Gorellik is a Power in decline. In pre-history, the deity was at least a Lesser Power, but his atavistic cult has remorselessly declined, originally due to gnolls turning to giantish Powers and later due to the rise of Yeenoghu and the power of his clerics compared with Gorellik's. Even early gnoll myths do not tell of a creation of their race, so this role was not one the Power could hold on to his worshipers with; they simply revered force and power. In the face of this decline, the Power has grown more feral and animalistic. Originally, it was he who taught gnolls how to charm and master hyenas that were used for hunting, and the powerful hyenadon is the Power's symbol. As Gorellik has declined, he increasingly takes the form of this totemic animal, even as he prowls Pandemonium and the Abyss, which does not increase his attractiveness to flinds in particular.