So what if Shael became a monster from the Monster Hunter series? Sure, it'd likely be more obvious to go for something more beastly, like an Odogaron, Zinogre-, even Nergi... but what if anthro Namielle?
Namielle is woefully underrepresented and a sand surfing variant of the elder dragon just fits his colour palette perfectly.

Super happy with how this ultimately came out.

Art by:  Levo

Shael belongs to  Rayth