Nevil Kingston-Brown

The Australian physicist Nevil Kingston-Brown from A.D. 2518 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

Australian physicist Nevil Kingston-Brown, who will die in A.D. 2518....
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time (fiction)]

Australian physicist Nevil Kingston-Brown, who will die in A.D. 2518; 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, Nigel 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 "Nigel" 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 "Nigel's" strange behavior over the time the body was possessed by a Yithian mind....

Associated Mythos Elements

• race: Yithian mind-transfer victim
• Location: Australia in the future (16,000 AD), and the Pnakotic Age (150,000,000 B.C.)

References

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