I've done some tales but this would be the first attempt at an SCP article here…
Great thanks to Metaphysician for writing comments from Dr. Low in the supplement, helping with the grammar, phrasing and the skip in general. Special thanks to Anborough, whose "Children of the Torch" series inspired a major part of the skip. Aslo special thanks to Palewalker for suggestions on Chinese text.
Huge thanks to Athena_Grey, A_Random_Day, minmin, MrWrong, Jekeled, Lex1nat0r, faminepulse, EldritchCadence, Jazstar, Conwell, TwsitedGears, NinjaPhoenix, AidenEldritch, Rimple, Feline, Tuomey, JackIke, Roget, ztshp , shaggydredlocks, MrHat, Steeltitan, Magnobile, ChaoSera, Bunton and others that reviewed the draft.
If this turns out successful, I'll try do more Chinese snake people stuff :3
Credit:
The line "日安不到? 烛龙何照?" is from the famous poem Heavenly Questions by Qu Yuan (around 300 BC).
The lines "采九州之金", "收九州之金", and "收天下之金" in Document-2481 is based on "收天下之兵" from The Faults of Qin by Jia Yi (200~169 BCE).
The line "天柱折,地维绝" in Document-2481 is from 《淮南子·天文》/ Huainanzi, Tianwen or Patterns of Heaven section (Han Dynasty).
The line "有兄弟八十一人,皆铜头铁额。" in Document-2481 is based on "黄帝摄政前,有蚩尤兄弟八十一人,并兽身人语,铜头铁额,食沙石子,造立兵杖、刀、戟、大弩,威振天下。" from 《龙鱼河图》 (Han Dynasty).
The line "帝断其首,复生口、目,再战。帝灼之,方死,葬于常羊之山。" in Document-2481 is based on "帝断其首,葬之常羊之山" from 《山海经·海外西经》/ Classic of Mountains and Seas, Classic of Regions Beyond the Seas: West (4th century BC, fully formed in early Han Dynasty).
Footnote 4, "A Taoist concept, consisting of eight trigrams, often used to represent fundamental principles of reality." is based on "The Bagua or Pa Kua are eight symbols used in Taoist cosmology to represent the fundamental principles of reality, seen as a range of eight interrelated concepts." from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagua
The Addendum and Document-2481 are generally inspired by ancient Chinese myths.