Great Race of Yith as villains?

[TrashcanMan]

I am planning on writing and DM'ing a Delta Green campaign for my group in the coming weeks and I am tired of the same old villains, MJ-12 and the Mi-Go. I really like the idea of the Great Race of Yith, although sadly I am not that well versed in the actual Lovecraft writings, my understanding of the RPG books has me thinking they are not evil, but rather impartial. I know I can mak them whatever I want, but I do want to keep them as true to their normal behavior as possible so I was hoping someone who has more understanding of them than me can offer me some suggestions!

I want them to be the main villains of my campaign, and I need a motive, even if its an alien one, also from what I gather since they are time travelers that can foresee their own destruction this makes them very powerful, but being that they can be destroyed and that they must send Yith back in time to research implies they are not an impossible enemy. I had a few ideas but I would love to hear more, or a critique of mine, or even investigation ideas you have involving the Yith.

My first one is that they are invading, simply that instead of taking over the beetles bodies from the future, they are taking the humans place. I'm afraid this one may be more out of line with their thinking?

My second is that they know humanity will one way challenge them or someway hinder their progress, and thus seek to further along human extinction

And one side question, how does time travel work in the mythos? is their an established idea or is it up to interpretation? I ask because im wondering if its possible in the Yith perspective to change history

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Well, start here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Race_of_Yith

With their time travel and mind-swapping ability, you could use a Yithian kind of like The Master was used in Dr. Who.

 

[kalil]

Accidental post

 

[Nagol]

Take a look for the free Delta Green adventure Future Perfect.

The Yith are used as a form of "help" or more accurately use the PCs as tools to fix a problem. A perspective on time travel and how the race views it is contained therein.

I am a bit hesitant to use the Great Race of Yith as primary foils because their abilities so severely overmatch the PCs especially the whole "any of us can be possessed at any time".

The Great Race already knows homo sapiens offers no threat. The race exists both in the Cretaceous Period and in the far future where they have possessed the intelligent life that follows humankind -- the beetle people. This is a group that warred with and subdued the flying polyps for millions of years before simply moving to the future became more attractive.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

OTOH, an individual Yith who is mad might see playing with humans as fun.