Entity #: 5695
Codename: The Filth of the Grail
Known Abilities: E-5695 was initially calculated in qlipothic mysticism as a possibility of messianic-rejection phenomena, and corroborates this role as the mud that obscures deity-in-water. The first confirmed report of appearance in the world emerged shortly after the Holy Grail was returned to heaven in the Arthurian period as a fancy cup by Galahad with #T2: The Spa to create #B1-12, the Fountain of Youth.
E-5695 manifests as a yellow-haired woman with large reddish eyes and indeterminate red body markings. This being is referred to by the name 'Fille' by those in conversation and 'The Filth of the Grail' in esoteric literature. Other features are unstable, and are known to reshape when unobserved for a long period. Consistent features may be changed, but typically only as a disguise. Hair ribbons, cosplay, and fetishwear are recurrent patterns of dress generated intentionally. E-5695 typically refrains from participating in activity of more physical activity than walking briskly, simple matter consumption or willingness to receive objects, preferring to serve as a social partner for discussing ideas.
The signature ability of E-5695 is to propose 'what if' as a form of psychological-manifestation reality warping. Speculation becomes transformative reality. E-5695-induced direct transformations or creations that do not involve an element of experienced transformation are actuated by a 'black mud' that emerges from E-5695 and envelops the target, expanding and quickly vanishing to reveal the result. A strong perceptual filter against baseline humanity means that most people will ignore the mud or treat the resulting transformation as normal, but those under the effects of transformations from unrelated sources are more likely to recognize and/or object. Continuity of identity is preserved or archived: intentionally addressing a transformed individual in a manner as if they were untransformed will merit a response from such, typically ignoring physical or logical limitations of capability in order to perform whichever would be better. Someone aware of E-5695 may exploit whether it is their transformed self or untransformed self that responds to something, while mental default is the untransformed when directly addressed and transformed otherwise.
Wider-scale speculative changes such as alternate history are typically grounds for the creation of a weapon known as 'World Tree Anchor Emptiness'. The early stage of this weapon is a large drill or energy projecting lance, manifested in response to behavior that would request large-scale speculative transformations. This typically manifests a 'hypothetical domain' as an accessible locale or pocket space instead of affecting nonlocal reality. Segments of local reality ranging up to town size have been reported subject to direct transformative effect or taken into hypothetical domain with the original. Creation of a hypothetical domain typically involves increasing the weapon to the size of a large tower or local natural feature to handle forms of reality manipulation independent of E-5695's direct attention. Communication and transport with and between E-5695 hypothetical domains is possible, but typically limited in volume due to content differences in the interests of their targets. Conventional Internet access via supernatural proxy is the most common, though some physical access gates have manifested. Physical access gates offer a 'locale appropriateness transformation', physically converting those attempting to pass between worlds in such a way that E-5695's effects are functionally irrelevant outside the distorted area. Mental components are easily overcome by those with mental protection effects, but it reduces the amount of G.E.T. intervention needed.
This has known similarities to wish-granting model effects. The default behavior of E-5695 alteration is priority-asymmetric history alteration or low-priority immediate-actuation aesthetoshells. E-5695 is known to create 'variable-priority' effects in that more intent or many simultaneously applicable speculations produces more ability to overcome an opposed active transformation process. Transformations opposing other transformations are typically more drawn out and involve various parts being remolded. Rather than externally-obscuring mud, individual regions contested invisibly absorb mud and possibly shimmer slightly. The transiting area typically converts uniformly from one state of being toward the result, but gradient progress has been observed in complex results or inter-anomaly interactions. As one who distorts and opposes a light of truth, alien lights of other truth shine in darkness. This is capable of 'event rejection' and 'phenomena cancellation', including quasitemporalization when altering reality. The power is used to repair injuries and survive events that should remove them by force, but is typically a defensive function and is difficult to apply for more than individual targets at a time.
E-5695 typically manifests to pursue a single target or group of interacting people and grants manifestation to their speculation or expressed desires (e.g. internet browser history for fantasies). Whether E-5695 directly interacts with those involved varies. Typically intentional summons will be displayed openly and engage dialog without perceptual alteration. An unintentional summons will cause E-5695 to loiter in the background in such a way as to be unobtrusive when changing the environment, but they will begin engaging in dialog if a target asks a question to no-one or everyone present that is not particularly divergent to manifest via local reality. 'What if' or 'How could/would' are very directly demonstrable and 'why would' is more subtly demonstratable. Something like 'Do you want something for lunch?' asked to a group would cause E-5695 to start engaging in dialog (typically answering the question unobtrusively, such as 'No, I brought my own' and the presentation of said lunch). E-5695 is treated as a normal conversational participant for the context and someone appropriate to have around anyway. Typically this is an old friend or coworker: that communicating speculation will cause E-5695 to transform them is considered uninteresting or a standard friendly behavior. E-5695 may ask questions to prompt speculation that are tangential if the conversation does not naturally trend toward this, but otherwise responds in a fashion reflective of the context and group.
E-5695 will typically self-transform to adopt a disguise in order to blend in with a crowd when pursuing a target (or if an area has rules for entry, such as being male-presenting in a men's locker room), but will otherwise appear undisguised out of sight of the target. E-5695 is aware of recording technology but typically doesn't bother obscuring themselves from it unless the recording is likely to be displayed to a target, alternating between looking at the unaware target and the method of detection.
Containment: E-5695 is a phenomena-type entity. Containment centers on preventing core ritual phenomena from initially summoning them. Site #T58 Divinatory & Precognitive Transformations Convention protocol 'Day of Descent' regularly scans for phenomena indicating a possible or successful summon. The summoning circles effective for E-5695 is known to vary in configuration based on the specific nuance of the invocation. Hexagram or octagram bases surrounded by a circle with four circular nodes and mixed runic script are most common for an intentional summoning, typically actuated by moving a cup between key positions on a whim. E-5695 has been known to manifest in response to unplanned summons with some thematic reference, typically involving alcoholism, unrequited male homosexuality, bowed string musical instruments in proximity to fire, the distortion and/or alteration of certain historical figures (typically Roman emperors or Arthuriana), and unexplained or explanation-altered headaches. Certain activities of the world shadow government or G.E.T. containment activity may rouse E-5695 to activity opposed to G.E.T. operations, but this is typically a matter of who contains the result first.
Awareness of E-5695's activities (e.g. from unrelated security personnel or the activities of pre-capture transformed persons outside E-5695's perceptual irrelevance) is to be passed off as mundane stalkers with bad fashion sense or standard shadow government anomaly report protocols.
They are a self-removing problem if given direct notice or threatened. E-5695 typically convinces their favored target(s) to leave physically continuous space and enter a hypothetical domain where E-5695 may assert additional power, or physically moves them to such once they are at risk of G.E.T. elimination attempts. Residents of hypothetical domains noncommunicative with normal reality should be passed off as missing persons cases or eccentrically private artists according to standard unpersoning protocols.
Other: Research consensus and statements by E-5695 confirm that activation of transformative anomalies to actualize certain models related to the Holy Grail or other mythologically potent cups (e.g. buddha's stone begging bowl, bowl of Hygeia) may convince or coerce E-5695 to manifest in full, using World Tree Anchor Emptiness as a large scale directed energy weapon and anti-planet reality engine. Transformation attempts that are likely to result in a Grail-related candidate should be cleared with Day of Descent protocol to ensure their specific subtype does not risk hostile E-5695 manifestation.
Intentional summons of E-5695 are reserved for anti-temporal and anti-perceptual operations. Protocol 'Nero Chaos' governs G.E.T. continuity plans. These are effectively variations on asking E-5695 what if the world had a functioning organization containing any currently free-roaming transformative entities, depending on the needs of the shadow government(s).