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[[WMG: The Wiki/SCPFoundation has at ''least'' one minor Spawn of Rovagug in custody.]]

* However the page on Paizo's website claims that the 4th Bestiary will correspond with the release of [[UpToEleven Mythic Adventures]] so I suppose statting Gods might still be possible.

Rovagug's escape and the destruction of the entire multiverse was a prophecy, foreordained to happen. Aroden committed a HeroicSuicide to break prophecy itself. So now Rovagug's escape is a "maybe" rather than a "definitely," and the multiverse has a fighting chance. And he guided Iomedae to the Starstone so that he'd have an Inheritor capable of taking up his mantle afterward.

Think about it. Norgorber is a ProfessionalKiller (and the latest deity to ascend), and Aroden is dead. Coincedence? Maybe.

[[WMG: Nethys is really [[CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep]].]]

The cover of Pathfinder Bestiary 4 appears to show the great old one [[CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]]. Let's think about this, Cthulhu is essentially a God and in Pathfinder Gods' stats usually look something like this:

Cthulhu is supposed to be slumbering on a distant world - obviously Earth. So there's an opportunity to use the CthulhuMythos as a bridge for Pathfinder characters to visit Earth. However, unless Paizo wants to get ambitious and use this as a launch for a Pathfinder Modern game, they probably won't visit modern Earth. The simplest solution would be to drop the characters somewhere in Earth's past. My personal hope would be for the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar - a little more advanced than Pathfinder (ubiquitous guns), full of religious intolerance, and generally not a fun place to be.

* Book Five of the Reign of Winter adventure path (Entitled "[[GrigoriRasputin Rasputin]] Must Die!") does just that - the search for Literature/BabaYaga brings you to the world of her birth, during UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne. The specific area is an out-of-the-way prison camp where Rasputin, his supernatural minions and the players can all throw down without messing things up too much. The human soldiers there are blithe to the magic thanks to a combination of their training and the Film/{{Nosferatu}} chaplains keeping them all under CharmPerson effects to make them [[WeirdnessCensor oblivious to the supernatural things they're seeing]].

** The answer to your question would be ''CallOfCthulhu'', which dramatically overstatted him and added MemeticBadass points like "hit by a nuclear weapon, he reforms almost immediately but is now radioactive."

Think about it. Norgorber is a ProfessionalKiller (and the latest deity to acend), and Aroden is dead. Coincedence? Maybe.

Apsu, the real Apsu, not the puny god who serves as his avatar, is the concept of the "normal" universe. The planets, the stars, where life is all nice...And Tiamat is the dark tapestry, the other side of the universe, the entropy. They may love each other, but for the lifeforms that inhabit the normal one, the dark tapestry is a deadly nightmare. And some "lower" dark tapestry creatures might think the same of the normal universe.

Gods of wanton destruction? Check. Forced all the other gods to join forces against them? Check. [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed away in a demiplane?]] Check. Rovagug and Tharizdun are aspects of the same god worshiped on Golarion and Oerth, respectively. Myths about them have diverged wildly over the ages, leading to many differences in the details, but the core story is the same. Other possible aspects include Khyber from {{Eberron}}, the wraithlike Dark God (see 2E's ''Monster Mythology''), the oozing Elder Elemental Eye (worshiped in Greyhawk), and the Drow god Ghaunadaur.

* Considering that he traveled into the dark tapestry, it was likely one of the outer gods. There's a good chance he ran into Nyarlathotep (who operates around Golarion) or worse yet stumbled into Azathoth's court.

The cover of Pathfinder Bestiary 4 appears to show the great old one [[CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]]. Let's think about this, Chtulhu is essentially a God and in Pathfinder Gods stas usally look something like this:

[[FridgeHorror And now the Groetus cultists have a game plan]]....

That's why they [[ShrugOfGod won't tell us]] what happened to him.

That's why they [[ShrugOfGold won't tell us]] what happened to him.

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[[WMG: Lamashtu's influence has reached Earth, and LadyGaga is her herald.]]

Norgorber's divine form is similar to that of Hastur's, an invisible body wrapped in a cloak; his title, the Reaper of Reputations, takes it's real world inspiration from one of the short stories from ''TheKingInYellow'', which is the inspiration for Hastur.

To be specific, direct psychic contact with the more disturbed and disturbing corners of it. Encountering either some of the weirder manifestations of the FurryFandom or absorbing the psychic energy of the Furry Hatedom is probably to blame for his attack on his dad. (Who, remember, was a wolf-spirit.)

* Book Five of the Reign of Winter adventure path (Entitled "[[GrigoriRasputin Rasputin]] Must Die!") does just that - the search for BabaYaga brings you to the world of her birth, during UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne. The specific area is an out-of-the-way prison camp where Rasputin, his supernatural minions and the players can all throw down without messing things up too much. The human soldiers there are blithe to the magic thanks to a combination of their training and the Film/{{Nosferatu}} chaplains keeping them all under CharmPerson effects to make them [[WeirdnessCensor oblivious to the supernatural things they're seeing]].

[[WMG:[[{{Pathfinder}} Rovagug]] and [[{{Greyhawk}} Tharizdun]] are one and the same.]]