Kaiju, Watang
[Let me explain. The movie titled Mothra vs. Godzilla in its native Japan was called Godzilla vs. the Thing when released in the US by the publicity minded folks at American International Pictures. Advertising art had Godzilla fighting a censored tentacled monster, with the gimmick being you’d have to see the movie to see what The Thing was (spoilers: it’s Mothra). This led to even more elaborate versions of that poster being made for overseas markets, until we get to Italy’s Watang in the Fabulous Kingdom of Monsters, above.]
Kaiju, Watang CR 29 CE Aberration This levitating creature looks something like a colossal octopus, except that it has ten tentacles, each lined with barbs and ending in a clawed hand. Instead of jaws in the center of its mass is a single enormous eye, glowing with barely contained energy.
Watang the Terrible Thing is an immense, cephalopod-like horror that feeds on the fear of mortals. Like many kaiju, Watang spends most of its life in deep slumber. It occasionally stirs to feed by flying over settled areas and delighting in the panic its passing ensues. Watang is content to merely terrify most creatures, but anything that is immune to fear and attempts to fight it provokes its destructive ire. This includes the fearless kaiju—Watang resents other kaiju and is much more likely to fight against them than by their side.
Watang is magically gifted compared to most kaiju. It can ignore walls of force and other magical fortifications, and its claws dispel protective or enhancing magic. Its central eye can expand to release a ruinous torrent of force combined with negative energy. Due to this weapon, some scholars believe that Watang is native to, or connected somehow with, the Negative Energy plane, but despite this Watang has no affinity for the undead. Indeed, their fearlessness merely annoys it, and it destroys those undead who cross its path.
Watang is, like all kaiju, of a preposterous scale. Its tentacles reach about 150 feet in diameter.
