Espinas or also known as Espinath is a toxic green wyvern that first appeared in monster hunter frontier season 2.0
Appearence[]
Espinas is physically similar to a Rathian, but alongside scales its body is covered in hot pink spikes full of poison and rough green armor plating. A long, pink, poison-filled horn protrudes from the front of its head, similar to Monoblos. Poisonous thorns also protrude from its body, wings, tail, feet, and head. Its body, tail, and feet are bigger and more muscular than those of other Flying Wyverns. It has four pink claws upon its feet. Red-orange veins will appear when it is in its enraged state, similar to Tigrex.
Ecology[]
The Espinas is unusually passive for a flying wyvern and in the wild it can almost always be found sleeping, even when woken up it will still have a pretty passive demenor. However, if angered the Espinas becomes much faster, more brutal and gains the ability to shoot toxic fireballs that cause poison and paralysis.
Weakness[]
Espinas is most suseptibale to ice based attacks and its horn, back and chest can be broken and its tail can be severed.
HC Espinas[]
The Hardcore Espinas is largely similar to the normal Espinas in terms of design, except that its spikes are brighter in color, it’s legs are more developed and, for some strange reason, it’s eyes are blue. The HC Espinas is much faster then their normal brethren which makes its homing charge especially dangerous. It is also more adept at comboing into attacks.
Espinas Subspecies[]
A strong, brown subspecies of Espinas, it is much more resistant to damage then the normal Espinas and has much more powerful flames. It is able to reduce opponents defence and some have even been known to cause the status effect silked.
It has also been noted to have a Hardcore version with longer and more developed spikes down their back and around their wings. They are able to launch fire balls into the sky that explode into multiple other fireballs.
