Maelephant

The maelephants were denizens of the Nine Hells and powerful guardians used to protect the treasures of greater fiends and evil archmages.

Description
Maelephants were vaguely humanoid in shape, standing tall and weighing. They were bewildering creatures but nonetheless terrifying, with oversized hands tipped with vicious claws. Their massive heads resembled those of elephants with smaller eyes, ears, teeth and mouths. They had rheumy, red eyes and a serpentine trunk ending in a long, narrow spike.

Personality
Maelephants were instinctually loyal beings created with a primal urge to protect. They had no possessions of their own and so wandered the Lower planes searching for things to guard.

Society
Originally, they were created by baatezu lords to serve them as guardians. However, when those lords fell, many maelephants escaped service. Thereafter, they traveled the lower planes alone—driven still by the urge to protect and guard something.

A maelephant would fight to the death to protect its territory or its charge and generally would not pursue intruders.

Some made their homes on the Demiplane of Nightmares.

In the Realms
Maelephants were sometimes found in service of the duergar deities Laduguer and Deep Duerra.