| “ | Without definite intention he was asking the PRESENCE for access to a dim, fantastic world whose five multi-coloured suns, alien constellations, dizzy black crags, clawed, tapir-snouted denizens, bizarre metal towers, unexplained tunnels, and cryptical floating cylinders had intruded again and again upon his slumbers... He was, as many a night before, walking amidst throngs of clawed, snouted beings through the streets of a labyrinth of inexplicably fashioned metal under a blaze of diverse solar colour; and as he looked down he saw that his body was like those of the others—rugose, partly squamous, and curiously articulated in a fashion mainly insect-like yet not without a caricaturish resemblance to the human outline. The Silver Key was still in his grasp—though held by a noxious-looking claw. |
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| ~ H. P. Lovecraft & E. Hoffman Price , "Through the Gates Of the Silver Key" |
In the fantasy short story "Through the Gates of the Silver Key", by H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price, the planet Yaddith is home to an intelligent species of clawed, snouted creatures. The wizard Zkauba is a member of this species.
Although not named in the original story, the Call of Cthulhu RPG refers to them as Yaddithians or Denizens of Yaddith. In Lin Carter's short story "Dreams in the House of Weir", they are called the Nug-Soth, which is also the name of a human magician from the year 16,000 AD in Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time.
Background[]
The Yaddithians are a race of powerful wizards and brilliant scientists. Though their world was ravaged by the Dholes, some of them escaped to other worlds, dimensions, or times. One of their inventions was a device known as "light-wave envelopes", which were machines that could transport passengers across time and space.
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Behind the Mythos[]
They might also be the same as the Lords of Yaddith, mentioned in "The Diary of Alonzo Typer".