So I'm finally getting around to reading through Drift Crisis(I've been busy this year) and in the proposed explanation section, specifically the idea that the crisis was caused by divine intervention on page 16, the texts brings up the gods uniting against Rovagug as a past event.
Correct me if I'm wrong but is this the first time Rovagug has been mentioned in Starfinder? And, via the context clues in this entry, it would seem that Rovagug's defeat is apparently a known event by at least some people in the modern Starfinder universe?
It's been a while since I've dived into Starfinder deep lore but I had always taken the complete lack of mention of Rovagug in any source I was aware of(and the fact that no one was apparently freaking out about the fact his prison has gone missing) to imply that his existence had been forgotten, if not erased by the Gap.
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Rovagug is mentioned in the CRB on page 425 in the Lost Golarion inset.
The presumed birthplace of humans, dwarves, halflings, and
numerous other races still found in the system, Golarion was most
notable not for its vast civilizations, but its theological significance:
in addition to caging a dark god of destruction called Rovagug in its
core, Golarion was also home to a magical object called the Starstone,
which allowed mortals to ascend to godhood.
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In the pre-Gap era, inhabitants of the other planets in the Golarion system called Golarion The Cage. They knew the planet as the legendary prison of Rovagug, even if that's all they knew about it. Those records would have survived.
Yes, Rovagug is still known about.
IIRC, one of the speculations about the Gap and/or Golarion being missing has to do with protecting the universe from Rovagug; either preventing Rovagug from breaking free or preventing an outside agency from tampering with the prison.
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Two deities from old Golarion are specifically cited as missing from the Starfinder setting: Rovagug and Torag. Make of that what you will.
If Shadowfinder is ever published, maybe Owen K.C. Stephens will tell us.
More food for thought...
Did Triune exist in that form during the Gap, and did the Drift (Alpha ver.) exist then too?
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Two deities from old Golarion are specifically cited as missing from the Starfinder setting: Rovagug and Torag. Make of that what you will.If Shadowfinder is ever published, maybe Owen K.C. Stephens will tell us.
I googled shadowfinder and it sounds cool, so I'm gonna check "is this gonna be an actual eventual infinite product" since it sounds cool :O