Flying Polyps

The Flying Polyps are a species that feature in the Cthulhu Mythos.

History

Flying Polyps came to Earth from space as conquerors about seven hundred fifty million years ago. They also inhabited three other planets in the solar system.

When the Great Race of Yith came to Earth, they warred with the polyps and soon drove them underground with their advanced technology. The Great Race then sealed the entryways to the polyps' subterranean abode with trapdoors, which afterwards were diligently guarded. The polyps' cities were left abandoned, perhaps as a reminder of the horrors that dwelt below.

Eventually, the polyps rose up and almost exterminated the Great Race, afterwards returning to their subterranean haunts. Having no conception of light, the polyps seem content to remain there, annihilating the few intruders that chance upon them. The entrances to their dwellings are mostly deep within ancient ruins where there are great wells sealed over with stone. Inside these wells still dwell the polyps.

Overview

They are able to levitate and fly despite lacking any visible means of doing so, and leave telltale massive footprints when on the ground. Their amorphous bodies can turn invisible at will, though this ability appears somewhat negated by whistling noises associated with them in general. In battle, they weaponize their ability to control and direct powerful winds.

Their senses did not include sight, but what senses they had could penetrate all material obstructions. They were only partially matter, but still solid enough to affect, and be stopped by, normal materials. This trait also gave them a high resistance to most forms of physical damage, but they could be destroyed by certain types of electrical energy. Their minds were so strange that the Great Race of Yith could not perform psychic transfers with them.

Notes

• The Flying Polyps were created by H. P. Lovecraft where they featured in the Cthulhu Mythos universe.

Appearances

• The Shadow Out of Time: (1936)

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