Gianodhe / Giadrome and Giaprey
“ Alpha monsters that lead Giaprey packs. They sport splendid crests and are much bigger than the Giaprey they lead. They spit ice with deadly accuracy, and woe betide the Hunter who gets caught in it. ”
– Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
Scientific Taxonomy & Character Information
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Order: Aviopoda
Suborder: Terrapodaves
Infrafamily: Dromadosauridea
Family: Dromadosauridae
Genius: Cryornithosaurus
Species: Cryornithosaurus dominum
Descendant: theropods
Named by: ???
Year Published: ???
Size: 35.3 meters long in length; 2.5 meters tall in height; 80 kilograms in weight
Type:
Reptiles (Saurischians)
Bird Wyverns
Fictional
Non-indigenous Species
Title:
Alpha Predator
Snowy Predator
Pantheon:
Terran/Gaian
Sawintiran
Yaddovian
Time Period: Holocene
Alignment: Bad
Threat Level: ★★★
Diet: Carnivorous
Elements: Ice
Inflicts: Iced
Weaknesses: Fire, earth, metal
Casualties: ???
Based On: itself
Conservation Status: Least Concern (LC) – IUCN Red List
Giaprey and Giadrome ® - This species is a registered trademark of Capcom Co., and it is used by Earth Responsibly and Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure spinoff as permission.
Giadrome and Giaprey (Cryornithosaurus dominum) are one of the fictional species of theropod bird wyvern from Monster Hunter Freedom and Monster Hunter Freedom 2.
Etymology
Giadrome and its minions are named from glacier, which is adapted to the mountains and polar regions. In Japanese name was ギアノス (gianosu), in conlang of Wyvernian: Gianodhe, means "fjord stripes".
Physical Appearance
These saurischian resemble dromaeosaurid dinosaurs. Giadrome and Giaprey are actually fur-like pycnofibres instead of scales, which protect from cold like snowy mountains to tundra. Both bluish stripes and light sky blue feathers for cold temperatures instead of scales were accurate, duller and dark yellow beak-like rostrums dull brownish belly, and greyish scales. The crest of giaprey was a dull peach and greyish black claws, while the Giadrome had a large bright cyan crest, claw on middle finger and large hook-like talon. Its appearance is very similar to Velocipreys, and it was sometimes confused by a flock of Velociprey. Their eye color was hazel.
Abilities
Giadrome and Giaprey are capable of spitting a frozen substance from a special sac and saliva altogether that can immobilize prey and foes alike.
Ecology
Giadrome is a reasonable predator, and can use its Giaprey to outflank a prey item such as any animals namely: elephants, rhinos, deer, tigers, hedgehogs, minks, weasels, butterflies, and even livestock. From the fur-like pycnofibres of Giadrome and Giaprey being white and blue, they are able to blend into the snow.
This allows it to hunt better in the cold. Giadrome and Giaprey can spit a freezing cold liquid at prey, but Giadrome modifies and spits better freezing saliva causing freeze. However, they can also fall prey on larger animals like Drakolossia, Kushala Daora, saber-toothed cats, tigers, baboons, and even Gowrow.
Behavior
The princess was never heard of as "A True Foe", behind the cold predatory pack of dinosaurs before being set. The Giadrome is quite territorial towards other monsters and other Giadrome and Giapreys. It travels alongside its pack and coordinates attacks using barks and calls.
Distribution and Habitat
Giaprey was located in snowy mountains, tundra, glaciers, subpolar, and even an ancient city called tower or skyscraper in ancient times. Giaprey didn't have own leader to live in this ancient gigantic tower made of Kushala Daora materials and considered an invasive species.
Both of them live in mountains to glaciers, including tundra and taiga in Monster Hunter universe. Like Gendrome, this monster was found in Tibet to Mongolia, even Lapland was very rare during the Silk Road.
Movement Pattern: Initially Migrant
Individual Type: Pack
Population Trend: Stable
Population: 30,000
Locomotion: Amphibious
Habitat: Polar; tundra; taiga; montane grasslands and shrublands; temperate coniferous forests; temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Earth: China, Denmark (Greenland), Finland, Iceland, India, Mongolia, Nepal, Norway, Sweden
Tamed
Giaprey can be tamed using fish, left by hunter for became ridable and some case, they grown up into Giadrome and calls non-tamed Giaprey as allies for their battle purpose. Giaprey, however, can pet from the single egg and hatching in hatchery or incubator made by wyverians and humans respectively.
Lore
Giadrome and Giaprey are actually fur-like pycnofibres instead of scales, which protect from cold like snowy mountains to tundra. Both bluish stripes and light sky blue feathers for cold temperatures instead of scales were accurate. I set them as cold predators behind the history of the Monster Hunter universe and our world. Like Gendrome, this monster was found in Tibet to Mongolia, even Lapland was very rare during the Silk Road.
Giadrome and Giaprey are capable of spitting a frozen substance from a special sac and saliva altogether that can immobilize prey and foes alike.
The princess was never heard of as "A True Foe", behind the cold predatory pack of dinosaurs before being set.
Gallery
Chronological Appears
Monster Hunter Series
Monster Hunter Freedom (debut as Giaprey)
Monster Hunter 2 (debut as Giadrome)
Monster Hunter Freedom 2
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
Monster Hunter Generations
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
Main Theme Music
Seltas, Lagombi and Alpha Raptors Theme (Monster Hunter 4) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e39u2nHOw4c
Leaping Outlaw / 跳躍のアウトロー (Monster Hunter Generations / MHX) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI-Fe6KZycg
Foreign Languages
Japanese: ギアノス (Gianosu)
Korean: 기아노스 (gianoseu)
Italian: Guiana
French: Guianne
Spanish: Guiana
Catalan: Guiane
English: Giaprey
Wyverian: Gianara
Trivia
The only bird wyvern was now historically accurate and revamp from movie or video games.
It was first localized as White Velociprey, despite having its own name, and was put into Monster Hunter G and Monster Hunter Freedom for the sole purpose of being a rare, albino version of the Velociprey species, but were later renamed to the name Giaprey, assigned an Alpha monster known as the Giadrome, and given the ice element.
When fighting the Giadrome, the Giaprey are always with it.
Giaprey have a total of 14 fingers, with seven fingers on each hand, in Earth Responsibly, it has now five fingers on each hands for accurate. This is the same for the Velociprey.
White Velociprey is the first subspecies of a small monster before revamped. The only other being Pyrantula.
Unusually, the Giadrome model was changed between MHF2 and MHFU; in Freedom 2 it has red claws, whereas in Freedom Unite the claws are blue.
Like all of the '-prey' family, this sub-species also fights in a pack.
Giadrome's crest is breakable.
Giadrome now has a pin attack.
Giadrome will now limp when weakened, can be carved 3 times, and enter rage mode.
Giadrome can now inflict the Frozen inflict through its bite and can frostbite throught kicking with its sickle claw.
It can now call on Giaprey during battle, whereas in previous games it could not.
It can become infected by the Black Frenzy Virus or became Afflicted that possessed by Qurio.