Thread:Pikipedian/@comment-6050823-20160807043036/@comment-13433622-20160807065739

I was not aware of that fact, given that the information in question is not so much as mentioned even in passing within the context of the game itself, so you must pardon me for my skepticism about such claims when there's so little to verify them besides what comes off as the developers saying "this is what we picture it as being like"- it's decent fanfiction, but it has no connection to what I actually see and experience when I fight Nakarkos myself.

Personally, I hold to the viewpoint that only what appears in the games is canon; concepts can be abandoned and what the developers wanted to make does not necessarily translate to what they actually create; after all, Nakarkos certainly isn't the living fortress its concept art depicted it as, and the developers' ideas for Nakarkos' aquatic presence were never implemented and thus non-canon. In the absence of any sign in-game that Nakarkos can so much as swim, let alone thrive in water, I could only come to the conclusion that it was strictly terrestrial and "swam" through bones like Delex swim through sand in the Sandy Plains and assumed that the claims of being aquatic were wholly manufactured on your part due to the aforementioned lack of ingame evidence.

On a related note, Capcom really ought to actually put all of their lore information in the actual games for a change instead of hiding it in magazines that never see the light of day outside of Japan. Perhaps then we could host actual ecological information rather than glorified conjectures and pet theories.