Editing Monster Hunter (section)

===The Equal Dragon Weapon===
Decidedly noncanon (for now, anyway) due to being scrapped very fucking early on, but it's notable enough to warrant a mention. It's also good shit to spin off a darker take on the series from in case you want to run a campaign in it or something.

Monster Hunter generally has a nonserious tone, being light on the plot and focusing its worldbuilding on making monsters with actual ecology. There's a few exceptions, but this generally has been the case since forever. However, when the series was just being conceived and no one had cut their first tail, it almost went in the opposite direction. 

In an artbook, it was revealed that a [[Grimdark]] world could have awaited us. A world where the ancient civilization treated monsters, including Elder Dragons, as slaves. ([[Necrons|Where have I]] [[C'tan|heard that before...]])

Naturally, the dragons and other monsters weren't fond of being treated like shit in this plotline and rebelled. Since they had Dragonators and shit, the Ancients could stand a chance, but they decided to go the extra mile into [[Grimderp]] and create an abomination that makes sick fuck [[Honsou]] jealous. The Equal Dragon Weapon, a borderline [[Chaos Spawn|that-which-shall-not-be-named]] created by stitching dead Elder Dragons together and giving the foul creation life. In the ensuing Dragon War, these things would have been basically responsible for driving the Elder Dragons into critically-endangered status as we see them in the game. It also would explain why Fatalis has such a hateboner for humanity. However the mere existence of this thing pissed off monsterkind ''so'' much that the war ended with the ancient civilization destroyed and the EDWs (presumably) exterminated. The artbook shows a dead one, so god help us if we ever see a live one.

It's pretty unknown why this shit got cut, though the leading theory was that the decision to shift to a lighthearted tone meant this had to get the axe.