All Elders in general are pretty hard to classify as a whole, but what are your thoughts on Ceadeus? It's got a Dunkleosteus face, mammal-like horns and fur, a scaly, reptilian-looking body and a weird three-fluked tail that can move both vertically like a cetacean or horizontally like a fish or reptile.
Also what's up with the whole "their horns grow so big they eventually grow right through their eye socket" thing? The first one we encounter has already lost one eye to its overgrown horn, and the later one (the Goldbeard) has lost BOTH eyes. I suppose at this point hunting them is just a mercy kill like with Chaotic Gore Magala.
Most elders I have as a terrestrial radiation of coelacanths related to piscine wyverns and most leviathans, and Ceadeus I have as related to Mohrans and sky serpents. The family itself I have as part of a larger group that includes Kulve and Lao, but also some hairy members like the Stras. So hair isn’t so unique in the group. I should really try and finish my current version of the tree.
As for the horns and eyes my current line of thinking is that their eyesight isn’t good and they rely on their horns to sense their surroundings when deep diving, kinda like a narwhal tusk. So they kinda just messily overcompensate with their horns and it can bother them when growing.
