The Monster Hunter: Stories duology and Monster Hunter Explore have introduced a number of monsters that have not appeared in the main series, Online or Frontier, and as such they are kept separate from the main monsters page for lack of another place to go. Subspecies are listed together with their main species.
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Lynians
Goruru
Goruru
Appearances:
Monster Hunter Explore
Monster Hunter Explore
A gold-colored "Special Species" of Felyne.
- Palette Swap: They're golden recolors of regular wild Felynes.
Metaru
Metera
Appearances:
Monster Hunter Explore
Monster Hunter Explore
A silver-colored "Special Species" of Melynx.
- Palette Swap: They're silver recolors of regular Melynx.
Bird Wyverns
Apypos / Great Apypos
Apypos / Great Apypos (Apiposu / Dosuapiposu)
Appearances:
Monster Hunter Explore
Monster Hunter Explore
Mud-spitting Theropod Bird Wyverns similar to the Jaggi, Baggi and Wroggi. Great Apiposu are the pack leaders.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Their first localized appearance is in Teppen (2019), where they are servants of the Goddess Myria, enslaved to her will with mind-controlling stones.
- Palette Swap: A golden-colored Wroggi/Great Wroggi with egyptian aesthetics.
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Epona
Epona
Appearances:
Monster Hunter Stories
Monster Hunter Stories
Link's signature steed throughout the Legend of Zelda franchise, making an appearance as a Monstie.
- Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Epona, a completely ordinary horse, being classified as ???, a category reserved for monsters completely beyond categorization whether due to their biology or due to being part of another monster's life cycle, suggests horses do not exist in the Monster Hunter universe.
Elder Dragons
Morudomunto
Morudomunto
Black Crown Dragon
Appearances:
Monster Hunter Explore
Monster Hunter Explore
A silvery, Gore Magala-esque Elder Dragon that secretes a sort of rapid-hardening liquid metal.
- Animalistic Abomination: Between its massive black crown, spike-covered body, functional wing mouths, and permanently snarling visage, along with its unsettling powers, the Morudomunto looks and acts less like an earthly creature and more like a beast straight from hell.
- Bloody Murder: It's not specified exactly what the substance it produces is, but the way that it haphazardly splatters it everywhere and its strongest attack has it tear at the openings on its chest to spread more of it certainly gives off the impression that it's using its own blood as a weapon.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: It has mouths in its wings.
- Spikes of Doom: The puddles it leaves behind when attacking will solidify into spikes that deal damage on contact.
- Turns Red: Its body glows bright blue when enraged, and instead turns bright red when it's using its strongest move.
Nef-Garmat
Nef-Garmat (Nefu Garumudo)
Deathly Crystal Dragon
Appearances:
Monster Hunter Explore
Monster Hunter Explore
A gold-plated, jackal-like Elder Dragon styled after the Egyptian god Anubis, possessing geomancy abilities that it uses to turn biomes into deserts as well as in combat.
- Dishing Out Dirt: It has the ability to reshape the earth around it, cause geokinetic explosions, and dissolve the ground into sand.
- Super Mode: Partway during the fight, Nef-Garmat will plunge its tail into the sand and attempt to pull out a blue crystal which, if successfully retrieved, causes the dragon to start glowing bright blue while drastically increasing the power of its moves. However, dealing enough damage to its tail will knock off the crystal, while also allowing the player to claim it for themselves to get temporary buffs.
Eo Garudia
Eo Garudia
Heavenly Crystal Dragon
Appearances:
Monster Hunter Explore
Monster Hunter Explore
A gold-plated avian Elder Dragon styled after the Egyptian god Ra, with the ability to manipulate wind and heat.
- Blow You Away: Can create powerful wind currents and whirlwinds to push hunters around, most commonly into the crystal hazards it sets up beforehand.
- Playing with Fire: Combined with The Power of the Sun given its thematic. It seemingly absorbs and stores heat energy before unleashing it as torrents of flame and light.
Versa Pietru/Makili Pietru
Versa Pietru (Versa Nowa) / Makili Pietru (Makili Nowa)
White Dragon / Black Dread
Appearances:
Monster Hunter Stories
Monster Hunter Stories
A manticore Elder Dragon like Teostra and Lunastra, possessing light-based abilities and the ability to conjure barriers. The Black Blight corrupts it during the main events of Monster Hunter: Stories, turning it into the dark and malevolent Makili Pietru.
- Hijacked by Ganon: Initially, Makili Pietru is set up to be the source of the Black Blight that drives monsters insane. However, once it is purified just like any other monster, returning it to Versa Pietru, it turns out the true source of the Black Blight was Fatalis.
Oltura (unmarked spoilers)
Oltura
Wings of Ruin / The Exalted One
Larval Form
Appearances:
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin
An Elder Dragon with a caterpillar-like life cycle, starting as a worm that travels about various regions underground, opening up huge pits that emit its light, attracting and devouring Rathalos until it can undergo metamorphosis into its moth-like true form. It has the ability to drive lesser monsters insane with its 'Rage Rays'. One was defeated in ancient times by a Razewing Rathalos and human allies, and the place where it fell sealed away and marked as forbidden ground. In the present, however, a (possibly) new individual has been maturing and awakening.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Its wings, specifically the glowing eye-like spots on them, are responsible for channeling most of its powers. Breaking them will weaken its attacks, and piercing them with Ena's amulet renders it vulnerable enough for Razewing Ratha to do the beast in for good.
- Barrier Change Boss: It uses every single element in the game, and its weaknesses, resistances, and even preferred attack type of the Power, Technical and Speed triangle change accordingly.
- Beast of the Apocalypse: It is feared and worshiped as a Draconic Abomination with the power to destroy the world should it ever be fully unleashed. It's awakening alone threatened to sink all of Mahala island into the sea as it destabilized the land and created a huge storm of miasma. Ena disagrees with the cult's interpretation of it as a god of destruction and rebirth, saying that it's just a newborn doing what it needs to in order to survive. That said, it's all but state what it feels it needs to do would indeed result in ruin for much of the world, but any benefits in the aftermath would be for itself and no one else.
- Bishōnen Line: It starts as a nearly unrecognizable tangle of things resembling draconic worms, only to mature into an elegant and powerful moth-dragon.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: It's adult form is far smaller than the gigantic, worm-like larval form, yet it is also more powerful and durable.
- Deflector Shields: It can put up a barrier of light which disintegrates most conventional attacks aimed at it.
- Draconic Abomination: Oltura is a constantly evolving, six-winged Elder Dragon with eyes on said wings and multiple tentacles extending from its hips, is capable of using every elemental type to devastating effect, conjures a hurricane of miasma that drives lesser monsters insane, and according to legend it can potentially destroy the world. Accordingly, Zellard — possibly having been affected by its power fifty years prior — and his Masked Rider followers worship it as a Beast of the Apocalypse, and seek to unleash it upon the world.
- Enfante Terrible: It's actually what passes for an infant for its species, it's metamorphosis into its true form being treated as a "birth" in its own right compared to its larval state (which it had lived as for at least fifty years). It doesn't make it any less powerful.
- Flower Mouth: In its larval form it has three heads with tripartite, multilayered jaws.
- Final Boss: Of Stories 2.
- Food Chain of Evil: It eats Rathalos — and anyone unlucky enough to be riding said Rathalos, and isn't adverse to having humans or Wyverians as a snack either. Fifty years prior, a Nergigante attempted to hunt it but was affected by its light and gets into a fight with the similarly-affected Guardian Ratha. In the main story, another Nergigante — or maybe the same one — attacks it, but similarly fails due to Oltura being too powerful and the Nergigante having been weakened by a fight with the Protagonist and their party.
- Greater-Scope Villain: The Masked Riders form the driving human antagonistic force, but their end-goal is to bring a fully-grown, full-power Oltura into the world.
- Hate Plague: Like the Black Blight before it, Oltura's Rage Rays send lesser monsters into an augmented feral state where they rampage and attack anyone and anything they come across.
- Hungry Menace: It drains the vitality of countless Rathalos and consumes their corpses in order to mature, metamorphoses into its adult form after eating Guardian Ratha, and goes after Razewing Ratha as well. The Rathalos appear to instinctively recognize it as a predator that targets them, hence why they leave en masse to try to escape the hypnotic effect of its light, only for it to eventually catch enough of them anyway as it opens up pit after pit to lure them in, it's light eventually becoming strong enough to draw in whole flocks of Rathalos.
- Kaiju: Its larval stage is one of the biggest monsters in the series, its tunneling capable of sinking villages or even islands. Subverted for its adult form, which is of similar scale to most large (but not huge) monsters in the series.
- Light Is Not Good: All of Oltura's powers revolve around brilliant lights, its true form is a brightly colored moth-like dragon, and its strongest attack is named Luminosity. It's still an incredibly destructive monster that threatens the world on an unprecedented scale, and its light actually functions as a Hate Plague.
- Metamorphosis Monster: Its larval form is a three-headed Orochi or Hydra-like creature with Flower Mouths, but upon consuming enough Rathalos it undergoes a transformation into a six-winged Elder Dragon with a moth motif, which continues evolving in combat.
- Non-Malicious Monster: Some years ago, Red and Zellard heard Oltura's voice in one of the pits, with it apparently saying "the beginning". Zellard interpreted this as Oltura announcing that it would bring about the beginning of a new world, but Red and Ena recognized it as Oltura signaling the beginning of its own life (i.e. the first cry of a newborn), and that any prophetic message was solely due to his own misanthropy clouding his mind. Contrary to what the Masked Riders believed, Oltura is not actively seeking to recreate the world. It just wants to live and survive by any means; the same instinct shared by all living things. It's just that in its case, its survival means ruin for most life around it.
- One-Hit Kill: If not enough damage is dealt to Oltura's wings in its final phase, it will cast Luminosity to instantly defeat all party members, usually causing an instant loss unless you managed to keep your hearts topped up until that point.
- Trademark Favorite Food: It's larval form will devour anything that is unlucky enough to cross it, but it has an unusual preference for Rathalos, luring them in by the hundreds with its Rage Rays and devouring them. In fact, devouring a particularly powerful Rathalos is the main catalyst it needs to fully mature.
- Worm Sign: Oltura's tunneling as a larva is normally too far down to have any obvious effects on the surface, despite it traveling great distances across the world and even tunneling under the sea. However, in order to hunt it opens up gigantic circular pits that collapse the ground at the surface. The purpose of the pits is to release its light, which lures in the prey it specializes on, Rathalos, but also has the side effect of driving most other nearby monsters insane. The pits themselves are of such size that they can swallow entire villages up and its rare for anything that falls in to ever be seen again.
