So as we all know, Second Edition has reworked kaiju away from being stat-blocked monsters and more being a series of linked hazards and ways to incorporate non-combat challenges such as navigating dangers to flee, helping others evacuate, or finding some way to turn aside the beast's destructive attentions.
And all this is well and good, and we've gotten several good mentions of Kaiju, from things like the summon kaiju spell, the articles in Monsters of Myth and the back of Fists of the Ruby Phoenix: Ready? Fight!, all of which included most of the named kaiju from first edition that either got stats or were just mentioned, and a few entirely new ones.
Except one notable absence: Varklops, Pathfinder's Ghidorah-expy and archnemesis of Mogaru. There is no mention of him in the summon kaiju spell or any of the other materials.
Did something happen? Was there legal trouble? Did they decided to preempt legal problems with the character the same way that drow no longer officially exist in the setting and many monsters officially have different base names? I can't seem to find anything on the subject.
Perhaps someone can shed some light in this gaping three-headed winged serpent of tyranny and malice-shaped hole in my heart.
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Mogaru killed him. ;P
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Varklops is 100% our creation. We just can't do everything all at once, and have to pick and choose when we do an article or a book or whatever what content we want to bring forward from the previous edition against any new content we want to present. As far as I know, Varklops is still out there... just waiting for a time when we bring them back!