A. No. Unlike other Units, the Watcher just loses 1 from his strength when he is “Eliminated”, and Azathoth loses 1 die from his Combat.

A. The Ancients are ignored for this purpose. For example, the Ancients need not have a Great Old One for an independent Azathoth’s controller to earn his Nuclear Chaos Spellbook.

A. The Daemon Sultan Faction can change the marker’s position each time you Awaken Avatar Thesis.

A. Yes, of course. For example, say Daemon Sultan Awakened Avatar Thesis, paying 2 Power. The Azathoth Glyph Token is set to 2. Then, on the next turn, a player Awakens the independent Azathoth. As part of that process, he rolls the Azathoth die and scores 7. The Azathoth Glyph Token is therefore moved from 2 to 7. Now, if Daemon Sultan Awakens Azathoth Antithesis, he’ll only have to pay 1 Power.

A. No. Using the Chaos Gate Spellbook still costs 1 Power.

A. Dread Curse is not considered a Battle, despite the fact that Combat dice are rolled. It cannot be combined with Channel Power or any other Pre-Battle, Battle, or Post-Battle effects (such as Regeneration, Necrophagy, or even Madness).

A. The victim selects the targets; you just choose which results apply to which Faction. Thus, if you rolled a Kill and two Pains, you could apply the Kill and a Pain to one Faction, and the remaining Pain to another.

A. After the victim selects which Units are Pained, Opener of the Way selects to which adjacent Area each Unit Retreats. He can include Areas that contain Opener of the Way Units (these Units cannot be Eliminated by being surrounded).

A. No, because that Spellbook requires you to apply the Combat results to particular Factions. In the case of Abhoth, once he is back in play the Filth tokens may be targeted, but as the Zoogs are never under the Control of a particular Faction they can never be targeted.

A. Undimensioned specifies that you may only rearrange Units among your Areas. So, you could not swap out a Cultist who is Cursed Slumbering with one from the Map, or change which Units are currently Submerged with Cthulhu, since these are not Areas. (When Cthulhu is Submerged he uses incalculable geometry such that even beings who are temporarily dimensionless cannot reach him).

A. Yes.

A. The Thousand Young Spellbook changes the cost of each of Black Goat’s Faction Monsters, so Shriveling would grant Black Goat the reduced cost to Summon. For example, Black Goat would receive 0 Power when a Ghoul is Shriveled.

A. When a Gnoph-Keh is Shriveled, calculate the cost it would take to Summon it at that moment, not how much it would cost to re-Summon it. This means that if Windwalker had all four Gnoph-Keh on the board at the moment of Shriveling, it would grant him 0 Power.

A. Because it is always the very last Power to be added—even after the minimum Power rule. This is the only ability in the game which must take place at that moment. To be clear, when Mao Ceremony is in play, first all players tally up their Power, then the minimum Power rule occurs, and finally Mao Ceremony can be used. (By the way, a High Priest can still be sacrificed for 2 Power at any time, Mao Ceremony notwithstanding).

A. You may replace the selected Spellbook with one of your own Faction Spellbooks or another Azathoth Spellbook from the Pool. You may NOT use Recriminations in conjunction with any Independent Great Old One Spellbooks—only with Spellbooks which can be placed on your Faction Card.

A. It goes back to the general, Neutral Spellbook Pool. If a Neutral Spellbook is not currently on your Faction Card, then any Faction may earn it.

A. The Moonbeast is removed with the Spellbook (costing nothing to do so) and follows normal rules for returning it to the Map.

A. While you could take them back onto your Faction Card, you cannot flip them. The Spellbook states “flip it face down to indicate that it cannot be used again.” This is categorical. It also works this way with Crawling Chaos’ Thousand Forms, which won’t flip over until the following Gather Power Phase.

A. In an Elder Thing’s Area, Cthulhu can’t Devour. He can still use Submerge and Y’Ha Nthlei, as those are Spellbooks, not Great Old One special abilities. This ability also works on Independent Great Old Ones (but only their special abilities, and not their Spellbooks). Nyarlathotep can’t use Harbinger, Azathoth can be Killed with a single Kill result, and so on. Shub-Niggurath can’t Avatar out of an Area containing an Elder Thing, but she could use Avatar to enter an Area containing an Elder Thing because she is not in that Area at the moment she uses her Avatar ability. (And the player controlling Bokrug could lose his Loyalty Card!)

In some cases, Mind Control can cancel the abilities of Great Old Ones. For example—if Tsathoggua is in an Elder Thing’s Area, then he can’t use Lethargy. If Ithaqua is in an Elder Thing’s Area, then Ferox is not in effect for any of his Cultists (of course, if an Elder Thing is merely in the same Area as one of Windwalker’s Cultists, but NOT in Ithaqua’s Area, Ferox is still in effect). Likewise, Abhoth could put a Filth Token in an Elder Thing’s Area, so long as Abhoth himself does not share an Area with an Elder Thing. Some Spellbooks might be affected, even though they are not directly negated by Elder Things. For example: The King in Yellow can’t Desecrate, which means that his Third Eye Spellbook can’t be used, either (a similar effect happens to Cthugha and Ghatanothoa when they have their respective Firestorm and Execration of Mu Spellbooks).

A. No

A. Yes. For example, Windwalker can use Cannibalism to place Wendigos, Opener of the Way can promote Units via Million Favored Ones, and Yellow Sign can place via Desecration attempts. The Servitor of the Outer Gods’ ability only affects normal Summons.

A. Just go ahead and roll your Star Vampires’ total Combat dice. In this case, you will actually get to roll Combat dice, even though your total is technically zero. However, if your total dice are technically zero, you cannot Declare Battle. Weird, I know, but if Servitors are in play, you’re already dealing with multiple realities and alternate dimensions. And yes, in this case, the Combat results of the Star Vampires still DO apply in the Battle, as usual.

A. Yes, you always add the Star Vampire’s Combat results to the Battle (even if, as in the question above, you technically have zero Combat dice). However, if the Enemy has no Power (or no Doom), then the Star Vampire’s drain does nothing.

A. You still get to take the Doom and/or Power from your Enemy, even if some of the Battle results are not applied to Enemy Units (unless, of course, your Enemy doesn’t have enough Doom or Power to take). This also means, for example, that if Rhan Tegoth uses his Eternal ability when fighting your Star Vampires, you still get to take the Doom or Power if a Kill or Pain was initially assigned to Rhan Tegoth! Likewise, if your Star Vampire rolls a Kill against Nyarlathotep when he is protected by Emissary of the Outer Gods, you get 1 Doom but the Kill is reduced to a Pain (as per Emissary).

A. Sadly, in the Desecrated Area, as described in the ability. This also applies to Moonbeasts.

A: It disables Sacrament of Flesh. Hard to pull off, but utterly devastating to The Invasion if it happens. Unquenchable Thirst is unaffected as it cannot be disabled or deactivated.

A. Yes!

A. No.

A. Zero. Technically, Azathoth costs 0 Power to Awaken. The one die plus 2 Power you pay to Awaken him is a loss, not a cost. Nyarlathotep can get at most 2 Elder Signs when fighting Azathoth.

A. Treat it as if he received a Kill and roll a die.

A. Azathoth’s special ability is Ongoing and not a Battle ability, so just reduce his Combat by a d6. (Yog-Sothoth can’t use Azathoth’s own curse against him, you cadaverous fool! But because Azathoth is the Blind Idiot God, he can still harm himself somewhat).

A. The Ancients are ignored for the purpose of Azathoth’s spellbook requirement.

A. No.

A. The Elder Things’ Mind Control ability has no effect on the Watcher.

A. No.