Cephalos & Cephadrome

Cephalos is the Modern Greek: κεφάλι (kefáli) or Ancient Greek: κεφαλή (kephale), both are meaning "head", due to their arrow-shaped head like hammerhead shark for dig and swim in sands.

The Cephalos have streamlined, flat body shapes that make it easier for them to swim through the sand. Their eyes face upward, and their heads have a vaguely hammer-like shape. They blend in with the desert sands thanks to their brown and beige coloring. The true color of a Cephalos is blue, or rarely purple, but over time sand sticks to their bodies covering the blue coloration.

Large, dominant male Cephalos are referred to as the Cephadrome. The Cephadrome have blue or purple scale-covered skin, yellow eyes, and pink or yellow fins. As sand covers their body, their skin appears brownish black. They have fins, a tail, and a flat, diamond-shaped head that helps them move through the sand, not unlike a hammerhead shark or the extinct prehistoric amphibian Diplocaulus.

Surprisingly social creatures, they hunt in packs and swim through the shifting sand. They are predatory and can cooperate to outnumber opponents who are much larger than themselves. The swallowed sand is kept in their bodies in a special organ that combines the sand with mucus and stores it for use as a weapon against prey.

They frequently flee by diving into the sand as a result of their caution when fighting. To hurt hunters, they shoot sand streams, use tail swipes, and hipchecks. Due to their caution when fighting, they frequently flee by diving into the sand. They hurt hunters by hipchecking, swiping the tail, and shooting sand streams. Some also have gained the unusual ability to swim through sand with as little friction as possible built onto body on a microscopic level on its skin allowing smooth simple hops out of sand like its swimming to instantly standing on it like its solid again with its feet.

They have been known to paralyze prey while swimming by using their dorsal fin, biting with their fangs, or mixing saliva with sand attacks. Since they have excellent hearing, a sonic bomb can be used to stop them by startling them out of the sand, much like the Plesioth. These pack orders correspond with what attack it is performing such as team breath attacks where the leader has multiple pack members, all larger than a human spit sand beams at targets while the leader after its pack members spits a giant beam of sand its gathered while its pack distracts.

The Cephadrome's roar requires Earplugs passive skill to block.

If a sonic bomb is used, the Cephalos and the Cephadrome will emerge from the sand because they are sensitive to loud noises. They are also affected by the screams of large desert animals and the loud noises made by small barrel bombs.

Their eyesight has been affected from swimming in the sand so much that they are now almost completely blind. Instead, the Cephalos listens for the prey's breathing in addition to its footsteps. They will be shocked out of the ground and stunned by the loud noise if the sounds are extremely loud.

Its scales store a lot of moisture in order to keep it cool in the desert's heat, which promotes greater activity in its surroundings. They use a cut from their fins to restrain prey by injecting a paralyzing venom into them. They must occasionally jump out of the sand to get air because they can't breathe there. On the other hand, as they swim, they will swallow a little sand. The swallowed sand is kept in their bodies in a special organ that combines the sand with mucus and stores it to be used as a weapon against prey.

The Cephalos are swift pack hunters that ambush prey from below, attacking lynxes, cougars, lions, ringtails, theropods, and snakes to feed on a variety of desert animals. Large predators, including lions, apes, jaguars, cougars, tigers, boas, pythons, sauropods, synapsids, theropods, griffins, and even dragons, prey on them because they are still young. For food and territory, Cephalos must contend with their piscine wyvern relatives, the Delex. The Cephadrome grow larger as a result of their position as the leader of the Cephalos. Their eyesight has gotten so bad from swimming in the sand so much that they are now almost completely blind. Instead, the Cephadrome listens for the prey's breathing in addition to its footsteps. They will be shocked out of the ground and stunned by the loud noise if the sounds are extremely loud.

Its scales store a lot of moisture in order to keep it cool in the desert's heat, which promotes greater activity in its surroundings. They use a cut from their fins to restrain prey by injecting a paralyzing venom into them. They must occasionally jump out of the sand to get air because they can't breathe there. On the other hand, as they swim, they will swallow a little sand. The swallowed sand is kept in their bodies in a special organ that combines the sand with mucus and stores it to be used as a weapon against prey.

Cephadrome, together with the Cephalos, can be quite effective hunters. They mostly feed upon the smaller monsters, like crabs, tadpole shrimps, deer, rat, peccaries, cats, ringtails, raccoons, foxes, antelopes, and others in crossing the open desert although will go after larger prey if given the opportunity. However, these Piscine Wyverns have to deal with other larger predators. Cephadrome will do their best to avoid Diablos and Monoblos as they are known for being highly aggressive towards just about anything.

Similar to birds, these sand-dwelling creatures consume stones, sometimes known as grit or gastroliths, to help with digestion. Since neither the Cephalos nor the Cephadrome has sharp esophagus found in leatherback turtles, these tiny stones are swallowed and kept in their muscular gizzard, where they aid in breaking up food. For wyvern-like creatures that eat hard materials like bones and ores, this is especially crucial. The grinding operation smoothes the stones, which are then either regurgitated or passed through the digestive tract. The Piscine Wyvern then searches for fresh, sharp stones to grind further.

It's fascinating to consider that these animals begin their lives in water. The females lay the eggs in an oasis, and the eggs hatch during the dry season. When the young hatch, they will swim in the mud, but as it dries, it will become much more difficult for them to swim in. As the mud begins to turn to sand, the hatchlings will gradually learn to swim through dunes, and it is extremely important that they do so, according to Queen Arianna.

The Cephalos are known for congregating in packs and hunting alongside their leaders, the Cephadrome. They are known to be mildly aggressive. When food sources run out, they are also renowned for moving to different areas of the desert. They are a nuisance when fighting other monsters due to their moderate aggression. Although Cephadrome are very aggressive, they will engage in evasive actions if they believe the threat to be too serious.

The Cephalos and Cephadrome are perfectly adapted for living in the deserts, badlands, near riverbanks, and even white sand dunes from Earth (such as North Africa; Southern Europe to France; Western Asia; Central Asia; and even North America); Sawintir; and Delphia planets.

• Movement Pattern: Full Migrant

• Population Trend: Stable

• Population: 40,000

• Locomotion: Terrestrial and burrowing

• Habitat: 

  • Main: Deserts and Xeric Shrublands; Badlands.

  • Vagrant: Montane Grasslands and Shrublands; Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands; Salt Flats; Tropical Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands; Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub; Swamp; Bayous/Billabongs; Riparian; Wetland.

• Earth: 

  • Extant & Introduced (Breeding): Algeria; Bahrain; China (Inner Mongolia; Xinjiang); Egypt; India; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kuwait; Libya; Mali; Mauritania; Mexico; Mongolia; Niger; Nigeria; Pakistan; Palestine; Russia; Saudi Arabia; South Sudan; North Sudan; Syria; Tunisia; United Arab Emirates; United States; Uzbekistan; Yemen

Cephalos and Cephadrome can be a pet. The carcass or dead animal dropped by survivor when works when the monster has not noticed the survivor.

Historya Davvun: Corona Odyssey - 1801 AD

Maximilien Robespierre, whom Germain had assigned to keep the peace in France, is discredited by Arno Dorian while in France with Elise de la Serre's assistance. From Jordan to Palestine in the Levant, Anthony Pierre and Queen Arianna traveled to the Negev to locate the elusive weapon that is said to belong to David of Israel—a prototype of the Charge Blade made by the "Gods." Arianna discovered the deserted ziggurat, which is purportedly the King of Israel's tomb and is guarded by sandy freaks known as the Cephalos and the Cephadrome. After the Cephadrome paralyzed Anthony and even Arianna, she swiftly removed the paralysis and used the Sundrop Flower magic to control the Piscine Wyverns so they obeyed the guarding animals.

Anthony and his allies then bowed to the queen, and Arianna eventually got the weapon and returned the couple to France. However, under Temple's protection mechanism was unintentionally triggered, causing the ziggurat and burial site to collapse. Following that, the Temple caused a seismic disaster that killed thousands of people and animals and nearly devastated entire Levantine nations and their environs. By freerunning and riding the Cephalos through the crumbling city and fleeing to Egypt, Arianna and Anthony managed to survive the earthquake.

• Coming soon

• 15/3/2023 - Cephalos was introduced

• Mandarin: 潜沙龙 / 砂龙

• Japanese: ドスガレオス (Dosugareosu)

• Hawaiian: Nui Kaleʻosu

• Korean: 큰 가레오쓰 (keun gare-osseu)

• Mongolian: Том Гареоза (Gareoza)

• Turkish: Gereobüyük

• Coptic: Ⲇⲟⲡⲉϯⲣⲁⲙ (Dopetiram)

• Cephalos will occasionally attack boss monsters such as Tigrex or Diablos if in the same area.

• Cephalos is unique among minions as it has a breakable part - its fin. Breaking this does not affect rewards or carves.

• Cephalos is also the only minion and small animals that has the exclamation mark above its head when it spots a survivor. Most large animals have this.

• The Cephadrome is only guardian that do not have any kind of personal drop to them, dropping Cephalos scales and fins instead of any "Cephadrome" drops.

• The Cephadrome can be driven out of the sand with a well timed, fully charged hammer attack. Whether this is due to the sound generated or the force generated is unknown.

• There is a rare glitch in MHFU that the Cephadrome would sometimes be much lighter coloured than usual, usually the same colour as a Cephalos.

• https://monsterhunterwiki.org/wiki/Cephalos

• https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Cephalos

• https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Cephalos_Ecology

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Cephalos-889862281

• https://monsterhunterwiki.org/wiki/Cephadrome

• https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Cephadrome

• https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Cephadrome_Ecology

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Cephadrome-889862968