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time to see if the seregios and bloodbath diablos that power my pc like two angry hamsters on a hamster wheel can run wilds
The Jin-Dahaad Experience(tm)
NEW WILDS BETA NEXT MONTH ?????????????????????? FUCK YES FHSKFJHFHSGGDJLSLCJCHZBSJFGGG
IM GOING TO HAVE LIKE 50 HOURS IN WILDS BEFORE THE GAME RELEASES
GUYS, I MADE A BETTER VERSION!
A little drawing to celebrate the release of MHW while I'm still in the moors of Rise.
(Could it have come out better? Now that I'm looking at it rested for sure, I think)
WIP
You ever just combine your two current hyperfixations? Does it cause you to wonder what Bilbo would be like as a hunter in Monster Hunter Wilds? Just me?
also he'd be miserable, poor guy
That little Amstrigian sitting on your head has seen things they'd never even knew existed.
Bsky keeps falsely Auto-Flagging this as "Adult Content" so ig Only Tumblr gets the Chatacabra Blep.
A gif i made of my friend fighting Xeno’Jiiva!!
I am really enjoying this game with breaks. Sometimes I just want to fight big monster.
Let me preface this by saying I am by no means a scientist or have any professional qualification or degree in science. I am just an undiagnosed neurodivergent guy who likes to make lore accurate OCs.
This post made me think and research more about wyverians and their leg anatomy (and ears too but not sure how they work). So I went on the wiki and game art gallery archives and here are the results. The links will be put at the end of this post.
I will be going over the species by generations and add exceptions at the end because some characters are weirder than others.
Generation One (Monster Hunter and Monster Hunter Freedom) : There are no tall and more “humanoid” wyverians. They are all on the older and smaller side. All of them possess digitigrade feet with three toes on each. And the males possess a talon on each heel.
Some of them possess droopy ears while others don’t. The droopiness of their ears doesn’t seem to correlate with their specific age here.
Generation Two (Monster Hunter Dos and Monster Hunter Freedom 2) : We still see the old and short wyverians but we also see our first giant wyverian, the Great Elder and our first human sized characters ! As well as the first black wyverian character ! All of them have, or seem to have digitigrade feet. The old looking ones have the classic three toes and the males have the talon on their heel. The human sized adults have an unknown amount of toes, all of them being hidden by long dresses or shoes.
The ears again do not seem to be related to age, as there are old characters with up pointing ears and a younger female with drooping ears.
Generation Three (Monster Hunter Tri, Monster Hunter Portable 3rd and Monster Hunter 3Ultimate) : No giant old wyverian this time. Only the short ones and the human sized adults. To begin this one with the old ones, they have again the classic digitigrade three toed feet but this time lack the heel talon. The only younger adults are more unclear, hiding their legs behind a hakama and a dress. They appear to be digitigrade again though, with again an unknown number of toes.
In this generation, the only wyverian with low pointy ears is the only female wyverian shown (on the wiki, I have not seen more). Not related to age then, and unclear about gender, I would need more examples and samples.
Generation four (Monster Hunter 4/Monster Hunter 4Ultimate, Monster Hunter Generation and Monster Hunter Generation Ultimate) : Lots of games in this one ! And quite a few characters and characteristics to go through. We have our classic old wyverians, with their digitigrade three toed feet, no heel talon for the males in this one either. The human sized adults seem to have variants with some plantigrade and digitigrade feet. The first of the series. And also the first children wyverian characters of the series ! It is unclear if they have digitigrade or plantigrade feet. The feet are too short and their clothes too baggy to see any important detail. Also, for the adults and children, their amount of toes is unclear, all of them have socks and shoes.
And again, the ears have no correlation between the ear shapes, gender and age.
Generation Five (Monster Hunter World and Monster Hunter Rise) : Quite a lot more new human sized adults in this generation. As well as a few older ones. All of them digitigrade. The older ones having three toes and no visible heel talons. The tall adults have four toes as shown on the post above. Not much more to say that hasn’t already been said before.
And there don’t seem to be a lot of new droopy ears, especially on tall characters.
Generation Six (Monster Hunter Wilds and future games ?) : We have quite a lot of new wyverians to look at ! And they are quite straight forward in this one. Multiple body types, we have the classic old wyverians, digitigrade legs, three toes and the males have their heel talons once again. There is a giant one too, but he is like the other old ones. Now, there are our tall humanoid wyverians. Digitigrade legs, three toes with quite short lower legs and long feet. Also interesting to note, the wyverians originating from the old world and the Forbidden Lands have the same anatomy. Now a new category of wyverians ! They share all physical characteristics with the tall humanoid wyverians, except that they are twice to three times their size and have a bigger than “human average” nose. And as I have seen so far, I have not noticed any children.
And this is where it gets interesting ears-wise. All the younger characters have elf-like pointed ears going outwards and upwards but the older ones have droopier ears. It seems related to age in this one.
(I have not yet had the time to take proper pictures of the Wilds wyverians, as I borrow someone's pc via parsec and don't want to disturb them by spending hours taking photos and screenshots of fictional character legs)
Spin-offs and unclear games (Monster Hunter Stories and Monster Hunter Stories Wings of Ruin) : There are quite a few wyverians in the Stories part of the franchise, especially the second game. And it is not quite half and half but in the adult wyverians, we have some with digitigrade feet, others with plantigrade feet. And we have tall adults, squat old folks and some children. The children seem to only have digitigrade feet with three toes. However, some adults have plantigrade feet with three or four toes, which doesn’t seem that common. For the elders, the majority have the classic digitigrade feet with three toes and do not have the heel talon. Some have other things going on.
And once again, the droopy ears don’t appear all that often and don’t seem related to age or gender.
Onto our exceptions and unclear categories ! Indeed, last but not least, I will name a few characters who do not fit in their generation standard or who I have not seen aside from wiki concept art. Unknown Guild master → an adult with digitigrade feet and four toes and up pointed ears.
Lady in a Dress → adult too, with strange looking legs but plantigrade feet and un unknown number of toes. Her ears are pointing downwards.
HR100 Guild Receptionist from MH Generation Frontier → Adult again with unclear leg disposition and unseen feet. Her ears are very long and low
Hojo from MH Rise → Just here because his ears are not seen anywhere else (I know it is a reference to the Buddha earlobes or a similar signification), same for his body type
Veggie Elder from MH4U → One of the rare old characters to possess plantigrade feet
Majek from MH Stories → one of the rare old characters to possess four toes. The shape of his feet is also unclear.
The Allhearken from MH Wilds → To my knowledge, she is the only older wyverian to not be squat and short.
Old Dede from MH Stories → His body type is unusual, he also possesses three toed plantigrade feet with a heel talon. HE IS ALSO GREEN. Obviously a yokai reference (Kappa I believe, correct me if I’m wrong)
SOURCES ARE HERE :
https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Wyverians As well as just spending time in the games and looking at the characters with binoculars or in photo mode
Thank you for reading my crazy rant about wyverian legs and ears, hope it helped and now you know how to shape your wyverian OC based on the game generation !
So, i might get in a lil trouble for it, but i took some illustrations from the complete works of monster hunter world to create a reference sheet for wyvernians.
figured i’d share it for those that wanna create their own wyvernians.
since i’m not profiting, i figure it’s okay.
i did notice something odd that i don’t know if it’s design fail or just a variation among the race, but the larger more human-like wyvernians have four toes, the small squishy squat ones have three toes. their foot wear also seems to vary quite a bit. Though it seems just as common for them to just opt to… not… wear shoes. at all. particularly among those that doesn’t really go out much like the ecologist and third fleet captain.
This is what playing Monster Hunter Wilds Beta is like on PC right now:
Chat, send help- I can't stop cracking up at these-
HALP- I CAN'T HEAR THEIR VOICES OVER MY LAUGHING-
The Frozen Speartuna will always and forever remain my favorite throwback weapon--even if the fish itself is a little bastard.
Sure, mathing out the optimized damage and stats is fine and dandy, but does math bring the joy of Beeg Feesh Bonkin'?
Now I just need the Bnahabra set to come back somehow to be the most dapper Fishmangler around.
Oh boy, I forgot Monster Hunter Wilds was coming out. What a bad year to pick to try and be productive, huh? :,)
"A legendary black dragon said to have prowled these lands from the days of old. Many skilled hunters have sought to challenge it, but none ever return. A monster shrouded in mystery..." Fatalis description from Monster Hunter Freedom 2/Unite --- "My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!" -Smaug from The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Nothing in monster hunter wilds feels worse than someone joining your hunt (uninvited) right at the end and stealing literally half your Zenny from doing nothing.
Monster hunter wilds spoilers
Thinking about how there’s a possibility that Guardian Arkveld had Deviljho DNA in it.
It’d explain why it had this inherent, powerful desire to eat that other guardians lacked, to the point that it was able to teach itself how to with no outside influence and why when it did learn how to, it just couldn’t control itself.
And even if Guardian Arkveld lacked a digestive system like the other Guardians (which is unlikely because that food has to go somewhere and also unlike the other guardians it has/or grew reproductive organs), there’s a very real possibility that it would still suffer that same ravenous, environment destroying hunger that Deviljho possess.
There's also the fact that Guardian Arkvelds battle theme literally contains segments from Deviljho's own theme. This may just be hinting towards the thematic similarities between the two, but personally I think it could be read either way.
If this is true then... Holy fuck Wyveria really created the most aggressively violent and angry creature they could. Giving a monster Deviljho's aggression and ceaseless hunger with the ability to fly, tussle with every other apex predator in the area and with no way to satiate that hunger due to not physically being able to eat. They basically created a monster that's only goal is to kill everything it sees without need for rest or even stopping to eat.
Zoh Shia is their equal dragon weapon, but Arkveld strikes me as their attempt to create something that will kill as much stuff as quickly as possible.
Monster hunter wilds spoilers
The way I screamed when I saw that Olivia was going to be joining me while fighting the fish apex. Story hunts with other characters was something I really wanted out of wilds but wasn't confident we'd actually get, so when I saw that she was still there after the cutscene transition I was so excited!
That sort of thing was one of the big things I thought was missing with world's story. Especially when it came to Nergigante and Teostra, where it felt like there were very prominent characters tied to the monsters/missions, but it really stands out with just about any hunt where there's another well established and more experienced hunter around and they just turn to you like "ok you can handle this right? I'm gonna go back to camp and have a cuppa" So seeing the fellow hunters in wilds actually do something alongside you was so incredibly exciting and makes it feel much more like you're part of a team.
'Whetfish'?
Uhhhh yeah? They live in the water?