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The Beast
Set
Dunwich Horror
Dimension

Movement Type
Star

Stalker Mask
Will Strength Observation
−2 −2 +0
Horror Damage Toughness
2Horror 2Damage 4
Abilities
Physical Resistance
Magical Resistance
Effect
If you fail both the Horror check and Combat check against the Beast, you are devoured.
The Beast

Its face was like looking into the night sky.
Set
Unseen Forces

Ability
Return this marker to the cup.
Trophy Battle Task
0 Terror TaskTerror TaskDoom
The Beast
Set
Under the Pyramids

Will Strength
−1 −3
Horror Damage Toughness
3Horror 2Damage Number of Players+2
Effect
If you lose Health from the Strength test, roll 1 die. One a 1 or 2, you are devoured.
UniqueEE-92: The Beast [U]
Model for the Sphinx
File:The Beast EE-92.png
It was to a tiger what the pyramids were to a child's building blocks.
Type Subtype
Character Avatar of Nyarlathotep
Faction Cost Skill
Cthulhu 4 4
Terror Combat Arcane Investigation
2 1 1 0
Card Text
Response: after you play a Ritual event, choose and destroy an Attachment card.

The Beast is a Mask Monster that appears in the Arkham Horror Second Edition Dunwich Horror and Elder Sign Unseen Forces, an Epic Monster that appears in the Eldritch Horror Under the Pyramids, and a Character Card that appears in the Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game Eldritch Edition.

Artwork[]

EE-92 uses an illustration[?] by Patrick McEvoy.

Mythos[]

The Beast first appeared in the Call of Cthulhu RPG adventure Fungi from Yuggoth (Keith Herber, 1984).

This form of Nyarlathotep manifests itself though one of the world's great monuments. It is the principal being worshiped by the Brotherhood of the Beast.[1]

Notes and references[]

  1. Harms, Daniel, "Nyarlathotep", Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia.
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