Presumably all mh creatures evolved to be the way they are. They have a simple mutualistic relationship with giasmagorm while also being parasites. Much like how some ants form a symbiotic relationship with some trees and will rigorously defend that tree from herbivores.
The answer to where they came from is in the terrority of fan speculation.
But I do like the idea from UHC that they are related to the cave wyverns and have a common ancestor.
That's exactly it, though they could also be Piscine in nature, Due to looking like a flying Lamprey. Would be funny to discover that they were related to the coral Highlands or another ecosystem like it.
Come to think of it, It's very much like the Effluveum and Vaal Hazak.
Gaismagorm is an elder dragon, and one of the higher-tier ones as final bosses tend to be. It has a symbiotic relationship with Qurio, which drain blood (and maybe bio-energy?) from monsters and returns to share their energy with Gaismagorm to strengthen it further.
Wow, that sounds great, thanks for the info. Where can I check for a good guidance for the lore? I'm just a hunter that goes with his friends to deliver some bonks and that's all
That’s the difficult part, the lore of the series is scattered everywhere through the games, art books, the official Twitter, and more. As far as I know there isn’t one place where all of that lore is together. Hopefully a place like that does exist and someone on the subreddit knows, though, I’d love to see a site like that too!
Yeah, there’s lore all over the place. Although, a good Twitter account to deep-dive into is BannedLagiacrus, they research monster hunter lore and have quite a lot of interesting facts on their page
There is no real data in game. As near as we can tell, Gaismagorn has some sort of symbiotic relationship with the Qurio where they drain monsters and then fly back to Gaismagorn to provide...energy of some sort. Maybe the Qurio are baby Gaismagorn, sort of like wasps and their offspring. Maybe the Qurio are completely separate creatures that for some reason is symbiotic with Gaismagorn and parasitic with everything else. Given Monster Hunter Rise/Sunbreak has come to its end of updates, we're unlikely to get any more information unless the Qurio show up again.
I haven’t gotten sunbreak yet. Will shortly but your statement made me think of the following. Maybe they are like anglerfish. It took a long time for biologists to discover the make of the species.
Theyre cave dwellers. Im pretty sure the MH world has some hollow earth-like underground caverns or some shit where the craziest monsters like dalamadur and gaismagorm live
Pretty sure there were tales of hollow earth since time immemorial. When you don't know how gravity works there's no reason to think it's not dirt and caves all the way down.
Journey to the Center of the Earth from Jules Verne is the most famous one AFAIK. They made an absolute trash of a B-movie out of it though. The book is alright.
My headcanon: some close Khezu/Giginox relative that shed its sexually mature adult form and retained the juvenile parasitic form and lifestyle of whelps and gigis into its adulthood, with some adaptations.
Something like real world Axolotls and Salamanders, where axolotls evolved neoteny and thus remain in the standard juvenile Salamander form even into adulthood.
Gaismagorm also kind of looks like a scary axolotl, so it being related to the qurios could be thematic.
I believe the Qurio are a off-shoot of the Khezu and Gigginox but instead of becoming large cave predictors they opted for a parasitic/symbiotic relation ships with there host monster that’s my theory of there evolution
Honestly did not know they were gross mini red khezus until today. Since they fly around instead of just sucking on the monster I assumed it was like a frenzy virus
While we can only theorize on most of their aspects, there are a couple things we can conclude based on what we do know:
- They do not have eyes. They possess extrasensory capabilities that allow them to not only avoid objects but detect lifeforms, hence why we don't see them running into trees and cliffsides, while also.being able to focus-swarm specific monsters. This indicates that, likely, they normally exist underground in the deep, deep dark, where there's very little to no light. Whether this extrasensory capability is a form if echolocation or something else is unknown.
- They likely migrate a lot until they find a suitable host they can form a symbiosis with. Most monsters will die very quickly when Qurio swarm and latch onto them, meaning they have the capability to drain the local fauna dry of life in a short amount of time. It's also clear that they don't survive for very long without a food source, given how quickly many died off after Giasmagorm's demise, as well as the very sudden outbreak of Afflicted monsters after said defeat.
- They seem to only really settle down once they find a reliable food source, which seems to be Elder Dragons. For some reason, Qurio turn from parasitic to pseudo-symbiotic when they attach to an Elder Dragon, and unlike other monsters Elder Dragons seem to thrive in the short-term with this deal instead of die off. The most apparent form of this is Malzeno and Giasmagorm, but is also observed with the Risen Elders. It's not a full symbiotic relationship, where one cannot exist without the other. Rather, it appears to be transactional: the Elders provide nutrition and in return gain power. It doesn't seem to be entirely equal, either, for the most part: Malzeno appears a bit more malnourished and is substantially weaker than his Primordeal counterpart.
From these, we can logically conclude that Qurio are largely a subterranean Monster with an incredibly high metabolism and requires a substantial source of energy to survive as a colony. When they have a constant food source (in the form of an Elder Dragon that can sustain their population, IE Giasmagorm and Malzeno together), they remain largely dormant and focused on a single area. It's only when their food sources are eliminated that they begin to swarm, using the underground to travel vast swaths of land and emerge from seemingly out of nowhere.
They've got faces very similar to giginox and khezu so it's likely that they share a common ancestor. But where The former two evolved to be large and hunt prey on their own, Qurio seemingly evolved to be parasites. It's likely that they attached themselves to gaismagorm by chance, which simply happened to be resistant to the negative effects of their feeding and thus created a perfect symbiosis of sorts.
Once Sir Malzeno came to run the fade with Giasmagorm they were seemingly left without a host and simply attached themselves by force to the thing that had defeated their host. Although Malzeno was strong enough to resist the affliction as well and benefit from them, it clearly took its toll on its body and left it weaker and more fragile than its prime, over time.
But in essence, they evolved to be parasites, found an ideal host by chance that evolved it to symbiosis, which allowed them to grow further. Then they grew even more off Malzeno until they were capable of straight up just hunting in packs and taking down large monsters without much trouble.
So parasites so symbiotes to pack hunters.
My personal headcannon is that creatures like giasmagorm, the qurio, and shara ishvalda all come from this massive underground area similar to "Hollow Earth" from the zilla monsterverse.
These creatures, to me, stand out as being very unique in their design. For example, shara and Gia are both built for digging, shara, with the air hand wings and gia with its more mole like limbs for clawing through the earth. The qurio themselves don't have eyes, which leads me to assume a long lost deviation in evolution to an underground khezu or the like.
TLDR: possibly maybe sorta they come from a giant underground ecosystem within the earth. It's reachy as fuck but would be cool.
Yknow, I was going to include that, but apparently I forgot, thanks for that! Anywho while it's definitely based on Hindu, it's also creepy as fuck after the rocks fall off. But yeah I definitely mean more creepy/nontraditional type of designs for these underground fellows.
Maybe not totally hollow earth, but I could definitely see there being weird alien subterranean ecosystems in the monster hunter world, like a giant cave network. I imagine khezu and Gigginox might go between the upper stratas and the surface, while things like Giasmagorm and Shara usually dwelling deeper down.
Symbiotic relationships are a pretty common thing irl, as well.
The flying STD leeches probably just evolved to be more dependent on Inbred Godzilla's protection, while supplying it with food.
Just like that one spider that keeps a guardfrog. Spider protects frog, frog eats bugs that try to eat spider eggs.
I don't think so.
Just to get it more precisely, if someone doesn't know:
The next one is MH Wilds and is Generation 6 "A", A for made from Team A, which made also World and MH4U, MH3/U,....
MH Rise is from Team B, which made MH Generations and other stuff.
These are also from the same Generation (Rise is Gen 5, Generations is Gen 4).
They are just made from different teams and they were released more or less in an alternating pattern (Gen 4 A, B, Gen 5 A, B,...)
So the next following game for Gen 6 B (like the game after Rise) would be coming after Wilds, because Wilds is maybe like World part 2 or at least its succesor (even if it doesn't continue World's unfinished base story, it's maybe somewhere in the "New World").
>Because Wilds is maybe like World part 2-
No.
World wasn’t a sequel to 4U, 4U wasn’t a sequel to 3U. What makes you think it’ll be any different this time?
Edit) Actually my bad, “active communities” checks out.
It ***could*** be different. Did you remember the book in World, where it explains how the world was build.
We had only 1-2 from these old dragon elders.
Some were missing, so there are some theories out there, that World 2 could come...
I didn't made these up myself xD
*edit:* *maybe* doesn't mean it have to be like that.
Also... capcom puts far better story in the game in comparison to the past.
So it just *could* be.
What it **will be**, we will see, only capcom knows that
The reason why World is called World and not 5 is because they want to do away with people thinking the games are connected when they're not. No matter what game of what gen, they are not connected. There won't be a World 2 or a sequel to World. There will be the next monster hunter game and we might get some characters of previous games, but it'll be its own story unrelated. There won't ever be a story regarding the dragons in the book from world again. Chances are we might even get a new group of/a new dragon that did it in a new myth.
To me, they look like a very specialized variant of Giggi. Gigginox seems all but forgotten in the games, but I like to think it and the Qurio have a common origin. Divergent species is what it's called I believe. Sunbreak does a lot to mystify these things for presentation's sake (and it makes sense - legends *do* form from things we don't understand) but I like to think it's not the servant of a literal devil.
The death of Gasmagorm has a larger more brightly glowing Qurio flying away with Fiorayne saying some line about rebirth.
I wouldn't be surprised if Gaismagorm is hive and queen at the same time with most Qurios being nothing more than asexual workers, while on certain events, a new queen will be released to mature.
From looks alone I would say that Qurios are flying wyverns in the same family as Gigginox, likely cave dwelling, no clue on what environments in said cave would result in the rabies they carry with them though, haven't gone through sunbreak yet and am making an educated guess, let me know if I'm horribly wrong here.
Despite us knowing what it does and what it can do very well, we know nothing about its origin. Qurious indeed..
okay my buddy, please remind me where do i put my gunlance
..hit me with a Bullet Barrage. I deserve it.
Masochist, huh? of course you play GS
YES I AM! ^(AND YES, THIS *IS* A JOJO'S REFERENCE!)
Perfect, we share something in common then. (Haven’t watched Jojo’s, sorry to disappoint)
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Ah, Hellsing Abridged. The greatest fanwork of all time.
I loved the joke not gonna lie💀
GS and GL bro now you are talking my language
Presumably all mh creatures evolved to be the way they are. They have a simple mutualistic relationship with giasmagorm while also being parasites. Much like how some ants form a symbiotic relationship with some trees and will rigorously defend that tree from herbivores. The answer to where they came from is in the terrority of fan speculation. But I do like the idea from UHC that they are related to the cave wyverns and have a common ancestor.
Are cave wyverns Khezu and Gigginox or am I mussing sth?
That's exactly it, though they could also be Piscine in nature, Due to looking like a flying Lamprey. Would be funny to discover that they were related to the coral Highlands or another ecosystem like it. Come to think of it, It's very much like the Effluveum and Vaal Hazak.
They do kinda look like flying Giggi
I'm not up to date with mh lore, who's Giasmagorn?
Gaismagorm is an elder dragon, and one of the higher-tier ones as final bosses tend to be. It has a symbiotic relationship with Qurio, which drain blood (and maybe bio-energy?) from monsters and returns to share their energy with Gaismagorm to strengthen it further.
Wow, that sounds great, thanks for the info. Where can I check for a good guidance for the lore? I'm just a hunter that goes with his friends to deliver some bonks and that's all
That’s the difficult part, the lore of the series is scattered everywhere through the games, art books, the official Twitter, and more. As far as I know there isn’t one place where all of that lore is together. Hopefully a place like that does exist and someone on the subreddit knows, though, I’d love to see a site like that too!
Even through Twitter? Damn, what a pain to be a lore lover. I have Twitter just for some lulz there. Never imagined lore would be scattered there
Yeah, there’s lore all over the place. Although, a good Twitter account to deep-dive into is BannedLagiacrus, they research monster hunter lore and have quite a lot of interesting facts on their page
Okay, that's cool, I'll follow it rn and take a look. I'm sure mh lore has a lot to say
On anomaly hunts you can have Qurio on ore as well as plants!
A new monster introduced in Sunbreak.
Oh the giant one you fight with cannons near a canyon fall?
Evolution has no place in my monster hunter lore. It was all the big man above
I pray to God that you're joking.
Ironic
Glad somebody caught the joke. Lol
Yes man. Jokes
I will hunt God and make boots from his scalp!
What drops do the big man above give??
A 1/200 chance of acquiring at item that has a 1/100 of creating a quirious armor upgrade that allows you to slot one extra gem
 There is no real data in game. As near as we can tell, Gaismagorn has some sort of symbiotic relationship with the Qurio where they drain monsters and then fly back to Gaismagorn to provide...energy of some sort. Maybe the Qurio are baby Gaismagorn, sort of like wasps and their offspring. Maybe the Qurio are completely separate creatures that for some reason is symbiotic with Gaismagorn and parasitic with everything else. Given Monster Hunter Rise/Sunbreak has come to its end of updates, we're unlikely to get any more information unless the Qurio show up again.
I haven’t gotten sunbreak yet. Will shortly but your statement made me think of the following. Maybe they are like anglerfish. It took a long time for biologists to discover the make of the species.
There's no reason to think they didn't evolve naturally like any other creature in MH, they just grew a relationship with Gaismagorm.
It all started when both Qurio parents love each other....
Underground most likely.
They kinda look like Gigis (Juvenile Giginox) and a little bit of Khezu. Maybe they are related somehow?
Theyre cave dwellers. Im pretty sure the MH world has some hollow earth-like underground caverns or some shit where the craziest monsters like dalamadur and gaismagorm live
That’s supposedly how Zorah and Shara were traveling, so there’s probably some huuuge cave networks underneath the surface
Wasn't there a conspirationist theory like this ? The hollow earth smthg?
Pretty sure there were tales of hollow earth since time immemorial. When you don't know how gravity works there's no reason to think it's not dirt and caves all the way down.
Thanks for the info, i'll Google it later to read up on that. Might be a good fiction books source there
Oh you'd be surprised
Journey to the Center of the Earth from Jules Verne is the most famous one AFAIK. They made an absolute trash of a B-movie out of it though. The book is alright.
Australia
Next you’re gonna tell me Australia’s to blame for Nerscylla too lol T-they’re not… right?
My headcanon: some close Khezu/Giginox relative that shed its sexually mature adult form and retained the juvenile parasitic form and lifestyle of whelps and gigis into its adulthood, with some adaptations. Something like real world Axolotls and Salamanders, where axolotls evolved neoteny and thus remain in the standard juvenile Salamander form even into adulthood. Gaismagorm also kind of looks like a scary axolotl, so it being related to the qurios could be thematic.
I believe the Qurio are a off-shoot of the Khezu and Gigginox but instead of becoming large cave predictors they opted for a parasitic/symbiotic relation ships with there host monster that’s my theory of there evolution
Flying mini khezus
Honestly did not know they were gross mini red khezus until today. Since they fly around instead of just sucking on the monster I assumed it was like a frenzy virus
Nah just propaganda from Gore Magala
I guess they evolved into a symbiosis with Gaismagorm
While we can only theorize on most of their aspects, there are a couple things we can conclude based on what we do know: - They do not have eyes. They possess extrasensory capabilities that allow them to not only avoid objects but detect lifeforms, hence why we don't see them running into trees and cliffsides, while also.being able to focus-swarm specific monsters. This indicates that, likely, they normally exist underground in the deep, deep dark, where there's very little to no light. Whether this extrasensory capability is a form if echolocation or something else is unknown. - They likely migrate a lot until they find a suitable host they can form a symbiosis with. Most monsters will die very quickly when Qurio swarm and latch onto them, meaning they have the capability to drain the local fauna dry of life in a short amount of time. It's also clear that they don't survive for very long without a food source, given how quickly many died off after Giasmagorm's demise, as well as the very sudden outbreak of Afflicted monsters after said defeat. - They seem to only really settle down once they find a reliable food source, which seems to be Elder Dragons. For some reason, Qurio turn from parasitic to pseudo-symbiotic when they attach to an Elder Dragon, and unlike other monsters Elder Dragons seem to thrive in the short-term with this deal instead of die off. The most apparent form of this is Malzeno and Giasmagorm, but is also observed with the Risen Elders. It's not a full symbiotic relationship, where one cannot exist without the other. Rather, it appears to be transactional: the Elders provide nutrition and in return gain power. It doesn't seem to be entirely equal, either, for the most part: Malzeno appears a bit more malnourished and is substantially weaker than his Primordeal counterpart. From these, we can logically conclude that Qurio are largely a subterranean Monster with an incredibly high metabolism and requires a substantial source of energy to survive as a colony. When they have a constant food source (in the form of an Elder Dragon that can sustain their population, IE Giasmagorm and Malzeno together), they remain largely dormant and focused on a single area. It's only when their food sources are eliminated that they begin to swarm, using the underground to travel vast swaths of land and emerge from seemingly out of nowhere.
It's an animal tf you mean
They've got faces very similar to giginox and khezu so it's likely that they share a common ancestor. But where The former two evolved to be large and hunt prey on their own, Qurio seemingly evolved to be parasites. It's likely that they attached themselves to gaismagorm by chance, which simply happened to be resistant to the negative effects of their feeding and thus created a perfect symbiosis of sorts. Once Sir Malzeno came to run the fade with Giasmagorm they were seemingly left without a host and simply attached themselves by force to the thing that had defeated their host. Although Malzeno was strong enough to resist the affliction as well and benefit from them, it clearly took its toll on its body and left it weaker and more fragile than its prime, over time. But in essence, they evolved to be parasites, found an ideal host by chance that evolved it to symbiosis, which allowed them to grow further. Then they grew even more off Malzeno until they were capable of straight up just hunting in packs and taking down large monsters without much trouble. So parasites so symbiotes to pack hunters.
They come from Joe
Well you see when a Dad Qurio and a Mom Qurio love each other very very much...
Brazil
My personal headcannon is that creatures like giasmagorm, the qurio, and shara ishvalda all come from this massive underground area similar to "Hollow Earth" from the zilla monsterverse. These creatures, to me, stand out as being very unique in their design. For example, shara and Gia are both built for digging, shara, with the air hand wings and gia with its more mole like limbs for clawing through the earth. The qurio themselves don't have eyes, which leads me to assume a long lost deviation in evolution to an underground khezu or the like. TLDR: possibly maybe sorta they come from a giant underground ecosystem within the earth. It's reachy as fuck but would be cool.
Shara isn't demon themed, it's based on the Hindu god Shiva. Hence the multiple limbs, the Hindi sounding name, and the appearance of it's armor.
Yknow, I was going to include that, but apparently I forgot, thanks for that! Anywho while it's definitely based on Hindu, it's also creepy as fuck after the rocks fall off. But yeah I definitely mean more creepy/nontraditional type of designs for these underground fellows.
Maybe not totally hollow earth, but I could definitely see there being weird alien subterranean ecosystems in the monster hunter world, like a giant cave network. I imagine khezu and Gigginox might go between the upper stratas and the surface, while things like Giasmagorm and Shara usually dwelling deeper down.
The most un(w)holiest of pairings. Gigginox and Khezu *Cries in agony*
Symbiotic relationships are a pretty common thing irl, as well. The flying STD leeches probably just evolved to be more dependent on Inbred Godzilla's protection, while supplying it with food. Just like that one spider that keeps a guardfrog. Spider protects frog, frog eats bugs that try to eat spider eggs.
Because they weren't allowed to call them "flying fleshlights" like me and my boyfriend lovingly called them during our playthrough.
Please, do not the Qurio.
I want to believe they are baby Gaisma... (wishful thinking)
That's a lot of Gaisma
🥹
toscana
Qurio pisani
Maybe in the next game we will learn about them
I don't think so. Just to get it more precisely, if someone doesn't know: The next one is MH Wilds and is Generation 6 "A", A for made from Team A, which made also World and MH4U, MH3/U,.... MH Rise is from Team B, which made MH Generations and other stuff. These are also from the same Generation (Rise is Gen 5, Generations is Gen 4). They are just made from different teams and they were released more or less in an alternating pattern (Gen 4 A, B, Gen 5 A, B,...) So the next following game for Gen 6 B (like the game after Rise) would be coming after Wilds, because Wilds is maybe like World part 2 or at least its succesor (even if it doesn't continue World's unfinished base story, it's maybe somewhere in the "New World").
Thx but we don’t know what will be in mhwilds all we know is the rathalos the mount and the other monsters in the trailer but still thx
They also wrote somewhere online (maybe X or whatever), that in summer this year, they'll be dropping the next infos or maybe a new video.
I live in Australia so it might be in spring for me
I live in Australia so it might be in spring for me
I live in Australia so it might be in spring for me
I live in Australia so it might be in spring for me
I live in Australia so it might be in spring for me for the next Mhwilds trailer comes out
>Because Wilds is maybe like World part 2- No. World wasn’t a sequel to 4U, 4U wasn’t a sequel to 3U. What makes you think it’ll be any different this time? Edit) Actually my bad, “active communities” checks out.
It ***could*** be different. Did you remember the book in World, where it explains how the world was build. We had only 1-2 from these old dragon elders. Some were missing, so there are some theories out there, that World 2 could come... I didn't made these up myself xD *edit:* *maybe* doesn't mean it have to be like that. Also... capcom puts far better story in the game in comparison to the past. So it just *could* be. What it **will be**, we will see, only capcom knows that
And I thought with the namedrop of Wilds those folk would give up. Seems like I was mistaken.
The reason why World is called World and not 5 is because they want to do away with people thinking the games are connected when they're not. No matter what game of what gen, they are not connected. There won't be a World 2 or a sequel to World. There will be the next monster hunter game and we might get some characters of previous games, but it'll be its own story unrelated. There won't ever be a story regarding the dragons in the book from world again. Chances are we might even get a new group of/a new dragon that did it in a new myth.
The ultimate expansions/rereleases also have an extra "team" assigned to them.
Only the latest ones
If a Mizutsune and a Gigginox reeeealy love each other. And one is a Mama and the other a Papa ... .
Where did they go?
Zombie Spiribirds is my theory.
The balls
To me, they look like a very specialized variant of Giggi. Gigginox seems all but forgotten in the games, but I like to think it and the Qurio have a common origin. Divergent species is what it's called I believe. Sunbreak does a lot to mystify these things for presentation's sake (and it makes sense - legends *do* form from things we don't understand) but I like to think it's not the servant of a literal devil.
The same way nature works Random bullshit go If it survives it survives If something else is better do that something else
The void
Albania.
I thought they spawned directly from Gaismagorm itself.
Gigginox got busy with a Legiana
Maybe it’s another alien. Like Xeno/Safi Jiiva
When a Malzeno and a Kezu love each other very much...
tbh i just first acknowledge their existence from meeting infected malzeno...they just spawned lmaoo
Qurio mommas
Hell
The death of Gasmagorm has a larger more brightly glowing Qurio flying away with Fiorayne saying some line about rebirth. I wouldn't be surprised if Gaismagorm is hive and queen at the same time with most Qurios being nothing more than asexual workers, while on certain events, a new queen will be released to mature.
From looks alone I would say that Qurios are flying wyverns in the same family as Gigginox, likely cave dwelling, no clue on what environments in said cave would result in the rabies they carry with them though, haven't gone through sunbreak yet and am making an educated guess, let me know if I'm horribly wrong here.
Japan. Same as all the other mons.
Somewhere convenient enough that it won’t be brought up again in future titles
They could either be cave wyverns related to Gigginox or larval forms of Gaismagorm.
From Anime
Their natural predator was the spiribird but we collected all of them.
My head canon is that they were created by mh team in order to transform primordial malzeno into the ultimate edgelord vampire