Ascended Lunastra

English name: Ascended Lunastra

Romaji: Subarashī Nana Tesukatori

Japanese: 素晴らしい ナナ・テスカトリ

Size: Large 

The Ascended Lunastra is a mutated Lunastra, due to unintentionally absorbing the lethal Elder Dragon Essence released upon the world by the evil Teal Fatalis. It first appears in Monster Hunter Z Ultimate.



Appearance
Ascended Lunastra are no different to the regular Lunastra in terms of body structure. Its colouration, however, is completely different. Its scales and hide have turned bright pink. This is due to its new abilities. It has black markings on the outside of its wings and crest. When enraged, its eyes turn blue and it emits the famous fire aura, only it poisons surrounding hunters rather than burning them.

Behaviour
Ascended Lunastra are always found with their male counterpart, the Ascended Teostra, no matter what quest they are in. It also has a unique roar that calls Ascended Teostra to wherever Ascended Lunastra is, making it a problem for hunters trying to focus on Ascended Lunastra itself (however, one of them can be lured away using the Dragon Flute). Ascended Lunastra is very aggressive and it will attack and destroy anything and everything it is unfamiliar with.

Abilities
The flames it emits from its mouth and tail are bright purple in colour. Instead of inflicting Fireblight to hunters, it poisons them, causing damage over time. As said, its fire aura also has this effect, however, it can still inflict Fireblight to hunters using other methods. Due to absorbing the Elder Dragon Essence, Ascended Lunastra is now capable of using the Dark element in some of its attacks, inflicting Darkblight.

Attacks
Ascended Lunastra shares most of its attacks with Ascended Teostra. However, its flamethrower attack has a very deadly feature - along with inflicting poison, it hits hunters consecutively. This means that if the flamethrower is swept to one side while hitting a hunter, the hunter will be hit continuously; getting dragged along by the flamethrower as it is being swept. The base damage is fixed, but the damage with each consecutive hit increase. The pink smoke it produces with some attacks also inflict poison.