Bring the cosmic horror of the Cthulhu Mythos to your table with this imposing Great Race of Yith miniature. Featuring a highly detailed conical body with overlapping segmented armor and a menacing array of sensory stalks and pincers, this figure perfectly captures the alien intelligence of these timeless beings. It stands as a formidable 'Large' scale threat for any horror or sci-fi campaign.
An ancient, alien scholar is defending its temporal archives with its powerful pincers.
A major boss in a cosmic horror campaign or a high-difficulty elite encounter in sci-fi or fantasy settings involving planar travel or ancient ruins.
Artist: Epic Miniatures
Type: MONSTER
Pose: The creature is standing on its conical base with its upper appendages extended and flared.
Action: Attacking
Mood: menacing
Action Category: Attacking
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Suitable Locations: ancient library in a desert wasteland, subterranean temporal archive, alien laboratory, extradimensional research facility, ruined city of Pnakotus, forgotten vault beneath a university, otherworldly dreamscape, cavernous hollow in the Antarctic ice
Encounter Scenarios: a guardian of forbidden prehistoric knowledge, a temporal traveler defending its research notes, a scholarly NPC who becomes hostile if the party touches their scrolls, a boss encounter in a cosmic horror investigation
Power Level: Deadly (score 75/10)
Compatible Game Systems: Call of Cthulhu (perfect): ; Delta Green (perfect): ; Dungeons & Dragons (5e / general) (good): Excellent as a unique aberration or a proxy for a high-level eldritch threat.; Pathfinder (good): Pathfinder officially includes the Great Race of Yith in its bestiaries.; Starfinder (good): Fits perfectly as an ancient alien species.; Savage Worlds (good):
Race: Not applicable, Sex: Not applicable, Build: Not applicable, Size: Not applicable, Age: Not applicable, Style: Not applicable
Creature: Great Race of Yith (Aberration), Size: Large
Body: A tall conical body tapering upward, covered in thick horizontal segments. The apex of the cone features four thick, flexible limbs. Two limbs terminate in massive crab-like pincers, one terminates in a head with sensory stalks and mouth-tentacles, and one is a sensory organ.
Also known as: Yithian, The Great Race, Pnakotic Being
Related creatures: Elder Thing, Flying Polyp, Shoggoth
Distinctive Features: Conical body structure, Overlapping horizontal segments, Eye stalks and mouth tentacles, Multi-lobed sensory organ on the rear appendage
Monster Weapons & Attacks: type: pincers, description: Two large, segmented claws capable of crushing and snapping., position: Main appendages held forward, type_ja: ハサミ, description_ja: 押しつぶしたり切り裂いたりできる、2本の大きな節のある爪。, position_ja: 前方に突き出した主要な肢, type: tentacles, description: Four prehensile tentacles surrounding the proboscis/mouth., position: On the face/head, type_ja: 触手, description_ja: 吻部や口の周りにある4本の把握可能な触手。, position_ja: 顔/頭部
Defensive Features: Thick, segmented chitinous or leathery conical skin
Mount: Not applicable, Size: Not applicable
Aesthetic: Creepy / Unsettling, Horrifying / Grotesque, Intimidating / Imposing, Grimdark, Mysterious / Enigmatic
Cultural Aesthetic: Generic Western Fantasy
Hairstyle: None (non-humanoid)
Similar to characters: Yithian, Lovecraftian horror, Cthulhu Mythos creature, Alien extraterrestrial, Eldritch Abomination
Miniature Dimensions: 51.1mm H x 22.0mm W x 43.4mm D (base: 50.0mm)
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