Ceadeus

Navaldeus is an extremely large elder dragon that made first appearance in Monster Hunter 3. He lives in a similar habitat to Ragiakurusu, but is unable to come onto land. The area in which this creature is fought is a large series of underground caves and underwater ruins. The battle is separated into 2 parts: the first part shows a clip of the monster swimming just outside your camp, before diving down into the cave networks. What the hunter must do is pursue it on its journey and hurt it on the way. It swims through 2 areas, the first being a slim canyon, and the 2nd being a canyon opening up into a small round area. Like Lao-Shan Lung, the attacks it uses on its journey aren't aimed at the hunter, as they are mainly flicks of the tail and quick turns.

Even though the first part looks very similar to the Lao-Shan Lung quest, in Navaldeus's case you just have to defeat it. After following it through two areas you reach the final area. It looks like an underwater arena with Navaldeus in the middle. A clip then shows its chest and chin lighting up blue, which turn red when it goes into rage mode. At this point it uses new moves, ranging from Ragiakurusu style attacks to blue Gravios-like beams. In the area there are small caverns to hide in.

The Navaldeus itself resembles the Fenshenlon, though less bulky, with a short fanged snout instead of a crocodile like head, and two large, sharply curving horns sticking out just above its eyes. The left horn is a lot chunkier than the right and almost covers its left eye. Its neck resembles Ragiakurusu's hood like structure, but with a large furry mane underneath. Moving down its body it has got two small fins. The tail seems to have had a chunk taken out of it. Its underside is a glowing white, whilst its hard armoured top side is a dull green. In the gameplay video, it is shown that its horns can be broken, and when the time runs out the monster doesn't escape.

The Quest can be taken multiple times, with Navaldeus unable to recover it's health between quests. Eventually it can be killed.

Navaldeus seems to induce a new status condition. Red electric sparks surround the player after being rammed, and it seems that every slice he made after had a black spark in it. And next to the sharpness meter and the player's name was a purple icon. Maybe this status condition decreases the affinity rate of a weapon, or lowers a weapon's sharpness, but this pure speculation.

Gameplay Video

 * Navaldeus http://dic.nicovideo.jp/v/sm7805624
 * Scene after beating Navaldeus http://dic.nicovideo.jp/v/sm7812441
 * Navaldeus Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=istznAXroqA


 * Navaldeus Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi_Rgb855XI