R'lyeh: Endless Night

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These are meant to be a mostly undead race-they're the recovered remnants of the Aboleths which have been wrested from the grip of a black hole, or from fossilized remains.

The Sepulchres are boulders containing fossilized Aboleth Mind Lords. Their spirits-along with their bodies-are trapped inside the stone, making them immobile.

Some of the Aboleths *are* alive-the Mindsplinters, for example, but that's because the Voices of the Night (Aboleth Mothers) were brought back into existence by being recovered from the black hole Event Horizon, and were able to reproduce. As it is, they've been mutated by the negative radiation from the Black Hole-and that radiation also powers the undead units.

The Eye of the Night is a fossilized Mind Lord that was extracted from the stone-most can't be, because their bodies and spirits were too badly damaged in the fossilization process.

The Pylons are gateways to Time and Space-they enable the Aboleths to summon creatures from out of the heart of the Black Hole-beings that the Black Hole swallowed, but the creatures they summon lack wills of their own, because they've been destroyed and then remade. That's why they're all different, because they're stolen from various alien worlds. Basically, the Pylons function like Transporters-the way Transporters destroy a being at one end, and remake it at the other end, except you're not transporting or destroying anything, you're just remaking from information the Aboleths can psychically garner from the Black Hole's history.

The Pylons are just massive quarts crystals that have been aligned to the Black Hole's energies, but the Black Hole can influence and warp the Pylons and sometimes give them greater powers-they can be destroyed on the battlefield, though, and are quite fragile.