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Casmaron in General
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Its cultures are based off of those of Central and Southern Asia and the Middle East.
- Out of Focus: Of the major continents and regions in Golarion that have been given focus, Casmaron doesn't have much focus or details compared to the Inner Sea, and places around it. A good chunk of the area is not detailed on the maps published for instance.
Vudra
In General
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Vudra, a distant land home to a thousand kingdoms, a thousand gods and creatures such as rakshasas, asuras and nagas, is a fantastic version of medieval India.
Gormuz/The Pit of Gormuz
In General
The first city to arise after the Age of Darkness, Gormuz had the misfortune of being built atop the scar left behind by the sealing of the Dead Vault. Rovagug's influence leaked through this weak spot in the crust of the world, turning a once mighty city into a hive of depravity. Eventually it grew too much for Sarenrae to bear and she destroyed the city, leaving a wound in the earth known as the Pit of Gormuz.
- Hellgate: If someone's deranged enough to descend into the Pit and powerful enough to survive it, they'll find it descends all the way to the molten core of Golarion. If they manage to get through that, they'll reach the outer shell of the Dead Vault, which teleports them inside if they touch it.
- Redemption Rejection: Sarenrae sent her herald to Gormuz to try and redeem its citizens. They rose up and tore him apart.
- Wretched Hive: Rovagug's influence turned every citizen in the city into the kind of people hardened criminals would be frightened and disgusted by.
The Weeper
A misshapen monster that rules the Trough of the Rough Beast, the first ledge of the Pit.
- Alien Blood: Its blood is black.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: Countless stinger-encrusted tails writhe from its back.
- Feathered Fiend: Though it couldn't be mistaken for a bird, its head is distinctly avian.
- Good Wings, Evil Wings: It has one rotten and broken wing, the other having been hewn off long ago.
- In the Hood: A hood covers most of its head. Given that it's not really in a state to put on clothes, it's also an indicator that the Weeper isn't just a creation of Rovagug's.
- Too Many Mouths: All four of its arms end in fanged mouths.
- Wound That Will Not Heal: The twitching stump of its lost wing, shorn off by angelic fire, still bleeds continuously.
The Crawling Hunger
A titanic worm covered in finger-like legs.
- Horror Hunger: As you may have guessed from the name, it is always hungry. Even magical items that remove the need to eat are consumed by its presence within a few days, leaving it just as ravenous as it was.
- Summon Magic: It can be summoned through a ritual, though obtaining its loyalty requires sating its hunger.
Galulab'daa
Once an angel, or several, who was (or were) mutated by Rovagug's influence.
- The Berserker: It's in a perpetual rage at absolutely everything.
- Blob Monster: It looks like a liquid mass of constantly mutating appendages and molten metal.
- Fusion Dance: Galulab'daa may have been an entire host of angels, warped together into a single creature.
- Summon Magic: It can be summoned through a particular ritual.
Raskineya
Raskineya, the Dark Comet
CE female adult void dragon (mythic), CR 16/MR 6
A dragon from the Dark Tapestry who seeks to free the Rough Beast from his prison.- Brainwashed and Crazy: She was never really sane, but after being captured by cultists of Rovagug to be worshipped as a proxy, she came to believe their preachings.
- Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: She's trying to catch Rovagug's attention so she can bear half-dragon offspring that would put Tarrasque to shame. Given her state of mind, it's unclear how much is genuine affection and how much is pragmatic belief that it's the best way to spread Rovagug's will.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": Calling her anything but the Dark Comet is a quick way to get killed.
- Extra Eyes: She has four eyes on one side of her head. Given what happens to most who associate with Rovagug, she could have just as many, more, less, or none at all on the other side.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: She was driven mad by her knowledge of the void.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Her solution for dealing with an army raised to fight her? Go into space, drop a few asteroids on them, let them tire themselves out with the akatas that hatched from the impact, then mop up the survivors.
Hathriss
CE female serpentfolk cleric of Rovagug 15/hierophant 4
Once a ruler of a mighty empire, Hathriss now dwells within the tangle of tunnels that was once her domain.- Evil Is Not a Toy: She tried to summon Chemnosit to destroy her enemies. It did, but only after destroying her nation first and reducing the few survivors to deformed cannibals.
- Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Due to wielding a magic weapon, throwing her blade at her opponents in mid combat is a genuinely viable option for her. She wields a dagger called the Tooth of Rovagug, which can ricochet between targets before returning to its wielder.
Kohal
Kohal the Corrupted
Kohal was once Sarenrae's herald, but after being slain his body fell into the rift carved by his god. There Rovagug's influence warped the once-angelic being into a monstrous warlord.- Covered with Scars: After being torn apart by an angry mob, falling into a pit of lava, and warring with the other denizens of the Pit for dominance, his body is twisted, broken, and covered in scars.
- Hearing Voices: Rovagug constantly whispers in his mind, mocking him for how far he's fallen and feeding him ideas for further evils.
- Magma Man: His body was remade out of magma and obsidian after his original body was burned away.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has three arms.
- Orcus on His Throne: He constantly plans attacks on attacks on Nirvana and the mortal world, but his madness means he rarely ever acts on them.
- Reforged into a Minion: A century after being slain, Rovagug's influence caused him to rise again as a twisted and insane being.
The Challenger
A creature from Heaven that descended to battle the Spawn of Rovagug, only to be slain for its troubles.
- Kaiju: Its bones are large enough to be carved out and used as fortresses.
- No-Sell: It was completely immune to heat and fire, enough that its bones remain undamaged by the magma that surrounds them.
- One-Man Army: Sure it got torn apart by the Spawn, but it still successfully slaughtered its way into the depths of the Pit.
- Posthumous Character: It was killed millennia ago, leaving nothing but its bones embedded in the depths of the Pit.
- Suicidal Overconfidence: It tried to take on the Spawn of Rovagug. Not one of them, all of them.
Yigachek
A parasite that once lived on Rovagug that escaped being sealed in the Dead Vault.
- Acid Attack: Yigachek's webs are acidic, slowly melting anything caught in them.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: It looks like a giant bebelith, a species of demonic spider monsters.
- Collective Identity: It's unknown if Yigachek is a single entity or a race of creatures.
- Make Them Rot: Its bite makes flesh rot right off the bones.
- Proportionately Ponderous Parasites: It was a parasite on the hide of a god, and is large and powerful enough to be a powerful, dangerous monster on a mortal world.
- Summon Magic: A ritual can summon it, though that requires giving it valuable objects to destroy.
- Undeathly Pallor: It's not undead, but it has the complexion of a corpse.
Praramdav
Champion of the Golden Host
N Colossal construct (colossus, mythic), CR 18/MR 7
A titanic construct created to combat the Spawn of Rovagug. Its creation and continued improvement bankrupted the nation, leading to it being dismantled and scattered.- Anti-Magic: It has an aura that shuts down all magic except teleportation and compulsion.
- Bling of War: As the name may indicate, it's composed primarily of gold.
- Dismantled Macguffin: It was split into five pieces, which were then claimed as trophies by Praramdav's rival nations. It was nearly reassembled when Kothogaz attacked, but the Spawn struck before two of the pieces could be obtained and scattered them across the continent.
- Mistaken for Granite: It can transform into a monument, increasing its damage resistance and aura range.
- Snake People: From the waist down it has a serpentine tail.
- Status Buff: Any allies close enough to it gain the benefits of bless and remove fear. It can also bless an army using the mass combat rules.
Kelesh
Sadiqa
Sadiqa Shaorhan
The crippled founder of the Cult of the Seventh Veil, an offshoot of the Church of Sarenrae tied closely to the goddess Sivanah.- Cult: What her following was classified as, though it was really just a new sect of an existing religion.
- Throwing Off the Disability: Her legs are healed after the voice in the darkness speaks to her. Being what it is, it naturally reverses this as soon as she's completed her task.
- Tragic Villain: By all accounts, Sadiqa was a kind woman whose guiding philosophy was that for every labor there should be a respite. After an accidental death caused by one of her followers, her peaceful cult was persecuted and hunted down, and her attempts to save her fellow worshippers led to a catastrophe that claimed many lives.
- Unwitting Pawn: When Serenite inquisitors started executing the members of her following she prayed to the goddess for guidance. What responded was most definitely not Sarenrae or Sivanah, but that didn't become evident until she'd already made a pilgrimage to a mountaintop during an eclipse. The action, willfully taken even if it wasn't knowledgeable about the truth, allowed the speaker to set off the volcano and claim the surrounding area.
- Walking Wasteland: After she was deceived by the voice in shadows, her attempts to help others would consume them with shadows.
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Wheelchair Woobie: All the more prominent because she doesn't have a wheelchair, forcing her to rely on crutches.
Iobaria
In General
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Iobaria is "proper" Russia (as opposed to Irrisen's fairytale Russia): a collection of towns and old cities clinging desperately to the light of civilization in an endless hellscape of frigid tundra, nomadic horselords and hidden terrors lurking within the ruins of old tombs.
Sjohvor
CE Male great wyrm white dragon, CR 18
A white dragon on a crusade against frost giants after the death of his mate.
