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"Aurora borealis localized entirely within his map" hit me like a truck when you said it.

Ah yes the duality of black and white, ice and fire, fork and spoon.

Ukanlos: "I also can steam a good ham!"
Akantor: "And he calls them that dispite the fact that they are obviously grilled."

LMAO the war thunder community sharing the classified guild information on ukanlos whereabouts was a genius transition. your jokes are SOOO GOOD

Birds: flying reptiles
Penguin and Ostrich: flightless bird, but still birds

Flying wyverns: reptiles that fly
Ukanlos and Akantor: flightless flying wyvern, but still flying wyverns

"Ukanlos! The map is on fire!"
"No Akantor, it's just the Northern Lights."

The more I look at Ukanlos, the more I realize that this is a good benchmark on what Shimo from GxK SHOULD have been. It sells the idea of this incredibly hardy, ancient looking ice monster a lot better and is frankly just much cooler looking (no pun intended).

Random headcannon idea: Ukanlos spend most of their time in frozen oceans, but climb mountains to lay their eggs sorta like sea turtles. I always thought it was more fitting as a partially aquatic creature (blubbery, literal icebreaker back) and it being on top of a mountain in 2nd gen (and never again) was odd. Plus the mental image of an army of baby Ukanlos making a mad dash all the way down a mountain (again like sea turtles on a larger scale) is oddly interesting to me

Considering that ukanlos reveals blue fat when its tail is severed, I would be surprised if fat was distributed more throughout the rest of the body, especially in the dorsal half of the body and especially closer to the hump. The fact that it’s also blue could say something about its diet, whether it’s something like silver (or cause it’s monster hunter, maybe some other metal). Maybe biliverdin is prevalent, and maybe either ukanlos is eating a ton of fish or it’s eating a ton of things that eat a ton of fish, and said things eaten by ukanlos might also have blue fat cause of it.

Something of note is that A LOT of Monsters (especially the larger ones) develop shells made up of layers of minerals, Akantor included. Makes you wonder what triggered this kind of ecological shift. Also, it's interesting how Ukanlos and Akantor offer a snippet into the MH world's prehistory, as they're a remnant of an ancient time before Flying Wyverns developed proper wing membranes.

21:40 May I see it?

I know you didn’t mention it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the titanic roars of Ukanlos and especially Akantor were primarily used as communication methods. Considering their environments have enormously loud ambient noises like crashing glaciers and avalanches and literal erupting volcanoes, it’d make sense that the two God Wyverns developed these roars as a way to both mark their territories and call out to mates.

Considering the assumed scarcity of their homes(although in the MH world they might not be near as empty as one might guess), it’d make sense that their roars would be loud enough to both travel extreme distances and be heard over environmental conditions. Plus, a loud roar would be a great way for the species to ward off others of their own kind, as I imagine combat with power and weapons like theirs would be especially dangerous and costly.

Also also, maybe Akantor uses its roars like mega sonic bombs to unearth hiding or buried prey like Basarios? Bit more of stretch on that one, but piscine wyverns have been shown to be especially susceptible to loud noises, and Lavasioth are a pretty sizable animal. Even though I’ve no doubt a Lavasioth could outswim the Black God, an Akantor could possibly ambush the hot fish from afar or below with its roar, then seize the disoriented piscine for a hearty meal.

7:08 I can definitely see Ukanlos hunting for giant molusks as we've already seen a giant snail in the form of the Monk Snail in Monster Hunter Rise and a giant spider crab-like creature like the Shen Gaoren

Ive always thought the same with Akantors pin. As massive as it is, it truly seems to hold back instead of flat out (pun intended) crushing you. It makes me wish that they'd done more to express Akantors intelligence because as is it almost seems out of place.

I still think it's really funny that these two are flightless, but still considered flying wyverns. In the same way it's funny that a snow leopard is a big cat, but a mountain lion isn't.

Bit surprised Akantor's roar didn't get any special mention, but I guess it'd ultimately come down to the same general theories given for Tigrex/Brute's roar anyways.

To me these two are absolute perfect candidates for title update monsters. Kulve already feels at least adjacent to them. I think they can absolutely be fit to fulfill similar hype and update role that Alatreon had.

These two symbolize monster hunter’s split design chooses Ukanlos is relatively straight forward and makes sense especially in its fight
Akantor is spikes on spikes everywhere and really need to think about why spiky

Last time I was this early they were still considered Elder Dragons

0:40 oh. That's a rathalos profile.

Akantor’s tusks probably also protects it from being swallowed head first by Dalamadur, as snakes in the real world prefer to start at the head when swallowing.