The first card-only expansion for Eldritch Horror. Requires the core set to play.
[...] Over a billion years ago, the elder things descended from space and built enormous cities. Hundreds of millions of years after that, the Great Race of Yith projected their minds into strange conical beings and used their advanced technology to catalog knowledge throughout time. The serpent people were once the undisputed rulers of the world, even using their mastery of science and sorcery to subjugate early humans. [...] Their stories are known to only a few. The knowledge of these species has been kept from humanity, and yet, within these lost stories lays the only hope for the survival of mankind. To protect this world from the imminent threat of the Ancient One, a few brave investigators must uncover this forsaken lore.
Expansion Overview[]
From the rulesheet[]
In the Forsaken Lore expansion, what the investigators previously thought they understood was all an illusion. Now the Ancient Ones have grown in power and stand ready to breach into our world.
This expansion includes a new Ancient One, Yig, as well as new Mystery cards for the existing Ancient Ones, hundreds of new stories to encounter, and new Artifacts, Assets, and Spells for investigators to wield against the Ancient Ones.
Mechanics[]
This expansion does not introduce any new mechanics and is the only one which does not contain any new investigators. Instead, it contains a lot of content tied to the base box, enhancing replayability with Encounter cards and upgrading the existing Ancient Ones.
Each card in this expansion is marked with the Forsaken Lore expansion icon at the bottom-left corner. Non-card components aren't marked with this icon.
Component | Amount |
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Rulebook | 1 |
Ancient One Sheets | 1 |
America Encounter Cards | 8 |
Europe Encounter Cards | 8 |
Asia/Australia Encounter Cards | 8 |
General Encounter Cards | 4 |
Other World Encounter Cards | 6 |
Expedition Encounter Cards | 6 (6 backs for 6 Expedition spaces) |
Special Encounter Cards | 20 (3 backs for 3 Ancient Ones; 2 cards for Cthulhu, 10 for Yog-Sothoth, and 8 for Yig) |
Research Encounter Cards | 88 (5 backs for 5 Ancient Ones; 24 cards for Yig, 16 for Azathoth, Cthulhu, Shub-Niggurath and Yog-Sothoth each) |
Mythos Cards | 6 (2 yellow, 2 green, and 2 blue) |
Mystery Cards | 14 (5 backs for 5 Ancient Ones; 6 cards for Yig, 2 for Azathoth, Cthulhu, Shub-Niggurath and Yog-Sothoth each) |
Artifact Cards | 8 |
Asset Cards | 16 |
Condition Cards | 24 |
Spell Cards | 28 |
Monster Tokens | 8 (1 normal, 7 epic) |
Health Tokens | 4 (4 1 Health) |
Sanity Tokens | 2 (2 1 Sanity) |
Detailed Content[]
Ancient Ones[]
The expansion contains 1 new Ancient One and add new cards for the Ancient Ones from the Core Game:
Yig[]
Yig has 6 Mysteries listed here, 24 Research Encounter cards and 8 Special Encounter cards (K'n-yan Unearthed).
Mystery | Type | |
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Crown of the Serpent | Item Requirement | |
Descendants of Yig | Epic Monster | |
K'n-yan Unearthed | Special Encounter | |
Migration of Serpents | Research Encounter | |
Rise of the Serpent People | Eldritch Tokens | |
The Winged Serpent | Epic Monster |
Azathoth[]
Azathoth has 2 Mysteries listed here and 16 Research Encounter cards.
Mystery | Type | |
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The Green Flame | Epic Monster | |
Voice of Azathoth | Item Requirement |
Cthulhu[]
Cthulhu has 2 Mysteries listed here, 16 Research Encounter cards and 2 Special Encounter cards (R'lyeh Risen).
Mystery | Type | |
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Queen of the Deep Ones | Epic Monster | |
Threatening Seas | Eldritch Tokens |
Shub-Niggurath[]
Shub-Niggurath has 2 Mysteries listed here and 16 Research Encounter cards.
Mystery | Type | |
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Blasphemy of the Black Goat | Epic Monster | |
Hour of the Moon Lens | Eldritch Tokens |
Yog-Sothoth[]
Yog-Sothoth has 2 Mysteries listed here, 16 Research Encounter cards and 10 Special Encounter cards (The Key and the Gate Final Mystery and Void Between Worlds).
Mystery | Type | |
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The Stone Circles | Eldritch Tokens | |
Void Between Worlds | Special Encounter |
Artifacts[]
It contains the 8 Artifacts below:
Card | Name | Trait |
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Cursed Sphere | Item — Magical | |
Elixir of Life | Item — Elixir | |
Milk of Shub-Niggurath | Item — Elixir | |
Massa di Requiem per Shuggay | Item — Tome | |
Satchel of the Void | Item — Magical | |
Serpent Crown | Item — Magical | |
Sword of Y'ha-Talla | Item — Magical Weapon | |
Zanthu Tablets | Item — Tome |
Spells[]
The box contains 28 Spell cards listed here. Each new spell has 4 variants, but it adds also 2 variants more for the core game spells.
Card | Name | Trait | Count |
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Blessing of Isis | Ritual | 2 | |
Clairvoyance | Incantation | 2 | |
Conjuration | Ritual | 2 | |
Feed the Mind | Ritual | 2 | |
Flesh Ward | Incantation | 2 | |
Healing Words | Incantation | 4 | |
Instill Bravery | Incantation | 2 | |
Mists of Releh | Incantation | 2 | |
Plumb the Void | Ritual | 2 | |
Poison Mist | Ritual | 4 | |
Shriveling | Ritual | 2 | |
Wither | Incantation | 2 |
Assets[]
It contains its 16 Asset cards, as we see here:
Card | Name | Trait | Value |
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.45 Colt Revolver | Item — Weapon | 1 | |
Appeal to the Council | Service | 1 | |
Bodyguard | Ally | 2 | |
Conspiracy Theorist | Ally | 3 | |
Elder Sign | Trinket — Magical | 2 | |
Enchanted Blade | Item — Magical Weapon | 3 | |
Fresh Fruit | Item | 1 | |
Intelligence Report | Service | 3 | |
Lantern | Item | 1 | |
Lucky Ring | Trinket | 3 | |
Mystic Bounty Hunter | Ally | 2 | |
Police Assistance | Service | 1 | |
Police Ledger | Item | 1 | |
Research Student | Ally | 1 | |
Syndicate Agent | Ally | 2 | |
Tear Gas | Item — Weapon | 1 |
Conditions[]
It contains 24 Conditions cards, listed here:
Card | Name | Traits | Count |
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Amnesia | Madness | 1 | |
Back Injury | Injury | 1 | |
Blessed | Boon | 3 | |
Cursed | Bane | 3 | |
Dark Pact | Deal | 1 | |
Debt | Deal — Common | 2 | |
Detained | Restriction | 1 | |
Hallucinations | Madness | 1 | |
Internal Injury | Injury | 1 | |
Leg Injury | Injury | 1 | |
Lost in Time and Space | Restriction | 4 | |
Paranoia | Madness | 1 | |
Poisoned | Illness | 4 |
Monsters[]
The expansion contains 8 Monster tokens (1 normal, 7 epic).
Token | Name | Class | Count |
---|---|---|---|
Children of Yig | Epic | 1 | |
Cultist | Normal | 1 | |
Doppelganger | Epic | 1 | |
Hydra | Epic | 1 | |
Tulzscha | Epic | 1 | |
Winged Serpent | Epic | 1 | |
Yeb | Epic | 1 | |
Yig | Epic | 1 |
Mythos[]
It also contains the 6 Mythos cards listed below:
Name | Type | Difficulty |
---|---|---|
Drawn to Our World | Blue | Medium |
Driven to Madness | Yellow | Medium |
Evil Never Sleeps | Green | Hard |
Tainted Rations | Green | Medium |
The White Ship | Blue | Hard |
Wanderlust | Yellow | Hard |
Links[]
- Contents and Description on BoardGameGeek
- Link on Publishers Site
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