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raygungoth — Ow My Sanity Monster Sketches
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Critters sketched during humanities; a Mi-go, Yithian, and Ghoul. I have a better Yithian on the way, since I don't really like this design much. I think it's close, though.Related content
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would love to see how you'd interpret a nightgaunt or a moonbeast or any of the awesome monsters that show up in the Dream Quest of Unknown Kadeth, it's Lovecraft's magnum opus!
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I suggest that you look at the design for the Yithian(s) in COC: Dark Corners of the Earth. Could be useful.
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I should rephrase that.
"I don't like Yithians much."
They're so goofy. They're like limpets or barnacles or something.
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Indeed. Well, at least you don't have to deal with the beetle empire they took over after the time of Humanity.
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Yeah. They're just really important to some of the plot threads, especially their skirmishes with the elder things.
Because protomatter.
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It's always the protomatter, ain't it?
That said, I thought the Great Race of Yith only skirmished with the Flying Polyps.
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You're right, I got something confused with something else in my notes (the novel version of At the Mountains of Madness versus the radio play). They were still alive at the time, having cities into the Cretaceous, though they were on their way out (as the novel version of At the Mountains of Madness explains), my notes say "trade or war?" there.
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There might have been some limited contact between them and the scattered remnants of the Elder Things' civilization. I recall that the Lightning Guns of the Yithians were similar in description to the devices said to have been used by the Elder Things to control the Shoggoths. Additionally, the sealing used against the Polyps is similar to that used against the Great Old Ones and the Shoggoths.
War would have been unlikely, I think. The Elder Things would have been unable and the Great Race uninterested in conflict. They only fought against the Polyps because they couldn't be reasoned with.
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"Warfare, largely civil for the last few millennia though sometimes waged against the winged, star-headed Old Ones who centered in the Antarctic, was infrequent though infinitely devastating." The Shadow Out Of Time, Chapter 4
Well, the Elder Things waged war with every other alien species on Earth, so why not?
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