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−	=== Modern Era =====	+	=== Modern Era ===
	The bat-like vampiric form in which the evil Nioth-Korghai attacked the Earth in the late 20th Century was apparently an alien race which they had possessed and possibly stolen the ship from. By the modern era, the close approach of the comet concealing the vampires' spacecraft was met by a human scientific expedition which accidentally awakened one of he vampires and brought her back to earth, with disastrous results (see events depicted in ''[[The Space Vampires (fiction)]]'' and ''[[Lifeforce (1985 film)]]'').		The bat-like vampiric form in which the evil Nioth-Korghai attacked the Earth in the late 20th Century was apparently an alien race which they had possessed and possibly stolen the ship from. By the modern era, the close approach of the comet concealing the vampires' spacecraft was met by a human scientific expedition which accidentally awakened one of he vampires and brought her back to earth, with disastrous results (see events depicted in ''[[The Space Vampires (fiction)]]'' and ''[[Lifeforce (1985 film)]]'').

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	A long-lived androgynous alien race from the water-world planet [[Karthis]]. Though the aliens have sometimes appeared as humanoid bat-like creatures, they appear in their natural form as yellow, fungoid, and squid-like beings which have ultimately evolved into insubstantial energy-beings from a higher dimension. The race possessed a highly evolved and generally benevolent civilisation millions of years ago, and according to them they elevated several sentient races in the Solar System, including creating the first true hominids after 700 years of experimenting.		A long-lived androgynous alien race from the water-world planet [[Karthis]]. Though the aliens have sometimes appeared as humanoid bat-like creatures, they appear in their natural form as yellow, fungoid, and squid-like beings which have ultimately evolved into insubstantial energy-beings from a higher dimension. The race possessed a highly evolved and generally benevolent civilisation millions of years ago, and according to them they elevated several sentient races in the Solar System, including creating the first true hominids after 700 years of experimenting.

−	A criminal alien cult of the Nioth-Korghai became [[Vampire\|vampiric]], calling themselves the "[[Ubbo-Sathla]]ns" after the malignant influence of that entity; these were outlawed by the Nioth race, but hijacking the bodies of a bat-like race, flew to the Solar System in a gigantic spacecraft seeking to free their master, Ubbo-Sathla. The Ubbo-Sathlan cult made war against the rest of their kind, ultimately driving them from the Solar System, but were stranded in space when their ship was damage, leaving it orbiting the Sun in a comet, from which the Ubbo-Sathlans have periodically traveled in energy form to try to influence Earthly life when the comet approaches closely enough, giving rise to legends of vampires on Earth, but losing their power when the comet and their ship drift away again. One day, the Stars will be Right, and the comet will approach closely enough to earth to allow the ship's entire population to make the leap to earth to permanently steal human bodies and reign on earth as the vampiric overloards of mankind.	+	A criminal alien cult of the Nioth-Korghai became [[Vampire\|vampiric]], calling themselves the "[[Ubbo-Sathla]]ns" after the malignant influence of that entity; these were outlawed by the Nioth race, but hijacking the bodies of a bat-like race, flew to the Solar System in a gigantic spacecraft seeking to free their master, Ubbo-Sathla.
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		+	The Ubbo-Sathlan cult made war against the rest of their kind, ultimately driving them from the Solar System, but were stranded in space when their ship was damage, leaving it orbiting the Sun in a comet, from which the Ubbo-Sathlans have periodically traveled in energy form to try to influence Earthly life when the comet approaches closely enough, giving rise to legends of vampires on Earth, but losing their power when the comet and their ship drift away again. One day, the Stars will be Right, and the comet will approach closely enough to earth to allow the ship's entire population to make the leap to earth to permanently steal human bodies, unleash their master, and reign on earth as the vampiric overloards of mankind.

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-A long-lived androgynous alien race from the water-world planet Karthis.  Though the aliens have sometimes appeared as humanoid bat-like creatures, they appear in their natural form as yellow, fungoid, and squid-like beings which have ultimately evolved into insubstantial energy-beings from a higher dimension.  The race possessed a highly evolved civilisation millions of years ago, and according to them they created the first true hominids after 700 years of experimenting.
+A long-lived androgynous alien race from the water-world planet [[Karthis]].  Though the aliens have sometimes appeared as humanoid bat-like creatures, they appear in their natural form as yellow, fungoid, and squid-like beings which have ultimately evolved into insubstantial energy-beings from a higher dimension.  The race possessed a highly evolved and generally benevolent civilisation millions of years ago, and according to them they elevated several sentient races in the Solar System, including creating the first true hominids after 700 years of experimenting.
-Some of the Nioth-Korghai became [[Vampire|vampiric]] (calling themselves the "[[Ubbo-Sathla]]"), and these were outlawed by the Nioth race; a group of these alien criminals, shape-shifted first into the bat-like forms (as found on their spacecraft, apparently the vampires' previous alien victims before their arrival at Earth), and then into human form, in which they attacked the Earth in the late 20th Century (see events in ''[[The Space Vampires (fiction)]]'' and ''[[Lifeforce (1985 film)]]'').
+A criminal alien cult of the Nioth-Korghai became [[Vampire|vampiric]], calling themselves the "[[Ubbo-Sathla]]ns" after the malignant influence of that entity; these were outlawed by the Nioth race, but hijacking the bodies of a bat-like race, flew to the Solar System in a gigantic spacecraft seeking to free their master, Ubbo-Sathla.  The Ubbo-Sathlan cult made war against the rest of their kind, ultimately driving them from the Solar System, but were stranded in space when their ship was damage, leaving it orbiting the Sun in a comet, from which the Ubbo-Sathlans have periodically traveled in energy form to try to influence Earthly life when the comet approaches closely enough, giving rise to legends of vampires on Earth, but losing their power when the comet and their ship drift away again.  One day, the Stars will be Right, and the comet will approach closely enough to earth to allow the ship's entire population to make the leap to earth to permanently steal human bodies and reign on earth as the vampiric overloards of mankind.
 The name "Nioth-Korghai" was originally created by [[Clark Ashton Smith]] as a minor god in his [[Zothique]] stories, and [[Colin Wilson]] picked up the name and applied it to his aliens in the novel ''[[The Space Vampires (fiction)]]''; Chaosium has also used them in role-playing game materials.

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-The '''Nioth-Korghai''' are first mentioned in [[Clark Ashton Smith]]'s "[[The Tomb Spawn]]", and more thoroughly described in [[Colin Wilson]]'s ''[[The Space Vampires (fiction)]]'' and its movie adaptation, ''[[Lifeforce (1985 film)]]''.
+The '''Nioth-Korghai''' (AKA "space vampires", "Ubbo-Sathlans") are first mentioned in [[Clark Ashton Smith]]'s "[[The Tomb Spawn]]", and more thoroughly described in [[Colin Wilson]]'s ''[[The Space Vampires (fiction)]]'' and its movie adaptation, ''[[Lifeforce (1985 film)]]''.
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 * location:  [[Karthis]], water-world home planet
 * tome: ''[[The Tablets of Ubbo Sathla]]''

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+The '''Nioth-Korghai''' are first mentioned in [[Clark Ashton Smith]]'s "[[The Tomb Spawn]]", and more thoroughly described in [[Colin Wilson]]'s ''[[The Space Vampires (fiction)]]'' and its movie adaptation, ''[[Lifeforce (1985 film)]]''.
 [[File:NiothKorghai1985LifeForce.png|200px|thumb|right|Nioth-Korghai as depicted in ''[[Lifeforce (1985 film)]]'']]
-The Nioth-Korghai are first mentioned in [[Clark Ashton Smith]]'s "[[The Tomb Spawn]]", and more thoroughly described in [[Colin Wilson]]'s ''[[The Space Vampires (fiction)]]'' and its movie adaptation, ''[[Lifeforce (1985 film)]]''.
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-A long-lived androgynous alien race from the water-world planet Karthis.  Though the aliens have sometiems appeared as humanoid bat-like creatures, they appear in their natural form as yellow, fungoid, and squid-like beings which have ultimately evolved into insubstantial energy-beings from a higher dimension.  The race possessed a highly evolved civilisation millions of years ago, and according to them they created the first true hominids after 700 years of experimenting.
+A long-lived androgynous alien race from the water-world planet Karthis.  Though the aliens have sometimes appeared as humanoid bat-like creatures, they appear in their natural form as yellow, fungoid, and squid-like beings which have ultimately evolved into insubstantial energy-beings from a higher dimension.  The race possessed a highly evolved civilisation millions of years ago, and according to them they created the first true hominids after 700 years of experimenting.
-Some of the Nioth-Korghai became vampiric (calling themselves the "[[Ubbo-Sathla]]"), and these were outlawed by the Nioth race; a group of these alien criminals, shape-shifted first into the bat-like forms (as found on their spacecraft, apparently the vampires' previous alien victims before their arrival at Earth), and then into human form, in which they attacked the Earth in the late 20th Century (see ''[[The Space Vampires (fiction)]]'' and ''[[Lifeforce (1985 film)]]'').
+Some of the Nioth-Korghai became [[Vampire|vampiric]] (calling themselves the "[[Ubbo-Sathla]]"), and these were outlawed by the Nioth race; a group of these alien criminals, shape-shifted first into the bat-like forms (as found on their spacecraft, apparently the vampires' previous alien victims before their arrival at Earth), and then into human form, in which they attacked the Earth in the late 20th Century (see events in ''[[The Space Vampires (fiction)]]'' and ''[[Lifeforce (1985 film)]]'').
 The name "Nioth-Korghai" was originally created by [[Clark Ashton Smith]] as a minor god in his [[Zothique]] stories, and [[Colin Wilson]] picked up the name and applied it to his aliens in the novel ''[[The Space Vampires (fiction)]]''; Chaosium has also used them in role-playing game materials.
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 Some of the Nioth-Korghai became vampiric (calling themselves the "[[Ubbo-Sathla]]"), and these were outlawed by the Nioth race; a group of these alien criminals, shape-shifted first into the bat-like forms (as found on their spacecraft, apparently the vampires' previous alien victims before their arrival at Earth), and then into human form, in which they attacked the Earth in the late 20th Century (see ''[[Lifeforce (1985 film)]]'').
-The name "Nioth-Korghai" was originally created by [[Clark Ashton Smith]] as a minor god in his [[Zothique]] stories, and [[Colin Wilson]] picked up the name and applied it to his aliens in the novel ''[[The Star Vampires (novel)]]''; Chaosium has also used them in role-playing game materials.
+The name "Nioth-Korghai" was originally created by [[Clark Ashton Smith]] as a minor god in his [[Zothique]] stories, and [[Colin Wilson]] picked up the name and applied it to his aliens in the novel ''[[The Space Vampires (novel)]]''; Chaosium has also used them in role-playing game materials.
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 [[File:NiothKorghai1985LifeForce.png|200px|thumb|right|Nioth-Korghai as depicted in ''[[Lifeforce (1985 film)]]'']]
-The Nioth-Korghai are from [[Clark Ashton Smith]]'s "[[The Tomb Spawn]]", [[Colin Wilson]]'s ''[[The Space Vampires (novel)]]'' and its movie adaptation, ''[[Lifeforce (1985 film)]]''.
+The Nioth-Korghai are first mentioned in [[Clark Ashton Smith]]'s "[[The Tomb Spawn]]", and more thoroughly described in [[Colin Wilson]]'s ''[[The Space Vampires (novel)]]'' and its movie adaptation, ''[[Lifeforce (1985 film)]]''.
 [[Category:Races]]