The Byakhee are a fictional race of interstellar beings in the Cthulhu Mythos. Cthulhu mythos (often capitalized: Cthulhu Mythos) is the term coined by the writer August Derleth to describe the shared elements, characters, settings, and themes in the works of H.P. Lovecraft and associated writers. ...
Byakhee in the mythos
There flapped rhythmically a horde of tame, trained, hybrid winged things.... not altogether crows, nor moles, nor buzzards, nor ants, nor decomposed human beings, but something I cannot and must not recall. —H. P. Lovecraft, "The Festival" H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. ...
The Byakhee often serve Hastur the Unnameable. Since the beings are made of ordinary matter, they can be injured by normal weapons such as pistols. Byakhee can fly through space and can carry a rider, though the rider needs protection from the vacuum and cold by suitable spells or potions. Byakhee live in interstellar space, but may be summoned to Earth to perfom tasks or to serve as steeds. Similar flying creatures appear in Robert E. Howard's Conan stories. Hastur is a fictional character from the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecrafts short stories; the name was borrowed from Robert W. Chambers, who, in turn, had borrowed it from Ambrose Bierce. ... The distribution of ionized hydrogen (known by astronomers as H II (aitch two) from old spectroscopic terminology) in the parts of the Galactic interstellar medium visible from the Earths northern hemisphere (from the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper Survey) In astronomy, the interstellar medium (or ISM) is the matter and... Conan is the anglicized version of the Gaelic male name Conán, which means little wolf or little hound, derived from cú (grammatically changed to con), meaning hound or wolf, and the diminutive suffix án. ...
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Byakhee, the star-seeds, a lesser servitor race from H.P. Lovecraft's fiction.
The byakhee fly through space and are capable of transporting passengers, though they offer no protection from the vacuum and cold to such unfortunates.
The byakhee are described as "hybrid winged things....not altogether crows, nor moles, nor buzzards, nor ants, nor decomposed human beings, but something I cannot and must not recall." - H.P. Lovecraft, "The Festival."
In fact many sorcerers use Byakhees as mounts using this ability to travel to the Outer Dark and then to travel to other worlds or to any other point in their world almost instantly.
Byakhee are the spawn of Hastur and are bred from its foul mass in the depths of Lake Hali on a world orbiting the star Aldebaran.
Although most summoned creatures will resist a summoning Byakhee were bred to be mounts for others and most oft will opt to forgo their saving throw and arrive of their own free will.
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