#jiiva

[indiaglitztamil]

In this exclusive interview with IndiaGlitz Tamil, Super Singer fame Neha Girish talks about AR Rahman, actor Jiiva and much more...

[chimerahnova]

If monsters went to stores (scenarios suggested by twitter😅)

Mizustune: Bath and Body works

Valstrax: Hobby Lobby looking at model planes

Gaismagorm: buying clothes at the soup store

Nergigante: Waffle House

XenoJiiva: kids corner waiting for mama Safii

[amayensis]

Falling Star - I've been working on a new art style for a few weeks (Patrons have seen what I plan to do with it hehe) and decided to try it out on a Monster Hunter dragon, Safi'Jiiva! It's a style I'm having a lot of fun with so expect more of it soon 👀 Prints below ☺️

Merch (clothing, mugs, stickers…) on Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/155756219 Prints on INPRNT https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/amayensis/falling-star-safijiiva/

[rolandsgaard-castle]

Equyne armor part 4

Dire Miralis

Deviljho

Zamtrios

Xeno Jiiva

Nerscylla

Valstrax

[fishbird73]

Unfortunately don’t have the physical copy anymore but YAAAA

Lighting goes strange

[grimoireroseart]

First time drawing Safi’jiiva!

[belfrysol]

me and the bestiieee

[thegreatyin]

speaking of monster hunter, my personal headcanon that doesn't really have any canon basis whatsoever is that safi'jiiva is actually the "middle stage" of the metaphorical xeno'jiiva evolution line. as a safi gets older the little stars it has on the edges of its wings grow to cover the whole body and it becomes this weird living night sky black dragon monster. just a GIANT all-powerful dragon covered in stars draining life wherever it goes. nothing else aside from darkness and the lights of its eyes. again ZERO canon basis whatsoever here i just think it'd be cool

[soulampsuper]

Venus ☄️

[xboxseries]

its like im in 2019 all over again

[chimerahnova]

Some Baby monster sketches

[ittvglobal]

Hero Jiiva speech at Yatra 2 Movie Press Meet | #yatra2 #jiiva @ittvlife...

[gallusgalluss]

some finished headshot commissions!!

characters belong to @xeno-jiiva, YawleyG, @thegalleonsnest, @orb-the-watchman, and @grox-empire!

[syntaxaero]

If u like Monster hunter, then whats ur Favorite monsters! Top 5 maybe?

(These honestly aren't in any particular order and sometimes my onions shift around a lil bit

VALSTRAX VALSTRAX VALSTRAX VALSTRAX VALSTRAX VALSTRAX (This is the absolute fav)

Shagaru Magala

Espinas ... big boy

Legiana (awesome wyvern)

Safi Jiiva (BIG HANDSOME BOY)

ahhh there's so many monsters though... astalos, alatreon, fun variants, cuga... I appreciate so many of them

[briarworthandoleander]

Do you think Shara Isvalda and Gaismagorn often have fights?

These two are, if I'm not mistaken, the only two big monsters that live most of the time underground and although I don't think they feed on the same. Shara feeds on bioenergy and Gaismagorn uses the Qurio to absorb nutrients (not sure about this)

I forgot Kulve Taroth, she also lives underground, so I guess they had fights too.

Although maybe not because they don't live on the same continent. Apart from Kulve and Shara.

I would like to theorize that Gaismagorm is technically a Deep Sea Elder Dragon, not an Underground Elder Dragon given its dens location. It's probably best to explain how bioenergy and dragon energy work to explain the feeding methods of both Shara Ishvalda, Gaismagorm and the beginnings of Xeno Jiiva.

Bioenergy (or dragon energy) is everywhere, in the water, in the earth and in the air we breathe. It flows throughout the world. Xeno'Jiiva are born when this energy coalesces in one spot like a whirlpool. Shara Ishvalda meanwhile are drawn to the natural flow of this energy so they move with the flow of the bio energy underground and take root where it is most prevalent at the time. These two instances often occur after a large elder dragon has died.

Gaismagorm is a different beast.

Gaismagorm was, and possibly still is, an ambush predator for deep sea elder dragons. Instead of supping on bioenergy - it sends out scouts of a sort in waves that we have grown to know as:

The Qurio. A relatively simple life-form in the shape of a fish that could flutter around with bright colouration to lure prey. One could say that they are actually the closest in biology to a Xeno'Jiiva, as both are comprised of bioenergy.

The Qurio were Gaismagorm's lure for elder dragons like Ceadeus; a means of attracting these dragons to the cave of Gaismagorm so that the dreaded devil could grab them with its great arms and pull them into its lair to feast.

But over time, creatures tend to get wise to one's tricks, so it's a question of adapt or die. So the Qurio became parasitic leeches that would drain bioenergy from other elder dragons to give to Gaismagorm. They grew more complex, powered by Gaismagorm to find and hunt down prey instead of just luring it. But seas can run empty, and when they do - new sources must be acquired. So the Qurio began to fly. Thus began the plague on air and land.

...and how they found the species of Elder Dragon called Malzeno.

Unlike most other monsters, Malzeno were not drained but instead gained a symbiotic relationship with the Qurio, essentially leeching Gaismagorms' bio energy for themselves through the Qurio.

However, I am getting off topic.

You want to know if Gaismagorm and Shara Ishvalda fight and how often. I would say no.

Shara Ishvalda prefer arid areas and mountains, whereas Gaismagorm is going to be underground under entire oceans and seas. The two simply would not meet unless there was a large source of bioenergy between their individual biomes that was too irresistible for either to ignore.

-Leo Briarworth

To piggyback off of Leo's theory, it could be surmised that the Qurio started out as single-celled organisms during the time that Gaismagorm as a species dwelled in oceanic trenches, where light can't easily penetrate except in very specific forms and down to a certain depth. You see, taking a close look at the Qurio themselves, they give off a peculiar red glow. It's something that we can pick up on easily at a glance, something that monsters can see and follow above the ocean's depths... but past around 4.6 meters below the surface, red light begins to be absorbed as light waves are scattered.

In the deep ocean, there are creatures that use light to hunt, luring prey with a nice, shiny promise of food that sometimes glows to scare off smaller, less capable predators. In this same vein, light can be shown on prey that most creatures wouldn't be able to detect otherwise. It isn't too much of a stretch to assume that this same principle was followed before Gaismagorm eventually made the transition from sea to land, when the Qurio were still parasites that fed on Gaismagorm and the nutrients it processed as it, too, fed.

Eventually, in time immemorial, though... something changed. Gaismagorm as a species grew and their prey didn't, so they continued to adapt, and so did their parasites to this ever-changing biome whilst they worked their way up the food chain. Eventually, fish and other creatures that lived in the ocean just weren't enough, so the species both had to broaden their horizons or die. Fins became legs, legs became wings, gills that filtered oxygen from the water became lungs and vents to expel waste and excess, unusable energy.

It could be assumed that they were out-competed in the air, so then they adapted to food they could reach without expending so much energy. Once aquatic, then aerial, then subterranean... it's a massive leap and seemingly a step backward evolutionarily, but the structure of Gaismagorm's larger pair of arms suggests that they were once wings and simply evolved into powerful limbs, too heavy for flight but perfect for tunneling through solid earth and stone. Down in giant tunnels, they didn't need powerful hind legs for taking to the skies, so those became vestigial, Gaismagorm's eyes shrank as an adaptation to low-light conditions, and the Qurio, their parasites... developed wings from fins used to swim through water and their host's innards.

We might never know what led Gaismagorm to start creating exit points in the ground for the Qurio to find their way out and feed, but somewhere down the line, the behavior was sparked and a new pattern of hunting was born. Gaismagorm, too large to easily leave their tunnels, had to find food somehow, so they began to rely on the Qurio, which in turn began to treat their host as a hive. They began to leave its body, taking to the skies, hunting down and draining precious lifeblood from monsters up topside, then returning to Gaismagorm to feed it what they'd stolen.

From there, the Gaismagorm could (and can) process the blood into something that the Qurio can eat--a form of energy expelled by the elder dragon, a waste product, pure and filtered down into everything that it can't use but they can.

In the simplest of terms, think of the Qurio as Bnahabra or Vespoids, feeding their larvae meat so that they can create a protein-rich slurry that they can actually digest. It's the same principle; both species rely entirely on each other to survive.

-Oleander

[scolipede]

some recent mspaint commissions! for @shcnanigans and @xeno-jiiva, respectively

thanks again!