r/MonsterHunter • u/EnderDracon • Mar 02 '25

MH Wilds “Hunter, the Guild authorizes” is so damn cool Spoiler

The handler in wilds feels so much less like some sidekick and more of a HANDLER. Like, we’re the guild’s blade and she is the hand that guides us. The guild has given her FULL AUTONOMY to act on their behalf, and she alone can decide what we are hunting. The lines also came at really good times during cutscenes and overall just fed the vibes lol. Especially the final fight of low rank? SHIVERS

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u/GalacticAlmanac Mar 02 '25

And probably why the games really, really go out of their way to avoid any human conflicts and make sure that the guild is like the clear good guys. Imagine what the hunter can do against other regular people if say the guild is evil and wages war, send the hunters on assassination missions, or on missions to exterminate separatist villages.

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u/ArkGrimm Mar 03 '25

Imagine some monster skin-wearing maniac blitzing Kunafa with two swords made out of their god of storm's corpse, dashing from one villager to another in an unstoppable flurry of attacks...hinestly it's pretty curious that no poacher seems to hide in those eastern lands.

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u/GalacticAlmanac Mar 03 '25

Maybe we don't see poachers since the guild is just so ruthlessly efficient at finding and dealing with them.

The guild has an army of wing drakes that the hunters can call whenever, and probably also run a massive surveillance system with those or some other monsters. They have many bases of operations and can probably quickly deploy people to hunt those poachers down. There are also the airships that they say are for "research" purposes.

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u/lordatamus ​This is my BoomStick Mar 03 '25

Ding, got it in one.
The guild is ruthlessly efficient with how the Guild Knights deal with poachers/renegades. One of the Guild Gals/sweethearts is a Guild Knight and uses a hammer, iirc I think the flavor text on that entry was 'her hammer is the last thing poachers ever see' or something along the lines. I have a feeling that the guild knights are most often undercover as either random hunters or the guild liaisons/reps you see all the time.

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u/SayuriUliana Mar 03 '25

The Guild already has a group to deal with humans, they're the Guild Knights.

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u/Former-Stock-540 ​ Mar 03 '25

You know, now the normal-sized saber and sideblade starts to make a lot more sense…

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u/theWaywardSun Mar 03 '25

They mention it a little bit in Wilds. Alma says something to the effect that hunters take a vow never to turn their weapons on other humans.

That said, some of the weapons are ridiculous in the amount of human carnage they could possibly cause very easily. Look at the shells dropped when reloading a gunlance for instance. The gunlance alone is huge but it's also basically an artillery piece.

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u/Dino4O1 Mar 03 '25

Aren't Gunlances also ancient technology that's been "recently" recovered? They definitely were built for a major conflict that has long since passed.

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u/theWaywardSun Mar 03 '25

I'm not 100% on the lore but yeah Gunlances are recovered tech from the "Old Civilization," but I assume given the Ancient relationship with monsters it's always been a monster hunting weapon. Probably similar to the relation between a muzzle loader and a magazine fed weapon in terms of innovation upon the Lance. According to the limited amount of lore I've been able to amass, monsters have always been used for their parts and the Ancient Civilization hunted them way more than the guild does now.

Now given some late game info gained from Wilds, conflict between civilizations doesn't seem as farfetched but I guess your mileage may vary on that conclusion.

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u/Dino4O1 Mar 04 '25

Its never been far fetched when you know about Guild Knights and the guild girl that "bonks" pouchers. People are still "hunted" if their against the laws and having civilizations that have built massive empires in a world filled with giant super beasts and not collapse before building these super fortresses and large cities would also have conflict with each other is not surprising in the slightest especially when the game is Japanese and they always randomly have that as a minor/major background point in things. (Murder Princess, Cross Ange, Nausicaa of the valley of the wind - this one is a pretty good one)

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u/OtakuAttacku Mar 03 '25

"So have you ever thought about using these giant weapons against each other?"

"What? No. That's just stupid, that's what guns are for" racks 1911

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u/94dima94 ​ Mar 03 '25

I believe the in-lore explanation is the Guild has a group of warriors specifically trained and specialized in fighting and killing rogue Hunters, both those who attack people and those who hunt monsters they shouldn't go after.

Which is also the reason why being authorized by Alma is given that much weight, as the Hunters can only act by direct order from the Guild.