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The Bullosaur is a large two-horned lizard found mostly in the jungles of the Southeastern Threshold, distinctive for its flavourful red meat and a bony fringe above its skull, which is used to defend its body from predators, and from other bullosaurs seeking to challenge it for mating or territory.

In the Primordial Era, bullosaurs were a common sight across the East and the Great Grass Sea, devouring grasses and ferns while serving as prey for beasts such as Claw Striders and Tyrant Lizards. Fragmentary tales exist that they may have served as beasts of burden for early humans, and for the Dragon Kings and other primordial races. However, with the rise of Ahlat in Heaven, and particularly the chaos after the Primordial War, the bullosaur was supplanted almost entirely by Cattle. Their god was accused of being a Primordial loyalist and destroyed, with the Bull God arguing that the whole species could not be trusted and ought be entrusted to him as god of cattle so he might oversee its extermination. His major opponent was Arilak the Unseen, god of jungle forests, who showed favour to many large lizards as divine politics turned against them. The result was a stalemate, the god Seymu Ania, a god of the Dragon Kings whose purview was shrinking rapidly, was assigned the post with understanding that he would do nothing but fill out the most basic of paperwork. Meanwhile, the humans of the South were encouraged to hunt the bullosaur to extinction by Ahlat, while the tribes of the Eastern jungles were pushed to honour and make use of them by Arilak. In the present, they are a rare creature, found only in a narrow band of the Southeast between the Great Grass Sea and the deep jungle.

In the depths of the Eastern woodlands, The Guild has been known to employ them as beasts of burden for caravans, as they are more easily able to feed and move through the jungle terrain than the larger, hungrier Yeddim.