User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-1758220-20120104034656/@comment-1011548-20120104105304

Looking at the Pseudo-Base Camp area of the Tower in Tri G, I'm afraid it looks almost exactly the same as the original Tower for it to be anything but. I suppose you could just argue that Hunters make an absolutely massive journey to get to this Tower for the valuable stuff there, but the fact it's 3rd Gen Gold and Silver that live there, directly contradicting Unite.... blargh. I suppose you could subscribe to the theory that all Rathian and Rathalos are the same, and that the 3rd gen revamp was just a game-play thing/visual thing... but where's the fun in that.

I love the idea the Tower is an almost religious site, though. I don't see what else you'd use it for (I suppose it'd give you somewhere to hide if your country was invaded) but the Area 10 of the Tower, with beams of sunlight filtering down, would certainly have had a very... ceremonial effect on anyone that went there. Assuming they cleared out the Remobra first. And the Orange Espinas.

I can see people worshiping Yama - it's slow, kinda majestic, not really interested in fighting... if it just happened to fly over the Tower during a year of really good harvest or something, I could see people pinning it on him. Not sure about Alatreon though, seems more likely it'd inspire fear than worship (IIRC there's some flavour text in Tri about how it keeps attacking balloons that travel over the Sacred Land, completely buggering up trade).