The buffalo is a hulking beast with four sturdy legs, broad, muscular shoulders, and a stout pair of horns curving widely from its shaggy head. Formidable though they seem, the specimens found in Eorzea are all domesticated breeds, reared in the frontier settlements of La Noscea and the Black Shroud as beasts of burden and a source of food. Since the recent influx of leatherworkers to the realm, however, buffalo are valued as highly for their skins as they are for their meat and labor.^[1]