“These things… these forces, they are our fear. Deep fears. Primordial. Always looking for ways to grow and spread.”
– Gerard Keay, MAG 111
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What Are Smirke’s 14?
The Entities, also called the Fears, the Powers, the Dread Powers, and The Things That Were Fear are the principle antagonists of The Magnus Archives, and the phenomena that more mundane and earthly antagonists serve.
They are various aspects of an amorphous force of fear that exists next to reality. They are variously also referred to as „Gods“, „powers“, or simply as „the Fears“. Their influence upon reality manifests as supernatural happenings — all supernatural phenomena in the world are simply extensions of them. These phenomena can take various forms such as people, animals, monsters, books, objects, or places, all with the goal of evoking fear, terror, and paranoia from all who encounter them.
These entities do not simply feed off of fear but are fears made manifest. It is not only human fear that counts but that of animals as well, particularly for The Flesh and The Hunt. The more fearful the world is of a certain thing, the more powerful the related entity becomes, becoming empowered by the increased fear of its realm of influence.
Smirke’s 14
Explanation Video:
Artifacts and Avatars
| Entity | Artifacts | Avatars |
| The Buried | The Coffin The Box DIG (Book) Seven Lamps of Architecture | „The Governor” Enrique MacMillian Hezekiah Wakely |
| The Corruption | ||
| The Dark | ||
| The Desolation | ||
| The End | ||
| The Eye | ||
| The Flesh | ||
| The Hunt | ||
| The Lonely | ||
| The Slaughter | ||
| The Spiral | ||
| The Stranger | ||
| The Vast | ||
| The Web | ||
| The Extinction |
Rituals
- The Buried
- The Sunken Sky
- The Corruption
- Attack on the Magnus Archives London (by Jane Prentiss)
- The Dark
- The Extinguished Sun
- The Desolation
- The End
- The Eye
- The Flesh
- The Hunt
- The Lonely
- The Slaughter
- The Spiral
- The Stranger
- The Vast
- The Web
- The Extinction
You who watch and know and understand none!
You who listen and hear and will not comprehend!
You who wait and wait and drink in all that is not yours by right!Come to us in your wholeness!
Come to us in your perfection!
Bring all that is fear and all that is terror and all that is the awful dread that crawls and chokes and blinds and falls and twists and leaves and hides and weaves and burns and hunts and rips and bleeds and dies!
Come to us!I
Open the door!
-The Archivist