Byakhee
A Byakhee is a inter-dimensional being described as a combination of bat, bird, and insect, a vaguely humanoid creature with an insectoid, segmented body, membranous batlike wings, and taloned birdlike legs. There are believed to be two separate species named Byakhees (or two sub-species of Byakhees) but there is no confirmation of this. What differences may exist between the two is also unknown. They are servants of Hastur and are instrumental in many of his rituals. Byakhees can be summoned as a method of interstellar travel. Byakhees have an organ in their abdomens called a Hune. This organ allows the Byakhees to travel vast distances in space so quickly that it may appear to be teleportation to some. It is unknown whether this is done through the opening of a wormhole, bending of time and space or if it gives the Byakhee the ability to break the light-speed barrier.
Quotes
- "...Asteroids live and breathe and planets fall in love
Bat-beings groan and seethe and fit you like a glove
Traverse Orion's leg in the blink of an eye
Warm hands at dying suns and boiling midnight skies..."
- The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, "Slave Ship" - "Byakhee, Byakhee, fly me through space
take me away, far from this place
Byakhee, Byakhee, what must I do
to go for a ride with you?
Byakhee, Byakhee, now heed my call
I've done the spells, I've done them all
Out of the Tartarean darkness appear
and fly me away from here...
Byakhee, Byakhee, I hear your wings
I smell - a smell? What are those... things?
Byakhee, Byakhee, what have we done?
This suddenly isn't fun.
I don't know how to describe you;
To see you is a mind-blowing thing.
Not moles, crows, nor ants are quite like you,
nor partially decomposed human beings
Byakhee, Byakhee, now that you're here
I've changed my mind; I'm filled with fear
People who go with you don't reappear
So leave me alone, I'll stay at home
I will forget we ever met
I must not and won't recall."
- "Byakhee, Byakhee" - The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
