I was reading over Distant Worlds to help me prepare for starfinder and through my reading realized that Golarion is, or was the key to Rovagug's imprisonment. During the gap when Golarion went missing would Rovagug have been set free?
If so what horrors might he have brought about through the cosmos?
Anyone's thoughts or insights would be greatly appreciated!
It's not a story that Paizo has written yet, nor are they likely to, so go hogwild on your own.
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Losing your keys doesn't unlock your door.
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That depends on what actually happened to golarion, (which the devs are never going to define)but if it was destroyed, then probably yes; but if it was just moved, then no. if asmodeus decided that all them wacky rovagug cultists were in danger of succeeding and hid the planet somewhere in hell, then the rough beast would still be locked away.
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Rovagug got out and is now a planet-killing spaceship. Its cultists build high-tech temples on its body and live there. They also man the systems that power and control all the turrets they have installed all over its body.
The hangar bay is full of Tarrasques with jetpacks.
Rovagug got out and is now a planet-killing spaceship. Its cultists build high-tech temples on its body and live there. They also man the systems that power and control all the turrets they have installed all over its body.
The hangar bay is full of Tarrasques with jetpacks.
That is actually pretty terrifying.
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I'm guessing that Rovagug won't be one of the 20 core deities of Starfinder, since his shtick is pretty closely tied to Golarion which is gone.
Rovagug cultists could be a foil for the Starfinder Society on the other hand, wanting information on what happened to their lord's prison, but for very different reasons.
Losing your keys doesn't unlock your door.It's less that the keys were lost and more that the whole house disappeared with the door :-P
Problem solved then.
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I was reading over Distant Worlds to help me prepare for starfinder and through my reading realized that Golarion is, or was the key to Rovagug's imprisonment. During the gap when Golarion went missing would Rovagug have been set free?
If so what horrors might he have brought about through the cosmos?Anyone's thoughts or insights would be greatly appreciated!
In my head-canon, Rovagug's pit is an extradimensional space that is coterminous with the material plane at two points: the planets Golarion and Aucturn. In other words, Golarion encompasses and anchors the top of the extradimensional pit in normal space, and Aucturn is the "other end" where the pit bottoms out, turned inside-out extradimensionally and restitched together, so that the inside surface of the pit is now the rounded exterior surface of a planetoid at the edge of the solar system.
If Golarion has gone missing, that just means the overall length of the pit that is Rovagug's prison is merely "stretched out" to wherever Golarion went. Rovagug is still incarcerated, but the chances of him getting out have dropped significantly since no one knows where the main entrance is, and pity the fool whoever thinks it'll be a good idea to go looking for Rovagug in the unknown underdark of the planet called the Stranger.
Alternately this means Aucturn is a logical (however suicidal) place to start if you want to go looking for the missing planet of Pathfinder's original setting.
In my head-canon, Rovagug's pit is an extradimensional space that is coterminous with the material plane at two points: the planets Golarion and Aucturn. In other words, Golarion encompasses and anchors the top of the extradimensional pit in normal space, and Aucturn is the "other end" where the pit bottoms out, turned inside-out extradimensionally and restitched together, so that the inside surface of the pit is now the rounded exterior surface of a planetoid at the edge of the solar system.
If Golarion has gone missing, that just means the overall length of the pit that is Rovagug's prison is merely "stretched out" to wherever Golarion went. Rovagug is still incarcerated, but the chances of him getting out have dropped significantly since no one knows where the main entrance is, and pity the fool whoever thinks it'll be a good idea to go looking for Rovagug in the unknown underdark of the planet called the Stranger.
Alternately this means Aucturn is a logical (however suicidal) place to start if you want to go looking for the missing planet of Pathfinder's original setting.
That only makes sense if the Dominion of the Black/The Dark Tapestry entities have ties to Rovagug. Which, based on certain things*, is not the case.
*- Rovagug has been confirmed by James Jacobs to be an ascended qlippoth, and not an Old One/Outer God.
Well, I imagine the easiest way is just not to mention Rovagug at all...know one even knows he exists.
That doesn't mean he's escaped, it doesn't mean he's still imprisoned, but it also could very well mean that he is as well.
No one knows.
Rovagug got out and is now a planet-killing spaceship. Its cultists build high-tech temples on its body and live there. They also man the systems that power and control all the turrets they have installed all over its body.
The hangar bay is full of Tarrasques with jetpacks.
And renamed Unicron?
I'm pretty sure the universe would know if Rovagug was free. XD In fact, my personal theory is that someone found a way to free him, or got close, and the gods Nope'd so hard they hid the entire planet as a safety measure.
Universe is a pretty big place.