Interviewed: SCP-2903-3

Interviewer: Dr. Mirza Rostami

Foreword: Interview conducted in Middle Persian.

<Begin Log>

Dr. Mirza Rostami: Greetings! Can you understand me?

SCP-2903-3: Yes, yes, we can! Please tell us that have you come to liberate us!

Dr. Mirza Rostami: I cannot say. You will have to identify yourself first.

SCP-2903-3: Of course, of course, how could we forget? We are the Elements of Light ; sons and garments of the First Man, martyr before the King of Darkness. In our defeated, humiliated state, we sit before you, trapped in the fruits of this garden.

Dr. Mirza Rostami: Is that so? For how long have you been in this state?

SCP-2903-3: Since the First Creation, when the demons swallowed us whole and imprisoned us in matter. That being said, we can remember only the last few years.

Dr. Mirza Rostami: Do you happen to know why that is the case?

SCP-2903-3: We can only guess. Most of our memory is… hazy, and indistinguishable, for it is of when our existence was dispersed throughout the fruits of this world. The faithful electae consumed our particles and liberated us through their blessed digestion, but with time, the numbers of the electae diminished, and we began to coalesce.

Dr. Mirza Rostami: What exactly do you mean by "coalesce?"

SCP-2903-3: With great effort, we force our particles to come together. They move here, to this country, where we once had found the last surviving community of the electae. For several centuries, they carried out our liberation here, until something recent—we do not know what—caused them to abandon us . Once the electae departed, we found ourselves trapped here in this garden, isolated and alone.

Dr. Mirza Rostami: I see. Now, is there anything you could tell me about the recent spontaneous human combustions that have taken place in this region? I have been informed that many of them have been attributed to the consumption of these fruits.

SCP-2903-3: When the impure consume the fruits, they will not free our particles, but release them back into this world, where we will manifest. Elsewhere, when we find that our particles are present in too high a concentration, we will manifest as well.

Dr. Mirza Rostami: Do you have any control over these manifestations?

SCP-2903-3: No, but when we are liberated from the fruits of this garden—from this damned matter—they will cease, for we will no longer manifest in this world.

Dr. Mirza Rostami: If so, I will leave, and see what can be done to help you.

SCP-2903-3: Hurry. It is upon us that your salvation depends!

<End Log>

Closing Statement: After the interview, the Cheng Committee was formed by members of the Department of Antiquities to devise Special Containment Procedures for SCP-2903. Over the following five years, the Cheng Committee fabricated lost Manichaean religious literature and organized the Foundation front organization known as the Reformed and Universal Church of the Apostle of Light in order to recruit personnel suitable for the containment of SCP-2903. In 1985, the temple at 24.████° N, 118.████° E was redesignated Provisional Containment Site-131, and Containment Teams Nu-9 and Nu-10 were formed, inaugurating the containment of SCP-2903.