Ptar-Axtlan, the Leopard that Stalks the Night

A most elusive Great Old One, a being of ever-shifting shape, the father and most likely the primogenitor of all shapeshifters among mortals. He is a simple being in its core, a hunter, an apex predator, loving only one thing with a fearsome passion - the hunt. Prowling across the many planets of the cosmos he finds himself prey for challenge and amusement. Those who will prove sufficiently difficult to take down might spark a modicum of curiosity in Ptar, making him offer them the gift of shapeshifting, limited perhaps, but still potent. Many warrior-cultures that lived in jungles and forests praise him as their god, the one truly savage hunter - quiet, patient, brutish and unyielding.