Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-765166-20131015174759/@comment-765166-20131103121010

RanaE-wka01 wrote: >(violent)raviente not an elder dragon but the games themselves point out that things that don't fit under any other classification are grouped under "elder dragon". hence kirin, and yama tsukami.

so essentially, arguing that ANYTHING that isn't specifically listed under an actual category is not an elder dragon is contradicting the official materials, which goes against the hard-held standards of this wiki.

Yeah, but then Kirin and Yama Tsukami have official listings as "Elder Dragon" in MH games whereas the likes of Raviente and Violent Raviente don't have one anywhere inside the game and possibly on the official guidebooks too (unless anyone that owns these books can help point this out with screenshots). That's more of Capcom's side of fault of inconsistency on their lore for MH and not the Wiki's. We just follow what they do, and so do other Japanese fansites; by listing Raviente and Violent Raviente as Unspecified.

Also have to point out that in localizing of video games, whatever lore there is on the original may or may not be changed on the localized version, so maybe there's a different reason for the classification of Elder Dragons, or that they should take note that Frontier is its own series and strays off from the Main series, so whatever lore in the main series may or may not be consistently followed by Frontier.