Yiang-Li

The philosopher Nug-Soth of Tsan-Chan A.D. 5,000 is from H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time (fiction)].

In the Mythos

I talked with the mind of Yiang-Li, a philosopher from the cruel empire of Tsan-Chan, which is to come in A.D. 5000....
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time (fiction)]

Yuang-Li, a philosopher of the "Cruel Empire" of Tsan-Chan of A.D. 5,000; his mind was stolen and swapped by the Great Race of Yith from the prehistoric Pnakotic Age of B.C. 150,000,000. As typical of such mind-transfers, Nug-Soth would probably have been suddenly been taken by a sort of strange "fit" from the transfer, after which there would be a period inactive "illness" or "coma" in which the Yithian mind now inhabiting the being's body accustoms itself to its new form, followed by "Yuang-Li" voraciously learning everything it can about its surroundings, so that the information can be returned to and collected in the Yithians' Library at Pnakotus. In time, the transfer would be reversed, and the proper mind of Yuang-Li would be returned, with a bizarre and harrowing "delusion" of spending the months or years since the "fit" trapped in a "past life" in an alien body deep in Earth's prehistory, with no memory of "Yuang-Li's" strange behavior over the time the body was possessed by a Yithian mind....

Associated Mythos Elements

• race: Yithian
• location: Empire of Tsan-Chan, far Future (5,000 AD), and temporarily the Pnakotic Age (150,000,000 B.C.)

References

• fiction: H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time (fiction)]