User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-1431853-20110706214316/@comment-1011548-20110707164728

I don't know, I wouldn't like to be the Fatalis that gets too close to a Lao-Shan standing on its back-legs and snapping at the air, like it does when it comes across a Hunter on a bridge. On the other hand, most of the time Lao does seem pretty defenseless, but Fatalis's mouth isn't that big anyway (compared to Lao) so it wouldn't inflict huge damage. And those fireballs are powerful, but Lao-Shan's hide is probably thick as a whale omelette, it's debatable how much damage they'd do. And let's bear in mind the original story behind this. Fatalis wouldn't seek out Lao, there'd be no point having a fight with something like that when there's easier stuff around to kill. Lao could have simply taken a different migratory route that year for some reason, some sentries at the Castle could have seen Fatalis flying around for the first time for a while, and some genius back at the village goes 'OMG the two things are totally connected'. Or something.