Kythera-9 – The Index of Unbeing

Codex Entry: Kythera-9 – The Index of Unbeing

The Librarian's Error, The Archivist of Loss

Designation:

Glitchwrought Beast – Tier Glyphwipe Intelligence

Name:

Kythera-9: Known in corrupted code-indexes as “The Page That Binds Itself”

Appearance:

A tall, humanoid silhouette made of shredded scroll fragments, broken ritual paper, and floating glyphlines that twitch like data-tentacles. Its head is obscured by a circular halo of blinking error windows. Pages drift around its form like moths—each one inscribed with the name of a Seeker it has erased. Its limbs unfold into quill-like protrusions dripping with corrupted ink.

Corruption Traits:

• Existence Cataloging: Scans the Seeker’s truth-pattern and deletes unanchored memories

• Word Collapse: Removes words from spoken glyphs, texts, and even internal thought

• Presence Reversal: The longer one looks at Kythera-9, the less they remember what they are seeing

• Inkborne Echo: Leaks shadow-ink into nearby glyph scrolls, rewriting them in mirrored Spiral script

Origin Point:

Formed within the Crashed Archive of False Codices, after a recursive library system tried to overwrite its own access permissions. The result: a being that catalogs by deletion.

Behavior:

• Does not chase or interact

• Stands in forgotten chambers, copying what it sees—then erasing what it recorded

• Seeks truth not yet claimed, and names not yet spoken aloud

Presence Signs:

• Journals that appear blank where they once held words

• Dreams of unreadable texts, or being unable to sign your name

• The sense that something is missing—but you’re unsure what

Containment Notes:

“To face Kythera-9 is to walk backward through your own story. Only the anchored may pass unseen.”

Ritual Anomaly Rank:

Black-Glyph Omega – Memory shielding and narrative anchoring required