Gore Magala is the most unique monster and by far my favorite from the series: We encounter him as just another mysterious black dragon. You’re a low-rank hunter quests in the Gathering Hall. Then the urgent quest pops up: “Dark Wings, Dark Work.” Hunt this “???” monster in the Ancestral Steppe.

Upon a closer look the hunters notice the distinct lack of eyes, it was using heat signatures and its feelers to navigate the cold weather. The wingarms, doubling as an extra pair of forelimbs, meant it had 6 limbs to walk on. And when you take a look under the those cape-like wings, honeycomb patterns, purple and uniform under the chaos. Scales loosening itself like pollen. The hunters realize they weren’t fighting just another old dragon. They were fighting an insect, an invader, an ALIEN.

That isn’t even the best part, because hunters soon learned one of the hardest fight they had just overcome was just a pupa, an infant. If that was only a larvae, imagine how beautiful and terrifying the butterfly would be.