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The Great Race of Yith

Created in "The Shadow Out of Time," published in the June 1936 issue of Astounding Stories. (87 years ago)

Early History:

• Original home planet: Yith

• Escaped the planet by mind-swapping with a race of conical-shaped beings that ruled Earth 200 million years ago (co-existed with dinosaurs)

• 206 mya - 248 mya Triassic Period earliest evolution of dinosaurs and small mammals

• Why leave home planet?

• What was their original form like?

• Built city of Pnakotus in what became Australia

• Waged war with Flying Polyps and Elder Things

• Had airship

• Giant books in libraries

Age of Mankind:

• Yithians use mind-swap ability to study mankind and observe humanity and "history" through human eyes

• Human Cult (believe angels, share technology)

Future History:

• Swaps minds with bee-like race of beings who inherit the Earth after the fall of mankind

• Beetle swarm

• Sandy Theory of designing own bodies

Special Abilities:

• Time travel - via mind-swapping

• Since only swapping minds and not physical travel, appear to be immune to Hounds of Tindalos

• Engineers

• Lightning gun

• Stasis cube

• Tabula rasa device

• Temporal communicator

Unique Abilities as presented in Weird Detective comic book series, by Fred Van Lente, (2016 Dark Horse Comics, 5 issues):

• According to the comic book, Yithians have 17 senses, (as compared to a human's 5 senses, but only 7 are specifically described in the series of comics). Keepers could run with this and design the other 10 senses themselves.

• Rennakesh - sense of emotionalocation: people are sometimes physically in one place, but mentally in another. A Yithian can sense that separation of physical and mental states, and actually "see" where your mind/attention is otherwise located.

• Ranos - reverse sonar: resonating sound from the chest cavity allows for a mental picture of things on the other side of solid objects. And, another pitch in tone allows for the Yithian to move their body through solid matter.