Shub-Niggurath

**Black Goat of the Woods**: All monsters have 1 additional task added to them, consisting of the following:.

 **A Thousand Young**: When a player resolves an adventure, a monster appears. Monsters with a trophy value of 1 cannot be kept as trophies. They are returned to the monster cup after being defeated.

 Core Set
 Horror

 Character
 Shub-Niggurath | 7

 Character
 Shub-Niggurath | 7

 Character
 Shub-Niggurath | 10

 Character
 Shub-Niggurath | 7

 Character
 Shub-Niggurath | 6

 Character
 Shub-Niggurath | 8

**Shub-Niggurath** is an Ancient One that appears in the *Elder Sign* Core Set and Arkham Nights promo set for 2012, an Epic Monster that appears in the *Eldritch Horror* Core Set, and a Character Card that appears in the *Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game* Arkham Edition, Unspeakable Tales, Eldritch Edition, Core Set, The Yuggoth Contract, and The Thousand Young.

## Availability

CS-121 appears in the Necronomicon Draft Pack.

## Artwork

The Elder Sign: Arkham Nights Ancient One Card for Shub-Niggurath, AE-181, and CS-121 use an illustration[?] by John Matson.

The Elder Sign: Core Set Ancient One Card for Shub-Niggurath and UT-109 use an illustration[?] by Patrick McEvoy.

EE-181 uses an illustration[?] by Matthew "Matt" Dixon.

TYC-114 uses an illustration[?] by Matthew Starbuck.

TTY-23 uses an illustration[?] by Stephen Somers.

*This section of the article is a stub. You can help by expanding it.*
## Mythos

Shub-Niggurath first appeared in the story *The Last Test* (H.P. Lovecraft with Adolphe de Castro, 1927).

Shub-Niggurath is the Outer God of fertility. In the few times it has been summoned, Shub-Niggurath appeared as a great noxious cloud from which hoofed feet and tendrils constantly protruded and were re-absorbed. It may be called in any woodland with a properly consecrated altar during a new moon, especially on May-Eve.

Shub-Niggurath is usually referred to as female, but has also been known by the title "Ram with a Thousand Ewes." One reference in the Cthaat Aquadingen says that the Outer God is both male and female. It is likely that Shub-Niggurath signifies the cosmic principle of fertility and childbearing, and attaching sex to any of the Outer Gods is problematic at best.

Shub-Niggurath's cults may be the most widespread of any Mythos entity. It is known to have been worshiped by the Tcho-tchos, Hyperboreans, Muvians, Greeks, Cretans, Egyptians, Druids, and the people of Sarnath, as well as by the fungi from Yuggoth, the dholes, and the Nug-Soth of Yaddith. For those who serve it, Shub-Niggurath bestows bountiful harvests and many children to its worshipers in exchange for blood sacrifices.

References to Hastur the Unspeakable indicate that Shub-Niggurath has mated or will mate with this Great Old One, producing the creatures known as the Thousand Young. From this union, or possibly another with Yog-Sothoth, it has spawned the little-known entities Nug and Yeb. Yig has also been referred to as her "brother and mate". The milk of Shub-Niggurath, a substance with astounding mutagenic properties, has sometimes been found in the possession of cultists.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Harms, Daniel, "Shub-Niggurath (also The Black Goat Of The Woods With A Thousand Young or Shupnikkurat or possibly Ishnigarrab)", *Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia*.