The Monster Hunter Iceberg Explained 

Kinda surprised that you didn't mention that one time snake fought a rathalos and tygrex in the metal gear series

Dead Gypceros In The Hollow actually refers to the Sunken Hollow, where you can see a dead Gypceros being suspended in one of the zones that is comprised of Nerscylla webbing, as they are its main prey it. Gypceros can play dead anywhere, not specifically limited to the Sunken Hollow.

13:00 It’s also possible the dalamadur we fight in mh4 isn’t fully grown, and the skeleton in the rotten vale is what a fully grown dalamadur looks like.

Number 112: “dual blades upgraded from sword and shield” doesn’t refer to world. It’s a reference to how in MH Freedom (and I think MH1), the dual blades weapon type was hidden from the player at the start of the game, and they could only discover it by upgrading certain sword and shield weapons into dual blades

Should warn that some material here not being entirely canon

20:05 It is not something that is explored in depth in MH but religions do exist in their world and there likely different religions each with their own pantheons. In far remote areas where the Guild still has little influence due to their remoteness the local people, with a lack of scientific understanding of the natural world, do superstitiously believe that many of the monsters, especially Elder Dragons, are gods or divine beings. Some notable examples of in game religions are: 1. There is a place called "Fire Country" that is a reoccurring place in quest descriptions where the people believe a volcano is their god and whenever there is an increase in magma activity they believe it is their god becoming angry. However, their princess knows it is some kind monster causing the increase in activity with its digging and personally contacts the Guild for help. 2. Akantor and Ukanlos are named after gods in their world. When Akantor was first discovered and the Guild were evacuating the nearby settlements the locals told them it was the "Black God" from their legends. And so the Guild named the monster after that god: Akantor. It is the same story with Ukanlos 3. The Rajang Long Sword explains that it used by warrior monks and in Freedom Unite a monk monastery in the mountains near a volcano do ask the Guild for help to deal with a Rathalos and a Rajang on separate quests. 4. The Black Blood material from a Savage Deviljho and a certain Gigginox material in 3U are said to be used in dark ceremonial practices

The "White Fatalis kills the player" comes from two possible outcomes: Lore-wise: As you said, Fatalis takes the hunter's body Gamepla-wise: In Frontier, there's a certain ability that white fatalis has, in which it visually vaporizes the player. In game, it only counts as a faint, but the fact that the game flat out disapears the body when gettin attacked, suggest that white fatalis kills the player.

3:49 I am almost certain this meant the hanging gypceros killed by nerscylla in the webbed areas, not the fact gypceros plays dead.

I dont know about the fatalis fights not being canon... But it would actually make much more sense that canonically they were failed attempts, thus no one ever surviving the fight, until Iceborne.

For a moment I believed that the monsters I capture were dissected and all that, kinda saddened by the fact that I never kill any Yian Garuga, only capture them (fav monster and all that) but i remember that a field reseacher tell you that alive are more valuable to the studies because after they finish they release them to the wilds again

Equal dragon weapon is NOT Canon, its just an old concept art from before they really decided on the themes of monster hunter

27:48 okay first, you said “triple meaning” and only talked about one of said meanings, except that one you talked about was kind of just all three merged into one. The apex monsters you talked about are mostly related to the frenzied ones- you did mention something about apexes chasing groups of monsters “into battle”, but the ones that do that are entirely seperate from the ones that overcame the frenzy virus. They have the same name of “apex”, but are entirely unrelated. These apexes are the ones influenced by Narwa and Ibushi. That’s what the one in the image is. Frenzy apexes are simply regular, powerful monsters that were inflicted with the frenzy virus, but overcame it. Also, unrelated, but keep in mind Frontier isn’t canon to the main series. Then there’s the whole thing about the dragon war- the equal dragon weapon in particular. Long story short, it never canonically existed. And Fatalis never literally “commanded” monsters to do its bidding- other monsters are simply scared of it, not straight up following orders from it. Anjanath and Barioth most definitely never shared territory- Anjanath lives mainly in forests and occasionally deserts, while Barioth lives exclusively in snowy areas. There is nothing at all that states Monster Hunter Stories and Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings Of Ruin are canon to the main series. Collaborations are *definitely* not canon, and neither is the movie. There are absolutely no “portals”. And possibly biggest of all as far as I’ve watched, what the actual hell, monsters are not evolved dinosaurs. This is an entirely unrelated world to ours. I know there’s a ton more misinformation in this vid than just that, but I honestly can’t be bothered writing about it all. All I’m really saying is, if you’re going to have someone who hasn’t played a monster hunter game before make a video about it, at least have someone who knows more about it watch through it and correct it first.

Thank you for this, As a long time fan this brings me joy. Your voice is so soothing for back ground noise too.

Wow really great job on this video. I was looking for a MH iceberg for a longtime so I can listen to it while I work, this really did it for me. Found myself pausing my work just to listen a couple of times because of how interesting it is 😅

Never thought there would be enoung topics for Monster Hunter to cover such a lenghty video! But i watched most of it in one sitting because your voice is soothing

This video was amazing, thank you for this!!

That was great! I'm happy someone was able to tackle this, now, rough draft of the "Ultimate" MH Iceberg. There was some shaky points and/or false info, overall still a great video. Thanks for making my day and good luck with whatever other projects you have in store!

The longest video by far, I’m excited to see you talk about this game series

Hi, this is list of what you didn't mention: 1-The rocks that fall on Lao Shan lung are from a hunter in the kokoto Village. 2-There's a drunk Guy who has a crush on A girl behind your house in the Kokoto Village. 3-the girl behind your house in Kokoto Village has a brother who keeps exchange sending texts and messages to each other, the more you progress in the quests the more she talks about him but one day she becomes sar because he stops sending her messages, her brother is a hunter. 4-In Pokke village there's a felyn in the left upper side of your house, he said once that tigrex was almost to become an Elder Dragon for his strength, or something similar. 5-Crimson Fatalis is an Angrier Fatalis because he's fully red with his own lava anger mode it is showcased very well in Monster Hunter World Iceborne. 6-Wyverians are probably the first hunters to exist. 7-the botanist in Monster Hunter World, loves taking care of herbs and veggies because they the Wyverians live longer just as Herbs and trees and he said he saw alot of friends growing and dying of age, that's indeed sad. 8-There was a hunter talked about in Pokke village in Monster Hunter Freedom 2 and Freedom Unite, that attempted Akantor but never returned, later in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, Nekoht the quest initiator of High Rank Village Quests of Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, initiated another Akantor Quest in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, during the quest she started talking about that Hunter and it felt a little bit sad and depressed and I personally felt sad, was That Hunter the same guy from Monster Hunter Freedom 2 and Unite? Was it us the Protagonist? Or was it the brother of that woman from Kokoto Village in Monster Hunter, and Freedom? 9-In Monster Hunter 2 Dos theres a board in that village that tells you to pet your Poogie before Quests for something.. 10-In Monster Hunter Frontier, Zenith White Fatalis and Berzerk Ravienth are the only Attack that actually Kills the Hunter, 1 vaporizes the Hunter and 2 Swallows the Hunter. 11-Some people said that the copy of Monster Hunter either helps you get rarer items or makes it hard.

The frenzy virus has nothing to do with the apex rise monsters, it was a mistake in translation. In Japanese they have diferent names

Wow thanks for going through the entire iceberg, this is exactly what I was looking for!

Awesome video! 🐉🐉

I subbed immediately, good content

The "dual blades upgrade from sword and shield" is from the first two generations, when upgrade paths were linked together

Im really enjoying this video, i almost fell asleep while listening to it. Liked and subbed!

Thank you for your effort on this incredible project! I watched the video thoroughly and enjoyed it. It truly makes the world of Monster Hunter a wonderful adventure!

How is monster hunter a dark souls like game if monster hunter came 7 years earlier, that's like saying ancient Greece was like Rome

21:53 I just want to point out that Shara looking at the camera is not just an illusion, there are many videos that clearly show the eyes moving to follow the camera. It makes a lot of sense with its buddhist design that Shara is enlightened and somehow understands the reality it’s in is a game.

I refuse to believe anything from the awful movie is canon, as well as the crossover events in World.

Kushala daoras shed their skin when it becomes rusty. Hunters only need to locate where the shed skin is to gather scales without killing it

the scarlet man also appears in genu and maybe 4u, I think the scarlet man is a ghost that is trying to find a hunter strong enough to kill fatalis because it was a citizen of the ancient civilization and is trying to prevent history from repeating itself

god damn it man. some of these theories are nice and fun to think about and then there is "yea this dude is old, still buff and a bit taller than the rest... HE MUST BE A SHAPE SHIFTED RAJANG!! it's obvious because he has hair and rajang has hair also" like??? what the hell is this man. jesus christ some people on here man.

Shara Ishvalda's eyes track the camera is what they mean by it looks at the player. It's not some mona lisa illusion

53:40 this is actually a myth! It's been debunked, Deviljho does not eat its tail

1:55:39 well seeing how early in mh1 production it took plenty inspiration of berserk and how some armor sets and weapons have berserk inspiration i wouldn't put it past this to with ebony obagaron

1:32:30 I dont think thats what it's referring to I think it's talking about monster hunter 1 where dual blaades could be forged from sword and shield upgrade paths

Shara's attributes are more Buddhist than Hindu. The Buddha's palm is a common motif in Buddhist legends.

What about Wyverians being born from eggs?

You know you're in for it when the very first topic is new to you

25:58 It could be that it's just saying that Copper Blangonga has evolved to live in solidarity in comparison to regular blangonga

My friend asked me to help him get a Gaismagorm mantle, in 1 session we killed at least 8 Gaismagorms, he didn't get a mantle, I got 4.

I like it when the handler says it's huntin' time

I'm of the belief that black dragons such as Safi'jiva, Fatalis, and Altreon are reincarnations of the five god dragons. It sounds crackpot probably because it is.

i LOVE how you were side eyeing people who make up facts and the nsay deviljo eats its own tail

The white Fatalis killing the player point is from Frontier, where one of its attacks completely erases all players hit by it

is amazing to see an iceberg where plesioth's hitbox is mentioned whilst im hunting a green plesioth in mhfu lmao

The Pukei-Pukei is obviously based on a Tokay gecko. I didn’t think there was any possibility that wasn’t the case. It’s nothing like a chameleon or frog.

Omg I was in the middle of working on my own monster hunter icberg 😳

Love monster hunter like love love it, this was a good video especially for a iceberg. I jus wish there was more dark lore and theories that would fill the spots and not things like "fanmade name's for monsters" or literally just a genre of games that's include dark souls ect.

40:00 That was in fact confirmed to be the skeleton of a thunder serpent Narwa, the ancient serpent you talked about supposedly is a piscine wyvern, and looks way more fishy , with fins not arms

It's known now in world the captured monsters goto a arena as well. Cause When you capture them you unlock arena fights with them. Those arena fights can't be done till you capture one and, on top when you finish the arena capture or not. They will not add a new repeat of it. So if you capture 1 of each monster in a region on a "rank" type you will unlock a single arena fight with that monster. And if you already did that arena fight, You just unlock it again. While that means elder dragons...cannot be captured by "you" but prob a specialist team that contains them for a period for you to slay. Hope that helps clarify the info better. Yes "Arena monsters are captured" Yes "Others are put down" And if counter argument on "their body parts are back on" You might be fighting a different one while one you over damaged on horns/cut tail are put down. And yes they experiment monsters even in "arena" fights. My guess is, monster culling is difficult in some regions. Like New World. Also guessing, Nergigante is a unique case Elder Dragon, While Magma mountain boy is just a monster they wanted to advert away cause of the new settlement. Learning it's death = A "bomb" for them. Which is pretty true. Unlike Dalamadur it's a "Molten Rock Shell" monster...it dyeing would been a catastrophe on land.

53:30 the deviljo thing is actually a myth, strangely one continued on by videos from capcom themselves, but, is proven to not actually happen in game

Alright, I already got no idea about no.1 and I have almost a thousand hours in World. And holy shit is this addicting. More pls.

Nice

Gaismagorm's weapons have the same kind of structure as Shah Dalamadur's, they describe "Fourteen terrors of the black abyss" which seem to represent natural disasters: Abyssal Eruption (GS): The first was a great rising column of fire. Abyssal Flicker (LS): The second was a fork of deadly lighting. Abyssal Sunburst (S&S): The third was a sun to dry even the sea. Abyssal Celestials (DB): The fourth was a dark sun and pitted moon. Abyssal Icicle (Lance): The fifth was a ice shaft scraping the sky. Abyssal Rockslide (GL): The sixth was the rage of mountains alive. Abyssal Windstorm (Hammer): The seventh was a wind to wipe all away. Abyssal Hollow (HH): The eighth was a pit to swallow all things. Abyssal Torrent (SA): The ninth was a torrent to wash all away. Abyssal Splitter (CB): The tenth was a crevice to split the earth. Abyssal Insectoid (IG): The eleventh was a horde to devour all. Abyssal Hailstorm (LBG): The twelfth was hail raining from above. Abyssal Nova (HBG):The Thirteenth was like spreading stardust. Abyssal Void (Bow): The last turned the world to nothingness. It's also been theorized that they represent various Elder Dragons: The great rising column of fire is Fatalis. The fork of deadly lighting is Kirin. The sun to dry even the sea is Dire Miralis. The dark sun and pitted moon are the Magalas. The ice shaft scraping the sky is Velkhana. The rage of mountains alive is Zorah Magdaros. The wind to wipe all away is Amatsu. The pit to swallow all things is Nakarkos. The torrent to wash all away is Ceadeus. The crevice to split the earth is Dalamadur. The horde to devour all is Malzeno (I suppose it's more accurate to say it's the Qurio, but they're not real monsters so whatever) The hail raining from above is uuuhhhhh... also Velkhana? Oroshi Kirin maybe? The one that was like spreading stardust is Safi'jiiva. The one that turned the world to nothingness is White Fatalis.

Heho! Let's see!

Khezu is cute, just look at it's happy grin and excitement to see you, so excited, it's extending its neck for pets

I feel like i just finished a really long game of just the tip after watching this

1:49:23 So what you're telling me is that TerminalMontage's rendition of Shara could actually be semi-canon? Hell yeah Rapper Shara!

20:25 what game is it, the picture with the Seltas Queen, and why is there the icon for Glacial Agnaktor? Don't give me hope just to crush it.

133. I had a situation like this a few days ago. Hunting paulumu for wings but wasn't getting them, go expedition, catch 2, get 8 wings😅

hey do you have a link to that map of monster hunter world? am really interested in it

For some the audio for all the videos you uploaded on the channel seem to be low and set mostly to the right audio channel?

The “monsters are dinosaurs” part was so ridiculous. All wyverns, even the more Dinosaurian ones, all stem from the ancestral wyvern rex. All wyverns from flying wyverns to brute wyverns all hail from this ancient beast. Surprisingly, the wyvern that resembles this extinct wyvern the most is tigrex. (Edit: my bad, I thought you wouldn't touch on wyvern rex) Further edit: i now know that the brute wyverns actually use real world dinosaur classifications. Such as “theropods” I honestly shouldn't have been so blind and naive.

been a year since you uploaded ,you doing alright ?

How many times do we have to say that the equal dragon weapon is not cannon. It appeared in a concept lore for the first draft of the series

This is a solid iceberg explanation however there’s a lot of holes that you didn’t fill or just didn’t know enough about the ecology of the creatures to understand the lore. For instance when you ask the question “how many kushala were killed to construct the tower” the answer to that is more than likely 0 as not only did the ancients basically worship the elder dragons as gods so they weren’t out there hunting them like the hunters of modern age but also and more importantly, kushala sheds his skin so it can be firmly believed that the tower was made out of the sheddings left behind by kushala rather than potentially hundreds of thousands of them being killed to construct a tower.

How is Behemoth below the iceberg??

I cried when this ended… I wanted to hear more… Also I Never knew monster hunter had this much lore, makes me love it extra now.

Love monster hunter. Only started with world yet I knew basically almost everything in this vid. That's just how captivating this world can be

If this iceberg is trying to stay with the continuity of the lore the equal dragon weapon is only concept and has never actually been implemented in any game in any shape or form. So as of the moment the great dragon weapon isn’t real.

Canynes are classified as Fanged Beasts and bear a striking resemblence to the Wulgs from Iceborne, so it could be theorized that the ancient Kamurians domesticated Wulgs which became Canynes while the 'Kamurian' Wulgs, similarly to wolves in Japan, went extinct sometime after. Speaking of Fanged Beasts, honestly I don't consider them laying eggs to be canon to the mainline games and think its just Capcom trying to include Fanged Beasts as rideable monsters in the Stories spinoffs, and in my opinion Stories and Stories 2 shouldn't have made Fanged Beasts obtainable as Monsties and let monsters like Tetsucabra, Agnaktor, and other monsters that actually _do_ lay eggs be rideable instead. Its pretty immersion breaking to have monsters that are clearly placental mammals lay eggs. Edit: That "Iceborne is about colonialism" is so fucking stupid, its literally just the same kind of edgy "Hunters are the bad guys and the Guild is evil" shit theories that wildly misinterpret the Monster Hunter universe and how it works.

Jho does not eat his own tail, unfortunately :(

Monster hunter pvp was probably refereing to pvp in monster hunter dose not MHS2

Specifically a lore iceberg, which should probably be in the title?

I had to hunt xeno so many times beacouse i kept getting gems and no common materials

There's actually a video of Shara ishvalda eyes following the camera and not player

We must firmly and with all our strength refuse to let the "monster hunter" movie be canon :(

I tend to not believe the more fantastical and supernatural theories about Monster Hunter. Like you said yourself, they should be taken with a healthy helping of salt.

I reckon the video would’ve been a lot better had you played a couple Monster Hunter games prior to talking abt it. Thinks like it being a Souls-like are razor thin generalisations based purely on the fact that Monster Hunter is a difficult game series. Outside of that, they share little to no qualities beyond the high commitment combat for some weapons.

Deviljho never ate it‘s own tail

i see monster hunter i like

40:16 looks alot like xeno,jiiva to me

Something I do want to note for you, who made the video: When you mentioned that Safi'jiiva was distinctly a Red Dragon and not a Black Dragon, you're only half right on that part: "Black Dragon" isn't entirely a term for literal black dragons like Fatalis and Alatreon. Rather, the term "Black Dragon" is widely considered a title shared by a classification of monsters known as "Dangerous First-Class Monsters," a classification of which Safi'jiiva _is_ a part of. To put it in layman's terms, "Red Dragon" is Safi'jiiva's epithet or title, while "Black Dragon" is its classification or threat level. Typically, Black Dragon-class Monsters are capable of destruction on the level of mass extinctions like Fatalis, and whenever they crop up, they become the Guild's number one priority due to the borderline-wonton destruction they have the potential to cause just by their mere existence. Most normal Elder Dragons are on the level of forces of nature just by existing, with Teostra causing droughts, Kushala Daora causing thunderstorms and blizzards, and so on, however the "Black Dragon" class of Elder Dragons are akin to living, breathing extinction events. Just some food for thought. I'm not being particularly critical of the ideas presented here!

In 1972 a crack commando unit was

Seeing how often Stories is mentioned makes me kinda annoyed For as long as we don't get a map update from capcom themselves I will always refuse to see the Stories games as canon games. Also how come there are so many genetic experimentation theories? Like....we know the evolutionary tree... Also damn man this video makes me believe ppl actually think that horrible MH movie is canon...even the devs distanced themselves

Man I’m sad that they shut down Monster Hunter Riders

Y'know with the portals being canon... the Admiral made a reference to Safi'jiiva possibly having three heads and shooting lightning. Pair that with the fact that Safi does resemble Ghidorah, the reference previously mentioned, and you gotta wonder if and when the golden monster will appear in the MH world.

Deviljho can't eat its own tail, tho. It's been debunked.

Who says shaka and gaja are apelike?? they're goblins in the finished games. Gen 2 shakalaka designs still appear as recently as monster hunter stories 2. They are not related to fanged beasts at all.

The Monster Hunter movie is the bastard child nobody wants. 👍

why am I watching this

It’s quite embarrassing that this video talks about Equal Dragon Weapon like it’s canon. It isn’t, and if it ever was in the game, it was reskinned into something else. Perhaps into Lao, looking at its size. Either way, MH was supposed to have a very different tone, and it’s actually pretty well known that it was.

Sometimes I wonder what the hell MHW fans are smoking to create so many crack theories.

Deviljho can and will eat its own tail, I’ve seen it, I know it’s real 😭

my hammer says otherwise

i cant hear you

Seems to me like dragon element is conquer's haki from one piece

Mh4: The world serpent Mh stories: angelic dragon turn into a devil Mh stories 2: six winged angel dragon Mh world: The buddhism/hinduism dragon Mh rise: Japanese deity dragons Mh???: aztec/egyptian dragon

The tower is made of concrete. You make concrete by basically throwing a bunch of material together