Augustine Xadau

 is a side character who serves as a quest giver in some games, such as Monster Hunter Stories Ultimate.

Description
Augustine Xadau, better known by his alias, the Daring Chef, is a large, muscular, elderly Wyverian man with green eyes, beige skin, a short, grey beard, and short, grey hair. He wears male Bistro armour along with a pair of blue trousers and white boots with a red sole, and carries a Sword and Shield known as the Millenium Knife. His left eye is gouged out, and a large scar can be seen below it.

Personality
Augustine, true to his title, is a passionate and curious chef who likes to experiment with and craft new dishes, even if it involves using ingredients one normally might not expect to see in a high-class dish, like materials from Nerscylla, Lunastra, Teostra, and Deviljho. In his eyes, any monster can make for a delicious meal with the right preparation, even if the general public and high-profile critics alike don't agree with his views, and goes on his way to try and prove them wrong, even hunting the monsters himself from time to time. He also seeks to spread his teachings, believing that the world hasn't truly seen the best of what the cooking world can offer, and will take aspiring and experienced chefs alike under his wing, with one notable individual being Debil, a wannabe Rider who acted as a chef's apprentice in his village before the Black Blight destroyed it.

Background
Born and raised in a small town near Mezeporta, Augustine Xadau grew up poor and impoverished, being born into a family of peasants, and sought to overcome his lot in life while following his passion in life, which was cooking. He was mesmerized by how the art of preparing meals could bring people together and ignite sparks of creativity inside of its practitioners, and grew to idolize Monsieur Chereau, the inventor of the Well-Done Steak, for his inventiveness and success within the culinary world. Unfortunately, he lacked the funds needed to properly pursue his career choice, so to build them up, he traveled to Mezeporta and took up a career as a Hunter there, killing and capturing dangerous monsters for money, and in his free time, he would test his cooking abilities by reducing the corpses of various monsters to small, bloody chunks with his knives and boiling their contents in a large pan, sprinkling the stew with spices and herbs he gathered along the way, before getting more creative with his dishes, such as cooking pies made with Bulldrome and Mosswine meat and making haggis from Moofah guts. Once he raised enough funds, he was able to take part in culinary school like he dreamed of, and sought to show the world just what he was truly capable of. While he was recognized as a competent chef within Mezeporta, he garnered a reputation from the general public and high-profile critics alike as being willing to use ingredients that should not go together, or even in a dish at all, which has made him divisive among them. Some examples of this include Yulongup meat being put into dumplings (the fish are widely seen as unappetizing due to being bottom feeders), Deviljho juices being used to pickle Boxeulang meat, Tropical Berries being paired with Monster Guts, explosive powder from Lunastra and Teostra being sprinkled into alcohol, deep-frying Nerscylla legs, and ice cream flavoured like a Kirin's flesh. Despite how odd his cooking style was, he has managed to amass a dedicated following around the world, with one notable follower being a would-be Rider with a Great Poogie as a companion. Sadly, his hunting career would eventually be put to a halt following an attack from a notably powerful Doragyurosu that was dangerously close to Mezeporta, with the monster gouging out one of his eyes with its whip-like appendages during their battle. Due to a mix of his wounds along with his old age, he does not hunt nearly as often as he used to, instead preferring to contract other Hunters and Riders to gather ingredients for him.

Abilities
While his style of cooking is rather strange at times, Augustine Xadau is a skilled chef that can prepare fine meals out of nearly any monster, regardless of how edible it is believed to be. He is also an experienced hunter, utilizing G-Rank equipment and carrying a notebook filled with information on a wide variety of monsters he hunted, with a large portion of the notes detailing how to make dishes out of them. Due to how well-traveled and powerful he was prior to the attack that halted his hunting career, he is fabled to have eaten at least one of every monster found in the world, including Major Elder Dragons like Jhen Mohran and First-Class Elders like Fatalis, and he neither confirms nor denies this.

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Notes and Trivia

 * The Doragyurosu that gouged out Augustine's left eye and ultimately put his hunting career on hold is described as being red with rage, which implies that it was a Supremacy Doragyurosu that crippled him.