Yithian - Revision history

Ywhateley: Categorization.

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Travern: /* Role-playing games */ fixing category link

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‎Role-playing games: fixing category link

Travern: Added Quotes and Appearances

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Ywhateley: Added illustration.

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Puriridevry at 03:14, 10 May 2013

2013-05-10T03:14:50Z

Puriridevry: Added Info

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Spectrum: /* Culture */ Added links

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‎Culture: Added links

Spectrum: They dwelt on Yith

2009-07-14T21:04:54Z

They dwelt on Yith

Nescio at 21:19, 9 December 2008

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 ===Reference works===
 * [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)
 ===Role-playing games===
 * Keith Herber - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
 * List of [[:Category:CoC:Great_Race_of_Yith_scenarios | Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring the Great Race of Yith]]
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 ===Role-playing games===
 * Keith Herber - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
-* List of [[:CoC:Great Race of Yith scenarios|Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring the Great Race of Yith]]
+* List of [[:Category:CoC:Great_Race_of_Yith_scenarios | Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring the Great Race of Yith]]
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-The Yithians, more formally known "The Great Race of Yith", are a species of body-jumping aliens from the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], first introduced in the story ''[[The Shadow out of Time]]''.  The title ''Great'' refers to the fact they are the only species to have mastered a form of time travel.
+The Yithians, more formally known "The Great Race of Yith", are a species of body-jumping aliens from the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], first introduced in the story "[[The Shadow out of Time]]".  The title ''Great'' refers to the fact they are the only species to have mastered a form of time travel.
 They dwelt (or will dwell) on the planet [[Yith]], which may be their homeworld.
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 Information gathered by the Yithians is recorded in the great library at [[Pnakotus]], now a ruin in the Great Sandy Desert of Australia, from which the [[Pnakotic Manuscripts]] are derived.
-When the alien [[Flying Polyp]]s reemerged to doom the civilization of the Cretaceous Yithians, the race, who had long ago predicted this, mass-moved their species' consciousnesses into the "Coleopterous race", beetle-folk living in Earth's far future. It is beleived that due to this, the Yithians will exist until the very end of the universe.
+When the alien [[Flying Polyp]]s reemerged to doom the civilization of the Cretaceous Yithians, the race, who had long ago predicted this, mass-moved their species' consciousnesses into the "Coleopterous race", beetle-folk living in Earth's far future. It is believed that due to this, the Yithians will exist until the very end of the universe.
 ===Timeline of Yithian Mind Transfer===
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 c. AD 500,000,000: The first primitive life develops on Venus. One Venusian is among those that exchanges minds with the Great Race of Yith. (The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley; "The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)
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	==Description==		==Description==
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	The original bodies of the Yithians are never described, since they use their advanced technology to jump their consciousness through time and space into new bodies. The Cretaceous Yithians, who had escaped their own extinction by projecting themselves to Earth, used the body of a large invertebrate creature, who resembled a rugose cone topped by a pair of clawed appendages, a long trumpet (presumably a feeding organ) and a yellow orb-like sensory organ on a stalk, sliding around on a sluglike mucous foot.		The original bodies of the Yithians are never described, since they use their advanced technology to jump their consciousness through time and space into new bodies. The Cretaceous Yithians, who had escaped their own extinction by projecting themselves to Earth, used the body of a large invertebrate creature, who resembled a rugose cone topped by a pair of clawed appendages, a long trumpet (presumably a feeding organ) and a yellow orb-like sensory organ on a stalk, sliding around on a sluglike mucous foot.

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	When the alien [[Flying Polyp]]s reemerged to doom the civilization of the Cretaceous Yithians, the race, who had long ago predicted this, mass-moved their species' consciousnesses into the "Coleopterous race", beetle-folk living in Earth's far future. It is beleived that due to this, the Yithians will exist until the very end of the universe.		When the alien [[Flying Polyp]]s reemerged to doom the civilization of the Cretaceous Yithians, the race, who had long ago predicted this, mass-moved their species' consciousnesses into the "Coleopterous race", beetle-folk living in Earth's far future. It is beleived that due to this, the Yithians will exist until the very end of the universe.
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		+	===Timeline of Yithian Mind Transfer===
		+	6 million years ago: A member of a race of "insect-philosophers" which hail from the fourth moon of Jupiter exchanges minds with one of the Great Race of Yith. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)
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		+	850,000 years ago: A king of Lomar is among those that exchange minds with one of the Great Race of Yith. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)
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		+	c. 50,000 BC: A race of "great-headed brown people" dominate South Africa. One of their generals is among those who exchange minds with one of the Yithians. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)
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		+	Between 1640 and 1674 BC: Khephnes, who lives during the Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt, learns the secrets of Nyarlathotep. He is also among those who temporarily exchanges minds with one of the Great Race of Yith. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)
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		+	c. 200 BC: Theodotides, a Greco-Bactrian official, is among those that exchanges minds with one of the Great Race of Yith. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)
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		+	Between 82 BC and 75 BC: During the time of the Roman dictator Sulla, a quæstor named Titus Sempronius Blaesus is among those that exchange minds with one of the Great Race of Yith. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)
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		+	AD 9: The battle of Teutoberger Wald occurs; among the Germanic tribesmen in the battle was Wolfred Herman Freimann, who later exchanged minds with a Yithian. (The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley)
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		+	Bartolomeo Corsi, a Florentine monk, is possessed by one of the Great Race of Yith, and subsequently goes mad. He is eventually exiled to the island of Stromboli and writes the Harmaticon. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft; Encyclopedia Cthulhiana 2nd Ed., Harms)
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		+	Between 1610 and 1643: Pierre-Louis Montagny, an aged Frenchman living during the reign of Louis XIII, is among those that exchange minds with a Yithian. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)
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		+	Between 1651 and 1658: During Oliver Cromwell's time as Lord Protector of England, James Woodville of Suffolk exchanges minds with a Yithian.
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		+	2518: Australian physicist Nevel Kingston-Brown dies. In his life, he was one of those who exchanged minds with a Yithian. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)
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		+	c. 5000: The empire of Tsan-Chan comes into being. The scholar Yiang-Li, known for his "overviews" and among those who exchanges minds with a Yithian, lives in this empire. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)
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		+	c. 16,000: The wizard Nug-Soth is one of many across time who exchanges minds with one of the Great Race of Yith. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)
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		+	c. AD 18,000,000: A "half-plastic denizen" of the interior of a planet beyond Pluto is among those that exchanges mind with the Great Race of Yith. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)
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		+	c. AD 500,000,000: The first primitive life develops on Venus. One Venusian is among those that exchanges minds with the Great Race of Yith. (The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley; "The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

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 ==Description==
 The original bodies of the Yithians are never described, since they use their advanced technology to jump their consciousness through time and space into new bodies. The Cretaceous Yithians, who had escaped their own extinction by projecting themselves to Earth, used the body of a large invertebrate creature, who resembled a rugose cone topped by a pair of clawed appendages, a long trumpet (presumably a feeding organ) and a yellow orb-like sensory organ on a stalk, sliding around on a sluglike mucous foot.
 ==Culture==
 The Yithians use their mind-projecting techniques to scout out the passage of time, allowing them to accurately predict their own extinction and avoid it. To do this, the mind of a specimen from a (usually sentient) species is swapped with that of a Yithian for a period of several years, so that the Yithian can record information from that time. The target specimen, if willing to cooperate, is allowed to freedom to roam libraries and communicate with other specimens until his time of return comes. The memories of living in the cone-body, however are suppressed before the specimen's mind can return, to secure the secrets.

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	The Yithians, more formally known "The Great Race of Yith", are a species of body-jumping aliens from the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], first introduced in the story ''[[The Shadow out of Time]]''. The title ''Great'' refers to the fact they are the only species to have mastered a form of time travel.		The Yithians, more formally known "The Great Race of Yith", are a species of body-jumping aliens from the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], first introduced in the story ''[[The Shadow out of Time]]''. The title ''Great'' refers to the fact they are the only species to have mastered a form of time travel.
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		+	They dwelt (or will dwell) on the planet [[Yith]], which may be their homeworld.

	==Description==		==Description==