Rovagug

Rovagug, called the Rough Beast, is a Lovecraftian-like monster in the fictional universe of the Pathfinder pencil-and-paper roleplaying game by Paizo Inc. On the world of Golarion, where it is imprisoned, Rovagug is worshiped as the god of destruction.
==Background==
Rovagug is the greatest of all the Qlippoth, feared and hated by the gods and imprisoned deep within Golarion since the Age of Creation. Lying in a state of torpor, his sole goal is to destroy the gods and all of creation. Despite his imprisonment, he is restless and stirrings are increasing, some of which are believed to be the cause of earthquakes and volcanic activity. His avatar is that of a monstrous worm-like entity with innumerable teeth, limbs, claws, eyes, and other unmentionable parts.
Among his names are the Great Destroyer, the Rough Beast, and the Worldbreaker. In primordial times, from the deepest Abyss, the qlippoth lord Rovagug emerged seeking to destroy the world. Already an ancient being, he had destroyed countless other worlds. Upon turning his gaze on Golarion, a coalition of gods of all alignments stood in opposition against him. Many fell in battle against him, but in the end he was defeated and imprisoned.
Eventually, a tiny crack developed in his prison. Over the next 5,000 years, a dozen terrible monsters were unleashed by the Rough Beast onto the world, known as the "Spawn of Rovagug". Over the centuries and millennia, lesser qlippoth fed on his blood, skin, and other bodily fluids, and were forever transformed. It's believed that when the End Times arrive, the archdevil Asmodeus in desperation will release him to consume the other apocalypse. Rovagug will then devour creation and finally himself, leaving only Groetus the god of the apocalypse and one survivor to start all over.
==Known Spawn of Rovagug==
All of Rovagug's Spawn are known to radiate an aura of terror in a 300 ft radius. They are likewise all immune to a wide variety of attacks and are able to regenerate, even being disintegrated. They cannot be truly destroyed, only imprisoned, put to slumber, or temporarily "killed" (until they regenerate). The spawn are all highly resistant to magic. After one of the spawn rampages it goes into hibernation for years, decades, or centuries.
===Greater Spawn===
*Tarrasque: Known as the Armageddon Engine. The greatest of Rovagug's spawn, which is resembles a colossal dinosaur. It's a monster of incomprehensible power, with powerful claws, a mighty tail, and jaws which can swallow whole villages. The carapace deflects magical attacks and sometimes reflects it back on the spellcaster.
*Volnagur: Known as the End-Singer. It's a winged beast with a warty body in the shape of a many-pointed star, with a dozen wings sprouting from it. Has some magical spell-like powers, has razor-sharp long tongues, and fires eye rays. It's cry awakens blood fury and madness among those who hear it's song.
*Xotani: Known as the Firebleeder. It's form is a monstrous hybrid of a gigantic centipede and wingless dragon. Covered in obsidian-sharp magma plates with two great scythe-like claws. It's body generates so much heat, that what it touches catches on fire. If wounded, magma erupts from its injuries. From its maw it breathes a 70 ft cone of flame.
*Chemnosit: Known as the Monarch. Which is feared across the Darklands. It's maw if sull of teeth and tentacles with biting mouths. A glowing eye lies in the center of its mouth. Has some magical spell-like powers and its gaze urges you to devour the flesh of your own kind. 
*Ulunat: Known as the Unholy First. It's a colossal beetle, which has been slumbering for millennia. It's massive size was such that it easily crushed what was in its way, it's thunderous steps shook the earth, and it had massive claws. It fed on magic and absorbed magical attacks, creating arcanic feedbacks which could shred the spellcaster's mind.
*Kothogaz: Known as the Dance of Disharmony, Kothogaz is described as having a shell like a horned beetle's, veined wings of broken glass, a torso resembling a humanoid with a slug-like abdomen and moist, chitinous armor, four arms, two which are tipped in pincers, a drooling maw that forms most of its head, and dozens of eyes arrayed above its mouth.
===Lesser Spawn===
Spawn of Rovagug with lesser power and influence.
*Crawling Hunger: An intelligent, beclawed purple worm
*Gray-Stag-Devourer: A many-headed beast that stalks the Crown of the World.
*Urtleytlar: A scylla who escaped from the Dead Vault and went on to become a cleric of her progenitor.
*The Emkrah: The Spawn that will never be, grown from still-born egg sacs.
==Church of Rovagug==
The Great Destroyer has no grand-scale, organized church; rather, he is revered in smaller gatherings throughout Golarion. Across the Inner Sea region, his worship is most concentrated in the savage Darklands, the Hold of Belkzen, the frozen Realm of the Mammoth Lords, and the harsh deserts of Osirion and Qadira. He is also a frequent object of veneration by Keleshites, Kellids, and dromaars.
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