DEPARTMENT: ANOMALOUS THEOLOGY
God is dead. Or maybe not. And he might not be alone. This department deals with divine entities, anomalous cults, sacred artifacts, and religious phenomena. Their job is to exorcise, negotiate with, or contain beings that operate on a theological power level.
Primary Function: Neutralization and expulsion of hostile spiritual entities (demonic, angelic).
Operational Specifics: A unit of 2-3 specialists (a lead exorcist and supports) trained to perform standardized exorcism rites in hostile environments.
Primary Function: Intelligence gathering and sabotage of anomalous religious groups.
Operational Specifics: Undercover agents specialized in infiltrating cults to study their doctrine, identify the leader, and assess the threat from within.
Primary Function: Creation of perimeters and barriers of a sacred or profane nature.
Operational Specifics: A team that does not directly engage the threat, but performs rituals to create spiritual barriers (e.g., salt circles, consecrated boundaries) to contain it.
Primary Function: Identification and analysis of infernal entities.
Operational Specifics: An experienced researcher in the hierarchy, seals, true names, and vulnerabilities of demonic entities cataloged in the "Liber Daemonica".
Primary Function: Academic analysis of anomalous religions and mythologies.
Operational Specifics: A scholar who analyzes sacred texts and the doctrines of cults to understand their cosmology and identify theological weaknesses.
Primary Function: Imprint sacred properties in objects and places.
Operational Specifics: An individual capable of blessing water, consecrating salt, or sanctifying an area, rendering it anathema to specific hostile entities.
Primary Function: Management of high-level demonic possessions and manifestations.
Operational Specifics: An exorcist of exceptional willpower and knowledge, reserved for cases that have proven resistant to standardized rites.
Primary Function: Study and interpretation of anomalous religious symbols.
Operational Specifics: An expert in semiotics and religious iconography who can decipher the meaning and power of sacred symbols, seals, and icons.
Primary Function: Quantitative measurement of devotion and divine power.
Operational Specifics: A technician who uses a specialized meter to measure the energy generated by faith, allowing the quantification of a deity's power or the sincerity of a cult.
Primary Function: The Foundation's database on infernal entities.
Operational Specifics: An encrypted ledger that catalogs every demon, devil, or other infernal entity encountered, complete with seal, rank, and known banishing methods.
Primary Function: A register of all known or suspected divine entities.
Operational Specifics: A dossier that lists the deities, their sphere of influence, the number of worshippers (if any), and their general alignment towards the Foundation.
Primary Function: A digital library of dangerous religious texts.
Operational Specifics: Secure and analyzed copies of grimoires, apocryphal gospels, and other sacred texts whose content is informatively or memetically dangerous.
Primary Function: Access to information and resources from major world religions.
Operational Specifics: A network of high-level contacts within organizations such as the Vatican, Al-Azhar University, etc., for consultation and discreet collaboration.
Primary Function: Supply of basic tools for the performance of banishing and purification rituals.
Operational Specifics: A briefcase containing holy water, consecrated salt, ritual oils, sacred symbols of various faiths, and a text of standard exorcisms.
Primary Function: Provide passive protection against hostile entities.
Operational Specifics: A small blessed object (a crucifix, a medal, a fragment of a relic) that offers the operator weak but constant spiritual protection.
Primary Function: Quantitative measurement of devotion and divine power.
Operational Specifics: A portable device that measures the energy generated by faith, allowing to quantify the power of a deity or the sincerity of a cult.
Primary Function: Temporary containment of non-corporeal spiritual entities.
Operational Specifics: An obsidian mirror, inscribed with binding seals, capable of trapping a spirit or a soul that is reflected in it.
Primary Function: Rapid creation of a secure area against spiritual entities.
Operational Specifics: A kit containing a large bag of ritually purified salt and tools to quickly draw a protective circle impenetrable to most spirits.
Primary Function: Creation of a powerful bait for divine or demonic entities.
Operational Specifics: An artifact (often single-use) of great spiritual value which, once activated, powerfully attracts entities of a specific sphere of influence (e.g., "blood of a saint" for demons).
Primary Function: A liquid effective against almost all hostile entities of a spiritual nature.
Operational Specifics: Water from a Safe-class SCP source that exhibits anathemic properties for a wide range of entities, regardless of their mythological origin.
Primary Function: A powerful focus for rituals of sanctification and protection.
Operational Specifics: An authenticated fragment of a relic of great power (e.g., a nail from a crucifixion) that enormously amplifies positive rituals.
Primary Function: Forced expulsion of spiritual entities from a host or from an area.
Operational Specifics: A syncretic and de-dogmatized version of exorcism rites, developed by the Foundation to be effective against a wide range of entities.
Primary Function: Weakening of a divine entity through the erosion of its base of faith.
Operational Specifics: A strategy that involves attacking a god not physically, but by spreading doubts, heresies, or a counter-mythology among its worshippers to deprive it of power.
Primary Function: Imprisonment of an infernal entity within an object or a host.
Operational Specifics: An extremely high-risk ritual that does not banish a demon, but binds it to a physical container, often to study or interrogate it.
Primary Function: To make a containment cell hostile to spiritual entities.
Operational Specifics: A ritual performed periodically to "bless" the walls of a cell, preventing demons or spirits from crossing them or manifesting within.
Primary Function: Spread of an ideology to counter an anomalous cult.
Operational Specifics: A coordinated campaign with IntCom and InfoSec to create and disseminate a "counter-religion" or a heresy designed to undermine the theological foundations of a hostile cult.
Primary Function: Approval to interrogate a bound entity.
Operational Specifics: Formal authorization to interact with an imprisoned demonic or angelic entity, an extremely high-risk procedure for psychological compromise.
Primary Function: Long-term containment of powerful spiritual entities.
Operational Specifics: A containment cell whose walls are permanently consecrated and inscribed with glyphs of interdiction, and whose access is protected by ritual barriers.
Primary Function: Secure storage of anomalous religious artifacts.
Operational Specifics: A vault protected by purification rituals that houses all sacred or profane objects too dangerous to be left unattended.
Primary Function: The archive of all the texts and religious knowledge of the Foundation.
Operational Specifics: A secure library containing not only anomalous texts, but also every known sacred and apocryphal text, for comparative analysis.