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49. Emkrah - Pathfinder

The Emkrah are a little bit more direct than our last post of today.  And yet they tie in pretty well to something we’ve already talked about, in that they connect heavily to Rovagug, the destroyer god of Golarion.  He’s a pretty basic destroyer god, and in Golarion they constantly creates kaiju like mofes of a wide variety that are called the Spawn of Rovagug.  They are nigh invincible and are made directly from Rovagug.  To give a slight idea of their intensity, the tarrasgue of Golarion is said to be a spawn of Rovagug.  The Emkrah on the other hand are said to also be spawned directly from Rovagug.  They are however far less powerful and seem to be more of a passively birthed being than their greater kin.  I might even suggest that perhaps that they are sometimes formed out of failed spawn.  When formed however, they remain in an egg state until powerful forces of aberrant, outsider, or vermin nature come to give it care, while the egg constantly draws in these potential foster parents.  When the emkrah arises, the foster parents job is not done, for while an emkrah has the potential to devour its guardian as willingly as anything else, often times this will instead lead to odd pairings that could go one way or another in terms of power.  As emkrah are sacred amongst those who follow Rovagug, it is safe to say that any creature that seeks them out to nurture them is well aware of the needs of the creature and what will need to be provided in order to keep an effective ongoing cult around the creature.  Just as the spawn of Rovagug, Emkrah are all of various shapes and abhorrent design, yet another reason to possibly concur a more implicit connection.  It is said that Emkrah cannot actually become spawn, but this does not mean that they weren’t still an attempt at such a ritual.  The potential of Emkrah as our BMEG arises from their massive variability.  Though there is a stat model that Pathfinder gives us, the description leaves us with the possibility of differentiating from that model immensely, possibly in ways that connect to the greater spawn of Rovagug.  In addition, we get a great measure of variability in the relation the emkrah might share with its foster parent, who in this case would have to be the lesser to it to make it stay the Big Bad, but not be so lesser as to be just an easy meal.  This gives us invariable options to stem from.  This connection is also important because the major problem of the emkrah is that it has no way of speaking, in spite of having intellect that may allow for it, and this mouthpiece can serve to better engage us with whatever scheme it has to further the work of Rovagug. At a CR 9, an Emkrah can be the final villain of an early to mid-level questline that first introduces your party to a series of questlines that make up a campaign spiraling around Rovagug.