I have 2 speculations.

1. Zhar will have an ingame ability about the token. Maybe it moves like monsters and when it does something happens.

2. When Zhar awakens, his token is placed somewhere, and Zhar's attack is making the token move, and when it reaches somewhere, it wins.

Could even be both.

What do you think?

kroen said:

I don't think it'll be either of those. If it was something that moved around the board, it would be more likely to be called a 'marker' not a token (although either is possible). And using a moving token as a timing mechanism during the final battle would be very very odd. That sort of ability crops up on the occasional fan-made AO, but it's a bit goofy for an official card.

Zhar is a big tentacle thing that lives underground. It's got a telepathic link with a 'twin brother' monster called Lloigor. It also telepathically controls its own worshippers, although in both cases those powers would be more likely to be represented in the rules as a special spawn monster or as a worshipper ability.

My guess is that because Zhar is called the 'Twin Obscenities' in the Mythos, this token will be double-sided and will be used to track the status of something. For example: "When a monster surge occurs, flip the Zhar token over to the Lloigor side" (or whatever). And when the Zhar side is face-up, some of the AO's abilities apply, and when the Lloigor side is face-up, other of the AO's abilities apply. So it keeps the investigators on their toes because they don't know exactly how the AO is going to behave from one turn to the next. That'd be my guess, although it's a bit of a shot in the dark.

Interesting specualtion, atlhough I have a strong feeling the token would be on the board. And ignoring my specualtion just becuase it says "token" and not "makrer" seems a bit far-fetched if you ask me. I for one am not ignoring anything.

Things on the board do tend to be called 'markers'. Clue tokens are the obvious exception, although they also stay on investigator sheets.

Except, now that I think of it, aren't those Shudde-M'ell things called 'Rubble Tokens'? Maybe there's not much in it.

I don't like the sound of Ghatanathoa's Visage cards either. There are eight of them, which implies that they're somehing that any investigator can get, but which it's superfluous to get more than once. Ghatanathoa turns people into living flesh-statues, so that they can't move and eventually go mad. Not nice.

If you want to know what I think, it probably has two images on either side, and will flip either randomly or regularly between turns. Depending on which side is up, Zhar will have different abilities.

Zhar is part of a corrupt twin, after all.