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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Pokemon Creation Background

So, I've been working on this for about a day now, and still haven't really gotten anywhere. I may as well post it so far, though.

So, first of all, we have the dawn of existance. An empty universe with nothing in it except a single egg. And from that egg, hatches the creator: Arceus. Arceus supposedly created the universe with its thousand arms, and so, it uses them to craft a reality. But before it needs inhabitants, it needs controllers to stop reality falling out of balance, so it creates Palkia to control space, Dialga to control time and Giratina to control the parallel world of negativity that would form and go out of control without Giratina there.

Now that the fabric of existance is under control, he can get to work on the life. At this point, there are two things he could make, Ho-oh or Mew, or both. Mew is supposed to be the ancestor to all Pokemon, so presumably, its pretty old. It can't predate Arceus, however, and likely doesn't predate the Dragon Trio above. Ho-Oh is the phoenix, and is seen by the humans as a creator, having resurrected the Dog Trio. However, it doesn't particularly matter in this case,Ho-Oh is immortal, and thus ancient regardless of when it was made. I'd assume Mew was made here first, however.

Next up, he's going to need somewhere for his new universal inhabitants to live. Whether or not this part happens before or after Palkia, Dialga and Giratina, I wouldn't be particularly sure. Heatran was made with the planet, when volcanic lava melded together into sentient form, so he could be the first non-Arceus Pokemon. Random knowledge here, Heatran is the only Legendary that can be female or male. Anyway, after the planet is made, Arceus decides he's made it incorrectly, so he makes the weather trio: Kyogre to raise the oceans, Groudon to craft the land and Rayquaza to go off and protect the skies (totally infringing on Ho-oh's territory). Then Regigigas pulls the freshly molded continents into their correct places through the oceans raised by Kyogre for Arceus. Lugia would've been made sometime around here, and gone to sleep on the ocean floor to guard it, while Ho-oh takes up its residence of guardian of the sky.

So, now, we have a god busy at work, the three dragons are off in their two parallel universes making sure the fabric of reality remains stable, Mew is off being the ancestor to all Pokemon, Groudon and Kyogre have had their fight and gone to sleep, and Ho-oh, Lugia, Rayquaza, Regigigas and Heatran are busy building/defending Arceus' planet. Now he'd probably make the first human, but before he can, he makes the Lake Guardians, Azelf, Uxie and Mesprit. Since they represent emotion, knowledge and willpower, they're kind of necessary for humanity to be more than blank slates. Celebi would be around now, but due its status as a time traveller, its impossible to discern Celebi's creation point, thus, its better to ignore Celebi. Presumably the moon is active now, and with humans ready to go about existing, Darkrai and Cresselia would be brought into existance, to control the moon's orbit and to give power to the nightmares and dreams of humans.

By this point, the only legendaries left not created by another legendary that would have impact on the elements are Zapdos, Moltres and Articuno. So, I'd put them in here, with Lugia ready to control them if they break out in fighting. Regigigas' job is done, so he goes to sleep, but before he does, he creates Regice, Registeel and Regirock from the glaciers, iron deposits and mountains, and sends them off to guard various things, like the Tree of Beginning and the prison of an unknown Pokemon/human. Last of all, Lati@s are born, to guard the humans with their illusionary skills.

Manaphy/Phione are kind of irrelevant due to their massive power of doing nothing practical, Shaymin are an awfully common species for a legendary, so I believe they would have evolved in the normal way and the Dogs are made by Ho-oh after the Tin Tower is burnt down during the time of humans, so they're a bit off. Jirachi is also ambiguous, due to living in space, so it doesn't even fit into the timeline. Last, we come to the two rival psychic Pokemon: Deoxys, and Mewtwo. Both are made in modern times, Mewtwo via science and Deoxys via the mutation of a virus entering the Earth's atmosphere, so they're also not 'Arceus-made', per se.

And that brings us to the end. Thanks for reading this mostly useless post.

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