User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Kushala Daora(4th Gen)/@comment-4640052-20151003201031

I really like the Kushala and the weapons made of Kushala parts are awesome, each with a different animal theme (by the way, the insect Glaive Daora's Entom seems to be missing on the list)

The dragon itself is very cool. I like how it is the McBasic looking dragon, very similar to the metallic dragons from D&D. The wind controlling powers at first, back in MHFU, stroke me as odd. I was used to all monsters having very natural looking abilities, everything could be explained as a biological function, but the wind controlling thing seemed supernatural. I like to think that it is a weak magnetic power that moves either the wind itself, or maybe small iron particles in it (which could explain the black wind as having a higher concentration of iron in it). It could also by a psychic power, not linked to inteligence, that allows it to move the air around it. Either way, causing damage to the head and the tail could weaken it due to damage to the brain and spinal cord.

The fin-like wings that are similar to the Rokodiora, Rebidiora and Alatreon, could indicate a closer ancestry between those, and also could hint as to how the six limbed elder dragons evolved, their ancestors probably had fins that developed musculature to allow simple movements, maybe on an aquatic enviroment, and with time turned into fin-like wings, that are still present on a few species like the Kushala, while branching into more specialized forms like the other elder dragons that have a single wing finger, like the Teostra, or the ones that became mirrors of the other limbs, like the Fatalis with its functioning bat-like wings and the Magaras with the wing arms.

The fact the the Kushala triggers this kinds of brainstorm on me is one of the reasons why I really like it.

I also like how it is the easier one of the first Elder Dragons you encounter, a nice way to shaw what is coming.