The Truth About Arkveld and Guardian Monster [Spoiler]

[Tjoa Jun Choi]

So Arkveld and other guardian variation monster is actually an artificial life created by the Keepers long time ago.

What do you guys thing about this? I just want to to know about your opinion regarding this artificial life thing in Monster Hunter series now

[rhabdophobia]

i think the fact that the guardians can't survive outside of the ruins because their biology is so ruined helps it for me. if it turned out there were just weird milk clones of monsters that theoretically could have been wandering around the whole time and nobody noticed i'd be a little put off, but their dormancy and dependency on wylk helps it a bit.

arkveld also does a lot of heavy lifting for the concept imo, arkveld's story/lore is really tragic and i think they do a wonderful job communicating that through it's design and it's behavior both during a hunt and when it's just idly roaming. the idea of a bio-engineered slave rising above it's intended purpose and restrictions to survive where it was meant to perish is really compelling, but the fact that arkveld can't exist without posing a threat to the world it's now stumbling through blindly makes it kind of sad too.

edit: not really a fan of zoh shia but that's largely bc i think all of the fatalis fanservice is lame and largely unearned for how boring of a monster it is.

[zero]

i mean the anti-dragon weapon was ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up lore we had already, so 'creation of artificial monsters' is just par for the course.

i like em, changes up old monsters to do a few new things.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

I personally think its refreshing take.

Especially since every MH game is usually about ED's.

[Yagger]

Originally posted by zero:

i mean the anti-dragon weapon was ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up lore we had already, so 'creation of artificial monsters' is just par for the course.

i like em, changes up old monsters to do a few new things.

wana fight an equal dragon weapon

[zero]

Originally posted by Yagger:

Originally posted by zero:

i mean the anti-dragon weapon was ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up lore we had already, so 'creation of artificial monsters' is just par for the course.

i like em, changes up old monsters to do a few new things.

wana fight an equal dragon weapon

as long as they let me carve it at the end ill fight anything

[PhalseDemeise]

Clearly it is a technology the keepers are not worthy of maintaining. They don't understand it even after all this time, thinking these things don't need to eat. Which we know is a misconception since the next thing dude tells us is it feeds off this energy. So basically they've been drugging and starving these things. Seems really inhumane.

[Observer]

very profound story

[zero]

Originally posted by PhalseDemeise:

Clearly it is a technology the keepers are not worthy of maintaining. They don't understand it even after all this time, thinking these things don't need to eat. Which we know is a misconception since the next thing dude tells us is it feeds off this energy. So basically they've been drugging and starving these things. Seems really inhumane.

thats the decay of knowledge come into play, that was what the scene where it shows they can no longer read the books denote, the information had no way to be passed down

as for not eating: that was more literal, which we see basically in the very next fight after being told that, the creature won't go to s corpse on the ground to actually eat, they go to wylk and quite literally absorb it, and mechanically never actually get hungry