Nug-Soth

The wizard Nug-Soth of the Dark Conquerors of A.D. 16,000 is from H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time (fiction)]. The name has also been used for the beetle-mammal race called "Denizens of Yaddith" in the Call of Cthulhu RPG - see that page for details on the alien race.

In the Mythos

Nug-Soth, a magician of the dark conquerors of A.D. 16,000....
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time (fiction)]

Nug-Soth, a magician of the dark conquerors of A.D. 16,000; his mind was stolen and swapped by the Great Race of Yith from the prehistoric Pnakotic Age of B.C. 150,000,000. It's unclear what species Nug-Soth was in his original form, but 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 "Nug-Soth" 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 Nug-Soth 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 "Nug-Soth"'s strange behavior over the time the body was possessed by a Yithian mind....

Associated Mythos Elements

• race: Yithian mind-transfer victim
• setting: Far Future (16,000 AD), and the Pnakotic Age (150,000,000 B.C.)

References

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