This li'l beeb is a Wandering Deity, storm-variant! the horns are a particular mutation of theirs, and I don't know much else about 'em, lol

They're a species of deities with bodies like anthro siredons (think axolotls, who typically remain in water without losing their external gills; 'siredon' also refers to larval stages of other salamanders with a similar body plan) who opportunistically join foreign pantheons, either by eliminating an original/competitor deity and taking its place or just introducing themselves into divine sphere gaps.

The majority of them are the genii loci of freshwater bodies- rivers, streams, lakes, ponds etc., and that morph is also the most reproductively active (able to both produce and fertilize eggs); non-freshwater morphs, including this storm babby, can fertilize eggs/mortals but not produce eggs. this reproductive set system is not a gender/sex system in the social sense; Wandering Deities have no native concept of gender, but may acquire gender(s) from their exposure to gendered societies and/or their worshippers.


The external gills you see on this babbu are larval; once a Wandering Deity acquires a cult, they reach an adult form that (typically) looks like an obligate air-breathing adult salamander, except with whatever deific marks/thematics characterizes them.

Wandering Deity is a calque of their word 'Tloloexa' (IPA: /tɬo'loɛ.ʃa/; the TL is like if 'CH' or 'TS' had a baby with an 'L', but could be simplified to the TTLE in 'bottle' like ttle-OHeh-shah). 'Tlol' is their word for a deity, whether one like them or not; 'loexa;' means 'not of a place' (compare: 'loxe,' 'a place'; 'loxa,' 'of a place/a place's'; 'loexe,' 'no place/nowhere').