SCP Foundation

Hub page for the Eschatology canon.

Feel free to ask questions or give critique on what's here.

Holy crap, 598.

Also, I have to say, this is my favorite of the contest's canons. There are tales in other canons that I like more than most of this canon's tales, and there are canons that have more upvotes per tale from me than Eschatology, but when viewed as a whole, and not just a collection of tales, I think Eschatology does more and better than any of the other canons.

The writer's guide is nice too.

In the process of writing one of them Awakenings-type vignette collections for this. I'll run it past the team members once I'm finished with the last bit.

Anyways, the writer's guide here is very helpful.

Oh man, this was a really great canon, the Horseman stories especially. (I'm still looking forward to Pestilence!) It makes me want to try working with some of my own more innocuous SCPs to see how they might bring about the end of the world.

"Wow" seems woefully insufficient, but I'm pretty sure that this is the sort of thing that the exclamation was initially created to describe.

So.

Wow.

More please.

If nobody writes an Awakenings chapter featuring a bunch of the -J articles I will be sorely disappointed.

I'd write it myself, but a combination of my huge procrastination issues (of which this very post is almost certainly an example) and my lack of confidence in being able to pull off the humour are causing me to hesitate - not to say that I'll never attempt it, but there's no real guarantee either way.

I am pleased to award you all with the "competitive-eschatology" tag.

Updated with entries from Bright & TroyL. :D

(Also, for those of you who haven't checked since the contest, there are also new entries from Skara Brae, Gaffney, and Scantron. Read 'em all!)

I've been doing some thinking about canons lately, and I've realized… this isn't really a canon. My main point for this argument is the fact that there are "secret story arcs". Especially this part here:

If your story doesn't fit into the main plot, then we'll call it a 'splinter' canon and maybe link it in a different section on this page. This includes stories that contradict planned "Secret Story Arc" material.

In my opinion, this makes this a story arc, not a canon. If you want to write something about, say, Zeus and the Greek Gods not knowing what to do because there was never an apocalypse story written about any of them, and that contradicts the secret story arcs, you get shoved off into something that pretty much says "This is non-canon because the original writers say so." This is especially troubling since one of the writers we have to contact, Sophia Light, hasn't posted or been in chat since September.

This is not how a canon works. A canon should be collaborative, building off of the material of each other. By saying that "if you don't conform to this to the letter, then you can't be in the big playground with the rest of the boys", you've made this an exclusionary story arc that only people who know the full details can write about.

I like the work, still, but in my eyes, this is not a canon, and in its current state, can never be one. This is just my two cents.

Hi, it looks like people haven't really been contributing to this canon. Does that mean that it's over or ended? Did people just run out of steam? Are people still writing?