[About the Mezeporta Location]

[Schrade Academy]

Here it is another post to clear doubts and some misuderstandings that happen often with the series.
It seems that lately there is all I’m writing about XD

I finally tracked down what was the deal with the "both" Mezeportas featured in the series (Frontier and Online).

Again, I tracked down all the old websites and dialogues about it in game in mainline, frontier, online and explore.
I decided to look for actual info about the the series, finding a lot of interviews, old development documents and sites and talking with people native from Japan and Hong Kong to clear my doubts and be sure about the most correct way to understand and translate the original chinese and japanese names and things that I’ve came across.

In this research I’ll explain what is the location of the Mezeporta Square in the world map, alongside explaining why there are different versions of it.

And again, because of the huge amount of images and text info, i decided to upload it as a PDF that you can acess it to be able to read it in a more confortable way!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1em6S4B ... sp=sharing

[TripleCartographer]

Thank you for posting this. I am working on a map to run a TTRPG campaign of Monster Hunter, and I really wanted to work in some of the Frontier and Online locations. This is a massive help, plus it has some maps an resources I haven’t seen yet. Keep up the great work.

[Schrade Academy]

You're welcome ^^
It makes me very happy to know that my researched could have helped you with your map! I'm looking forward to see it complete in the future!

If you want to know more about these locations from Frontier and Online, feel free to send me a DM on the Discord and i will gladly help with what i can!

[jon2]

This may be a few years late; still, thanks for the research!

I just want to ask: even though a browser game like "Mezeporta Reclamation" is not considered mainline nor canon, seeing its anime trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsl_xSpxn_s) there were scenes of a possible ruined Mezeporta and a "suspected" Elder Dragon behind it (fighting the MC girls)

Is it possible that the original Mezeporta was devastated (probably cuz the defenses of Dundorma/Dondruma didn't extend that much to the area), thus necessitating its relocation to the former Metapetatto?

[Guest]

Sorry for the late reply, it has been a while since I checked the forums!
I'm really happy that you liked the research ^^

Mezeporta Reclamation (or I guess more accurately "Mezeporta Development Chronicles") is in fact a canon game made by some of the Frontier members within the COG team (responsible for Frontier).

The story of that game is a prequel to Frontier, and depicts the foundation of Mezeporta in an underdevelopment land by an unnamed Guildmaster (your character) while also dealing with a high influx of monsters in the region, caused by the movements of an Elder Dragon (later revealed to be Lao) and iirc Lao has already destroyed a village in it's path by the start of that story. The game also featured the young versions of the receptionist from Frontier while they were still learning the ropes.

The game PV was made before the designs and settings for it were finished, that's why they feature an Mezeporta with the Diva and the receptionists as more aged (this was said by Sugiura, producer of Frontier and main producer of COG games).

As for the monster that appears at the end, it is not clear what it is, but considering the setting, Keo would fit it nicely, specially considering the Diva Defense War that happens during the events of G10.1 and beyond. The destroyed place in the trailer also resembles more an small village than the Mezeportas we saw during the Frontier or that game version of it.

So while I could see the original Mezeporta being affected by an attack from a monster, based on what I seen from the setting materials related to it, it is more probable to me that they changed it to better suit the hunter's needs, regional location advantages and logistics for it's people and the surrounding areas.

Hope that could be helpful ^^

[Schrade Academy]

Sorry for the late reply, it has been a while since I checked the forums!
I'm really happy that you liked the research ^^

Mezeporta Reclamation (or I guess more accurately "Mezeporta Development Chronicles") is in fact a canon game made by some of the Frontier members within the COG team (responsible for Frontier).

The story of that game is a prequel to Frontier, and depicts the foundation of Mezeporta in an underdevelopment land by an unnamed Guildmaster (your character) while also dealing with a high influx of monsters in the region, caused by the movements of an Elder Dragon (later revealed to be Lao) and iirc Lao has already destroyed a village in it's path by the start of that story. The game also featured the young versions of the receptionist from Frontier while they were still learning the ropes.

The game PV was made before the designs and settings for it were finished, that's why they feature an Mezeporta with the Diva and the receptionists as more aged (this was said by Sugiura, producer of Frontier and main producer of COG games).

As for the monster that appears at the end, it is not clear what it is, but considering the setting, Keo would fit it nicely, specially considering the Diva Defense War that happens during the events of G10.1 and beyond. The destroyed place in the trailer also resembles more an small village than the Mezeportas we saw during the Frontier or that game version of it.

So while I could see the original Mezeporta being affected by an attack from a monster, based on what I seen from the setting materials related to it, it is more probable to me that they changed it to better suit the hunter's needs, regional location advantages and logistics for it's people and the surrounding areas.

Hope that could be helpful ^^

This was me by the way, I wasn't logged when I replied haha

[jon2]

Thanks for the answer!

Learned more about the Monster Hunter world

[Schrade Academy]

You're welcome! I'm glad that could be useful to you ^^

[BeepLettuce]

Thank you for making this. It's a great read.

I have a question about the following paragraph on page 43:
"One important aspect of the Monster Hunter Online lore is that the game is situated in relatively distant future when compared to the console/portable series and Frontier. I will talk more about it in another post, but this placement is at least more than 50 years in the future when compared to the previous games. This gave the team margin to work on things without interfering too much with what the newer games were building."

Is there a source for this information? Does it come from a developer interview or in-game dialogue?

Also, in regards to the Mezeporta Topaz, the Great Forest is quite far from the location of both Dundorma and the new Mezeporta, so could it have gained its name due to it being a common material brought to Mezeporta via the trade routes, rather than being mined near the town as the FU description suggests?

[Schrade Academy]

I'm very happy that you liked it ^^

I have a question about the following paragraph on page 43:
"One important aspect of the Monster Hunter Online lore is that the game is situated in relatively distant future when compared to the console/portable series and Frontier. I will talk more about it in another post, but this placement is at least more than 50 years in the future when compared to the previous games. This gave the team margin to work on things without interfering too much with what the newer games were building."

Is there a source for this information? Does it come from a developer interview or in-game dialogue?

Yeah, there's a lot of in-game dialogue, texts and external media that shows that the story was set in the future (some of them I mentioned and left screenshots/translations in the pages 48 and 69)! Certain known places like the Furahiya Mountains (2nd Gen Snowy Mountains) that was old hunting grounds that were not used for a couple years until opened again in the main story, Mezeporta was already developed into a huge city 50 years before the actual in-game story and NPC characters like Roden lived through it in his past, Veld has a new royalty (and princess) in charge of the Kingdom, the Hinmeroon Mountains have now a road that passes through it and that serve as a novice hunting ground, Gore Magala research was more known and Estrellian was compared to it and so on...

I still have much translation to finish in regard to the story of the game, but I believe there is way more examples of that within it haha

Also, in regards to the Mezeporta Topaz, the Great Forest is quite far from the location of both Dundorma and the new Mezeporta, so could it have gained its name due to it being a common material brought to Mezeporta via the trade routes, rather than being mined near the town as the FU description suggests?

It is quite possibly a material that could have become associated with the place, after all the Great Forest was the first major hunting ground that was discovered and explored by Mezeporta, so makes sense that materials from there would have been brought to the city and manufactored into products/jewels for the people there ^^

Another example of a stone associated with a place that was geographically distant, was the Schradite and the Liber Ruby (said to be found in Schrade and the outskirts of the Liber City but were mined from the Kruptios Swamp, which is a region adjacent to the West Schrade Republic but is not part of it).