IX Mythos Bestiary A byakhee's bloated abdomen contains the byakhee’s What You See hune organ, which enables it to fly through space at faster-than-light speed It also allows the creature to issue a shriek that reverberates across vast distances and even backward in time to arrange for allies to arrive almost instantly Byahkee are commonly summoned to serve as spacefaring steeds for cults of Great Old Ones and Outer Gods This flying organism resembles an arthropod with a bloated abdomen It has huge claws, wings, and an insectoid head In combat, a byakhee summons an ally and then relies on its claws and proboscis to drain blood from its foes It cannot be injured by extreme cold or sonic attacks, and its wholly alien mind renders it immune to mind-affecting effects "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 305