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The Elephant Lord
Seyhrain Elephantis. Planar animal lord [he/him] N
Realm: Beastlands / Krigala / The Elephant Lord’s Stamp
Noble and regal, the Elephant Lord is known as known across Prime Worlds as the Elephant King. Elephant is a fierce and terrible blood, assuming all mortals to be alike: hunting for the ivory of his charges. Unfortunately, his fears are usually justified; Clueless Primes all-too often hunt the elephants of Krigala for their tusks, and the tusks of the Elephant Lord himself would most likely fetch a factol’s ransom in in the black markets of Sigil. Of course, more than one cony-catcher has claimed to be selling the tusks of the Elephant King before…
The Elephant Lord is a venerable cutter, having existed for several centuries, and chant goes has never been killed through violence. The tradition of the Elephant Lords though is that when they feel that they’ve seen enough of the Beastlands, they simply join the previous Elephant Lords in death.
Unlike the realms of many other Animal Lords, Elephant’s realm (known as The Elephant Lord’s Stamp) is not mobile. Instead, Elephant spends his eternity watching over the Elephant Graveyard of the Beastlands, where every elephant petitioner that achieves unity with the Beastlands heads to die and allow their essence to finally merge with the Plane.
It’s a mammoth graveyard valley of bones, surrounded by mountains so impassable that only the elephants of the Beastlands who know the secret way in may find it. No planewalker really has any chance of meeting the Elephant Lord, to be blunt. The best chance they may get would be to speak to the warden beasts who represent the Elephant Lord. A word of warning though, the warden elephants of Krigala are currently on edge and easily angered, believing as their King does that all mortals are really trophy-seeking hunters at heart.
It’s recent events which have caused the Elephant Lord to take a more aggressive stance against hunters, especially the Vile Hunt. While the Vile Hunt hates all animal petitioners, they seem particularly motivated to hunt down the wards of the Elephant Lord because of their valuable tusks, whether or not the beasts can actually talk. The Vile Hunt will usually slay whatever animals they can when they arrive in the Beastlands, petitioner or not, and they certainly don’t bother to check when valuable ivory is involved. For that reason, the Elephant Lord and Cat Lords have declared arikina; the lions of Krigala slew members of the Vile Hunt who were encroaching on the Elephant Lord’s Stamp, thus sending a clear message to the Vile Hunt that Elephant was not to be trifled with. ‘Course, the attacks soon began again after the Vile Hunt forgot about the cat attacks—mortal memories are so short after all—so lately Elephant has had to rely on the more zealous Wylders of the Beastlands for aid.
Source: Dave King aka Heregul, Jon Winter-Holt. Canonwatch: The elephant lord is homebrew and was first mentioned in the Cage Rattlers section many years back.