Fire Bellowback (Horizon Zero Dawn)

The Fire Bellowback is a machine in Horizon Zero Dawn. It is a dinosaur-like medium-sized machine of the Transport Class. It is one of a pair of “twin” machines; the other machine in the pair being the Freeze Bellowback. The Fire Bellowback was likely originally intended for such activities as controlled burns. Manufactured at Cauldron XI by the artificial intelligence HEPHAESTUS from designs conceived by Zero Dawn’s governing AI GAIA, Fire Bellowbacks, like all Zero Dawn machines, were under GAIA’s overall control. However, upon GAIA’s self-destruction, HEPHAESTUS, having become an AI itself, gained control of Cauldron XI and thus control over the machines the cauldron manufactured, including Fire Bellowbacks. Hostile to humans due to their hunting of Zero Dawn machines, HEPHAESTUS weaponized Fire Bellowbacks, turning their ability to generate fire into a dangerous weapon against humans.