
Hearing this makes me want a alagada roll playing game no clue what you'd do in it but it just sounds interesting to me
Honestly it sounds a lot like like Planescape, maybe that strikes yoi fancy, it's mostly known for it DND Module and Video game Planescape Torment though
This story is my absolute favorite of all the SCP stories I’ve heard.
Ambassador: *UNINTELLIGIBLE*
Translation: "Do you get to the cloud district often?..."
A movie about the hanged king's tragedy would be dope. The weird thing is the king in yellow is itself derived from superstitions around the Scottish play. So the it's almost like this whole thing is a cognito hazard that keeps evolving and breaking another 4th wall. First by effecting the player, then effecting the audience making them part of the play, then evolving further to effect the audience of the audience.
This is probably my favorite SCP story by far, and while I would never want to visit this realm in any capacity the idea of it is awesome.
The Hanged King is clearly some sort of un-god.
What is an un-god. Lol
Kevin Lucey it’s kind of like a god that destroys other gods, so imagine when the Crimson King ripped apart Mekhane, that’s what an ungod is
@@LethalMonarch ...because you said so?
Kevin Lucey don’t be a fucking douchebag bro
@@grilledleeks6514 you asked what an ungod is, so why are you being a dick to the only person who answered?
"Curves in all the right places, which made it easy to ignore the tentacles" Damn, you're speakin my language
I just started watching these and they're super interesting. I'm glad you found my recommended :)
How much are these agents paid exactly? Tons of them die in missions so how do they sustain all these loss? Surely there must be a very tempting contract for these people to sign up to certain madness/death/ worse.
I would imagine that they would get paid quite well and potentially receive notable benefits (if they survive of course). Also, I feel that the actual losses are not quite as big as they seem, as the dangerous ones (that kill more people) are more likely to end up as SCPs, while the more harmless items don't. So maybe for every mission that involves people dying, there are a couple dozen that have no casualties. However, this is really just a question of personal interpretation.
Noob Noob
There’s lots of tales that explain that all agents are compensated extremely well. Specifically the riskiest MTF’s get paid a lot and their families are looked after if they are killed in action.
Agents are also sourced from the military - so they’re all highly trained and in the grand scheme of things, not that many MTF agents are actually killed.
The highest casualties mainly seem to stem from alternate dimensions where the foundation is biting off more than they can chew - for instance it’s stated that only a minimum of 3 agents are required to recontain 682.
How can they train new recruits with how quickly and often they die? That's a far more interesting question, IMO. Skilled fighter pilots, for example, were not just given a 6 week flying lesson and tossed into a jet.
That's one of the issues with the expanding SCP universe. Before a few hundred anomalous objects that require 1-2 thousands of personnel to keep away from the world might be believable, but now there are thousands of SCPs, some require the full might of a small nation to contain.
One canon is that the Foundation is never that big, and due to end-of-the-world scenarios, never really had as many SCPs as the wiki contains at once.
One canon is the Foundation uses anomalous means to create manpower.
The other is that the anomalous community truly has more control over the non-anomalous one, such that thousands or even tens of thousands of personnel are hidden from the light of day and no one really notices it because they control everything.
The Sheet of Music, SCP-012 is possibly related to the Hanged King, seeing as it's something that makes the subject unwillingly trick itself to finish the piece of sheet music. The Coffin, 895, could also be related due to having the same effects, only via through the screen if i remember correctly.
Perfect music choice 👌
Damn right.
As an artist, Hastur always has a special place in my mind- I mean heart...
Earlier this year, before the outbreak, my schools drama department put on a production called Trap, a sort of horror-thriller that ends in a final scene where audience plants “die” in their seats.
This SCP reminds me of that production, now I want to write a Hanged Kings Tragedy where audience plants go mad and assault each other, while the King sits onstage surrounded with the “corpses” of the actors, crew, techies, and even the director who all took each other’s lives in fits of massive violence
Brb I’m gonna pitch this idea to my more creative friends and see where this goes
With this, our blood, it is the Hanged King's
You always make high quality content, but you really knocked it out of the park with this one!
I especially enjoyed many of the paintings used throughout the video, heavily reminiscent of Zdzislaw Beksinski's style.
This is by far my favorite SCP! It’s just so beautifully written, the designs, everything! I would love to read a whole book series based off this whole thing! God do I love this one
After sparrow
Three times called
After gull does
Three times fall
Come, maiden, mistress, mouse and hen
Come, fisher, farmer
Frog and wren
Once a king dressed in red
Warmed by the flames on feather bed
While all the town starving cried
Chilled by winds, the Month of Ice
Eat them of frost
Eat them of snow
The monarch decreed
To them below
Up on a spike
They perched his head
Cursed his name
Burned his stead
Hush-a-bye, dont be afright
Mama will sing through all the night
Many an hour before morning sun
Don't dream of horror yet to come...
I thought "The Brigmore Lullaby" fit this SCP well,so i wanted to share it.
Who wrote the poem?
(is Brigmore from Dishonored?)
Yea who?
😳
This has got to be my favorite SCP along with any SCP connected to Alagadda.
That was one of the most depressing yet awesome stories I've ever heard, great narration my guy.
Thank you so much!!! This is one of my favorite SCPs and I can’t think of anyone else who could do it justice in explaining it!
Edit: After listening to it, the amount of detail and research in tying this to other SCPs and tales is amazing! Thank you!!!
wow this was one of the best yet, it's so incredible that people can come up with this, just imagine making films based on this stuff. I really do love your scp videos, they're the best of all scp videos on TH-cam
"The Hanged King's Tragedy" is the love-child of Shakespeare's most bloody tragedies.
Does kind of sound like Hamlet with a bit of Macbeth mixed in.
All four of those colours and lords in allegada also represent the four points/ colours on the native American medicine wheel
Huh, I had always assumed it had to do with the four humors theory.
There is the possibility that SCP-3812 seems to have erased Alagadda from the existence on whatever the main universe of the canon is. While I am not sure how I feel about this, it certainly does explain why, if that tail is taken as true, the kingdom no longer exists on earth
Ugh. I would hate that personally but 3812 is an OP SCP for sure. I prefer to think the Kingdom itself is abstract and that it's a lot harder to remove it then just nuking a city. It is a concept, then again 3812 can destroy concepts and ascend as it seems.
To me it seemed more like 3812 is saying that 3812 is the reason Alaggada is so distant from our world, it started as part of ours, but was removed by the entity and now exists in this interdimensional limbo.
I believe that "he" relocated Alagadda after that XK event since "he" probably liked it or the people who knows it liked it.
TheLuckySpades Actually 3812 was attempted to be terminated by The KoA
I personally don’t think the tale is canon, because major timeline issues and the fact that 701-1 is an extremely ancient eldrich entity, as described in the Wanderers library
When the ambassador shows up, Ala-gotta get outta here.
@jash does stuff no he’s asking for a public common hanging
Yet another one that always confused me. Thanks for explaining, and please consider the "Class of '76" series of SCP's
Ah yes. Omega-7?
"Alagada" means "Flooded" in portuguese,maybe "Alaggada" is in Latim,wich has many words similar to the ones found in the portuguese lenguage.
The last letter in "Alagada" ((letter "a",obviously)) makes it a feminine word,since some words like "tree" ((Árvore in portuguese)) are considered a feminine word,even tho it has no relation to genders.
I'm portuguese and I confirm
Lmao
@@antoniocasco2617 I'm brazilian,but pretty much every word in our lenguages are the same,so it doesn't change the fact you can agree
Just wanted to help
@@antoniocasco2617 Never said you weren't mah boah
I still can't express how good these videos are. They are just AMAZING, some of the best content on the internet.
*My blood, it is the Hanged King's.*
I'd rather keep mine inside my body, thank you very much.
João Figueiredo Pereira
IT IS THE HANGED KING'S
Truly one of your best SCP stories you’ve done so far. Thank you sir
I absolutely love the SCP universe. I used to be obsessed with Lovecraft's universe (still slightly am), but have since become more obsessed with the SCP universe.
Same here! The Hanged King got me into The King In Yellow and helped me with one of my fics! I had a lot of fun with the Gothic Horror references!
Man The Exploring Series man I love when do these long in-depth SCPs like these please keep up the great work and idk why (at the time of watching this) 11 dislikes is beyond on me how could anyone dislike this this is amazing work you’ve done
I absolutely adore this community
12:58 can we just appreciate how the Wandsmen were foreshadowed in Series 3?
12 k views at 2 in the morning. You make good content and this should show that. Keep it up we love ya
outside of the Lovecraftian lore: The Hanged king could also reference Odin, God king of the Norse Pantheon. It is said that he hung himself form the world tree, Yggdrasil, for nine days and nine nights in an attempt to learn more of the world and the realms that inhabit it.
holy shit......the SCP foundation lore is the ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY best thing ive ever listened to on a head full of powerful mushrooms.....
“Curves in all the right places making it easy to avoid the tentacles!”
Sounds like he knows Vanessa!
You're one of the best scp channels out there, you don't just read what's on the document like most of the scp channels, you explain them, use a fitting music and make things more interesting which adds a lot to the overall mystery
Finally, someone who explores the scp universe with decent audio quality.
This is rather underrated it incorporates so many aspects of the SCP universe