User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-4820236-20120525021631/@comment-1653324-20120527075612

Both theories on magnetism (note that it isn't energy per se). To make lightning strikes, it could just forcibly release electrons from its horns to the air, and the forming negative charges just return to the ground as lightning.

Can't really cold breath just cause ice? There has to be some water vapor in the air, and they could just form rough amorphous blocks of ice (really just solid water), no need to crystallize.