Great Race of Yith

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What a nerd!

The Great Race of Yith, also known as the Yith or Yithians, are an alien race invented by H.P. Lovecraft. Like the Elder Things, they are amongst the minority of Mythosian aliens portrayed in a relatively "human" manner. They are known as "the Great Race" because they have mastered the art of using psionics to traverse time and space, allowing them to broadcast their psyches into the void to other planets and through the vastness of time, allowing them to switch bodies with beings in those far-flung spheres.

This ability is mostly used to gather knowledge, which they have been doing for Nyarlathotep knows how long. Every knowledge that was learned from during their body swapping experience with other species (history, scientific progress, culture and so on...) were recorded in their own archive library, which one of them were located at the city Pnakotus on earth, below Australia's Great Sandy Desert. The ability can be also be used as some kind of a racial emergency button; in the face of a race-wide cataclysm, as many Yith as possible use their powers to reach to a more favorable body in a chosen timeline and swap places with them, transplanting themselves out of anger and leaving their old bodies, now hosting the new minds of their victims, to die in their wake. Children of these bodysnatched Yith will be brought up as part of the Yith culture, effectively supplanting the entire race in everything but genetics.

What a bunch of dicks.

The Yith have already done this race-swap trick once, abandoning their original bodies for the ones they appear in during pretty much every Mythos story or depiction they have appeared in so far. Lore says that they will eventually abandon these bodies for those of the hyper-evolved beetles that will inherit the Earth after humanity goes extinct. Their current body is a massive slug-like invertebrate, looking like a cone of flesh bigger than a man, which slides around on a single slug-like foot. From the narrow pointy top of the body emerges four tentacles; two end in large, crab-like claws and serve as arms, whilst one is tipped with a "head" (basically a round sphere that houses several large eyes and other sensory organs) and the other ends in four trumpet-like protrusions that are the Yith's mouths.

So in short, they are alien nerds with super psychokinesis and they live to record other species' shit.

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