User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter: World Discussion/@comment-6050823-20180909061347/@comment-4969421-20180909094130

Really smart decision from Capcom. From a gameplay perspective, they don't want to show Fatalis doing all the stuff the lore says it can do, since actually beating the monster would be pretty much impossible. So they're letting fans make up their own canon. With all the stories and things like Frontier Fatalis laying around you can believe Fata has indeed all those unnatural powers it's said to have, or you can also dismiss them as just legends. Up to you.