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ValhaHazred — The Great Race of Yith
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Published: 2018-06-05 23:04:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 1616; Favourites: 47; Downloads: 0
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These guys are the worst.Stop stealing bodies to save yourselves you jerks! You have time travel, when you know bad things are coming just build a spaceship and get out that way!
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Love the texture of this Yith; the multi-layered pinchers and barnacle-like thorax are my favourite parts. The heart-like mouth was a nice touch as well.
You’re right. Despite their individual affability these guys must be one of Lovecraft’s more insidious alien menaces.
And what do you think Lovecraft’s own opinion on these creations of his are? They and the Elder Things, which were explicitly compared to men in ”At the Mountains of Madness” , seem more sympathetically portrayed while still being potential alien invaders.
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I think Lovecraft wrote them to be admirable from a certain point of view, to the point of writing the Polyps in as an additional source of horror if the body snatching wasn't enough. I even get it to a certain extent, it's just a pity that they're so selfish.
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When I think about it, the Yithians are probably one of the more effective examples of Lovecraft’s ’cosmic indifference’ philosophy; an advanced civilization that is clearly capable of moral/ethical behaviour but is too stuck up in their traditions to bother showing true mercy and empathy seems much more scarier than any mindless, ecophagic beasts that just do what they do.
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their original bodies are currently unknown to us, but their minds can be weird too, i wonder if Yithian minds are made of psychic energy or something more bizarre than that.
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I think they exist as a concept more than anything else at this point. While they do swap memory data with their targets I don't think there's anything like psionic energy or soul trading (although those things are possible in the Mythos). It's a purely mechanistic process
They're the ultimate expression of colonialism, not just taking the land and resources of a conquered people but their bodies and memories as well.
I wrote this a while back, describing the process of taking over from the perspective of the Coliopteran:
It starts with aliens suddenly bodyjacking millions of random people. Your leadership, friends and family replaced by strangers in their carapaces. A resistance forms but they're met with lightning guns, energy screens and atomic flying machines. Even worse they always seem to know where and when to strike for maximum damage. Your civilization is quickly forced to give up, turning from the prosperity of your people to service in the name of cataloging the universe through all time. You even live to see the next generations brought up by the invaders. They are groomed and bred to be perfect bodies for your masters. They are taught that the greatest honor is to receive the mind of an elderly record keeper and die in their place.
It's not all bad though. Quality of life is better than ever and they're willing to share. You can learn their sciences, join up with their libraries and go braincasting through time. You can become like them, living through countless millenia by taking the bodies of the young and unlearned. And when the sun finally burns out you can join them in trading the lives of millions of innocents for the survival of your memories.
Welcome to the Great Race of Earth.
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so... they exist as a sentient alien concept, universal colonialism...?, now that would be weird as the weirdest SCP objects from the SCP Foundation.
the Yithian's original aeons-dead homeworld probably looked as weird before it's apocalypse.
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