#pariapuria

[poorly-drawn-monhun]

i love this goofy lil guy and his goofy mechanics please bring him to wilds it'd be SO funny

[five-zenny]

drew a lil dude since i've been on a frontier kick lately :>

[damnwyverngems]

I Love Supremacy Pariapuria theme, 2nd part is amazing. I would love to see this Bloodlust Axolotl makes a comeback.

[legofemme]

Wanting to go in yhe mh tag but havung not finished sunbreak (im taking my time to grind up my weapons nd actually set decos) and not wanting to be spoiled . Agony

[bonboro]

Footed wywern evolutionary tree.

(Link for high resolution version)

(Link for high resolution version) [No frontier version]

(One part of the larger MH evolutionary tree project)

Please leave a comment, i want your speculation on the subject and what type of monster you want to see next.

The description of the classification branch

A group of wywern that have a large body and design to predate Elder dragons (aka God wywerns).

A group of god wywern that have a chin protrution that they use to dig into the terrain.

"Wywern rex”, a predater wywern that start develope their wing but not really able to flight yet

The group of wywern that focus on the flight aspect from the Wywern rex.

The group of wywern that directly evolved from wywern rex, they have many aspect of their anatomy that resemble their ancestor.

This group of wywern have many aspect resemble mammalian animals and capable of flight

This group of wywern have adapted to ambush it pray in the dark places.

This group of wywern have is face resemble canine and their tail resemble an spike club.

The ??? group description

? (on the top right): “Keoaruboru”, is a wywerns that been catagories as an Elder dragon by the guild due to it very unidentified nature. This wywern have a body structure similiar to Fanged wywern in the Zinogre family and Large antler unusal for footed wywern, the only thing that identified it as an footed wywern is an small degrading wing on it foreleg.

? (bellow the top right): The group of footed wywern that have a trait resemble aquatic creatures, this group compose of “Pariapuria” and “Poborubarumu”. These wywerns not really an aquatic creature, the only thing that might explain their uniqe trait is the habitat that they came from use to be an aquatic habitats.

? (on the bottom right): “Bogabadorumu”, the Large wywerns that overall anatomy identified them with God wywerns, but they are unique from other god wywerns due to it smaller head, lack of hard shell, and long snout.

[dastardly6sharkzz]

Pariapuria Chibi.

[thejokig23]

Monster Hunter Frontier has a lot of unique monsters. I made a personal list of all the unique large monsters (as in no subspecies, variants, burst species etc) in Frontier and how much I want to see them return

Frontier monsters I would love to see come back with minimal changes: 16

- Forokururu

- Hypnocatrice

- Abiorugu (Abiogladius)

- Taikun Zamuza

- Gogomoa

- Kamu/Nono Orugaron

- Espinas

- Pariapuria

- Pokaradon

- Kuarusepusu

- Lavasioth

- Guanzorumu

- Inagami

- Shantien

- Laviente

Frontier monsters I think could come back if redesigned/kept in a Genetations/Rise style game: 17

- Toridcless

- Giaorugu

- Akura Vashimu

- Akura Jebia

- Anorupatisu

- Berukyurosu

- Gurenzeburu

- Mi Ru

- Poborubarumu

- Barlagual

- Aruganosu

- Goruganosu

- Eruzerion

- Harudomerugu

- Keoarubu

- Rukodiora

- Duremudira

Frontier monsters I never want to see/would need to be changed to the point of no longer being the same monster: 9

- Gasurabazura

- Lolo/Ray Gougarf

- Bogabadorumu

- Dyuragaua

- Hyujikiki

- Meraginasu

- Odibatorasu

- Zenaserisu

- Disufiroa

Even of the monsters I don't particularly like, it's more so due to finding them redundant to mainline entries.

[flygonscales]

Monster hunter things I think we should talk about more:

Velocidrome’s 7 knife-fingers

Yama Tsunami’s human teeth

Valstrax can effectively go to space if it holds its breath long enough (look at area 9 in ruined pinnacle. You can’t tell me it doesn’t feel like you are in space)

The fact that small monsters keep losing their parents (Jaggi, Zamites, Velociprey, Uroktor, Basarios)

I would kill for Poka Poka Airu Village

Pariapuria is cute actually

Egg

[katyvern]

Hybrid of Pariapuria and Muruchi making Murupuria!

[canescm]

Maybe some Frontier love? I’d love to see Hyujikiki boxed!

oh no the box got spiked!

i never have the chance to play Frontier due to some technical problem, but i watched some videos and read some lore

also since Frontier already closed i’ve draw some other Frontier’s monsters that i like as well (been drawing them since before the game closed but just finished all the planned one recently)

from left to right, top to bottom :

Laviente : already been requested and posted before, but since he’s a Frontier monster, here he is again :D

Hyujikiki : his roar is too cute, i love it

Espinas : actually i really like the zenith design, but i kinda want to stick with the base looks XD 

Kamu/Nono Ougarons : they formed a good pair

Midogaron : he’s sad but he’s also cool

Rukodiora : super cool theme, i actually like Spyro Rebidiora’s theme more but Ruko’s is still really nice.

Disufiroa : handsome-looking monster, how can i not XD

Pariapuria : his eating mechanic is something i want to see get tweaked into the main line games

Inagami : i really love everything about him, good design, good theme, etc. but GOG why is this monster so gogdamn hard to draw

Duremudira : i was skeptical about his design when i first saw him, but watching his fight is like wowwie, i like this monster.

Guanzorumu : good theme and has interesting take on small monsters as his minions

Harudomerugu : also kinda skeptical at first, but his ability just looks too cool

Frontier has some really cool monster designs and mechanics that i’d love to see in the main line game (perhaps tweaked a bit to be more fitted)

rip Frontier, may something takes up its legacy in the future

[plesioths]

Gogmazios for a Patreon reward and Pariapuria

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[teratonomy]

How did you come up with all the binomial names?

By drawing a pentagram on my bedroom floor and sacrificing a goat to some eldritch monstrosity, in exchange for arcane knowledge.

Honestly, my approach to creating binomen varies from monster to monster. I always set out with the intention of keeping the names as grammatically correct as possible, in line with the declensions for Greek and Latin. I do my best to adhere to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, but at the end of the day, I’m just one nerd with no formal training. I’m very much an armchair linguist, and while there’s nothing wrong with being an autodidact, it does make me prone to second-guessing. Doesn’t really help that I don’t have a list of acquaintances to consult, who would actually be able to give me reliable feedback.

Sometimes, though, I think a little inexperience makes the naming process more authentic. Because scientists are people, and you can never underestimate the capacity of people to be Extra As Hell.

Let me give you a few examples:

In 2004, entomologists Kelly B. Miller and Quentin D. Wheeler reclassified a genus of leiodid fungus beetles as Gelae (/ˈdʒɛli/). Yes, it is pronounced exactly the way you think it is. The species in this newly-christened genus include G. baen (“jelly bean”), G. belae (“jelly belly”), G. donut (“jelly doughnut”), G. fish (“jelly fish”), and G. rol (“jelly roll”). The authors said that they were merely wordplays without any taxonomical jargon; a “whimsical arrangement of letters.”

And then there’s the lovely Heteropoda davidbowie, described by Peter Jäger. The name was selected for a few reasons: (1), the colors and patterns on the spider’s face resemble the painted face makeup David Bowie wore in his early career; (2), the name references the song “Glass Spider,” as well as his album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars; (3), the species has an estimated 500 individuals left, so Jäger hoped that giving it a catchy name would draw headlines and help with conservation efforts.

Allow me to introduce you to a trilobite described by Samuel Turvey in 2005. Its name? Han solo. Turvey called it that because a couple of his friends dared him to name a species after a Star Wars character. And while you might roll your eyes at that, the name is actually really clever. The generic name Han is a reference to the Han people, the largest ethnic group in China (where the trilobite was found); the specific epithet solo refers to the fact it’s the sole species belonging to that genus; and like many trilobites, the fossils tend to be extremely well-preserved, similar to how Harrison Ford was preserved in carbonite.

I could literally go on for days. There’s even a website dedicated to compiling all of the ridiculous names out there called Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature. The person who does the heavy-lifting is a bloke named Mark Isaak, and they deserve mad respect.

There’s a point I’m trying to make, I swear.

You see, if professional scientists with degrees can get away with making nerdy references and butchering the grammar of Latin and Greek, THEN SO CAN I.

Sometimes I’ll give monsters really cool or epic-sounding names that try to capture a quality about them, whether that’s their appearance, geographic range, behavior, or some historical fact pertaining to their discovery.

Some of my favorites include:

The verdant qurupeco, Cantio sirenius. Its name means “siren’s song” in Latin, a reference to the high fidelity of its vocal mimicry.

The dire miralis, Pyrothalassion basileus. Its name translates to “Greek fire emperor.” Its generic name comes from an incendiary weapon used by the Byzantine navy. Remember the wildfire from Game of Thrones? It’s basically that. The name felt pretty appropriate for a sea-dwelling dragon that breathes fire.

The black nargacuga, Xyrafiptera cervarius. Its name means “razor-winged deer-hunter” in Latin, a combination of physical descriptors and behavior. It also sounds rad as hell.

And then…we have those names.

The disufiroa, Apparentia absurda. You can take a wild guess what that translates to. I mean, just look at this thing. It’s got weird, inverted, spike-things on its chest. No idea what the fuck those are for.

The harudomerugu, Retentio incredulitatis. Its name is the closest I could get to “suspension of disbelief” in Latin. By now you might have noticed that scientific names are basically my way of bullying the Frontier monsters, because seriously, what the hell, Capcom?

The baruragaru, Stercusanctum currite. Okay, so this one isn’t me taking the piss out of the Frontier design team, because I actually like this monster. Its name is based on my reaction when I first saw the G3 trailer: Jesus Christ, what is that thing? The baruragaru was given the dubious honor of being named “holy shit, run,” because if I saw that thing in real life I’d be trying to put as many doors, walls, and preferably continents between it and myself as possible.

The great jaggi, Magnaraptor ebrius. Also known as the “drunken great thief.” Full disclosure: I’m a big fan of NCHProductions and wanted to sneak in a fun reference to their videos. Whenever they animate the great jaggi it’s always drunk, so I named it in honor of its alcoholism.

The pariapuria, Haustranguis amphibious. Its name means “amphibious bucket dragon” in Latin, and there’s a reason for that. You see, The Encyclopedia wasn’t just intended as a fun creative exercise, but as a learning tool for people interested in zoological classification. In taxonomy there’s this thing called a wastebasket taxon—when a species is incertae sedis, or of uncertain placement, it might get dumped into a poly- or paraphyletic taxon. Academically, this is what’s known as “this thing is weird and I don’t know where it goes, so for now I’m putting it in time out.” When I first tried to classify the pariapuria I couldn’t really figure out what it was related to: The tigrexes? The nargas? Neither? And then it hit me: I didn’t have to have an answer. Instead, I decided to put it in a wastebasket taxon. It’s meant to be a nod to the harrows of IRL taxonomy, and just how much of a clusterfuck it can be sometimes. As for why it’s called “bucket dragon,” and not “basket dragon,” well. I couldn’t exactly find a translation for “basket” in Latin, so I asked myself, “Okay, what’s the next best thing?” And thus we have bucket dragon.

Isn’t taxonomy fun?

[atomic-crusader]

Another monster introduced early in Frontier’s life, Pariapuria is an amphibious Flying Wyvern that likes to eat a lot. Honestly its hunger might even put Deviljho to shame! Naturally its element is Water, though that might be more do to the nature of its attacks. You see, Pariapuria’s main method of attack is vomiting all over its enemies. And itself. and the surrounding area. This can provide buffs to itself, a variety of ailments to enemies and hazards on the field.

Hell, you can even collect rare material form its barf, like actual goddamn  Rajang parts! I’m assuming these are the result of scavenging dead Rajang, but still, the implications are kinda scary. It also has a creepy-cute thing going on which I am all in for. 

[nylusion]

Reminiscing about Monster Hunter Online with footage from the past in The Archives! Today we take a look at the special Pariapuria event!

[damnwyverngems]

Pariapuria figure by トびー

[iamthekaijuking]

My revised cladogram with frontier monsters minus paolumu because I can’t figure out what it is. There was some changes and slight reclassifications. It runs on the same assumption as my last flying wyvern tree (which can be found here) but with a few differences that should be noted.

An updated 2022 version can be found here

I now think that scansoriopterygids specifically as ancestors isn’t a definitive answer or the best. It works well enough but some sort of paravian with similar hand structures works as well. Plus there’s the possibility that scansoriopterygids might be oviraptorsaurids, and I don’t exactly know what kinds of feather types they had, but I do know that the feather types on various flying wyverns is also present on paraves (also I just like paraves more). So now I personally think that the ancestor of flying wyverns was some of of parave with styliforms like Yi: think a sort of omnipedal dromeosaur with leathery wings.

Additionally, it’s rather hard for a theropod to become quadrupedal due the wish bones and wrists of theropods making quadrupedal locomotion very difficult. So the climbing trees with hands hypothesis doesn’t work since that doesn’t put the same pressures on hands as walking horizontally does. A burrowing theropod is a more likely scenario, as that’s one of the few situations that would force a theropod to become quadrupedal and burrowing animals are more likely to survive extinction events (in this case the K-T extinction). Their large powerful arms would allow them to scale trees, and some would grow a patagium and styliforms. Then most of my previously purposed theory would play out at that point.

Bird wyverns are put as a sister group to flying wyverns as I think most of them are paraves too, although I have their group as a bit of a wastebasket taxon.

I added the origin Wyvern and Wyvern rex because even though they’re slendom mentioned they’re important as the most basal members of both the god wyverns and flying wyverns proper.

The addition of frontier monsters really cleared up and fleshed out the Tigrex family, and Hyujikiki allowed me to finally figure out where Barioth goes. Both are vaguely mammalian and have very similar forelimbs. @eightleggedfiend pointed out that magnamalo’s finger blades look like repurposed styliforms/pseudophalanges, so it felt appropriate to place the fart tiger as a basal flightless member of the Barioth/Hyujikiki family. Pariapuria is a weird member of the rex family that split off early.

Scalebats were a little hard to pin down as they’re fairly derived. I heavily considered the idea of paolumu relatives but I couldn’t find enough similarities between them. So considering their wings which are entirely adapted for flight and not walking, three unfused fingers, and two pseudophalanges, I placed them as derived members of a basal group of bipedal wyverns. Specifically the cave wyverns due to habitat. They’re a bit hard to see on the tree because apparently nobody has actually captioned the icon from the game like most monsters. I initially put cave wyverns as Pariapuria relatives that were unrelated to scale bats, which meant that khezu became bipedal independently of most flying wyverns. But then I realized Pukei has a cloaca on the end of its tail like the cave wyverns and is a brood parasite (which could possibly lead to ectoparasitism), which led to me completely reclassifying all of these monsters and making Pukei+scale bats+cave wyverns a grouping. The larvae of the cave wyverns might have also originally been like normal dinosaur hatchlings (helpless and grubby) but eventually became the larvae we know today as the cave wyverns became endoparasitic.

Pukei is more basal than the scale bats and is close to the ancestor of all cave wyverns.

The astalos/seregios group got placed as a sister group to legiana and it’s relatives. Berukyurosu and it’s relatives cleared the mystery of where legiana lies, as they too went all out on their pseudophalanges, and the structures supporting legiana’s hip wings could be homologous to the segmented hip whips of the Berukyurosu family. The ancestor of the seregios/Berukyurosu likely had a large number of pseudophalanges, which means the wings of astalos is a return to the more conventional flying Wyvern form.

I placed espinas and it’s relative as the most basal member of the “massive shell wyverns” group, with Gravios and co being a sister group to the blos family.

Poborubarumu got placed as a stem or basal “massive shell wyvern” due to its shell (which is admittedly mostly rubbery), extensive head extremities, and number of pseudophalanges. It also has flying ancestors.

Bazelgeuse got a major reclassification as being related to the Raths. Looking at bazel’s concept art, it turns out it does have pseudophalanges. Three just like the Raths. It, along with Anorupatisu and Gurenzeburu paint a better picture of the Rath family tree as they all have similar wings, are armored, and reasonably good fliers. Bazel got a somewhat close placement to the Raths because it has a flame sack and chin spike.

I made Wing drakes a sister group to the Halks, and reclassified remobra (a snake wyvern) as a Cortos relative.

End note: The tree was once again revised and the text was rewritten to include details I added from reblogs that I have since deleted so that everything can be one cohesive post.