Editing Xenology (section)

===Dissection 9 - Hrud ===
The [[Hrud]] is a freakish trash-monster. Its death caused its whole body to liquify leaving not much left to work with. However the creature had no "skeleton" ''per se''; instead it was made up of a series of vertebrae, meaning it can bend itself in any direction. They also have hard silicate [[pauldrons]] which seem to double as waste excretion organs, meaning their bodies can divert toxic, bacterial and viral by-products into their upper body as a defense mechanism.
*Evidence shows that they live amongst humans, in the depths of hives or the bowels of starships, entire clans! This is made possible because it is hard to look at Hrud, they appear perpetually shrouded and difficult to focus on, though it is unknown if it is a biological or psychic property. It's also impossible because psykers aboard the ships, especially astropaths, would have quickly noticed the Warp shenanigans going on.
**''It is also known from other sources that they can manipulate the flow of time, causing creatures and structures to age and weaken rapidly''. (An entropic field, specifically, whether by accelerating time or specifically accelerating the concept of degradation is a matter of skub)
*Their society is explained in one source where a human pet-slave was recaptured and interrogated by the [[Imperium]]. This slave reveals that the Hrud deities were real and physical entities ''(to them, but as they have an unparalleled racial memory and more efficient record keeping who's to disagree?)'' and that their [[Old Ones|pantheon]] consisted of the same archetypes of a [[Khaine|red-handed god]], a [[Kurnous|hunter]], a [[Cegorach|laughing god]] and an [[Vaul|artisan god]]. Interesting, it says says that around half a million year ago one of their deities, '''Qah''' ''(he who LINGERS)'' disappeared from their racial memory but promised to return. ''(perhaps he didn't count on being chopped up by [[Slaanesh]])''. Given what happened during the Umbra dissection, it is strongly inferred that Qah and the Umbra are related somehow.
*It is also hinted that the Hrud racial memory perhaps extends further than the present-time, since from their perspective, the human [[Imperium]] is a thing that no longer exists, and fell millennia ago.''(Or their ability to manipulate the flow of time is related to this. Or it might be a reference to the [[Horus Heresy]] effectively "ending" the Imperium as it was meant to be and the current Imperium is pretty much something else entirely. Fuck knows, time travel is confusing.)