Bulette (Basic Lore)

Bulette (Threat; CR 9)
Pure Evil - Huge - Magical Beast
This creature possesses the Threat role, and therefore counts as 4 monsters for purposes of encounter size, XP award, and treasure. This monster frequently has the Threat role, but may be set to different roles if desired. Solitary monstrosities, Bulettes are burrowing fiends created many thousands of years ago by some mad fool. They have escaped into the wild, and their magical strength serves them well as they prey upon just about everything they can catch. Bulettes are maddened murderers, the sort of beast who will lay beneath the surface and follow you to your home and eat your children as you watch. Their strength, even for their enormous size, is mind-boggling. They can burrow through earth at good speed and tear their way through solid stone like a strong man clearing brush. Even worse, bulettes, despite their squat shape, are not clumsy. They are ridiculously agile, able to leap as if mounted on springs and dodge blows in combat like the most lissome elf. Their prowess is unnerving to see and utterly unnatural in origin. Their huge maws administer gigantic bites that leave their victims battered and torn, their claws can strike in all directions, and all of this is driven by a dull, vicious intelligence that glares at the world in mute rage, always wanting more to kill, more to kill... Bulettes are so vicious the main thing that limits their numbers in the wild is their own savage nature. Bulettes breed slowly, since it is hard for two of them to tolerate each other for long enough to raise any pups. That said, it is not uncommon to find a Bulette with one or more pups at its side, as the pups tend to stick to the monstrous parent for several years as they slowly mature. If you are extremely unfortunate, you may encounter a mated pair, although that is mercifully rare. Mated pairs may or may not have pups as well...