The Ambassador of Alagadda is a powerful cosmic entity who directly interacts with the Hanged King. A vain yet reputable servant, the Ambassador is the King's representative in and outside of Alagadda, despite none of his words being the King's.
Discovered by the SCP Foundation through his macabre acting career, the Ambassador's presence on the stage was classified as SCP-701-1. Following the Foundation expeditions into Alagadda, the Ambassador was classified again as SCP-2264-4.
Biography[]
After Alagadda became an interdimensional nexus, the Ambassador of Alagadda became one of the Hanged King's closest advisors, alongside the four masked lords. As the Hanged King himself could not move from his palace in Alagadda, the Ambassador became a key agent of the monarch, representing him in other realms of the multiverse, such as the Kingdom of Adytum.
During his rise in power, the Ambassador allied with the White, Yellow, and Red Lords to exile the Black Lord, since the lattermost had figured out that the Ambassador intentionally left the King in chains and did not wish to see him rule. The plan worked, and the Anguished Mask of the Black Lord was successfully exiled to "a dreadful dimensional backwater", while the Ambassador watched the carnival parade trample the lord's original body.
During one of his embassies to the "backwater" planet of Earth, sixteenth century playwright Christopher Marlowe found audience with the Ambassador. The Ambassador influenced Marlowe to write a five-act revenge tragedy inspired by the King of Alagadda, entitled The Hanged King's Tragedy. After the composition of the quarto, the Ambassador began to play himself in the occasional performance, donning the funeral rags and chains of the Hanged King. Proclaiming tribute to Hanged King through blood sacrifices, the Ambassador would drive the cast to murder-suicides, and the audience into a violent delirium.
In the twentieth century, the Ambassador's theatrework drew the attention of the SCP Foundation, which designated his stage persona as SCP-701-1. At some point after that, the Foundation's presence arrived in the fabled Alagadda. One of the city's inhabitants, Ickis the Wayward, provided Dr. Calixto Narváez with knowledge of the Ambassador and King of Alagadda. With Narváez' return to Earth, the Ambassador was provisionally designated SCP-2264-4.
The Ambassador became knowledgeable of an expedition where Mobile Task Force Psi-9 "Abyss Gazers" was in search of him and the King. Upon the task force's arrival to the palace, the Ambassador confronted the intruders with sadistic intent. Using his powers on Psi-9 (either maiming them personally or forcing the bodies to brutalize each other for his amusement), the Ambassador killed eleven of the twelve agents. The Ambassador dragged the surviving agent, Alexander Papadopoulos, to the king. Setting the mangled agent at the foot of the throne, the Ambassador lifted the veil that covered the Hanged King's face, scarring Papadopoulos' mind with his visage. Satiated with the mortal's torture, the Ambassador returned Papadopoulos to the Janus Gate he and his team had arrived through, sending the sole survivor as a warning to the Foundation for further missions to the city and a display of the human race's insignificance to it.