Introducing Cultist Augur (Patreon)

Pessimus in dubiis augur timor.

The Augur is a diviner of the outer god Nyarlathotep, known to many by his epithet the Crawling Chaos. By gazing into the Church's relique, the Shining Trapezohedron, they would occasionally summon Nyarlathotep in his avatar as the eponymous Haunter of the Dark. In exchange for horrible sacrifices, the Haunter of the Dark would reveal other worldly and arcane knowledge.

The Shining Trapezohedron was a "crazy angled stone" created on the planet Yuggoth and brought to Earth by the Old Ones before the emergence of the human race. Throughout its history it was associated with Atlantis and the Pharoahs of ancient Egypt. Occultist and archaeologist Enoch Bowen discovered it within a box of alien construction while exploring the ruins of the tomb of Nephren-Ka in 1843. Bowen returned to his home in Providence, Rhode Island with the Trapezohedron and its box the following year, where he founded the Church of Starry Wisdom.

In year 2131, the Church funded a colonial expeditionary force into the uncharted land of Yuggoth in an attempt to discover the origin of the Shining Trapezohedron. Colonial administration lost connection with them a few days before the dream of madness struck and successively annihilate the mining base.