Indrik
Inorog. CG demipower (possible animal lord) of prehistoric beasts, rhinoceroses and other odd-toed ungulates [He/It]
Pantheon: Slavic
Symbol: A rhino horn
Realms: Pangaea and rarely the Beastlands (wandering)
Proxies: None
It is not entirely clear what kind of beast Indrik really is supposed to be. Some tomes call him “the king of all beasts”, though obviously, this seems an exaggeration at best. And there’s little to no worship devoted to Indrik, so most graybeards assume he’s something akin to an animal lord, gaining his power from the creatures he embodies. Some rumours claim that he was the creator of unicorns and ki-rin, and indeed was something of a primordial deity for them, at least before these creatures became more “civilised”.
Nonetheless, Indrik is an imposing creature. He is gargantuan, quite likely taller than any tarrasque, and his shape is something between a horse, a rhino and a paraceraterium—a mighty prehistoric beast, long extinct on most Prime worlds. He’s usually grayish-blueish-brown, with long sturdy legs and a colossal horn curving up from his forehead—although different authors describe him with all sorts of different features, even feathers, so it seems likely his preferred form changes over time. Indrik rarely communicates with anyone, preferring his wild lifestyle in savannas of Pangaea. When Indrik’s herd is on the move, the earth trembles at their footsteps. Yet as the herd passes through a locale, the land is healed and becomes more fertile in its footsteps.
Indrik is the head of a constantly wandering herd of rhinocerotoids, tapirs, brontotheriums, chalicotheriums, and less often, horses and lin (golden horse-like ancestors of duruchi-lin of Kara-Tur). Since most of these creatures are extinct or currently disappearing, Indrik spends most of his time in Pangaea, the Cordant Plane, where all of the extinct animals still exist.
Sources: Margarita and Jon Winter-Holt. Margarita notes: While this homebrew power is based on Slavic folklore and beliefs, the amount of actual information we have on pre-Christian Slavic deities is so minuscule that building any kind of lore out of it is impossible. However, there are a lot of folk beliefs about things these deities are thought to represent, which I have worked into the piece.