Kirin

Kirin resemble white unicorns with their horn and their glowing white aura, caused by the electrical currents running within it. It casts a pure white "shadow" under it at all times. Kirin can summon lightning to strike you, or the area around it. Kirin are very swift & very strong creatures and are known to quickly leap around an area making them difficult to hit with larger weapons like great swords, lances, and hammers. Even without wind, their mane still flutter when they die because of the electrical currents still running through it. Kirin are glorified by some hunters, not only for their rarity, but for their uniqueness. The Kirins' most sensitive area on their body is their horn where the damage is nearly doubled as compared to its main body. They are weakest to fire and water elemental weapons, but Raw damage alone is often more effective. Kirin can be seen in the tower area but few have witnessed it.

=Trivia=
 * Kirin can no longer be fought in the original Monster Hunter because it was online only, and the server shut down.
 * In the Forest and Hills, in area 8 there is a kelbi carcass. It is extremely large with an ear that resembles a protruding horn, so there is a small chance it is actuly a Kirin carcass.
 * Kirin has a striking resemblence to a (male) Kelbi, so much so that it has spawned the nick-name 'Kelbidrome'.
 * Kirin is one of the only monsters featured in the MH series that didn't originally come from MH, for instance you can find Kirin in Japaneese mythology and in Dungeons & Dragons 3.0 Oriental Adventures

Gazzatheanomalystic777 17:57, 18 March 2009 (UTC)