Traveler

The Travelers are a fictional species expanded upon by Chaosium in 1994 for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game, which were based on creatures which appeared in Michael Shea's 1980 short story "The Autopsy".
==Background==
Travelers are a spacefaring race whom travel across space using translucent ships the size of basketballs. When approaching a planet they use meteor showers as cover. If detected, the ship auto-destructs, creating an explosion large enough to take out a city block. The Travelers remain hidden until they can invade a suitable host. The alien parasites are a sadistic race which enjoy the pain and horror their host experiences, as the trapped consciousness is taunted and tortured.
A traveler's life cycle goes through four stages, of which only the earliest stage, the larval form, is mobile. Its adult form is a brain-like entity which controls a network of whip-like filaments which it uses to control the host. They are also used as weapons, projecting from an orifice a paralyzing tendril and another one that extends to the victim's ear to feed on its blood. The filaments can also be used to animate the dead.
==Gallery==
Traveler-CabinetOfCuriosities.jpg|Traveler (Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities)
es:Viajeros
Category:Sapient Species
Category:Species Originating From Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Extraterrestrial Species