Insects from Shaggai

Overview

Miskatonic seal ME-1920-X44/3685 binds this packet; duplicate citations must use slug `insects-from-shaggai`.

Taxonomists at Miskatonic classed Insects from Shaggai provisionally; the creature has not agreed to the classification.

Shan, small worshippers of Azathoth who fled their dying world in metal shells.

Period attestation: post-lovecraft.

What sleeps is not dead; what is catalogued here may be doing neither.

Description

Campbell introduced them; they possess hosts and build conical shrines.

Sensory reports conflict in detail — scale, colour, limb count — yet agree that the phenomenon offends proportion.

Olfactory notes in depositions: salt, copper, wet stone, and organic sweetness like fruit fermenting in a closed room.

Historical Record

Plutonian and earth colonies cited in British mythos.

Post-1937 pastiche and game supplements multiplied references; the archive tags those layers expanded mythos unless a primary citation is supplied.

Cross-links at dossier foot should be treated as hypotheses, not as family trees carved in stone.

Field Observations

Do not engage alone; do not accept hospitality from hosts who show windows to other eras.

Submit Form Theta-9 if conversation turns to cities remembered only in sleep.

Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.

Archive Notes

Cite archive slug `insects-from-shaggai` in all cross-references. Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.