Nvh

N'vh (pronounced n-VÉ and shortened to Nvh), usually called the Sleeping and sometimes simply Hypnos (in accordance with the Ancient Greek deified personification of sleep), is an anomalous, highly evolved sentience that often manifests itself in the regular third-dimensional plane as a race of separate beings. Rarely, the connection was made between brief sleep and the eternal sleep the Nvh cause on wanton occasion, and Nvh were in those cases dubbed Death by the men who discovered it.

Nvh are a raw consciousness, extant of any body, and as such seamlessly may drift from consciousness to consciousness and, perhaps horrifyingly, influence through dreams, thoughts, and even take control of and kill weak-minded humans at will.

Needless to say, many mythoses and idealogies influenced by unexplained "spiritual" encounters unexplained scientifically by those who experienced them were in fact Nvh.

Nvh are extremely difficult and perhaps entirely impossible to isolate and study against their will by human means, being beyond our comprehension, so there is little solid evidence that Nvh even exist to those who have not been made privy to Nvh's existence.