Malzeno

==Summary==
Malzeno, also known as the Silver Duke Dragon, is an elegant Elder Dragon that inhabits the Kingdom's territory. It holds a mutual relationship with swarms of flying lamprey-like Qurio, capable of directing them to lure or kill its prey. It can drain the life energy of other living creatures through its fangs and from Qurio to grow its power, and when it gorges itself on sufficient life force, it enters a far more dangerous and violent form known as the "Bloodening". It was first introduced in Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: 
Name: Malzeno
Origin: Monster Hunter
Gender: Unknown
Age: Unknown, one individual is known to have lived for at least 50 years
Classification: Elder Dragon, Silver Duke Dragon
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Bodily Weaponry (Via its jaws, talons, hooked wings, and prehensile clawed tail), Rage Power (It grows stronger and faster when enraged), Sound Manipulation (Its roar can briefly stun hunters), Large Size (Type 1 by length; a typical specimen is around 23 meters long), Flight (Its wings enable flight), Air Manipulation (It carries a powerful gust of wind while on the wing that it can use to disorient or stun its foes, even those as large as a Rathalos), Breath Attack and Energy Projection (It can fire beams of Dragon Element from its mouth at opponents and into the ground to cause waves of explosions, fling bolts of Dragon Element through the earth, or simply empower its physical attacks with Dragon Element), Animal Manipulation (It has a symbiotic relationship with the vampiric Qurio, able to cause them to move in dense swarms to strike or lure foes, and can absorb the life energy they collect), Explosion Manipulation (Its Dragon Element attacks and Qurio blasts create crimson explosions), Absorption (It can absorb life energy through its mouth and through swarms of Qurio to empower itself), Transformation and Empowerment (It can enter an empowered state known as the Bloodening after absorbing enough life energy; in this form, its aggression, power, and speed dramatically increase, and its physical attacks produce explosions of Dragon Element), Status Effect Inducement (Its Dragon Element attacks induce Dragonblight, and its tail and Qurio attacks induce Bloodblight on hunters), Statistics Reduction and Power Nullification (Dragonblight nullifies the victim's elemental and status attack properties, and Bloodblight greatly reduces the victim's ability to recover health from items), Disease Manipulation and Empathic Manipulation (It and the Qurio carry a virus that causes afflicted monsters to enter a hyper-aggressive state and humans to enter a dizzy, incapacitated state after a few days, and eventually death to both if left untreated), Resistance to Disease, Water, and Thunder as well as Disease Manipulation and Empathic Manipulation (the Qurio don't harm it), possibly Mind Manipulation and Madness Manipulation (Type 2; Dragon Element is said to attack the mind and drive monsters mad)
Attack Potency: Large Island level (Fully capable of fighting Scorned Magnamalo on equal terms, a monster whose weaker version can get the upper hand on Bazelgeuse in a turf war and put up a fight against Teostra and Kushala Daora)
Speed: Massively Hypersonic+ (Should be comparable to Kirin, who can summon lightning bolts)
Lifting Strength: At least Class K, likely far higher (As an Elder Dragon, it should be above the likes of Tetranodon, who can lift and toss boulders in excess of 134 metric tons)
Striking Strength: Large Island level
Durability: Large Island level
Stamina: Able to fight at full strength indefinitely and sustain large amounts of damage without significantly weakening
Range: Several Meters with physical attacks, Tens of Meters with energy attacks and Qurio swarms
Standard Equipment: None notable
Intelligence: At least Animalistic
Standard Tactics:
*Malzeno is an agile but deceptively strong physical fighter. It smashes and flays its foes, occasionally calling upon its breath weapon or the Qurio to strike at range.
*It will enter the Bloodening after absorbing enough life force from prey in the environment via Qurio or from its opponents using its jaws. While in its empowered state, it gains a crimson aura and is able to chain its attacks together more quickly. Its physical attacks in this state create Dragon Element explosions. Its speed is of particular note, even among its Elder Dragon peers, as it is now able to move so quickly as to apparently teleport from a hunter's perspective. It has a habit of using its blistering speed to reposition itself behind its foes and immediately unleash a devastating attack at their backs.
*Its Qurio-based attacks inflict Bloodblight on hunters, a unique status effect that dramatically reduces its victim's ability to heal naturally and from outside sources such as Potions or Hunting Horn songs but also bestows victims with the ability to recover health by attacking.
Weaknesses: Fire and Dragon Element. It can be knocked out of the Bloodening if it takes sufficient damage.
Notes:
*Malzeno's Monster Intro can be seen here.
*It is currently unclear whether its life energy-draining powers are a result of the Qurio or a natural ability of the species, given that the Malzeno fought in Sunbreak did not have access to Qurio until another monster, Gaismagorm, released them in its territory. It is plausible that Malzeno can naturally drain life force and enter the Bloodening given that it can suck energy from monsters through its fangs, and therefore it is likely that the Qurio simply enhance its ability to do so.
==Notable Matchups==
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