Monster Hunter World Lore: Kushala Daora 

Adam Keane flash pods are your friend

And LS, you need to cut the tail as soon ae possible.

Poison it too

Sadly I am bad with a longsword and I couldn't be bothered to use poison. Using flash bombs really helped me though

That's why y'all need a hornbro on a mission with you who can play you the negate wind song, :D

Has Capcom confirmed this lately? Because in their Monster Hunter illustrations book it says “have an exoskeleton and there is no way to differentiate between its flesh and bone. (structurally similar to an insect)”

@@reggie9010 Looks like you're both kind of right. Apparently, they said that it's metal exoskeleton is directly connected to it's bones, the way muscle is. So it does have internal bones, but it also has an exoskeleton. So like a bug if it had two skeletons, but in the shape of a reptile. Yeah, this biological mystery deserves an Elder Dragon classification.

Dinomatrix21 truly an oddity even amongst elder dragons

Ahhh that's so cool, I need to get them to fight. Nerg is a beast. I want to see a Nerg vs Gore Magala battle, I feel like that would be the coolest fight ever.

I just...watched him throw a teostra

I wounder how to eat it!?

Yep, I wish they would bring back more characters, I ran around the town to see if I recognized anyone else but so far I haven't seen any other familiar faces.

He I think at some point referenced Gore Magala too

Oh. This explains a lot, actually.

Rafael Martinez They also reference shagaru magala

I never noticed that until now, and i played 4U

I'm on it! :)

Strawfoot then do other elder dragons, like Nergigante and kirin

I would have thought more like a snake too but I went with what Capcom said in the art book they sold.

Strawfoot Interesting. But why does he drop Elder Dragon Bones then?

Pretty sure that when it naturally dies of age, over the course of many moultings the oxidization of metal creeps itself deeper into it's system and fusing the metal to it's bones and organs eventually obstructing movement and slowly killing it. Don't remember if that was the actual truth but if so then it's a pretty bad way to go for them.

Z Awkward magician So since Elder Dragons came to the New World to die, we’re putting Daora out of its misery, giving it one final battle in life so that it doesn’t die that way instead?

It certainly has an endoskeleton, not only because you can get elder dragon bones but also because a thin exoskeleton like that would not be sufficient to support the body, the elder dragon would simply collaps due to the amount of weight. It´s body structure is the structure of a vertebrate, after all there´s a reason bugs look like bugs and not like horses. I would assume that the skin simply needs to be shed because the rust makes it stiff and brittle as time goes by and starts hindering its movements.

TheDustyMuffinsss Vaal Hazak has to be my favorite.

Yeah, that's one of the coolest thing visually in this game, that silhouette in the tornado!

Heh... “Ironic.”

I like Kushala, but damn he's annoying to fight in World.

His armor set is one of my favourites in the franchise aesthetically, and he had all my favourite ice weapons in past games (I’m salty about his longsword being absent in World).

Arthur Lam yup the lithe mothefuckers keep draining you hp util you toss them or deliver them to the box.

Arthur Lam im glad im not the one old hunter here :,)

Yeah I thought about mentioning that but I couldn't for the life of me figure out why the Khezu babies were actually there. do Khezu travel to cold mountain climates to lay eggs in elder dragon husks?

Strawfoot Khezu naturally live in cold mountains and they probably looks for small sturdy places like crevices for their eggs, Kushala skin would definitely keep the eggs safe.

I wish khezu was in mhw. Disgusting, yet fun monster to fight.

So happy you enjoyed it! I'll have more soon! :)

*Seath But wow, how did I not make this connection until now?

So what about the daughter that he sticks his crystal halberd into her gaping dragon into? ;) xD

I know, I need some competition!

Strawfoot actually there was this other guy Basil Silly Six Shooter he did videos on the lore of the old civilization

Glzpdz i did see that

my name is byf just started mhw lire, check him out, he has a diffrent style ,but is very good

Oceaniz does some really in depth ecology and physiology videos on different monsters that are quite good, if in a somewhat different vein.

holy shit is spider danny from ifunny

pukei pukei and you are..?

One of you subs your_boy_griffith

They also hint that the player hunter from 4U is part of the fifth fleet. One of the npcs mentions speaking to a member of the fifth who took down a “shegaroo” (incorrectly referring to the Shagaru Magala).

vitriolicAmaranth Being able to fight him in the Arena would give you First Aid Med + and that doesn’t mean it’s part of his body. You can’t include game mechanics and balance procedures into lores.

Complete non-sequitur. First aid meds from arena monsters is a "balance procedure," and the exception to the rule. The drops you get from monsters in NORMAL quests and their descriptions form about 90% of the game's lore, honestly, which is extremely light to begin with (part of the reason I think strawfoot is misguided in clearly trying to become the VaatiVidya of Monster Hunter, though at least he has making his videos rife with inaccuracies and "facts" parroted from badly written wiki articles like Vaati does down pat, since this video aside that's what most of them are full of at this point). For instance, almost all monsters that breathe fire drop flame sacs or a variant of them, which are glands that produce a flammable powder to explain how they perform this seemingly illogical feat, but teostra doesn't, because its fire breath comes from the teostra gems in its body (as is the case with most elder dragons' abilities). Or to put it another way, if you're going to seriously insist Kushala is an invertebrate despite its readily apparent bone structure, its drops including its bones and ITS TAIL HAVING A VISIBLE SPINE WHEN CUT, then you definitely have to omit the notion that it has organs in its head and tail that allow it to control the wind simply because breaking those parts impairs its ability to do so in some games.

Yeah, me too, he was such an amazing monster, that final cut scene in tri where he swims away into the sunset was so epic.

And his Theme is so Majestic, And It's even better if you Listen to The Heavy Metal version made by FalKKonE

THIS! Everyone forgot the CEADEUS!

The Thing that makes me love him Even More is that he's just a Baby! And the Adult Version (Gold Beard Ceadeus) IS AWESOME!

Yes ceadus was my first elder dragon gold ceadus being my second

Thank you Jakob, I'm trying to learn with each video I make so I'm glad it shows.

Thanks again ReelyReed, it's been fun figuring this whole youtube thing out and comments like yours have made it all so much easier.

I didn't know that! Thanks for the comment Weegeeclaus.

Strawfoot The handler will give you this info as soon as you can fight the elder dragons for the first time.

Where did you find that info? Wasn't Teostra the most numerous and common ED species?

The Handler tells you. Once you gain access to the first Kushala quest in World, she gives you a little trivia, including that Kushala is the most commonly sighted Elder Dragon.

V P I checked. Teostra is the more numerous species of ED, Kushala like you said is the more commonly sighted (though still rare).

Oh no, you found his weakness. Don't tell everyone, then they won't be impressed with my Daora armor anymore :)

That's so great to hear. Thanks Manwal!

Thanks Khan, I'm trying to improve, I feel like each video is a learning experience for sure.

Thanks again Liam! Yeah I'm also really digging his MHW overhaul, so fun to fight now.

Thank you again 007!

Thanks again Tristan!

Thanks Zander, I really appreciate comments like this! Also when your brutally murdering the monsters just leave Dodogama alone, he's adorable and should only be trapped. :)

Thank you so much Krishna, I will definitely make a video on those two, in the mean time you should check out my "Secret of the Rotten Vale" video it has some info on Dalamadur. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--D7FyxxirbQ.html

Strawfoot I already watched that today

I will for sure. Thanks Andrew!

Yeah man, the feedback was invaluable, keep letting me know where I can improve!

Strawfoot its a breath of fresh air to not only see a youtuber listen to advice but implement it as well. If you want any help with research just let me know. Id be glad to help

Thanks Tatsu! Much appreciated.

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it, I'll keep making them for sure :)

Thanks so much James, I appreciate that!

I will for sure, thanks for the comment!

Thanks, I appreciate that a lot, I was sort of nervous about the sound of my voice when I started making these so it's nice to hear.

I will for sure, thanks Crimson.

Thanks so much Rodger!

Thank you for the comments dalton! And yes Kushala is a really interesting creature design. At first glance it looks like a fairly run of the mill dragon but when you learn more about it its clear how much thought the designers put into this game.

Thanks Hydra!

Wow, that's really cool, I appreciate the info. I honestly didn't know that or I would have included it in the video.

The ancient civilization lore in general is pretty dark actually.

Yeah, they apparently genetically engineered themselves, which is why Hunter's have such ludicrous strength and can survive falls of indeterminate length. The ancients overhunting the elder dragons, which are walking natural disasters/elements incarnate also explains how the Fatalis manifested and destroyed them, along with everything else. The way I see it, the ancients overhunting the elder dragons upset the balance of weather patterns, climates, and ecosystems. All of this elemental flux combined with the fear and suffering of the elder dragons that were slaughtered by the ancients gave birth to the Fatalis, a manifestation of the elders' hatred of mankind.

Wow, thanks so much, I've worked really hard on the editing and I'm glad it shows. I have a pretty decent mic but I think the problem is more that I can't isolate it from background noise and so I have to run a bunch of noise removal software which is killing the sound quality. Maybe I just need a better room?

So happy you enjoyed it. Thanks again Raid Hypo.

Thanks Taylor, I will!

Yeah, I'll have to dust off my PSP and check that out, I've played through almost all the games in the series but I must have forgotten about that. Thanks for the tip, and for all the great comments.

Thanks for the sub! I'm so very happy you enjoyed it!

There's actually a reason for that, one of the capcom devs was learning spanish while naming monsters. So that's why we have monsters names like happuruboka (hyper mouth) and Kushala Daora. The guy naming them was just smashing corruptions of foreign words together that he thought sounded cool. I read this, i think, in one of the dev interviews for portable third, sorry I don't have a link anymore.

I'm considering this but I wasn't sure if there would be much interest. Thanks for the comment, maybe I'll try it.

Thank you Petre!

for sure! he's on my list so he should have a video soon! thanks!

Nergigante, the elder dragon born for the sole purpose of preventing other elder dragon populations from getting completely out of control. That's how I see it.

ace flare more like the elder dragon born to ruin your life and kill everything it sees

Truly an apex predator among apex predators... Nature is beautiful. *Gets ripped apart by Jho*

Yeah, a lot of people missed that. 4U was one of my favorite games in the series so I was really excited when I saw him again.

I know right, I love stuff like that, I wish they would bring back more characters from previous games!

Interesting theory... even though nothing confirm its ability to controll temperatures via horn, it's very likely to be a power given by ED's bioenergy.

That's what capcom says, he's just metal all the way through. I read it in one of the books. Yes I know you can carve bones from him but I also once carved two heads off of the same great jaggie sooooo carves don't always make sense in this game. :/

Thanks for the sub dude! So very much appreciated.

yeah, I thought that was pretty cool too, thanks for the comment!

Oh, I didn't notice that! Thanks!

Strawfoot it's hard to see while it's trying to kill you.