Created in a time when the Illusion separated mankind not from Metropolis, in the ancient Dream home of Aztlan, thirteen crystal skulls served as gateways to the palaces of the twelve archons and one to the palace of the Demiurge himself. However, when the Illusion sprang into existence, those guardians of the skulls fled Dream with their gateways, closing them to others, taking them into hiding with the exiled mankind in the place that would come to be known as the Americas. There, they were hidden time and again among the ancients, wrapped in bundles so tight, these gateways a closely guarded secret. Then the Demiurge vanished and the Illusion started to crumble, and the crystal skulls fell from hiding and protection and drifted. The Crystal skulls are the size of human skulls, all with moveable jaws. American Indian legends hold they could speak and sing, containing important information regarding the origins, purpose and destiny of mankind, answering many of mankind's greatest questions of life and its mystery. The legend, though appearing as a beacon of hope and salvation, is only partially correct. The Crystal skulls are amplifiers and oscillators, and their function as a portal beyond the Illusion works only in complex rituals mostly lost in Maya codices, most destroyed by the followers of Binah, Spanish Priests. Once their complex structure is tapped the Crystal Skulls serve as a bridge between where they are located to beyond the Illusion. Where exactly, is determined in the ritual which binds the skull in place and the skull takes an energy from the ritual, glowing in power, while images of beyond flicker like a television switching channels eternally The skulls lack the suture marks of a normal head, but in all other ways perfectly mirrors a human skull, and weighs a heavy five kilograms. Two small holes are drilled into each of the skulls at the base on either side of the cranium. It is here that they were threaded with human gut and arranged in Dream on Tzompantli (racks of skulls threaded on a stand) with an intricate lacework of sinew and human intestinal wall forming decorative apertures, through which they would pass into Metropolis. Human frameworks of one form or another are still required for re-construction of these portals. The skulls, not empowered capture light. Any light source in a room will somehow be drawn into the matrix of the crystal and become the strongest point of light in the room. If exposed to daylight the skull's rays are blinding. If one listens very closely the sound of chanting can be heard from the skulls, much like a seashell will roar with the ocean when pressed to the ear. Some Maya descendents within the America's recognize the skulls' power and their ability to bridge the gaps between worlds, so much so that the day of the dead where small skulls as lollies are consumed, symbolic of things they once knew. However, most American Indians are wary of the skulls as much rumour surrounds them, that should they fall in to the wrong hands, ill will come of it. This, once again, a memory of a time when they once hid the skulls. Now there are many of these crystal skulls, mass produced by the behest of Binah, still clinging to South America, to filter and discredit the originals, most of which are still undiscovered. Should a portal be opened, Binah would be quick to react.