In Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, the Outer Gods are the most powerful entities in the universe. Azathoth and Nyarlathotep are members of that rarified group. Remote, amorphous beings they're beyond the ability of us mere mortals to comprehend. That's not the case in Arkham Files, where Diana and the members of the Arkham Round Table have taken them down several notches.
Warning for spoilers to Arkham Files
No longer omnipotent deities, the Outer Gods are members of a hostile alien race called the Ymar. The Ymar have been guilty of despicable acts of destruction. They've attacked planets throughout the galaxy and enslaved populations to do their bidding. Their history on Earth begins in the tenth millennium B.C. when they overthrew an earlier alien civilization established by the Elnath. After they conquered Earth, the Ymar considered humans to be their slaves.
Arrayed against the Ymar is another race of aliens, the Celaenians. In the sixth millennium BC, the Celaenians succeeded in banishing the Ymar to a parallel universe which Mozzie dubbed the A-Brane. Not only that, they genetically altered them so they're incapable of traveling in wormholes.
So far the Ymar haven't figured out a way to overcome the restriction, but they've devised a workaround. They've formed an alliance with the zoogs and are dispatching them to act as their agents. They're also able to send ghasts through wormholes. In recent centuries the Ymar have succeeded in driving away Meropians from their planet and destroying the library at Celaeno. Now their focus is on Earth once more.
White Collar intends for the Ymar to represent Ydrus, an international criminal syndicate. Diana chose a phonetically similar name to Ydrus to make the comparison obvious. They hope to make Rolf and Klaus repelled by Ydrus by painting the Ymar in particularly black terms. In California, Neal had been abducted by Ydrus operatives posing as FBI agents. In Cinereous Skies, unthinking ghasts perform the bidding of the Ymar. Do Rolf and Klaus really want to be associated with ghasts? Aren't they ready to cast off their shackles?
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