The Biggest Unsolved Myseries In The Monster Hunter Series

The world of Monster Hunter is full of many unexplained and interesting facts. They give the setting a sense of grounded mystery, from the complex environments and how the different monsters inhabit them, to the nature of humans and their civilizations that have come and gone.

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Each game in the series adds to the mysteries of the world and with each new monster or location. There’s always the question of how, why, or where that’s involved with the new inclusions to the story. In many ways, the more we discover in Monster Hunter, the less we truly know, and the mysteries continue to expand in the series.

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The Evolution Of Life In Monster Hunter

Monster Hunter is an amalgamation of fantasy and science fiction. Every monster you encounter is in one way, shape, or form, based on a fantasy creature, but given a scientific/ecological explanation for its appearance, distinct traits, or fantastical attack. From Magnamalo, which is a Fanged Wyvern that appears like a Tiger samurai that uses explosive gases that sound like vengeful souls, to Anjanath, which is a fire-breathing tyrannosaurus.

How these creatures came into existence like this or how life evolved this way hasn’t really been touched on. The Guild’s mission statement is mostly about uncovering, investigating, and researching the environments where these creatures came to be.

Because of the incredible diversity in monsters, big and small, half the fun of the series is always staring in awe of the many creatures you face, while also looking through their materials for all the ways the creature designers have managed to make these creatures make sense in the world.

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The Real Map Of Monster Hunter

Aside from the two regional maps you contain that have been updated over time in Monster Hunter World and Monster Hunter Wilds, there isn’t a completely recognized world map or atlas of the world. There are very few exceptions, like the original map of the first game that consists of Schrade, Kokoto, and Minegarde. Outside of that, there are more inferences of where everything is than actual on the map visuals of it.

What we do know about the world of Monster Hunter is that the New World is a whole new continent discovered by the guild 50 years before the start of Monster Hunter World. The continent of the Old World consists of all the previous, well-constructed settlements, from Kokoto Village, to Pokke Village, and Moga Village.

The regions of the Forbidden Lands you explore in Monster Hunter Wilds are said to be on the eastern side of the Old World, where the Guild is stationed, which gives more of a sense of the overall geography, but that still leaves the actual mapping of the world a mystery.

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Origins Of The Rampage

When you start your adventure in Monster Hunter Rise, it becomes established pretty early that the village was subjected to a calamity that occurred 50 years ago. A stampede of fearsome monsters tore through the region, nearly destroying the village. As a newly fledged hunter, it’s up to you to protect Kamura from the onslaught while also figuring out what’s causing the Rampage.

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In the story, there were several suspects of the Rampage. The first was Magnamalo, a ferocious monster that feeds on the monsters during the stampede. Others are apex monsters, the leader of the pack, so to speak. They are powerful monsters that tend to be the final element of difficult Rampages.

The High Rank story reveals that a pair of mating Elder Dragons, the Wind Serpent Ibushi, and the Thunder Serpent Narwa, are responsible for dramatically affecting the behavior of the monsters in the region, and their songs to each other seem to cause the Rampage itself, along with possessing the two wyverian maidens Hinoa and Minoto. How they influence the monsters to make them Apexes is still a mystery.

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The Everstream

The New World in Monster Hunter World is pulsing with a form of biological energy that feeds the complex ecosystem along with attracting Elder Dragons to inhabit the region. The sources of all this energy is unknown, but it’s directly linked to the important cycle of life and death that permeates the ecosystems in the New World. All of this can be traced to the Rotten Vale and how the bodies of monsters that die there feed their nutrients throughout the rest of the continent.

This bioenergy is known collectively as the Everstream. In some regions of the world, you can see the flow of energy through complex tunnels. You can also find crystallized forms of Everstream energy throughout the Elder’s Recess.

High Ranked/Master Ranked investigations would also yield tempered monsters, which were creatures that thrived long enough to be empowered by the surplus of Everstream energy. How this energy fluctuates and why certain Elder Dragons like Xeno Jiiva and Safi Jiiva can actively harness and absorb this energy remains quite an engaging mystery.

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The Power Of The Guild

Much of the government power in the world of Monster Hunter is mostly unknown. We know there are villages, cities, and kingdoms, but the majority of the narrative in Monster Hunter takes place with you being a part of the Guild – the dominant organization that manages the world’s monsters and the hunters that face them. They clearly have a lot of influence and power while responding to all monster-related events.

The Guild’s power and stance in the world suggest that the setting of Monster Hunter is all about some form of controlled/contained environmentalism. Because of this, many of the major quests in the games are directly ordained and authorized by the Guild’s authorities, from preparing Dundorma for Elder Dragon attacks to investigating the Elder Crossing in the New World.

There are even cases when they try to manage external circumstances, such as the anomalies that occurred near Elgado and the Caedeus incident in Moga village. The Guild’s authority is absolute, yet how this came to be could only be theorized as a preventative measure against something worse.

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The Mysterious Wylk

Monster Hunter Wilds brought us to the Forbidden Lands, a large expanse of previously unexplored region in the east of the known world that’s brimming with several rich healthy locales that undergo a cycle of seasons known as Plenty, Fallow, and Inclemency. This cycle in the ecosystems is curiously consistent in all regions with the inclemency being the only major distinction, from the Sandtide in the Windward Plains, to the Downpour in the Scarlet Forest and the Firespring in the Oilwell Basin.

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It’s revealed that these locales and their unique seasonal systems are somehow controlled and maintained by a mysterious man-made substance known as Wylk, or Wyvern Milk. How this was first created is still a mystery since it’s the last remnant of the ancient Wyveria civilization. The properties of Wylk are highly volatile when exposed to elemental energy, which is why they influence regional weather.

Wylk functions similarly to the Everstream in the New World. Both are a source of energy that’s responsible for empowering the local ecosystems of their respective regions. Somehow, the source of the Wylk, the Dragontorch, is probably biological since it feeds the construct guardian monsters, and could get sick from Gore Magala’s Frenzy virus.

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Wyveria And The Ancient Civilizations

It’s mostly insinuated through environmental hints and conversations with several characters throughout the series that the world of Monster Hunter is mostly built on the bones of Ancient Civilizations. From the Kingdom of Schrade to the realm of Wyveria, how far back in the past these civilizations went is a bit unclear, or how many exist, but Wyveria was known to have fallen a thousand years ago. These civilizations were advanced, with technology and tools that were either lost or recently rediscovered, like the Charge Blade or Artisan armor.

The nature of these Ancient Civilizations is often connected to the wrath of Elder Dragons, fearsome monsters that might’ve clashed with these civilizations in devastating conflicts. The reason why the Guild and the modern world of Hunters function the way it does is due to the disastrous devastation these civilizations suffered, and the ecosystems were also severely affected by them. More was revealed in Monster Hunter Wilds, from their power over nature to the questionable things that they created that could’ve triggered their destruction.

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The Nature Of Elder Dragons

Many of the creatures in the Monster Hunter series can be scientifically explained, and their ecologies make sense in the ecosystems they live in. The outliers to the natural order are the Elder Dragons, living natural disaster events that can potentially affect whole regions of the world just by stirring. Elder Dragons are less of an actual classification and more of a dumping category for monsters that are difficult to define and have some huge influence on the world around them.

Some Elder Dragons are massive Kaiju-like monsters like Lao Shan Lung and Zorah Magdoros. Others can change and shift the surrounding weather, like Kushala Daora and Teostra. Some are bizarre creatures, like Yama Tsukami, and others can be the source of a terrifying pandemic like the Frenzy Virus of Shagaru Magala. Elder Dragons operate in their own rules and concepts, and are sometimes susceptible to the Dragon Element, which is just as mysterious as they are. Elder Dragons are an enigma, and their biology and origins are still discussed within the Guild.

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The Black Dragons Of Legend

Out of the many Elder Dragons that populate the world of Monster Hunter, there are five that stand above the rest. They are known as the Black Dragons, or the forbidden monsters. There is Fatalis, the destroyer of Schrade, and its variations, Crimson and Ancient Fatalis. Then there is Alatreaon, master of the elements. The fifth is Dire Miralis, an aquatic apocalypse that leaves blood-red sea in its wake.

They are the most dangerous monsters in the series. The source of their power and the origins of their legends are shrouded in ancient mystery. Their involvement in Ancient texts and the destruction of civilizations suggests that they have some awareness or presence in the world around them.

They are very malicious even by Elder Dragon standards, and there are questions about where these monsters truly fit in the world or where they go during their dormancy. The Guild also didn’t give them any icons or symbols until Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, suggesting that they were ancient myths until then. They are truly monsters shrouded in mystery.

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