In an ancient Elder Thing ruin, maybe not even one worth exploring, just some rubble the caravan passes...
A statue of an Elder Thing... with butterfly wings. Cue the religious panic when the PCs realize this is a representation of Desna.
She's a very old goddess, after all. :)
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Yeah, I hope for nothing that explicit, but a hint of something...eldritch when crossing the Crown would be cool. Anything really, a prophetic dream, some nightmares about a lost city or just a local guide spilling out the beans about a previous expedition who were lost near some peaks and returned quite mad.
It's just that these things often unintendently turn into adventure hooks.
And now, prepare for the first Lovecraft-naysayer in 1...2...
Elder Things are about a billion years older than butterflies
Well, yes. But all that means is that 'butterfly' wings is an improper term, that butterflies are based on something...older.