History Characters / MonsterHunterFifthGenerationMonstersRise

* AlmightyJanitor: Downplayed, in that Magnamalo is recognized as a serious danger in-game (7 stars out of the max 10). But compared to similar monsters at that rank (Tigrex, Diablos, etc.), it repeatedly punches above its supposed class, tying in turf-wars with two Elder Dragons and outright ''beating'' Bazelgeuse, a monster that the aforementioned Tigrex is shown to struggle against, every time. It even survives an encounter with [[spoiler: Narwa The Allmother]]. Despite all this, it hasn't been officially classed as an Elder Dragon Level Threat. This is subverted with the Scorned variant, which is one of an elite few monsters with a full 10 stars (typically reserved for extreme endgame threats), and is notably the only one of them to not be an Elder Dragon or Apex.[[note]]While Chaotic Gore Magala is also at 10 stars and is technically unclassified, it is still the juvenile form of the Elder Dragon Shagaru Magala.[[/note]]

* AlmightyJanitor: Downplayed, in that Magnamalo is recognized as a serious danger in-game (7 stars out of the max 10). But compared to similar monsters at that rank (Tigrex, Diablos, etc.), it repeatedly punches above its supposed class, tying in turf-wars with two Elder Dragons and outright ''beating'' Bazelgeuse, a monster that the aforementioned Tigrex is shown to struggle against, every time. It even survives an encounter with [[spoiler: Narwa The Allmother]]. Despite all this, it hasn't been officially classed as an Elder Dragon Level Threat. This is subverted with the Scorned variant, which is at a full 10 stars, putting it on the same level as Crimson Glow Valstrax, [[spoiler:Narwa the Allmother, Gaismagorm, and Sunbreak's endgame threats.]]

* TheWorfEffect: Its introductory cutscene sees it on the giving end of this, with a Rathalos it apparently lured in via the Qurio being sucked dry like a Slurpee. It also defeats Lunagaron in Turf Wars, and the Primordial variant can curb-stomp a ''Velkhana'' of all things. [[spoiler: Malzeno in turn is on the receiving end of this against Master Rank Narwa the Allmother, where it invades the map instead of Magnamalo, Teostra, or Kushala Daora and meets the same fate as those three.]]

* AGodIAm: Refers to herself and Ibushi as "divine beasts," and seemingly has an ego to match this belief.

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* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Its turf wars with any flying monster might be exactly the same, but they deal massive damage to both the monster and ''you'' if you're stupid enough to stand still and watch. Subverted with Scorned Magnamalo, who gets a completely different turf war with Malzeno.
* TheWorfEffect: After picking fights with Elder Dragons and Bazelgeuse and getting away with it with a tie or a victory, Magnamalo makes a surprise appearance in the fight against [[spoiler:Narwa the Allmother to pick a fight with her and gets [[CurbStompBattle curb stomped]] for its trouble, though this gives you the opportunity to ride Magnamalo to inflict major damage on Narwa.]] On the opposite end, Scorned Magnamalo is introduced making short work of a Zinogre in a SingleStrokeBattle and its turf wars with Malzeno and Velkhana let it fight to a draw. [[spoiler: But even Scorned Magnamalo is no match for Narwa the Allmother and fares just as poorly as the original.]]

* AlmightyJanitor: Downplayed, in that Magnamalo is recognized as a serious danger in-game (7 stars out of the max 10). But compared to similar monsters at that rank (Tigrex, Diablos, etc.), it repeatedly punches above its supposed class, tying in turf-wars with two Elder Dragons and outright ''beating'' Bazelgeuse, a monster that the aforementioned Tigrex is shown to struggle against, every time. It even survives an encounter with [[spoiler: Narwa The Allmother]]. Despite all this, it hasn't been officially classed as an Elder Dragon Level Threat. This is subverted with the Scorned variant, which is at a full 10 stars, putting it on the same level as Crimson Glow Valstrax, [[spoiler:Narwa the Allmother, Gaismagorm, and the Risen Elders.]]

* FearlessFool: It will attack ''any'' monster it comes across. Even ''Elder Dragons'' are not safe from it. Unlike Odogaron, however, who's clearly out of its league against Elder Dragons, Magnamalo does fairly well against them at first before they retaliate with a stronger blow than Magnamalo's. ''Not'' the Scorned version, however. While it and the Elder Dragon it faces both take an equal amount of damage, Scorned Magnamalo recovers very quickly while the Elder Dragon is stunned and susceptible to mounting, with the exception of Malzeno and Velkhana, where they fight to a draw. [[spoiler: Taken to its logical extreme when it makes an unexpected appearance against ''Narwa the Allmother''. While it loses that fight, this does give you the opportunity to ride it to do massive damage against Narwa before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere fleeing]].]]

* LimitBreak: After using the mud ball as a bludgeon for long enough, it'll do a slam dunk maneuver that destroys the mud ball but leaves everyone airborn, stunned, or both. The Magma subspecies also does a slam dunk with its magma ball, only it can also ''blow up'' the magma ball.

* LimitBreak: Eventually, Ibushi will curl up into a ball and start charging up power while [[ChunkyUpdraft raising a bunch of rocks around him.]] You have to knock the rocks away using Rampage installations, then blast Ibushi to topple it, otherwise it'll deal massive damage to the gate.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: In its second phase, Gaismagorm will periodically start climbing the wall of the Yawning Abyss as three orbs of condensed Qurio form on its back, prompting hunters to shoot at them with the provided ballistae. Each orb will briefly halt its climb and deal heavy damage if destroyed, and destroying all three of them will cause Gaismagorm to lose its grip and crash to the ground, leaving it wide open. Failing to do so in time will instead allow Gaismagorm to charge up enough energy to unleash a FantasticNuke.

* DubNameChange: "Malzeno, One Who Engraves the Primordial" in the original Japanese script. Notably, this gives Malzeno two fairly different connotations: the English title emphasizes that it's a piece of history from an incredibly ancient era, while the Japenese one instead implies that it's somehow ''shaped'' history.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Primordial Malzeno is enemies with the Qurio and all their hosts, and actively hunts the former. Fittingly, its weapons' passive boost to LifeDrain and its armor's Blood Awakening buffing up offense when stealing enough life make it highly effective against Afflicted monsters or anything that inflicts frequent Bloodblight (including Malzeno itself) due to being able to take advantage of it for large amounts of healing and attack buffs. While the Risen Elders aren't subject to this due to not inflicting Bloodblight, they also share a universal weakness to Dragon outside of Valstrax (who is immune to every element for a good chunk of the fight anyways), and Primordial Malzeno's weapons are some of the strongest Dragon-element weapons available.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Primordial Malzeno is enemies with the Qurio and all their hosts, and actively hunts the former. Fittingly, its weapons' passive boost to LifeDrain and its armor's Blood Awakening buffing up offense when stealing enough life make it highly effective against Afflicted monsters or anything that inflicts frequent Bloodblight (including Malzeno itself) due to being able to take advantage of it for large amounts of healing and attack buffs. While the Risen Elders aren't subject to this due to not inflicting Bloodblight, they also share a universal weakness to Dragon outside of Valstrax (who is immune to every element for a good chunk of the fight anyways), and Primordial Malzeno's weapons consistently have among the highest Dragon attack available.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Primordial Malzeno is enemies with the Qurio and all their hosts, and actively hunts the former. Its weapons' passive boost to LifeDrain and its armor's Blood Awakening buffing up offense when stealing enough life make it highly effective against Afflicted monsters or anything that inflicts frequent Bloodblight (including Malzeno itself) due to being able to take advantage of it for large amounts of healing and attack buffs.

* BoringButPractical: Primordial Malzeno doesn't have any Qurio symbiotes helping it, thus it can't inflict Bloodblight on its own. However, it makes up for that with devastating new moves that have massive reach along with its innate speed. This is reflected in the Hunter's Notes, which puts Malzeno at eight stars while Primordial Malzeno is at ''ten''.
* BreathWeapon: Has one in the form of a dragon element beam that it fires directly on the ground, causing an expanding explosion to erupt. It's nuke attack if it isn't taken out of it's bloodening state also has it fly into the air and shoot in a circle before releasing an orb of dragon energy that causes waves of dragon energy to expand outward.
* BroughtDownToBadass: Malzeno might be two stars behind its Primordial variant [[spoiler:due to the Qurio affliction draining its strength]], but it's still an Elder Dragon and the most dangerous of the Three Lords, meaning it can still wreak havoc.

* DeathOrGloryAttack: Primordial Malzeno enters its [[SuperMode Bloodlust state]] when it's only got a relative sliver of health left, meaning that it won't be able to take a lot more damage before kicking the bucket. At the same time, it dramatically increases its speed and combo potential to the point where it can end you in mere seconds if you aren't careful. One way or another, the fight will usually end shortly after this transformation.

* DubNameChange: In the original Japanese version, Primordial Malzeno's name is closer to BossSubtitles, being "Malzeno, One Who Engraves the Primordial".

* FightingFromTheInside: During Primordial Malzeno's Bloodlust state, every time it finishes a sufficiently long string of attacks, it'll briefly collapse as it [[spoiler:attempts to reject the symbiosis with the Qurio]], leaving it vulnerable for a while as it struggles.

* FinalBoss: As the last monster added to the game post-launch, the Primordial Malzeno acts as this for Sunbreak.
* FlashStep: Malzeno is able to do this in its SuperMode, covering itself with its wings and leaving a cloud of red dust where it once was. While at first it appears to be teleportation, it is actually just moving extremely fast.

** In lore, it is a foil to Scorned Magnamalo in its home game. Scorned Magnamalo and Primordial Malzeno are powered-up incarnations of the mascots in ''Rise'' and ''Sunbreak'' who battled with Elder Dragons in the past, and contrast each other with a samurai and knight motif. However, Scorned Magnamalo is implied to be the Magnamalo that attacked Kamura previously in an advanced state after recovering from severe injury, while Primordial Malzeno is a newly-arrived Elder Dragon who hasn't bonded with the Qurio nor interacted with Elgado yet. While Scorned Magnamalo is even more of a hateful scourge than before and its fighting style doubles down on the relentless aggression of the base variant, Primordial Malzeno becomes a noble knight who rejects the base variant's poorly-concealed brutality for a genuinely elegant approach to combat until it's corrupted. Furthermore, Scorned Magnamalo's color scheme brings to mind the Apex Monsters, the main endgame variants in ''Rise'', while Primordial Malzeno's Bloodlust form instead invokes the Risen Elder Dragons, the rough equivalent in ''Sunbreak''.

* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Downplayed, since despite showing near-human levels of intelligence, it's still instinctively protecting its territory, but Malzeno was actually protecting the Kingdom from the true source of the Qurio, Gaismagorm. After the Qurio lose Gaismagorm and any other potential hosts, Primordial Malzeno steps in to finish off the stragglers.]]

* ItCanThink: Between its skillful usage of its limbs almost reminiscent of a human hunter, its ability to both coexist with humans and hold a grudge against invaders, and [[spoiler:seemingly showing gratitude and understanding towards Fiorayne and the player at the end of its urgent quest]], it can be assumed that Malzeno is considerably more intelligent than your average animalistic dragon. It's long been theorized in ''Monster Hunter'' lore that Elder Dragons may have a level of intelligence rivaling a human (even if said intelligence is not directly comparable to a human's in practice), but Primordial Malzeno is a rare example of one exhibiting that intelligence in a way that shows an understanding of humans and the capacity to ally with them.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: Afflicted monsters have small swarms of Qurio encircling certain body parts. Attacking these swarms enough will cause them to detonate, hurting the monster and, if it’s done enough times, will potentially knock it over and cause it to become fatigued for the next while.
* BodyHorror: It's all but stated that a Qurio infection will pretty much cook monsters from the inside out from the overwhelming energy, and the Risen Elder Dragons are all covered in burns and scar tissue from the struggle. Once they enter the Risen state, their scars start to glow brightly as if the Elder Dragon is still being burned from the inside out by the overflowing energy.
* CameBackStrong: Elder Dragons that overcome the infection and force the Qurio into symbiosis can become Risen Elder Dragons, scarred and much more powerful variants with new abilities, and the ability to enter a flaming SuperMode which enhances their abilities even further. Bahari names them such because he likens the process as the Elder Dragons having risen from the dead.

* EvilIsBurningHot: To a certain degree of "evil" like most other monsters, but the Qurio are also associated with fire and heat, with the way Gaismagorm can use Qurio life energy for fiery attacks and how the Risen Elders are constantly smoldering from the energy they've taken in.

* LifeDrain: Afflicted monsters ''all'' can inflict Bloodblight with their attacks, and for a lengthy period of time. A hunter that capitalizes upon this can leech back their entire health bar without chugging a single potion.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: On subsequent hunts outside the story's Urgent Quest, in keeping with its honorable knight image, Primordial Malzeno's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KooT_ItrBi4 death animation]] invokes this, quietly accepting its defeat with honor and dignity in comparison to its regular counterpart futilely reaching up to grasp its fading power. [[TakingYouWithMe Also worth noting that the Qurio die with Primordial Malzeno.]]]]

** In lore, it is a foil to Scorned Magnamalo in its home game. Scorned Magnamalo and Primordial Malzeno are alternate incarnations of the mascots in ''Rise'' and ''Sunbreak'' who battled with Elder Dragons in the past, and contrast each other with a samurai and knight motif. However, Scorned Magnamalo is implied to be the Magnamalo that attacked Kamura previously in an advanced state after recovering from severe injury, while Primordial Malzeno is a newly-arrived Elder Dragon who hasn't bonded with the Qurio nor interacted with Elgado yet. While Scorned Magnamalo is even more of a hateful scourge than before and its fighting style doubles down on the relentless aggression of the base variant, Primordial Malzeno becomes a noble knight who rejects the base variant's poorly-concealed brutality for a genuinely elegant approach to combat until it's corrupted. Furthermore, Scorned Magnamalo's color scheme brings to mind the Apex Monsters, the main endgame variants in ''Rise'', while Primordial Malzeno's Bloodlust form instead invokes the Risen Elder Dragons, the rough equivalent in ''Sunbreak''.

* NoSell: The Kittenator can stagger it for a moment, but unlike what the weapon does against all other monsters, it won’t knock Gaismagorm down. It can also shrug off multiple hits from full, ''exploding'' Dragonators with only a brief stagger to show for it.

* OmnicidalManiac: While Malzeno was commanding the Qurio, it would only send them to drain its prey, and usually kept them around itself otherwise. Once Gaismagorm regains control over the swarm, it drives them into a frenzy and causes them to start draining everything in sight indiscriminately to feed it, from monsters to endemic life.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Downplayed. While the Guild does give it a proper name, Gaismagorm, most of the characters only refer to it by its title of "Archdemon of the Abyss". This extends to its drops, which never actually refer to it by the name the guild gives it, instead referring to it as the "Archdemon of the Abyss" as they describe the destructive omens its awakening is prophesied to bring.

* ClassyCravat: The plumage on its throat and chest gives this impression, fitting for a dragon meant to evoke a vampire.

* CharacterTitles:

The flagship monster for ''Monster Hunter: Rise'', Magnamalo is an otherworldly Fanged Wyvern that hunts down prey with a relentless ferocity. Upon eating its prey, it gains the ability to create a hot, purple gas known as "hellfire", which it then uses to attack any trespassers on its territory. ''Sunbreak'' introduces a scarred, vengeful variant with longer arm blades, more mastery over its hellfire, and the ability to cause Dragonblight.

A wolf-like monster that seemingly grows stronger underneath the moonlight. It possesses the ability to chill the air around it, which helps regulate its body temperature. This thermoregulation also allows it to alter its muscular structure to stand on two legs when needed. Its fearsome power has caused it to be designated as one of the Three Lords.

* {{Lunacy}}: Subverted. As its anecdote shows, it was initially believed that there was a link between the moon and its armored standing state. Further research into the monster’s species revealed that it can apply that armor and stand any time it likes due to a unique thermal muscle regulatory system.

The male counterpart to Narwa, acting as the "king" to her "queen." He blasts special gas from his gills to fly freely through the air, which also gives him the ability to control the wind and storms.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: He takes the most damage on the windsac located on his chest, and gets crippled for a bit if whacked there enough.

The female counterpart to Ibushi, who acts as the "queen" to his "king." She can float in the air by using the sparksacs located on her arms to generate a magnetic charge, also lifting up the very terrain around her. Narwa the Allmother is instead [[spoiler:an empowered form she takes after consuming her mate Ibushi and gaining his powers.]]

* NonMaliciousMonster: Zig-zagged courtesy of translation issues. While Narwa exhibits incredibly destructive behavior and is trying to devastate the region around Kamura, this is because she is being driven by maternal instinct. She wants to ensure her offspring can grow up safely once they hatch, and her attempting to wipe out or drive away other living beings in the area is her way of making sure nothing will threaten her children. This is the Japanese version, by the way; the Western translation removes mentions of her maternal instincts, resulting in her actions becoming more malevolent-seeming. Mind you, she's still dangerous enough that ''other Elder Dragons'' make an attempt to stop her, and displays sentience that many other destructive monsters lack.

The flagship monster of the expansion ''Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak''. A vampiric dragon that resides in the Citadel, it preys on other monsters by draining their lifeforce thanks to a symbiotic relationship with the parasites known as the Qurio. Its frightening power has caused it to be designated as one of the Three Lords. ''Sunbreak's'' bonus update added a variant representing its original "pure" form before being tainted by the Qurio.

* CursedWithAwesome: [[spoiler: The Qurios it commands were meant to be a parting shot by the defeated Gaismagorm in the hopes that they would drain the life of Malzeno and eventually kill it. Malzeno proceeded to become their new master instead, at the cost of mutating and becoming voracious to fuel the symbiosis.]]

* FallenHero: Primordial Malzeno deliberately invokes this trope, being a [[WhiteAndGoldAreDivine white and gold "guardian knight"]] that protected the Kingdom, only to become a monstrous and aggressive vampire after a metaphorical DealWithTheDevil.

* StrongAndSkilled: Individual strikes from Primordial Malzeno inflict devastating amounts of damage and are shown to tear apart the ground, but at the same time it fights with tremendous precision and grace. Rather noticeably, even with the power of the Qurios, a normal Malzeno can only tie against Velkhana while Primordial Malzeno is able to cleanly overpower it.

* ThePaladin: Seemingly invoked by Primordial Malzeno; it's covered in gold and white armor that is described as pure or divine, is renowned as a heroic protector who smites evil and defeated an "Archdemon" in the past, and wields its wings like a sword and shield alongside its tail as a mace or lance.
* ThisIsADrill: It can use its tail as a makeshift one.

* BodyHorror: A common feature among the Risen Elder Dragons is being covered in burns and scar tissue from their struggle against the parasites. Once they enter the Risen state, their scars start to glow brightly as if the Elder Dragon is still being burned from the inside out by the overflowing energy.

* PowerIncontinence: While afflicted monsters can weaponize Qurio explosions for devastating radial attacks, they randomly suffer triple or quadruple-digit internal damage due to the parasites.

* BreathWeapon: Has one in the form of a dragon element beam that it fires directly on the ground, causing an expanding explosion to erupt. It's nuke attack if it isn't taken out of it's bloodening state also has it fly into the air and shoot in a circle before releasing an orb of dragon energy that causes waves of dragon energy to expand outward.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler: Malzeno, as it is fought in Sunbreak, is an aberration to its normal state due to harnessing the power of the Qurio and gaining new powers as a result. However, this is also a case of HandicappedBadass, as the Qurio have robbed it of much of its original physical strength despite granting it new abilities. Its primordial form far surpassses its afflicted one, to the point where [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome it was able to repel Gaismagorm in the past, only being afflicted with the Qurio afterwards.]]]]

* InfinityPlusOneSword: Like many endgame final additions to ''Monster Hunter'' rosters, Primordial Malzeno's armor and weapons are among the best in the game, mostly because every weapon has three level four decoration slots while its armor set has a whopping ''ten'' level four slots. As such, it has unparalleled flexibility in build variety in addition to its very synergistic set of skills.

* FearlessFool: It will attack ''any'' monster it comes across. Even ''Elder Dragons'' are not safe from it. Unlike Odogaron, however, who's clearly out of its league against Elder Dragons, Magnamalo does fairly well against them at first before they retaliate with a stronger blow than Magnamalo's. ''Not'' the Scorned version, however. While it and the Elder Dragon it faces both take an equal amount of damage, Scorned Magnamalo recovers very quickly while the Elder Dragon is stunned and susceptible to mounting. [[spoiler: Taken to its logical extreme when it makes an unexpected appearance against ''Narwa the Allmother''. While it loses that fight, this does give you the opportunity to ride it to do massive damage against Narwa before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere fleeing]].]]

* NonMaliciousMonster: While certainly dangerous and colorfully referred to as having a grudge against all life, Magnamalo is in practice no more evil than most other apex predators in the Monster Hunter franchise. It actually leaves people alone most of the time, but comes into conflict with Kamura every 50 years because it has learned to take advantage of the Rampage to gorge itself on food and thus power itself up into a town wrecking level of threat as it seeks to stock up on any prey it can.

* AllMythsAreTrue: For years the inhabitants of the Kingdom mostly believed the story of the Archdemon of the Abyss to be a simple fairy tale, until it crawled up out of the abyss and showed them that is was absolutely real. The game seems to really hammer home the fact that this thing is very much a mythical being too, as pretty much all of Gaismagorm's drops never refer to it by the name it recieved from the guild, instead referring to it as the Archdemon of the Abyss as they describe of the destructive omens its awakening is prophecied to bring.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Downplayed. While the Guild does give it a proper name, Gaismagorm, most of the characters only refer to it by its title of "Archdemon of the Abyss". This extends to its drops, which never actually refer to it by name.

* SatanicArchetype: Gaismagorm is called the "Archdemon of the Abyss" and the fact that the shape its mouth takes when open is similar to a pentagram, on top of its five-spiked tail, makes it very likely equivalent to the Devil. There's also its relation to Malzeno: in most tellings [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Dracula]], the most famous vampire in history, gained his powers through making some form of DealWithTheDevil. The vampiric Malzeno gained control over the Qurio after its battle with Gaismagorm.

* SignOfTheApocalypse: The weapons that can be made from its parts are themed after fourteen in-universe omens associated with the Archdemon of the Abyss.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler: Malzeno, as it is fought in Sunbreak, is an aberration to its normal state due to harnessing the power of the Qurio and gaining new powers as a result. However, this is also a case of HandicappedBadass, as the Qurio have robbed it of much of its original physical strength despite granting it new abilities. Its prime form far surpassses its afflicted one, to the point where [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome it was able to repel Gaismagorm in the past, only being afflicted with the Qurio afterwards.]]]]

* FightsLikeANormal: Primordial Malzeno, lacking the power provided by the Qurio, instead fights with its natural abilities, which turns out to just be being very physically capable and skilled with its limbs. [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer It still was enough to repel Gaismagorm in the past, and more than enough to triple-cart hunters with top-of-the-line gear]]. As the fight continues [[spoiler: Qurio flock to it more and more, corrupting it and granting it more abilities like the original incarnation seen, but made even stronger due to it physically being in its prime.]]

* LifeDrain: Being afflicted with Bloodblight halves the hunter's healing from items and slowly drains their HP, but attacking Malzeno will restore some of their health. Malzeno's armor set comes with a "Blood Rite" skill that allows you to do this to any monster by attacking broken parts (severed tails included), with higher skill levels increasing the amount of health restored per hit. Primordial Malzeno's gear feeds into this, with its weapons passively increasing the amount of HP restored from Blood Rite or Bloodblight, and its unique Blood Awakening skill increasing offensive power proportional to how much HP is stolen this way, regardless of whether you're actually healing health or not - even hitting a monster while using Blood Rite or being afflicted with Bloodblight at full health is enough to trigger the skill.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Though not exactly inherently evil like most other monsters, the Malzeno gives off this feeling due to the primarily dark colors that surround it, as well as its red glow; even more so during its SuperMode, in which its skin darkens and certain areas on its body start glowing red.

* VampiricDraining: Once they find a host, the Qurio slowly suck the life force out of the monster until it finally dies, either from being totally drained or from being overloaded by the life energy the Qurio cycle through them. Notably this only happens when the host is not compatible with them, and the Qurio themselves do not seem to desire to necessarily kill their hosts (notably not seeking to attack humans at all after they proved to be a dead end for the parasites). The Qurio's ideal is to find a host that can handle their energy transfer method of feeding, and live upon that host amd the food it hunts for them for as long as possible.

* BewareMyStingerTail: Boasts the most flexible and dextrous one in the game, even beating out Almudron's and Magnamalo's due to the scope of its range and its ability to grab things.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: Like many endgame final additions to ''Monster Hunter'' rosters, Primordial Malzeno's armor and weapons are among the best in the game, mostly because every weapon has three level four decoration slot while its armor set has a whopping ''ten'' level four slots. As such, it has unparalleled flexibility in build variety in addition to its very synergistic set of skills.

* LaserBlade: Scorned Magnamalo have been described focusing their hellfire and swinging it like a blade. In game, it can focus hellfire into its arm blades and swing upwards to release a massive shockwave, effectively extending the range of the swing in a similar fashion.

* TechnicolorFire: The flames it uses to fight foes are a ghostly purple in color. They're inspired by ghost flames in depictions of possessed armor. When it supercharges itself, its flames turn magenta-colored.
* OurManticoresAreSpinier: Its design definitely evokes the manticore, as it resembles a big cat with a stinger tail.

** In lore, it is a foil to Scorned Magnamalo in its home game. Scorned Magnamalo and Primordial Malzeno are alternate incarnations of the mascots in ''Rise'' and ''Sunbreak'' who battled with Elder Dragons in the past, and contrast each other with a samurai and knight motif. However, Scorned Magnamalo is implied to be an advanced form of the Magnamalo that attacked Kamura previously, while Primordial Malzeno is a newly-arrived Elder Dragon who hasn't bonded with the Qurio yet. While Scorned Magnamalo is even more of a hateful scourge than before and its fighting style doubles down on the relentless aggression of the base variant, Primordial Malzeno becomes a noble knight who rejects the base variant's poorly-concealed brutality for a genuinely elegant approach to combat. Furthermore, Scorned Magnamalo's color scheme brings to mind the Apex Monsters, the main endgame variants in ''Rise'', while Primordial Malzeno's Bloodlust form instead invokes the Risen Elder Dragons, the rough equivalent in ''Sunbreak''.

* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler: Primordial Malzeno's final, permanent transformation is only dispelled when it's been mortally wounded, upon which it will revert back to its original, knightly form and passes away [[FaceDeathWithDignity peacefully]]]].

** [[UpToEleven Taken even further]] with Primordial Malzeno, who frequently chains his wing attacks together to repeatedly hit a wide range in front of him, and in his last SuperMode, he will TeleportSpam around you ''multiple times'' in a relentless frenzy of fast, hard-hitting attacks. Even Hunters in full Qurious Crafting gear/with full Spiribird buffs have to be careful with the damage it inflicts.