Guardian of the North

"Blessed be whose thunderous cry carries across the ice fields!"

Legends tell of a spirit in the form of a great beast that treads the perma-frosted wastes of the north. This is Pakaan. Minor god, unique monster, genius loci—no one knows with certainty his true nature, nor his origin. Sages have speculated that Pakaan was the steed and companion of a mighty, now lost (dead?) boreal deity. Pakaan is not telling. Facts are few, but certain traits are commonly ascribed to this enigmatic being. Pakaan appears as a huge woolly mammoth, fully eighteen feet high at the shoulder, with a pelt of purest snowy white, eyes like smouldering embers, and twelve foot-long curved tusks graven with magical signs and sigils.

Pakaan acts as a guardian of the northern tundra and preserver of the wilderness. He opposes the depredations and evil schemes of frost giants, white dragons, and their chaotic ilk, but is likewise hostile to “civilized” exploitation of his domain (such as mining or large-scale hunting). If Pakaan has any worshippers, they are found in small groups among the indigenous self-sufficient tribes of the boreal wastes. Snow elves favor him especially. It is claimed that Pakaan grants clerical spellcasting abilities to certain favored shamans. He never speaks (perhaps he cannot) but may communicate in dreams and visions.

His symbol is the aurora borealis, he leans somewhere between neutral and neutral good maybe, hard to tell with an unspeaking guardian mammoth.