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Inhabitants of K'n-Yan
Men of Kn-yan (Lesser Independent Race)the tall, lean, darkly
robed being with the filletedblack hair and seamed, coppery,
expressionless,aquiline face looked more like an Indian than
anythingelse in my previous experience. And yet my
trainedethnologist's eye told me at once that this was noredskin of
any sort hitherto known to histor... I saw,too, that the pattern of
his robe represented adecorative tradition utterly remote from
anything werecognise in southwestern native art. There wereshining
metal trappings, likewise, and a short sword orkindred weapon at
his side, all wrought in a fashionwholly alien to anything I had
ever heard of.
As he paced back and forth along the top of themound I followed
him for several minutes with theglass, noting the kinaesthetic
quality of his stride andthe poised way he carried his head; and
there wasborne in upon me the strong, persistent conviction
thatthis man, whoever or whatever he might be, wascertainly not a
savage. He was the product of acivilisation, I felt instinctively,
though of whatcivilisation I could not guess.H.P. Lovecraft and
Zealia Bishop, The Mound
The not-quite human men of Kn-yan are inheritors ofa highly
technological and decadent culture given them
long ago by the Great Old Ones. They worship Yig,Cthulhu and
Shub-Niggurath with appalling rites, andspend their days indulging
in depraved and soul-shredding pleasures. They are experts in
theengineering and breeding of life, dead and undead, andleave most
difficult work to their slaves which includethe Ym-bhi and the
Gyaa-Yothn.
The Men of Kn-yan, subterranean degeneratesAverage
STR 3D6 10-11CON 3D6 10-11SIZ 2D6+6 13INT 3D6+6 16-17
POW 4D6 14DEX 3D6 10-11APP 3D6 10-11EDU 2D6+9 16SAN 0 0Hit
Points 10-11Move 8Spells: Most adults know Dematerialisation and
Thought-Projection. Many know Create Ym-bhi, Bind Ym-Bhi.
Otherspells, such as Contact Shub-Niggurath, and Contact Yig, may
beknown by individuals.
SAN: 0 SAN to see one of the people of Kn-yan, 0/1D4 SAN to seea
dematerialised man of Kn-yan. Witnessing some of thediversions of
the people of Kn-yan may prove very costly indeedto SAN.
Skills:Cthulhu Mythos 5D10%, Medicine 45%, Hide 55%, othersas
appropriate.
Attacks Attack % DamageBlade 30%-50% 1D8+DB
Dematerialisation and Thought-Projection
Anyone can learn to dematerialise or project thoughtsof the
people of Kn-yan. Learning how todematerialise takes 1D8 months of
training from the
people of Kn-yan (or from studying the literature ofKn-yan), and
costs 1D10 SAN. If (after havingstudied and having lost SAN) a
student can succeed ina roll of POWx2, they can figure out how to
do it. Ifthe roll fails, they dont, and wont ever learn
(havingwasted time and sanity). Once learned, it costs 5
MagicPoints and 1 SAN to dematerialise, and a further magic
point for every ten minutes of being continuallyinsubstantial.
Objects in contact with thedematerialised person also become
insubstantial. If andematerialised person wishes to bring along a
largeobject (or even another person), she must spend 1Magic Point
for very three points of additional SIZ. Ifan insubstantial object
is dropped, it becomessubstantial again; it costs 1 Magic Point to
pick it upand cause it to become substantial once
more.Dematerialised people can lift and manipulate things,
but their influence on the substantial world is lessened,and STR
is reduced by half. It can be hard to see adematerialised person in
poor lighting conditions.Being dematerialised adds 50% to Hide and
Sneakrolls. It costs 0/1D4 SAN to see a dematerialised
person.
Learning how to project thoughts takes 1D6 days ofstudy and
training, and costs 1D3 SAN. It costs 1Magic Point for a person not
born to this talent to
project a mental image or idea into a persons mind.The men of
Kn-yan can project thoughts withoutspending Magic Points. If the
target of a thought-
projection is unwilling, the person sending the thoughtmust
succeed in a POW vs. POW struggle with thetarget.
Gyaa-Yothn (lesser servitor race)As it is, he merely hinted at
the shocking morbidity of
these great floundering white things, with black fur ontheir
backs, a rudimentary horn in the centre of their foreheads, and an
unmistakable trace of human oranthropoid blood in their flat-nosed,
bulging-lippedfaces. They were, he declared later in his
manuscript,the most terrible objective entities he ever saw in
hislife, either in K'n-yan or in the outer world. And thespecific
quality of their supreme terror was somethingapart from any easily
recognisable or describable feature. The main trouble was that they
were notwholly products of Nature.
H.P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop, The Mound.
The Gyaa-Yothn are the pack beasts of Kn-yan.Although they are
fairly harmless, they are trulydisturbing to see, probably because
of the lingering
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apprehension in the viewer that they have been bredfrom human
stock
Gyaa-Yothn, semi-human abominationsAverage
STR 4D6 14CON 4D6 14SIZ 2D6+8 15INT 1D6 3-4POW 2D6 7DEX 3D6
10-11Hit Points 14Move 10
Armour: 4 points hide.
Spells:None.SAN: 1/1D10 SAN to see a Gyaa-Yoth.
Attacks Attack % DamageKick 25% 1D4+DBHorn 10% 1D6+DB
Ym-bhi (lesser servitor race) He likewise observed the more
manlike shapes thattoiled along the furrows, and felt a curious
fright anddisgust toward certain of them whose motions weremore
mechanical than those of the rest. These,Gll'-Hthaa-Ynn explained,
were what men called the y'm-bhiorganisms which had died, but which
hadbeen mechanically reanimated for industrial purposesby means of
atomic energy and thought-powerTheywere dog-like and faithful, but
not so readily amenableto thought-commands as were living slaves.
Thosewhich most repelled Zamacona were those whose
mutilations were greatest; for some were wholly
headless, while others had suffered singular and seemingly
capricious subtractions, distortions,transpositions, and graftings
in various places. TheSpaniard could not account for this
condition, but
Gll'-Hthaa-Ynn made it clear that these were slaveswho had been
used for the amusement of the people insome of the vast arenas; for
the men of Tsath wereconnoisseurs of delicate sensation, and
required aconstant supply of fresh and novel stimuli for theirjaded
impulses.
H.P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop, The Mound
The Ym-bhi are the result of the vile entertainments ofKn-yan,
mindless corpses used as sentries at the gatesto the subterranean
world. Many are missing heads orlimbs, or have extra limbs grafted
on to them.
Ym-bhi, mutilated sentries AverageSTR 4D6+6 20CON 4D6+6 20SIZ
2D6+6 13INT 0 0POW 1D3 2DEX 3D6 10-11Hit Points 33Move 10
Armour: None, but the Ym-bhi are extremely hard to kill. A
Ym-bhi has double hit points.Spells:None.
SAN: 1/1D10 SAN to see a Ym-bhi.
Attacks Attack % DamageFist (varies; 1- 4) 50% 1D3+DB,
Grapple
