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"There were legends of a hidden lake unglimpsed by mortal sight, in which dwelt a huge, formless white polypous thing with luminous eyes; and squatters whispered that bat-winged devils flew up out of caverns in inner earth to worship it at midnight. They said it had been there before D’Iberville, before La Salle, before the Indians, and before even the wholesome beasts and birds of the woods. It was nightmare itself, and to see it was to die." ~ H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu ~
Deep in the bowels of the fetid swamps and shadowed woods of Louisiana, evil lurks. Dark Priests of hidden religions make blood sacrifices in the name of the All Mother, The Black Goat of the Woods, the mighty and terrible Shub-Niggurath. Soon this darkness will cover all of the city of New Orleans, for her thousand young are spreading and ready for flesh...
The ninth deluxe expansion for Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game, the 165 cards (three copies each of 55 different cards) in The Thousand Young add new depth and resilience to the Shub-Niggurath faction. Nearly two-thirds of the expansion’s cards bolster the All Mother’s ranks with Ghouls, Dark Young, Monsters, Mi-Go, and Cultists. You’ll also find ghastly new Locations, foul Curses, and a new version of the Villainous Dark Mother, herself.
Still, the Black Goat of the Woods is not the region’s only corrupting influence. In the heart of the Big Easy, Nyarlathotep’s many Avatars play a deep and complicated game, manipulating human agencies and monstrous cultists, alike. These Avatars infiltrate every one of the game’s eight factions, even as the factions all gain mysterious new Locations that afford players new interactions with the top cards of their decks.
While The Thousand Young transports the Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game to the streets of New Orleans and the swamps of southern Louisiana, Shub-Niggurath's ambitions reach far beyond those boundaries. It can only be a matter of time before her Cultists and her spawn begin to travel outward. Will you be ready? Will you seek the Black Goat's blessings and join her tribe? Or will you take a stand against her and her thousand offspring?
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