| Mystery of Azathoth. |
Mystery Quick Reference[]
| Name: | Seed of the Daemon Sultan |
|---|---|
| Mystery Type: | Misc. |
| Expansion: | |
| Requires Clues: | Yes |
| Requires Spells: | No |
| Eldritch Tokens: | No |
| Required Item: | No |
| Monster: | No |
Flavor Text[]
A strange green comet has fallen from the sky. Even after the impact, the meteorite continues to slowly burrow itself deeper into the earth.
Mystery Text[]
When this card enters play, place the 
Mystery token on Tunguska.
As an encounter, an investigator on Tunguska may attempt to search for signs of the impact in the dead forest (
). If he passes, he discovers the strange green meteorite; he may spend 
2 Clues to place 
1 Eldritch token on this card.
At the end of the Mythos Phase, if there are Eldritch Tokens on this card equal to half 
, solve this Mystery.
Lore[]
The green comet is a Seed of Azathoth, a concept created for the role-playing game Call of Cthulhu. The main inspiration for this came from Spawn of Azathoth, a scenario by Keith Herber as confirmed by Tim Uren, one of the designers of the game Eldritch Horror.[1]
As explained in the Spawn of Azathoth scenario:
At the center of the universe, deep within a self-created abyss past time and space, dwells the blind idiot god, Azathoth. Mindlessly the Daemon Sultan casts off small star-like objects - Spawns of Azathoth. These strange bodies, the size of small stars, hurtle through time and space forever. Sometimes they pass near ordinary stellar systems and wreak havoc, colliding with worlds or suns, or awakening into full life.
A billion years past, one of the Spawn of Azathoth - call this one Nemesis, as the astronomers do - encountered Sol. It clung to the solar system, slowly weaving around the larger, brighter Sun. Although rarely nearing the orbit of Pluto, on these occasions the gravitational pull and malign psychic energy of Nemesis disrupts the solar system, causing great physical destruction and altering the evolution of our system's life.
Pieces of Nemesis occasionally break free, falling into orbits around the sun or into the sun. They are called comets. If such a piece, containing a Seed of the demon-star, strikes a planet, it can melt into the world's interior and there prosper and grow immensely, eventually forming a new Spawn which eventually emerges from the broken planet like a snake from the egg. (Our solar system's original fifth world was so parasitized. Its remnants compose the asteroid belt.)