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The Dinosaur Lord
Tyrannus Seyhrain. Planar animal lord [he/him] N
Realm: Beastlands / Krigala / The Forbidden Plateau
Once upon a time, dinosaurs were feared across the Prime. Almost every world has had these fearsome creatures roaming their surface at one time or another. Chant goes that in the past, the Beastlands had at least twenty separate Dinosaur Lords, each representing a different species of the huge reptilian beasts. However, with the extinction of the dinosaurs across many Prime worlds—a few do continue to thrive, mostly in small and isolated areas—there now only exists a single Dinosaur Lord, who is the collective patron of the entire class of giant reptiles.
He represents both predator and prey, hunter and hunted, leaving him rather conflicted. The Lizard Lord may be aloof, but Dinosaur is even moreso, preferring to eat those that enter his realm. Like the Elephant Lord, Dinosaur is gravely in fear for the future of his species. Where the Elephant Lord is concerned about hunters, Dinosaur is realising that the very nature of his species requires extinction: the huge amount of food that his charges need to eat to maintain their enormous bodies is too great for them coexist comfortably with other species. He still hasn’t completely accepted this fact, but he’s beginning to take a more fatalistic viewpoint. It’s one that members of the Bleak Cabal would probably sympathise with—if they aren’t eaten first.
The Dinosaur Lord’s realm is the entirety of the Forbidden Plateau, and is completely off-limits to cutters without wings or those who aren’t expert climbers, as there’s no easy way to get up onto the Plateau. This isolation suits Dinosaur just fine—he rarely makes contact with mortals or other seyhrain, and when he does, it’s only for a brief amount of time before the messengers ‘mysteriously’ vanish. He has an agreement with the Hawk Lord though; she sends him messages as to the state of the Beastlands through her followers every once in a while, and Dinosaur’s minions do not attack the Hawk Lord’s hawks. Of course, a hawk wouldn’t make much of a meal for a huge flesh-eating beast, but the point is moot: the agreement holds.
The Dinosaur Lord doesn’t just represent the carnivorous dinosaurs, which is what outsiders tend to think of first, of course—Dinosaur represents all of the species, from the avian pterodactyl to the plated ankylosaurus. He’s a rather conflicted being as a result, and personally prefers the form of a tyrannosaurus, perhaps because most outsiders think of that huge beast when they think of dinosaurs. The Dinosaur Lord does not have a following of dinosaurs, but instead hunts his followers throughout the Forbidden Plateau for food. On occasion, the Dinosaur Lord prefers to take the form of a grazing beast and instead become the hunted. Of course, in all things, Dinosaur is the King of Beasts, and none of his followers would truly wish to kill their Lord. Then again, the he won his position by ‘accidentally’ killing the former Lord while he was in the form of an apatosaurus. Supposedly Dinosaur wasn’t aware of his prey’s true nature…
Canonical Source: Planes of Conflict [2e] Liber Benevolentiae p17-20
Source: Dave King aka Heregul, Jon Winter-Holt. Canonwatch: The dinosaur lord is is hinted at on p19 of Liber Benevolentiae.