Bulette

Bulette are a species of armored bulky Monstrosity that first appeared in the table top game Dungeons and Dragons. It is a Rare creature only found in locations such as the Great Desert where they burrow under the sand and wait for their humanoid prey. despite their appearance, they are able to leap an incredibly high in the air and can also hold prey with its jaws much like an Alligator Snapping Turtle only it is much stronger. its sharp claws are used frequently in digging much like armadillos but with more success. The creature's armored plating allows the beast to shrug off attacks from spears, swords, and arrows but if flipped over its weight becomes its enemy and a predator could simply scratch it and it would begin bleeding. as a Tanker class creature(Subclass:Grappler), Bulette can reach lengths of 3-12 meters long. during wars they burst from the ground and grapple human victims before proceeding to use them as a shield to defend itself from rocket launcher shots.

## Biology

Bulette are heavily armored, with a shark-like, bullet-shaped head adorned with a massive mouth filled with multiple rows of razor-sharp teeth. Around the head and rear, this armor is a blue-brown color, while in-between the hue might range from gray-blue to blue-green. Areas around the eyes are slightly darkened, with the eyes themselves being a yellow color with blue-green pupils.

However, while bulettes can see in perfect darkness with these eyes they are not a bulette's primary method of sensory perception.

Gluttonous creatures, they will attack and feed on nearly anything they regard as edible, choosing the easiest or closest prey first. Strangely they have a distaste for Draconid flesh and they completely refuse to consume Graboids for any reason, dead or alive. They do however have a preference for both horse and Human flesh.

Their name stems from a dorsal ridge, which continues to jut above the surface when they burrow - referred to as swimming - through Cormanthor's soft earth, aided by an earth-dissolving slime coating their plates. Although they cannot see while underground, they can sense tremors in a manner similar to Graboids or various breeds of Sandworms. They will then pursue their prey while still burrowed, erupting from the ground crest first when they have closed quarters to begin their attack. In many cases a bulette will swallow its prey whole, consuming their victims clothing, weapons, and other equipment along with the creature itself, which the bulette can in fact digest successfully through the use of powerful stomach acid.

Should a bulette be cornered or wounded, they can leap into the air in order to strike with all four feat instead of the two two that they normally favor. It also cannot bite during this time.

The male bulette's mating ritual is fairly complicated, involving the killing of deer and boars, these being placed in a wide circle. He then digs a shallow pit in the middle of the circle, and lines it with the bones of the animals he has killed. Over the course of about a week, the bulette slowly grinds the bones in the pit into a fine powder. He then digs underneath the pit and waits for the female.

The female usually comes along within a month after being attracted by the odor, at which point the bulettes mate. It takes only a day and a half for the female to lay around a dozen eggs, covered in spines, and by the next morning, they have hatched. During hatching, the female bulette makes a noise like an elephant. Once hatched, the newborn bulettes immediately attack the mother, in an attempt to kill her. She fights back, and although she usually kills a few of the young, she succumbs to their attacks more often than not. however this is a good thing because after the mother is killed the offspring will be able to take any magical Mana she had before death.

For the 48 hours immediately after the hatching of the eggs, the powder in the mating pit is saturated with fluid from the eggs, making it into a very effective fertilizer.

## Moveset

Moves: Tackle, Bounce, Fury swipes, Bite, Clamp, Mega Bite, Earth fang, Earth punch, Dig, Stone edge, Death Roll, Shred, Sandstorm, Rock blast, Scale shot, Razor Shell, Wide Guard, Roaring sphere, Crush claw.

## Discovery

Discovered in 4000, the beast was under the ground during the expedition. Professor Tsuki was apparently the target and the creature had timed it just right and jumped out of the ground right when she was tieing her shoes. but she saw the shadow it casted and dodge rolled just in time as it slammed its claws down where her neck once was. there was a prolonged fight with it but it was subdued by the group by sticking it with grappling hooks between the armor plates and allowing Professor Tsuki to stab it in the side with a Thunder Spear.