User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-4775842-20120813183201/@comment-1011548-20120813200622

Plus the fact that water is the worst possible place to use big flame-based attacks. Guran certainly looks cool, but I agree that he doesn't make much sense. So what follows may in fact be complete bollocks, but it's the best I can do.

Let's tackle the meteor problem first. The things he chucks out are sizable, so a lot of energy has to be pumped into making them. You could argue they're protein-based structures, but that's loads of loads of energy to waste if so... It would make more sense if they were produced from something Guran had an almost infinite supply of. Well, there's the usual air, water... specifically sea-water. Perhaps (and this is incredibly loose and dodgy speculation now) Guran can take in certain minerals or metals from the seawater, clump them all together inside its body, heat them up, and then eject them from its wings tips. An enormous amount of energy would be lost heating them up, but hey, nothing's perfect.

Now I think about, Guran's shell almost looks like hard, protective armor plating. Hence why it's so rugged and spikey. Perhaps there's a large ocean going predator we're not aware of (or maybe it's Ceadeus, or Raviente) that preys on Guran, and the hard shell evolved in response. Again, consider the meteors - they can't be aimed in the slightest, they just fall down around him... in what could be seen as a defensive formation. Finally, perhaps Guran's limbs aren't vestigial but developing - over generations and generations they are gradually becoming more adapted for a life outside of water so as to escape their predators, but they still tend to be around it because that's where they get the metal compounds for their meteors from, and they're so slow and ponderous on land. "But the wings! Why would an aquatic creature have wings?" Picture Guran lying on the ground horizontally (or, say, swimming in water horizontally) and the wings look almost like Plesioth's fins.