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Best I can tell, the final boss of Low Rank isn't an Elder but something else.
The only thing that could be classified as an Elder here *might* be Jin Dihaad, for the same reasons other exceptionally large monsters have been called such in the past. The big reason that Elder Dragons are labeled as such is because they affect the world around them just by existing. Kushala creates storms, Teostra creates wildfires, etc.
This would mean that *maybe* the other three area apex predators could be Elders as well, but as the Guild seemed to recognize them on sight, they'd have probably been called such. Also, they seem to have adapted to the surges around them, they don't actually create them.
The boss of Low Rank is... Well, despite the fact that it's a Guardian (and thus artificially created), and that it's just the end of Low Rank, it's a monster that destroyed an ancient civilization, was called a "calamity" in the description of such, tapped into a natural source of immense power, and seems to control multiple elements. This implies that it's a black dragon, in the same category as Fatalis and Alatreon.
Mate do you realize how weak that argument is?
i don't need to wait for them in Monster Hunter World because 7 of them is already in patch 1.0.0.0 of the game KD, Teostra, Zorah, Nergigante, XJ, Kirin, VH. in the fricking base game of world, Day one!
the fact that 0, null, zilch of them exist in WILD, patch 0, day one is a clear drop in quality of monster variety.
what is the good reason when they can give 7 ELDER DRAGONS in World but not in Wild, not even one. they got the model there, they got the skeleton for the model there, they got the move/attack animation there, they got some armor model there. all they need is new lore, or use pre existing lore, or whatver they cook for new elder dragon, but not having even single of them on launch is inexcusable oversight/lazyness/design. it is indefensible
now this is actually a good reason why they did not have the classic line up of elder dragon. but they could give us one new elder dragon in the game. i can't believe they cooked up all these enviroments and lore but not adding one? When i saw the hole in the mountain that the dragontorch fired on i thought, damn that must be one nasty elder dragon that they shoot at, but then i progress thru entire game and not find even single one of them, not even something kirin sized
but I think they will probably bring in elder dragons later on down the line....
reason for this is because of the guardians.... like in the story they created the guardians to protect them.... and it mentioned a war... but I think there might have been something else to spur the creation of creating monsters...
or at least with them creating extinct species... there could be a high chance of a deeper facility with guardian elder dragons that were probably more unpredictable to control
in worlds there was the everstream.... Xeno was siphoning off of that to grow.... and after slaying him tempered monsters started spawning afterwards and even elder dragons became tempered....
in wilds... there is the landspine... which is basically like an artificial everstream.... and zoh shia... which was siphoning off the dragon torch to grow... and after slaying him tempered monsters started to appear... and guardians become tempered... so lots of similarities that the forbidden lands was essentially an artificially created "new world" type of biome...
ancient wyverians were found in monster hunter worlds... and they always seemed to have a knowledge of what was going on with Xeno.... giving the players guidance and such in that game.... so its possible that they knew of Xeno's existence and either created artifical monsters to counter it or perhaps were already working on making their own guardian Xeno...
and possibly with how doing the plunderblade quest for your palico they mention the new world from monster hunter worlds and the grimvalkryies having taught those hunters... it opens a door to more lore connection between the 2.... like story wise its seen as the new world had just recently discovered this ability.... which in worlds that would be by the time you reach the rotten vale which is about halfway through that game.... so it appears both worlds and wilds are taking place around the same timeframe... which if they were monitoring Xeno or knew of its existence... chances are they might have had counter measures to activate when Xeno wakes up...
but even if thats not the case... the point you learn plunderblade in world is about halfway through in low rank.... the point you learn plunderblade based off of world in wilds is about 3/4th into the game... given distance with communication and such its possible that their their either in sync or wilds is slightly ahead.... so whatever transpires in world could have an impact on wilds story... i'd say that quest opened the door at least to establish that possibility...
also given how the weather changes in those areas.... i wouldnt be surprised if later on we find out the real source of "why".... I mean they said they can alter the weather to what they want.... so its possible that there are elder dragons behind it as a power source of some kind.... and perhaps Zoh Shia was created as a counter in case the elders were too hard to control or something to siphon energy from the dragontorch in hopes to keep them dormant...
and with the introduction of frenzy in wilds.... there is an open investigation into that that the guild leader is going to dig into to investigate.... so the door is open there that we could see things combine together... like frenzied guardian elder dragons possibly being "contained"
so lots of possibilities of what could be exposed further down the line in perhaps a future DLC or just regular updates.... which I find to be rather nice....
I mean monster hunter world iceborne was great and all and I loved it... but it kinda was out in left field to the main story... I mean base monster hunter world there were no hints to what was gonna transpire for iceborne.... and its like some characters like your handler just had character development out of nowwhere.... it was nice but no buildup through the base main game.... it was more like one book and the DLC was a sequel...
in wilds though there is enough mystery left over that the story has potential to expand more like one solid story.... with the hints and such in the main game left unanswered and still a mystery to be solved.... like the source of the dragon torch and the real purpose of the guardians... so far there is just speculation among the hunters... but there is also that huge library the keepers have that could uncover a lot more info... but I also think the base game of wilds has a lot of breadcrumbs that are scattered about that could make the future DLC in wilds more connected than iceborne did for worlds...
"It just came out"
well whoop freaking doo, every single mainline monster hunter title up until this one title has elder dragons when it came out. bad excuse
Neither of those are criteria for being an elder dragon. A monster doesn't have to be old or strong to be classified as an elder dragon. The guild uses the classification of "Elder Dragon" to refer to any monster that they can't classify as anything else. There are actually pretty weak monsters (comparatively) that are considered Elder Dragons in lore, like Yama Tsukami and Chameleos, that are only classified that way because they are unlike anything else. The guild's classifications are purely for ecological/taxonomy reason. They are not an indicator of strength. If classifications were based on strength and age alone then monsters like Akantor would be Elder Dragons, but they aren't. Hell, some Elder Dragons are hunter by non-Elder Dragons.
Also Jin Dahaad can be caught in traps, so can Gore Magala. Further proof that neither of them are Elder Dragons.
Gore Magala is not an Elder Dragon, technically. It is in a class of it's own previously called the "???" classification. Up until this game where it was given the classification of "Demi Elder Dragon" for some reason. Although GM should be if Capcom wanted to be consistent with the classification of Elder Dragon babies since Xeno'jiiva is classified as an Elder Dragon in lore.
i like this theory, really i do. but they could at least left a placeholder elder dragon, two or threes of those and it will satisfy people and it even tied out the number of large monster to 30. and why can't all the anomolous thing in relation with the old tech not attract any elder dragon. it's just bizzare because elder dragon is known to be attracted to any anomalies or abudance of energy/elemental energy
MonHun 1, MonHun 2, Generations, Rise. They all had less.
Also you have 25k hours in Black Desert so your opinion is worthless.