Arnamurus

The Arnamurus is a colossal sized worm that share a common ancestor as the wiggler fauna that inhabit the Coral Highlands - they're highly ravenous and will consume anything they come across - they're known to be the main predator of the Legiana alongside many other flying wyverns that are unfortunate enough to fly too low an altitude to get caught by the beast.

Physiology
This mysterious worm-like creature sports seaweed green skin with purple flailing tendrils on its mane, adorned with violet coloured horns, various fins sport all around its long and slender body, ending in a webbed tail. Its eyes shine a bright white and its front head is armed with tiny tethers that send electrical signals that allow it to detect creatures from a colossal distance. It is incredibly long and despite this, it can travel incredibly fast through solid terrain, catching up to even the fastest prey items.

Behavior
It has no qualms for what it eats, it can and will eat anything that breathes, it also sometimes consumes stones that help break down the meals within its stomach. When taking a defensive stance, it will shoot out beams of water with so much pressure that it can shred through mountains like a knife cutting through butter.

Placement In Food Chain
Minimal - Extremely Low - Low - Average - High - Extremely High - Apex - (Legend)

Main Prey: Anything that can fit inside its mouth

Arch-Rivals: Other members of its kind

Behavior Towards Other Monsters
No small monsters are present in quests that involve Arnamurus

Tracks
Tracks: Colossal tunnel, Large tether, Vomit mountain

Specific Locale Interactions

 * It will cause large cave-ins and chunks of rocks to fall onto the ground when in the Rotten Vale


 * It will destroy parts of the Coral Highlands such as the bridge between the two ledges, various parts of the ground, etc

Special Behaviors

 * It will usually specifically target hunters that wear mantles (ghillie mantle does not work on Arnamurus and it will still see you).

Cutscenes
Research Base

As the hunter arrives into the Research Base, the Third Fleet Master and various other NPCs will be there scurrying to safety as the Arnamurus busts into the centre part of the base with its head peeping out and attempting to chomp anything it can: it then turns its attention towards you - if the hunter does not fend it off, it will bring the base down and then eat everyone on-board the ship - if the hunter succeeds, the Arnamurus will give up and continue wreaking havoc in the Coral Highlands.

Abilities
Arnamurus has three forms of fighting - it will either tunnel downwards and then ambush from above repeatedly, pop out its head and neck and remaining semi-stationary, or slithering onto solid surface.

Mounts
Mounting this monster is unique, you can get on its back and attack casually, but you can also legitimaately mount it via attacking the head, if you fail the mount it will attempt to throw you off and then swallow you, if you succeed, you get free hits on the head.

Lore
'The Mad Lizard'... a creature fuelled by anger and zero tolerance of anything that shares the same breathe as it. Its responsible for destroying all caravans that cross the Styx Wetlands to reach other settlements, the last thing the new world fleet masters would want is this freak of nature to get anywhere near civilisation...

Ecology

 * Habitat Range

It inhabits the Coral Highlands and occasionally visits the Rotten Vale: burrowing across the landscape and causing high amounts of tectonic damage: drastically harming the ecosystem and the creatures within it.


 * Ecological Niche

The top of its domain - only matched by creatures such as Akantor, Ukanlos, Kulve Taroth and many other colossal sized creatures.


 * Biological Adaptations

Its long and slender body allows for it to slither through landscapes without stop, the fins help sustain its position as its slithering and burrowing. It is near colossal in size and is large enough to swallow wyverns whole. They retain a powerful water sac that it can utilise to shoot an acidic aqua beam that can force the destruction of an entire ridge from the sheer pressure of the beam alone.


 * Behavior

It seeks to satisfy its hunger and shows no repercussions for what enters its mouth. It reigns terror throughout the ecosystems that it eradicates and turns them into empty wastelands- void of life.

Attacks
W.I.P *soon to be worked on*

Head
Impact: ★★★ Cutting: ★★★ Ranged: ★

Body
Impact: ★★ Cutting: ★★★ Ranged: ★

Tail
Impact: ★★★ Cutting: ★★★ Ranged: ★

Element Effectiveness

 * Fire = ★★
 * Water = N/A
 * Thunder =
 * Ice = N/A★★
 * Dragon = N/A
 * Earth = ★
 * Wind = ★★★

Status Effectiveness

 * Poison = ★
 * Sleep = N/A
 * Paralysis = N/A
 * Blast = ★★
 * Stun = ★★
 * Blind = N/A

Theme
W.I.P