http://imgur.com/a/HRQVk
So yep, pretty much self-explanatory here. Discussion thread for the new monster shown in the latest trailer. I just went ahead and took some potato-quality pics of it too.
http://imgur.com/a/HRQVk
So yep, pretty much self-explanatory here. Discussion thread for the new monster shown in the latest trailer. I just went ahead and took some potato-quality pics of it too.
I still say it's most likely a cephalopod. However, I must admit that the lack of a beak has me questioning myself on that one.
Also, perhaps the Dragon Graveyard is where Daimyos and Shoguns journey to find their skull shells? Just throwing that out there...
It does have a beak, look closely
So far, by observing the fight:
Ostogalore (i'll spell it this way) is a squid-like elder dragon, maybe a relative to Yama Tsukami, judging by their body structure that are a lot similar, that lives in the Dragon Graveyard and uses a blue, sticky fluid to affix bones on its back for protection. It possesses a hard shell made of bones that makes weapons to bounce off, four arms, two mouth tentacles, and a beaked mouth with many sharp teeth inside. Its longer tentacles mimic monster heads in order to scare off intruders, and to attack. Its shorter tentacles are used like flippers to "swim" in the bones, backwards like would do a real-life squid, that's why it actually shows nothing but his back during the first phase of the fight. However it reveals its true head when enough damage has been dealt to it. (and oh boy, that's spooky)
Throughout the fight, he is able to spit its blue fluid on foes from several openings on its body. The skulls on its tentacles can be changed regularly when broken and come in 5 types (as far as i could see): Normal, Fire Field, Green Goo, Electric Fence and Heavy. As Ostogalore takes more damage, it becomes able to use Dragon Element. It can be observed when red sparks begin to flicker around its mouth. In this state, it takes some time to gather energy, but it eventually fires off a devastating red beam that is likely to 1-hit kill any hunter. The use of multiple elements may be a reference to the four flagship monsters of the title (should I say, he's Lance from the Pokémon League, lol).
When Ostogalore dies, the energy it's been gathering seems to become unstable as you can see it shooting all its dragon power at the ceiling of the cave in a spectacular blast before it dies.
Just summing up this.
Well, true enough, if you think about cuttlefish bones.
Squids have internal shells too tho.
Well, seeing the actual fight and the second stage, I agree with pretty much everything you said Narga.
Though I don't think it's the skulls themselves giving him the different elements per se, as the attacks are still coming from the opening on the tip of the tentacles, thus from inside him. It's possible that while it's swimming around in the bones(before becoming enraged) it's eating the bones, specifically the marrow of them, which apparently can, depending on the monsters, contain some of their element. The blue spots on it's body could be sensory glands that allow it to find the bones of specific elements when switching skulls or when searching for bones of a certain element.
Nice summary, NargaFeeder, and good theory, ArhenMaoDante. I hope we get some ecology notes so we can figure Osutogaroa out a little more.
@cottonmouth255
My theory was also pretty good btw.
Shreknaktor wrote: @cottonmouth255
My theory was also pretty good btw.
My apologies, I did not mean to leave you out.
Thanks guys.
Second thoughts about Ostogalore (just figured it out):
Thanks to a video where a guy faints as Ostogalore is killed, you can see that the ominous sky in base camp clears out and reveals big rivers and a verdant plain/forest, the entrance to the Dragon Graveyard being a huge hole in the harmony of the landscape.
My thoughts are that Osutogalore is an amphibious creature that lurks outside in the rivers through the waterways in the cave in search for preys. It then devours them and brings back the bones to its lair, the Dragon Graveyard, where it piles them up into huge stacks. From the size of the stacks, you can suppose it has huge appetite and may go hunting for long periods of time. I don't know about MHX's story but i suppose the quest is an urgent quest because the Elder Dragon has been seen coming back from hunting after many years and its presence affects the region. I think the cave itself isn't natural: Ostogalore may have dug it the same way it destroys it, with a powerful dragon blast. The shockwave, or repeated use of this may explain why the sky have had gone so dark in the surroundings. (How that i don't know, let's say 'tis the mystery around Dragon Element.) If i may theorize further, i think there are actually several "Dragon Graveyards", each one scattered far away from the others, and that Ostogalore travels periodically between its lairs, changing it when the prey begin to lack in the region it's installed in. That could also explain the absence of the creature for long periods of time. (However that, as i said, i don't really know IF Ostogalore is coming back according to the story.)