Black Pyramids

The are enormous, basalt-covered monoliths fashioned during the Pantheon War by Baradun and his servants.
== History ==
The original purpose of the Black Pyramids was as nodes in a vast communication network across the cosmos, artificially generating etheric null zones and "tapping" on the skeins of reality to convey information across vast distances.
The Pyramids had a secondary function as superweapons: by allowing etheric energy to re-enter the abyssal null zones beneath them, the commanders of the Pyramids could precipitate a mass "drainage" of etheric energy on a regional or even planetary scale. This drainage would be followed by a thunderclap effect as the ether contorted to reach a new equilibrium: the ensuing reverberations would set the sky alight, turn the land to glass and vaporize cities and armies.
The Pyramids may also have been the root of Baradun's undoing: by using null zones for communication, it is likely that Baradun received the attention of the Unnamed and paid for it with his sanity and, ultimately, his life. At least one Black Pyramid site is known to have been corrupted by the Unnamed and served as a beacon for the host of Matthias, the Mage-Prince turned cyborg turned Unnamed cultust.
== Modern Rediscovery and Applications ==
Black Pyramids were forgotten in Imperial Space in the modern era until their rediscovery by a Saldanese expedition to New South Saldan in .
During and after the First Coalition War in the late 300s A.U., the null space generation capabilities of Black Pyramids were used in the development of null bombs, with the first null bombs being developed by the Serene Duchy of Aeldrum using the Pyramid on New South Saldan.
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