A bear in Athas?

[Kralin Thornberry]

Use a bear, give it a scaly hide (or maybe a shell of some kind). Kind of like a shark being made into a silt shark.

 

[Prickly]

The "Monstrous Compendium Appendix II Terrors Beyond Tyr" 2E book had an Athasian bear called a Klar.

Its basically the Armadillo plated psionic bear mentioned earlier

 

[Kzach]

The "Monstrous Compendium Appendix II Terrors Beyond Tyr" 2E book had an Athasian bear called a Klar.

Its basically the Armadillo plated psionic bear mentioned earlier

Thanks!

Unfortunately it looks like an illithid experiment gone wrong: