Carlyle Expedition

The principal members were Roger Carlyle , Dr. Robert Huston, Hypatia Masters, Sir Aubrey Penhew, and Jack "Brass" Brady

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Location Of Carlyle Expedition Principals, January 1925

Roger Carlyle: Confined in an asylum in Hong Kong, hopelessly insane. Jack Brady watches over him from afar. Carlyle knows the Great Plan of Nyarlathotep but is too far-gone to be able to tell anyone.

Jack Brady: Hiding in Shanghai. The one sane person who knows the Great Plan of Nyarlathotep, Brady has been trying to track down Sir Aubrey Penhew and Dr. Robert Huston, and has been in peril repeatedly during the five years since the Carlyle Expedition massacre near Nairobi. Brady enlightened Jackson Elias as to what was going on after the researcher tracked him down in Shanghai; Elias, in turn, introduces the investigators to the campaign.

M’Weru: Returned to her home in Kenya, to the Mountain of the Black Wind, to await the time for the Great Rite and watch over Hypatia Masters’ pregnancy. M’Weru remains high priestess of the Cult of the Bloody Tongue.

Hypatia Masters: A babbling shell driven insane by the entity to which she soon must give birth. She languishes in the Mountain of the Black Wind, lost to the world and to herself, and tended to by the Cult of the Bloody Tongue.

Dr. Robert Huston: Leads a group of cultists who work to plunder the artifacts and technology from the City of the Great Race in the Western Australian desert. Huston ships his discoveries to Edward Gavigan in England and to Sir Aubrey Penhew on Gray Dragon Island.

Sir Aubrey Penhew: Dwells on Gray Dragon Island in the China Sea, east of Shanghai. He presides over a local chapter of the Order of the Bloated Woman, a cult worshipping one of Nyarlathotep’s many forms, and is busily developing the rocket and warhead that will weaken spacetime and open the way for the Great Gate. Penhew is incurably insane and maniacally capable.