Mogaru, the Final King – Epic Kaiju

Mogaru — D&D 5E 2024 Epic Stat Block

This conversion uses SpiralWorlds epic challenge ratings and ability scores above 30.

Gargantuan Monstrosity (Kaiju, Titan), Chaotic Neutral

Armor Class 29 (natural armor)

Hit Points 867 (34d20 + 510)

Speed 100 ft., swim 100 ft.

Initiative +15 (25)

Saving Throws Str +30, Dex +15, Con +25, Wis +20, Cha +18

Skills Athletics +30, Perception +20

Damage Resistances acid, cold, lightning, necrotic, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from non-epic attacks

Damage Immunities fire

Condition Immunities frightened

Senses darkvision 600 ft., passive Perception 30

Languages understands Aquan but cannot speak

Challenge 35 (Epic; 350,000 XP; Proficiency Bonus +10)

Traits

Absorb Energy. The first time after the start of each of Mogaru’s turns that he would take acid, cold, fire, lightning, necrotic or thunder damage, that damage type becomes his absorbed energy until the start of his next turn.

Mogaru takes no damage from the triggering effect and instead regains Hit Points equal to the damage that the effect would have dealt before applying resistance or immunity. Until the start of his next turn, further damage of the absorbed type also heals him instead of harming him.

Other energy types affect Mogaru according to his normal resistances and immunities but do not heal him during that round. Mogaru cannot absorb energy created by his own abilities.

Amphibious. He can breathe air and water.

See Invisibility. Mogaru sees invisible creatures and objects within 600 feet as though they were visible.

Epic Attacks. Mogaru’s attacks are magical and epic. Attacks made by artifacts, deities, kaiju, titans and creatures of CR 21 or higher also count as epic for the purpose of overcoming Mogaru’s resistances.

Ferocity. If Mogaru is reduced to 0 Hit Points while Annual Recovery is unavailable, he does not immediately fall unconscious. He remains conscious and can act normally until the end of his next turn. If he still has 0 Hit Points at that time, he dies.

Immutable Vitality. He is immune to disease, effects that reduce his ability scores, effects that reduce his Hit Point maximum and effects that would kill him without first reducing him to 0 Hit Points.

Kaiju Recovery. At the end of each of his turns, Mogaru can repeat one saving throw against an effect that has charmed, incapacitated, paralyzed, petrified, restrained or stunned him or magically transformed him. He ends that effect on a success.

Kaiju Recovery cannot end an influence created by Susceptible to Song.

Legendary Resistance (5/Day). If Mogaru fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead. He cannot use Legendary Resistance against Susceptible to Song.

Massive. He occupies a space 60 feet on each side. He can move through the spaces of Huge or smaller creatures, and those creatures can move through his space. His space is difficult terrain for other creatures.

Ordinary uneven ground does not slow Mogaru. Settlements, dense forests and major fortifications are difficult terrain for him.

Mogaru cannot be grappled, knocked prone or restrained or shoved by a creature smaller than Gargantuan.

A Large or smaller creature can climb Mogaru by succeeding on a DC 30 Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. A creature climbing Mogaru moves with him and has Advantage on melee attacks against exposed locations such as his eyes or dorsal spines. Entering or climbing Mogaru’s space provokes an Opportunity Attack from him.

Regeneration. He regains 30 Hit Points at the start of each of his turns if he has at least 1 Hit Point.

Annual Recovery (1/Year). When damage would reduce Mogaru to 0 Hit Points and kill him, he can instead take no damage from that instance and regain Hit Points equal to twice the damage dealt, to a maximum of his Hit Point maximum.

Mogaru then becomes disoriented and begins a compulsory retreat. At the start of each of his turns, he moves up to twice his Speed by the safest available route toward his lair. During this retreat, he cannot take Actions, Bonus Actions or Reactions, and his movement does not provoke Opportunity Attacks.

Any damage dealt to Mogaru by an external source immediately ends the compulsory retreat and allows him to act normally.

Sense Kaiju. Mogaru always knows the direction and approximate distance to the nearest active kaiju on the same plane. Effects that prevent divination also prevent this sense.

Siege Monster. Mogaru deals double damage to objects and structures.

Susceptible to Song. Mogaru’s actions can be influenced by a sustained vocal performance that he can hear.

Outside combat, Mogaru automatically notices a song directed specifically toward him from within 100 feet. During combat, sustained singing has a cumulative 20 percent chance per round of attracting his attention. The chance is 20 percent during the first round, 40 percent during the second, 60 percent during the third, 80 percent during the fourth and automatic during the fifth.

Once Mogaru notices the song, the singer must use an Action and succeed on a DC 30 Charisma (Performance) check. The singer cannot receive Help on this check.

On a success, Mogaru makes a Wisdom saving throw with a DC equal to the singer’s Performance check result. The singer may suggest a course of action as though using the Suggestion spell.

• On a failed save, Mogaru follows the suggestion for up to 8 hours.
• On a successful save, the performance still reaches him, but he follows the suggestion for only 1d4 rounds.

The suggestion cannot require obvious and immediate self-destruction. A particular singer can influence Mogaru only once per day.

Actions

Multiattack. Mogaru makes one Bite attack, two Claw attacks and two Tail Slam attacks. He can replace his Bite attack with Swallow against a creature grappled in his jaws.

Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +30, reach 60 ft. Hit: 48 (8d6 + 20) Piercing damage.

If the target is Gargantuan or smaller, it has the Grappled condition (escape DC 38). Mogaru can hold one creature in his jaws at a time.

Claw. Melee Attack Roll: +30, reach 50 ft. Hit: 38 (4d8 + 20) Slashing damage.

Tail Slam. Melee Attack Roll: +30, reach 90 ft. Hit: 31 (6d6 + 10) Bludgeoning damage.

A Huge or smaller target must succeed on a DC 38 Strength saving throw or be hurled up to 60 feet in a direction Mogaru chooses and land Prone.

If the target strikes a solid object before travelling the full distance, the target and the object each take 7 (2d6) Bludgeoning damage for every 20 feet of movement remaining.

Swallow. Mogaru swallows one Huge or smaller creature grappled in his jaws. The creature takes 35 (10d6) Bludgeoning damage and 35 (10d6) Fire damage and has the Blinded and Restrained conditions.

A swallowed creature has total cover against attacks and effects originating outside Mogaru. At the start of each of Mogaru’s turns, every swallowed creature takes 35 (10d6) Bludgeoning damage and 35 (10d6) Fire damage.

If Mogaru takes at least 70 damage during a single turn from creatures inside him, he must succeed on a DC 34 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate every swallowed creature. A regurgitated creature lands Prone in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of Mogaru.

Trample. Mogaru moves up to his Speed without provoking Opportunity Attacks and can enter the spaces of Gargantuan or smaller creatures.

Each creature whose space Mogaru enters must make a DC 38 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 56 (8d8 + 20) Bludgeoning damage and falls Prone. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage and is pushed into the nearest unoccupied space.

A creature can be affected only once during each use of Trample.

Red Ruin Breath (Recharge 5–6). Mogaru releases a beam of fiery red force. He chooses either a 1,200-foot-long, 30-foot-wide line or a 600-foot cone.

Each creature in the area must make a DC 33 Dexterity saving throw, taking 70 (20d6) Fire damage and 70 (20d6) Force damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Cover grants no bonus to this saving throw.

A creature that fails the save is staggered for 1d6 rounds. While staggered, its Speed is halved, it cannot take Reactions and it can make no more than one attack during its turn.

A creature reduced to 0 Hit Points by Red Ruin Breath is disintegrated along with its nonmagical equipment. Objects and structures automatically fail the saving throw.

Dorsal Firebolts. Mogaru can use this action only during his turn immediately following Red Ruin Breath. He launches red energy from his glowing dorsal spines at targets within 1,200 feet, choosing one of the following volleys:

• Focused Bolt: Mogaru makes one ranged attack at +15. On a hit, the target takes 35 (10d6) Fire damage and 35 (10d6) Force damage.
• Three-Bolt Volley: Mogaru makes three ranged attacks at +15. On a hit, each bolt deals 14 (4d6) Fire damage and 14 (4d6) Force damage.
• Six-Bolt Barrage: Mogaru makes six ranged attacks at +15. On a hit, each bolt deals 7 (2d6) Fire damage and 10 (3d6) Force damage.

The bolts can strike one target or several targets. A bolt deals full damage to objects and structures, ignores resistance to fire possessed solely because the target is an object and treats a Damage Threshold of 20 or lower as 0.

Reaction

Reflexive Breath. When a creature provokes an Opportunity Attack from Mogaru, he can replace the attack with a shortened but equally intense blast of Red Ruin Breath directed solely at that creature.

The target must make a DC 33 Dexterity saving throw, taking 70 (20d6) Fire damage and 70 (20d6) Force damage and becoming staggered for 1d6 rounds on a failed save. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage and is not staggered.

Using Reflexive Breath does not expend or affect the recharge of Red Ruin Breath.

Legendary Actions

Mogaru can take four Legendary Actions, choosing from the options below. He can take only one Legendary Action at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Mogaru regains all spent Legendary Actions at the start of his turn.

• Advance. He moves up to half his Speed.
• Claw. He makes one Claw attack.
• Tail Slam. He makes one Tail Slam attack.
• Twin-Tail Sweep (Costs 2 Actions). Mogaru makes two Tail Slam attacks against different targets.
• Trample (Costs 2 Actions). Mogaru uses Trample but can move only up to half his Speed.

Lair Actions

When Mogaru fights within his jungle lake or the surrounding forest, he can draw upon the energy accumulated throughout his lair. On Initiative Count 20, Mogaru uses one of the following effects:

• Crimson Upwelling. Red energy erupts from a point Mogaru can see within 600 feet. Each creature in a 30-foot-radius, 100-foot-high cylinder must make a DC 34 Dexterity saving throw, taking 44 (8d10) Fire damage and 44 (8d10) Force damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
• Lake Surge. Mogaru causes a wall of water up to 100 feet long, 30 feet wide and 30 feet high to move up to 200 feet. Each creature struck by it must make a DC 34 Strength saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 44 (8d10) Bludgeoning damage, is carried to the end of the surge and falls Prone. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage and is not moved.
• Falling Jungle. Trees, cliffs or ruined structures collapse in three 20-foot-radius areas Mogaru can see within 600 feet. Each creature in an affected area must make a DC 34 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 36 (8d8) Bludgeoning damage and has the Restrained condition beneath the debris. A creature can use an Action to make a DC 25 Strength check, freeing itself or another creature within reach on a success.

Regional Effects

The region surrounding Mogaru’s lair is altered by his sleeping presence:

• Water within 6 miles of the lake occasionally glows red beneath the surface.
• Low tremors pass through the ground in patterns resembling an immense, slow heartbeat.
• Fish and land animals flee the lake several hours before Mogaru begins to wake.
• Songs directed toward Mogaru carry across the lake with unnatural clarity, even through heavy rain and violent wind.
• Magical fire used within 1 mile of the lake sometimes bends toward the water as if drawn by an unseen current.

These effects fade over 1d10 years if Mogaru permanently abandons the lake.

Mogaru — Pathfinder 1E

MOGARU CR 28
XP 4,915,200
CN Colossal magical beast (kaiju, water)

Init +9; Senses darkvision 600 ft., low-light vision, see invisibility, sense kaiju; Perception +45

Defense

AC 47, touch 7, flat-footed 42 (+5 Dex, +40 natural, −8 size)

hp 697 (34d10+510); fast healing 30

Fort +34, Ref +24, Will +23

Defensive Abilities absorb energy, ferocity, recovery; DR 20/epic; Immune ability damage, ability drain, death effects, disease, energy drain, fire and fear; Resist acid 30, cold 30, electricity 30, negative energy 30, sonic 30

Weaknesses susceptible to song

Offense

Speed 100 ft., swim 100 ft.

Melee bite +46 (8d6+20/19–20 plus grab), 2 claws +46 (4d8+20/19–20), 2 tail slaps +44 (6d6+10/19–20)

Ranged firebolts +31 touch (variable damage)

Space 60 ft.; Reach 60 ft.

Special Attacks breath weapon, fast swallow, hurl foe, reflexive breath, swallow whole (10d6 bludgeoning and 10d6 fire damage, AC 30, 69 hp), trample (4d8+30, DC 47)

Statistics

Str 50, Dex 21, Con 41, Int 3, Wis 30, Cha 26

Base Atk +34; CMB +62 (+66 bull rush, +66 grapple, +66 sunder); CMD 79 (81 vs. bull rush, 81 vs. sunder)

Feats Combat Reflexes, Critical Focus, Greater Bull Rush, Greater Sunder, Greater Vital Strike, Improved Bull Rush, Improved Critical (bite), Improved Critical (claw), Improved Initiative, Improved Iron Will, Improved Sunder, Improved Vital Strike, Iron Will, Multiattack, Power Attack, Staggering Critical, Vital Strike

Skills Perception +45, Swim +49; Racial Modifiers +16 Perception

Languages Aquan (cannot speak)

SQ massive

Ecology

Environment warm forests or water

Organization solitary (unique)

Treasure incidental

Special Abilities

Absorb Energy (Ex). It absorbs energy attacks that affect him, including negative energy. Damage prevented by one of his resistances or immunities heals him by an amount equal to the damage prevented.

Mogaru can absorb only one energy type during each round. The first applicable energy type to affect him determines the energy he absorbs for that round, whether or not the effect would otherwise penetrate his resistance or immunity. His other resistances and immunities continue to function but do not heal him during that round.

Hit points gained beyond Mogaru’s normal maximum are lost. Mogaru cannot absorb energy produced by his own abilities.

Breath Weapon (Su). Once every 4 rounds, It breathes a beam of fiery red force. He chooses either a 1,200-foot line or a 600-foot cone.

Creatures within the area take 20d6 points of fire damage and 20d6 points of force damage and are staggered for 1d6 rounds. A DC 42 Reflex save halves the damage and prevents the staggered condition.

Cover provides no bonus on this saving throw. A creature slain by the breath weapon is disintegrated regardless of whether it succeeded at its saving throw. The save DC is Constitution-based.

Fast Swallow (Ex). Mogaru can use swallow whole as a free action at any time during his turn rather than only at the beginning of his turn.

Ferocity (Ex). Mogaru remains conscious and continues fighting when his hit point total falls below 0. He still dies when his negative hit points equal his Constitution score unless his recovery ability intervenes.

Firebolts (Su). As a standard action during any round immediately following the use of his breath weapon, Mogaru can launch bolts of red energy from his dorsal spines at targets within 1,200 feet.

Mogaru chooses one of the following volleys:

• One firebolt dealing 20d6 points of damage.
• Three firebolts, each dealing 8d6 points of damage.
• Six firebolts, each dealing 5d6 points of damage.

Each bolt requires a ranged touch attack. Half of the damage is fire damage and half is force damage. When a result cannot be divided evenly, Mogaru chooses which damage type receives the remaining point.

Firebolts deal full damage to objects and ignore the first 10 points of an object’s hardness.

Hurl Foe (Ex). When Mogaru damages a Huge or smaller creature with a natural attack, he can attempt a combat maneuver check as part of that attack.

On a success, the target is hurled 10 feet in a direction Mogaru chooses and falls prone. The distance increases by 10 feet for every 5 points by which Mogaru’s combat maneuver check exceeds the target’s CMD.

If an obstacle stops the target before it travels the full distance, the target and the obstacle each take 1d6 points of damage for every 10 feet of movement remaining. The target falls prone in the space adjacent to the obstacle.

Massive (Ex). Ordinary uneven ground and similar terrain features do not hinder Mogaru. Settlements and forests count as difficult terrain.

Huge or smaller creatures can move through Mogaru’s space, and Mogaru can move through their spaces. Mogaru can make attacks of opportunity only against Huge or larger creatures and can be flanked only by Huge or larger creatures.

Mogaru gains a higher-ground bonus only when his entire space is higher than his target’s space.

A Huge or smaller creature can climb Mogaru with a successful DC 30 Acrobatics or Climb check, as appropriate to the route used. A Small or larger creature attempting to climb Mogaru provokes an attack of opportunity.

Recovery (Ex). Whenever Mogaru fails a saving throw against a mind-affecting, paralysis, petrification, polymorph or immobilizing effect, he can attempt a new saving throw at the end of his turn to remove one such effect. Attempting this save requires no action.

Once per year, if Mogaru takes damage that would kill him by reducing his hit points to a negative amount equal to his Constitution score, the damage instead heals twice the amount of damage dealt.

This healing leaves Mogaru disoriented and demoralized. He becomes nauseated and seeks only to return to his lair. Any amount of damage dealt to him by an external source before he reaches his lair immediately ends the nauseated condition and allows him to stop retreating and attack.

Reflexive Breath (Ex). The first time during a round that Mogaru could make an attack of opportunity, he can instead release a shortened breath weapon against the creature that provoked it.

The target suffers the normal damage and effects of Mogaru’s breath weapon. A DC 32 Reflex save halves the damage and prevents the staggered condition.

This use does not affect the recharge time of Mogaru’s normal breath weapon. The save DC is Constitution-based and includes a −10 penalty.

Sense Kaiju (Su). Mogaru can sense the location of the nearest active kaiju as though using discern location.

Susceptible to Song (Ex). Mogaru’s actions can be influenced by song if he notices the performance.

Outside combat, he automatically notices a song directed toward him from within 100 feet. During combat, sustained singing has a cumulative 20 percent chance per round of attracting his attention.

Once Mogaru notices the song, the singer must succeed on a DC 35 Perform (sing) check. The singer cannot take 10 or 20, and the check cannot benefit from the aid another action.

The result of the Perform check becomes the DC of Mogaru’s Will save. On a successful performance, the singer can influence Mogaru as though using suggestion, with a caster level equal to the singer’s ranks in Perform (sing).

• If Mogaru fails his Will save, the influence lasts for the normal duration of suggestion.
• If Mogaru succeeds, the influence still lasts for 1d4 rounds.

Mogaru cannot use recovery to end this influence. A particular singer can influence Mogaru only once per day.

D&D 3.5e Compatibility

The Pathfinder 1E statistics can be used in D&D 3.5e with the following adjustments:

• Replace CMB and CMD with Grapple +70.
• Use Listen +45, Spot +45 and Swim +49 as Mogaru’s principal skills.
• Replace the Pathfinder feat list with Combat Reflexes, Improved Initiative, Iron Will, Power Attack, Cleave, Great Cleave, Improved Bull Rush, Awesome Blow, Improved Sunder, Improved Critical (bite), Improved Critical (claw) and Multiattack.
• Mogaru’s natural attacks count as epic and magical for overcoming damage reduction.
• Resolve hurl foe through an opposed grapple check or the normal bull rush rules where CMB and CMD would otherwise be required.
• Use the PF1e breath weapon, firebolts, recovery, massive, susceptible to song and other special abilities without alteration.

Mogaru, the Final King

This towering saurian lumbers on its hind legs, its twin tails thrashing and the spines on its back glowing with red energy.

Mogaru, known as the Final King to kaiju scholars, or simply as King Mogaru, is one of the most destructive of his kind. Although not the most powerful kaiju (a sobering thought in and of itself), Mogaru is certainly the most active of the known kaiju.

Additionally, Mogaru seems to be as eager to rampage through the works of humanity as he is to attack and kill other kaiju, making him something of a mixed blessing to kaiju-threatened cities. While the prospect of an attack by Mogaru is the stuff of nightmares, the possibility of his intervention during a different kaiju attack is the stuff of hope, though the damage dealt to a city during its defense may be significant. Mogaru appears as a towering dinosaur with twin tails, spines that glow red as he uses his breath weapon, and two powerful clawed forearms.

King Mogaru dwells in the depths of a tropical jungle, sleeping silently at the bottom of an unusually deep lake until roused. Legends hold that Mogaru was born of the world itself, either formed from the spirits of countless plants and animals resulting from ages of hunting and predation by humanoids for food or sport or formed from the souls of the countless slain in an ancient apocalypse or war that devastated one of the first of the world’s empires.

Regardless of the actual cause, the birth of Mogaru in these legends seems to be the same – soon after another kaiju, Lord Varklops, emerged from an erupting volcano, Mogaru rose to oppose the Thrice-Headed Fiend in a vast battle that nearly slew Varklops while devastating an entire nation in the process. Mogaru is also rumored to have slain no fewer than a dozen other kaiju, including Agmazar the Star Titan, now believed to be the only undead kaiju in existence.

Of particular note is the curious fact that Mogaru exhibits a particularly unique interest in song. Legends of skilled singers being able to save their cities with a single mournful paean to the kaiju, or of vengeful bards using their craft to waken the monster from his lair to send him on a rampage are common along coastal regions with a history of kaiju attacks, and in such regions renowned singers are well respected for this ability to influence one of the world’s most destructive creatures. Kaiju scholars suspect that song manages to penetrate Mogaru’s memories of some primeval event, but the reasons for the kaiju’s reaction to the song are its own.

Mogaru stands 140 feet high and weighs 20,000 tons, and is nearly 300 feet long from nose to tail.