Trails of Tera Steel (Kiseki-inspired Pokemon Academy Quest)
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Here's what we know about Corviknight:
It's based on a knight from Pokémon England.
Here's what we know about Tinkaton:
It attacks Corviknight on sight
It's based on Celtic myths about fairy blacksmiths
It tries to fight Corviknight by hitting things at it golf-style
Conclusion:
Tinkaton is a (Scottish) Highlander. It's gonna on-sight the English. It's not necessarily going to win.
Also man I stayed up way too late actually beating Trails from Zero instead of just osmosing its bruh moments. I am now even happier about our rescue kitty. Slightly confusing name aside.
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On the topic of "what combat style would we train a non-existent Tinkatuff" in, there's this.
We're a decent archer and could teach our pokemon how to be. And we've got no issues hunting Steel types for the required metal...
We're a decent archer and could teach our pokemon how to be. And we've got no issues hunting Steel types for the required metal...
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I know the chances are incredibly low but it would be so cool if we found some leftover Dialga metal skin sheddings and turn that into a weapon that screws with time.
A Tinkaton being able to forge a weapon out of Dialga metal seems more "hero from an age of myth" level.
The absolute peak that's probably possible now is being bestowed a bit of Registeel or Heatran metal.
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Listen, the only way we're getting weapon material THAT good is if we trade someone an entire 14‐part novel series that we've probably already missed two of by not talking to the entire population of Mesagoza every week.
Elise might be more on the ball but unless she's using a strategy guide I wouldn't count on it.
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Yeah getting a part of the God of Time would be protagonst stuff, and that's Elise not us. We could actually have a decent chance at one of the metal Ultra Beasts since we know Ostia has one, a Kartana Katana would go hard.
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She's trying OK, she's already maneuvered to start the Theodora romance early by triggering the right Arrival event, and the Festival Date rolling the Mariana+Erika encounter is fairly common and not really harmful to the route if you juggle actions around, but getting the "Mariana becomes ranger candidate" event aswell has been very unlucky and cut the money and Bond Points gain from the action in half.
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We're just lucky shes going for the Route finisher Achievement for Marianna becoming Class president, would have been real bad if she just kept reloading that save till she won for mx AP
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Yeah, obviously it's not an automatic follow up to getting a tinkatink, but the impression I got was that for several voters it's the first of the two steps that are meant to follow each other.
I know nothing about the trails side of the mashup, but from what's been presented so far the knightly orders are at least meant to uphold the empire and by extension the nobility that explicitly hates us for being of the wrong ethnicity. Maybe it is likely to go another way when the plot happens, but for me at least it's not particularly attractive to join the pro establishment side of things, considering that the empire is at this very moment among other things engaged in a military occupation.
Probably not a full knight as long as we do weekly turns, since that'd take quite a while, but the option to pledge to join them in some capacity and have that be a major commitment absolutely exists:
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I don't currently plan on having Mariana become a knight, getting the Tinkatink is absolutely mainly because Tinkaton is one of the best pokenon designs ever, with a great typing, and fills a physical niche we currently don't have.
But hey, since we're going to stumble across the chapter house anyways while exploring the city and getting those positive pokemon dens, and if we're lucky we'll have a Tinkaton on our team eventually, I wouldn't not leave becoming a knight off the table. It's a perfectly valid secondary career choice if it turns out we're not quite cut out to be Champion.
Would it be our first career choice if the Champion thing falls through? Maybe. Maybe not. But I doubt there's an issue with leaving the possibility open no?
(Not to mention if we become a knight and they do end up serving evil that's just a bonus to me tbh, that's some juicy story opportunity right there. No matter what we do if that's the case it'll be fun.)
But hey, since we're going to stumble across the chapter house anyways while exploring the city and getting those positive pokemon dens, and if we're lucky we'll have a Tinkaton on our team eventually, I wouldn't not leave becoming a knight off the table. It's a perfectly valid secondary career choice if it turns out we're not quite cut out to be Champion.
Would it be our first career choice if the Champion thing falls through? Maybe. Maybe not. But I doubt there's an issue with leaving the possibility open no?
(Not to mention if we become a knight and they do end up serving evil that's just a bonus to me tbh, that's some juicy story opportunity right there. No matter what we do if that's the case it'll be fun.)
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So, Erika.
Erika is weird.
She's based on Plan: A Moonlit World from character creation:
(Albeit not quite exactly, unless she's lying about her history with Cornelia, which I doubt. We also haven't heard anything about her Backer, which makes me think she's closer to the below description than a strict read of this plan).
This overall puts her background in parallel to Emma Millstein from Trails of Cold Steel, perhaps the most underappreciated ToCS1 character, if only because "busty librarian type who's secretly a spy" gets upstaged by the plethora of other people who are secretly spies in Class VII (there's so many). Emma is, put succinctly, a witch, which is one of those supernatural things that does exist in the Trails verse but most people think they're fictional, and are deeply tied into the ancient history that forms the basis for ToCS's overarching plot. She's also Usagi-tier bad at hiding it and most of the actual spy shit is done by her familiar, black cat and boomer-who-gets-mad-at-pronouns-in-bio Celine. She's also the class brain genius and is mostly characterized as being very smart and kind and, despite everything, is quite sincere about that.
Erika seems to have inherited, at the very least, a maxed KNOW stat and an origin in an isolated town with deep ties to mysticism and the hidden history of the region. Whatever's going on with the metaplot, someone in Fede knows about it even if Erika herself doesn't. Her personality, though, is very different, with her name, her face, and fragments of said personality being based on a blorbo from mine and Arvis's shows, specifically Erika Furudo from Umineko: When They Cry - Answer Arcs (they don't answer shit). Barring the......extremely complicated meta situation of Erika's backstory, she is an archetypal Mystery Novel Detective, introduced into a story that can't decide whether it's a mystery novel or not, because its actual protagonist is kinda terrible at being a detective. She is also, and I might fall out of oomfie status with Arvis for this, a fucking psychopath whose only objective is to make the other characters suffer, and without getting into too much deal is effectively the main villain of about a quarter of the overall Umineko experience. If you thought Poirot or BBC Sherlock was an asshole, wait till you see that kind of guy written as a villain on purpose.
Erika Furuwada is, needless to say, not this, instead taking a much, much more sympathetic look at someone with a great deal of genius and insight and minimal social skills who does, nonetheless, want to do right by other people even when she falls short. It's a combination that isn't "just" any one character reference, but a confluence of ideas that's only possible by mixing together two very, very different sources. (Possibly more than that, I can think of a couple of ToCS Class VII characters with foot-in-mouth syndrome). You can see the level of anxiety this combination causes her, though, and we, as Mariana, are doing a hell of a lot for her just by our combination of acknowledging her skills and forgiving her constant social faux pas, something she's barely willing to give herself. I think that's neat, and also a pretty reasonable reason for her unlucky crush on our protagonist.
The combination is also funny because, despite being a detective representing the "anti-fantasy" side of Umineko, Erika Furudo does claim the title of "Witch" - specifically "the Witch of Truth" - when she "defeats" Beatrice and Battler and...I need to stop myself before I get into a tangent. I'm the only being on Earth who thinks Episode 6 is the best part of Umineko, besides possibly unironic Erika stans.
Aha, found Kitakami; I'd forgotten this earlier when trying to figure out Ogerpon's deal. It seems to be a sub-region or neighbor of Johto-Kanto (reasonable), although Erika being a second or third generation immigrant also means she doesn't have the whole same ancient bloodline deal as Emma. Unless she's Kieran and Carmine's cousin or something. Still a witch though, I bet. She does have the same class valedictorian deal as Emma.
We do know (now) that she was super stressed out from critical failure at befriending/catching a Pokémon. Also given that a Fede PC could have talked to Pokémon, it's also possible that that Wingull was just a dick. I do wonder whether this was all she was stressed out about that first night, though.
Wow, two Daisy Oak mentions in the same thread.
Also I gushed over Fantasy Science Nerding a bit when this came out, and I think everyone who'd be willing to read this thread has got the basic osmotic knowledge of Pokémon that I don't really have to explain this, but I just want to point out that the development here really is a kind of parallel to how historical sciences work in real life. Modern physics, for example, has come about through the parallel development of Relativity and Quantum Theory, with the major theoretical goal right now being the harmonization of those two different ways of looking at the same mechanisms at different scales. We're not quite there yet, though...
I took this as a nod to either works where humans have Types that actually are expressions of their personality (Tempera's absolutely incredible In A World We Must Defend being one that forefronts it) or to the existence of Type specialists that tend to conform to a personality type in the game (your Hex Maniacs, Psychics, and whatnot, which likely inspired the former interpretation). It could be foreshadowing though.
Regardless, I agree with Erika in that normally, a Type is descriptive, not prescriptive, of personality. Unless someone is doing a fucky wucky with people's brains/bodies/souls, I mean. I do have Trails from Zero on the mind here.
So Erika has a Pokémon named for one of her counterpart's associates in Umineko. But Theodora has a Pokémon named for one of her counterpart's associates in ToCS. But the part of that actual character is being played by a human (or a very skilled Zoroark). With the name of one of her counterpart's associates from Umineko. I feel like a computer who's stumbled into a logic trap meant to make me explode so I'm just gonna ignore this.
Anyway, mentioned earlier but collating here: Cornelia is a secondary character from Umineko, one of Erika Furudo's assistants, a member of the Eiserne Jungfrau (an Erebonia-ass name for an organization despite most of the rest of Umineko being themed on the Italian Renaissance) and effectively a rookie angel, here to enforce DA RULEZ of mystery stories in contrast to the demons Beatrice employs to make the story more fantastical. She also may more may not be a gijinka for a roll of duct tape. Please do not ask me to explain Umineko. In any case, she's fond of magic barriers, as is Carbink, the tanky motherfucker of the Fairy type. Notably, she's the least senior of Erika's trio of named heavenly genre enforcers, which makes me think that her potential Scyther partner might represent Cornelia's overall boss, the sword-swinging reaper girl of all time...but I'll wait and see if that pans out. For all I know we'll drift into a Higurashi reference there instead.
I'm laughing my ass off re-reading this. I'd show you why but it's mega spoilers. Arvis knows, though.
(Also it's probably a Shinwa/Kitakami accent, if she speaks it at home.)
The Terastal/Type energy as a long-going thing that Pokémon, and things made from Pokémon, could use exclusively up until the recent technological evolution is a very interesting thing we're likely to here more about. It parallels Trails in that ""magic"", that is, harnessing the elemental energy of Septium, was a known thing for over a millennium between the collapse of the Ancient Zemurian civilization and the Orbal Revolution, but it was all "hey these rocks can make fire" or "alchemy is a real thing we can do here" or "hey the Church just stole my ancient magic doohickey I don't understand because I was using it to enslave people". Industry and science making the stuff more understood and democratizing it is what gives Trails its modern feel on top of the normal fantasy tropes.
This is the most deal we've gotten on the Great War.
First of all, Shinwa as the name of the continent for Pokésia. Or...just Very Large Japan, possibly. The way scaling works in Pokémon, what would be the Japanese archipelago in real life would equate to most of Western Europe at a minimum, in political significance if not actual physical area. I asked Arvis about the name and he told me he just got it from a different fic, although the "wa" part means "harmony".
Cipher (called "Shadow" in Japanese) are the villains of Pokémon Colloseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, an evil team that is much viler than normal for the franchise, focusing on Shadow Pokémon which are, effectively, Pokémon emotionally abused until they are powerful and potentially berserk. In this setting, they're even worse, being an althist Nazi movement, and were clearly trying to use Shadow Pokémon as an edge to start a campaign of continental conquest a la Nazi Germany, which paralleled World War II thanks to the involvement of allies around the world.
Kanto-Johto (which I've called "the Indigo States" in my sidestory stuff) is clearly a stand-in for Hirohito's Japan here, but Erika doesn't go into detail on it - based on other clues in this update, probably because her family is still suffering the effects of this war and the ensuing Indigo Civil War generations later.
This doesn't have a direct parallel to Trails, of course, but it does serve to create the tone and political tensions of the present world in much the same way that the real world is still heavily influenced by the results of World War II (give or take 30 years and an existential cold war between competing economic systems in between). We've seen multiple instances since in worldbuilding posts that Kanto-Johto imperialism, metastatized into ultranationalism and becoming the rallying cry of Team Rocket, is still being carried forward into the 21st century, and other budding crypto-Cipherists like Ghetsis and Actual Closeted Fascists like Lysandre are in positions of power throughout the world. In this respect, it's probably the most important worldbuilding in the thread.
Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, and Almia all represent parts of the Japanese archipelago. Orre is a region based on the US state of Arizona, while Unova is based loosely on the New York City metropolitan area. Very loosely. If I had to guess, for the purposes of this fic, they represent the western and easten halves of the North American continent, with the smaller region of Holon (from the Trading Card Game which I know zilch about) as a neighbor. Notably, we know that Unova is a Presidential democracy, as opposed to Paldea and Galar's confirmed monarchies, and all three of the above are in power-sharing arrangements with their respective Pokémon Leagues, whereas other regions, including the Indigo States don't have any mention of a government outside the League yet.
Also somewhat interesting is that eternal rivals Paldea and Kalos both fought on the same side of this war thanks to each of their allies getting invaded. Fun little parallel to the Allies and Comintern, I suppose, and also the only reason Jenkins could have been conceivably deployed overseas given that he lives on the Kalos-Paldea border.
Oh hey, "vindictive" was used in the update, that's where I got my analysis of Jenkins's tone: it's canon.
Anyway the Orrans used Shadow Lugia as a nuke, then the Gen 2 legendary birds save the day for themselves and Pokémon everywhere. The fact that this ends the war for humanity as well is probably coincidental, as far as they're concerned.
Also I'm not sure if it's canon that Lugia is a species with multiple members in the games (continuity and Legendary Pokémon are very very weird for a lot of practical reasons), but, nota bene for the Quest's setting, I suppose.
Fun fact that even before cooking club we were the only Class VII with cooking experience, with the possible exceptions of Elise, Atticus, and...I'm pretty sure it's established later that Ostia is a total newbie.
Anyway did you know that you can use complete omnipotent control over causality to cook a perfect pasta carbonara?
I explained the deal here in Jacinto's section last time, but it's good to see his sneering contempt for the landlord class on principle is still there.
(We should hang out with him and get details).
Roland will later lose to Cornelia in a 1v1, I assume because Erika was paying more attention to this practice bout than Mariana was.
Leaf caught a new Pokémon on our first night. I don't think we know who this is actually.
Shot.
It's worth noting that a lot of nobles, royals, future government workers, and aspiring engineers attend Thors, not just would-be military cadets, and the same is surely true of Mesagoza. It's a catch-all for the country's elite these days more than an army training program.
Anyway after this is a large section of Erika, noted child of immigrants, being casually racist because she has no social skills, and us working through that in a homoromantic manner. That was the emotional heart of this update and the thread swooned well enough, so I'm not gonna elaborate on it except to say that in ToCS canon, this would have taken at least a month to resolve. Good on Mariana for being socially assertive, at least when she's not stuck in a self-abnegation loop with Elise.
Hang on. Is Leaf nicknaming a very self-aware nerd here or is Erika's mom named Rika? Because either way it's hilarious.
I'm also extremely fucking terrified of how Trails and When They Cry references are going to harmonize if "Rika" is her older female relative.
Elise was the last Class VII member we met, and the last one we learned the name of. Appropriate, for the heroine. I bet she sits second from the back next to the window, or would if Leaf let her get away with not being the center of attention. It also took me an embarassingly long time to connect this description to the option in the previous update, maybe she just has one of those faces.
Also after having been informed that hereditary appearance traits actually exist here, unlike in most anime...hoo boy we're in trouble.
Incidentally, in Trails of Cold Steel the symbol of the Erebonian nation is the horse (in honor of their historical knights and cavalry) and one of the symbols of their royal family is the lion (for Emperor Dreichels the Lionhearted). Rapidash and Pyroar represent the same animals, but Fire-type. I wonder if Galar's is a Corviknight and Kalos's is some Grass-type, actually, given Liberl and Calvard's national symbols of a falcon and some kind of flower...wait Kalos's is obviously Floette.
Again someone I already covered: Team Star Boss, much better DJ than he is student council president, almost assuredly not very popular in his position. Obviously this is before his fall from grace (and learning to loosen up and embrace the EDM).
More timeline details (and establishing the Baroque movement as originating from Rime, which is geographically southeastern France here). My guess of Emperor Felipe as Philip II almost lines up with the timeline here; historical Philip II ruled Spain over the latter half of the 16th century. I might have just read too much into the name, though.
Chaser.
Also: arguably the greatest density of worldbuilding in this update that's already like 60% worldbuilding by wordcount. The vast religious baroque paintings popular in 17th century architecture here depict the Generation VI Legendary Pokémon Xerneas, who is revered as a granter of eternal life and appropriately standing in for God as the creator of the Garden of Eden here. Also Fairy-types are considered semidivine here, which is probably a parallel to how Fairy is the most recent "newly added" type in Pokémon - rather than being a new thing in-universe, it's a question of recognizing something "supernatural" as in fact following the same laws as the rest of the world, like lightning or disease.
The Geomantic Church is, as stated by my previously, a parallel to the Trails series's Septian Chuch. There's no mention of an overarching deity like Zemuria's Aidios, and presumably various Legendary Pokémon are revered as deities in different parts of the world or as a whole. Although the fact that Xerneas's antlers glow many different colors, much like Aidios's holy magical phlebotinum Septium, is vaguely interesting. Also, Xerneas (life) and its balancing partners Yveltal (death) and Zygarde (balance) are the nearest "God-like" legendaries to us physically, being associated with neighboring Kalos, and likely figure greatly into the local legends and Testaments.
Kind of a scattershot of namechecks here that I understand better now that we're farther in the quest:
Portomédio Opera Company and its lead singer Dorothea Casagandra: Probably a Trails Reference to the Heimdallr Opera and its star, the Azure Diva Vita Clotilde, who's.......very important. We'll see what the witches are up to here before I speculate. Interestingly, Porto Medio is a place in real life Portugal, which is vaguely represented by Porto Marinada in this setting. No idea if this means anything yet.
Rimean Theatre Group Arc en Ciel: Arc En Ciel is a Trails-canon stage dancing group from Crossbell, which has been translated to Rime City in this quest. Possibly the greatest dance troupe in Zemuria, led by local bisexual lunatic Ilya Platiere and notably seconded by recent recruit Rixia Mao, a girl Ilya pulled randomly out of the audience either because Ilya has an insane eye for talent or because Rixia manages to have jiggle physics in a chibi-style PSP game and Ilya has a type. I expect we'll see these guys's counterparts eventually, either in their capacity as performers or not.
eccentric Prince Carlos: This can only be additional local bisexual lunatic Prince Olivert Reise Arnor, who's kind of the thread connecting all the early arcs of Trails. He's got a complicated life story that I'll wait until we meet Carlos properly to exposit on, I'm just noticing that this one-off namedrop is probably going to be incredibly relevant later.
We've known Ostia for five minutes and we'd throw hands with a teacher for them if at all provoked, I swear.
Vice Principal Heinrich is such a complete non-entity of a character and such a thin archetype of Asshole Vice Principal from an 80's school comedy I had to wikidive to even get this reference. There's not much to speculated here besides "classist prick".
Ayala is another Basque name, though, after the town of Ayala. Glad to see all the representation here.
Your honor, even if I didn't immediately clamber aboard the first available shipping train...I still have to admit they're cute.
Just noticed the perspective swapping here - briefly to Nemona and Manuel, and briefly to Elise, before Mariana even knows her name.
Also, as mentioned, this is probably a skinny version of Principal General Vandyck (pronounced Van Dike) of Thors Military Academy, giving quite the similar speech, and being in general the sane authority figure in Trails of Cold Steel. We can hpefully trust him. Also one of the few characters in the setting with only one name who's not using an alias. His first name is probably Principal, tbh.
I love having a logo."Arise , O youth, and become the foundation of the world."
Jesus fuck this was long. Maybe I'll try picking apart action descriptions on a later update but I'm going to stop at the title drop this time.
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So the parallels are difficult to draw. Notably, the Stahlritter were never an order recognized by a nation. They were more of an unofficial successor to a group that was. The Eisenritter. And the Orden de Verde seem to be a mix of the two. Both were led by the same immortal badass warrior saintess whose moral framework amounts to "Generally opposed to evil, but willing to tolerate it for a greater good". Being part of an evil conspiracy, but specifically so she can try to deal with a terrible curse plaguing her nation which was worse in the long run.
The problem is that the immortal badass warrior saintess in question, Arianrhod, has seemingly been split into at least two. Ogerpon has her mask with its own healthbar and historical role. Francesca's Tinkaton has her Lance. And there's an unnamed Grandmaster of the Order. Who may or may not also be Ogerpon. So heck knows what influence she has.
As far as upholding the systems that hate us, I wouldn't assume. One member of the Stahlritter joined because her previous organisation (The Bracer Guild, which has been turned into the Rangers in this fusion) was too politically hamstrung to deal with certain well-connected criminals and Arianrhod gave zero fucks and killed one of them and Ines swooned at this vigilante stuff. Upholding the cruelties of the well connected isn't something I'd just assume they'd do.
Odds are, we won't be able to make a judgement until we learn more and we won't be asked to commit until we know enough. So really, speculation right now doesn't matter that much anyhow.
I assume the Geomantic Church has Xerneas as an overarching deity because Xerneas's signature move is Geomancy.
Dorothea Casagranda is 100% a Fire Emblem: Three Houses reference. Mixing Dorothea, young opera singer, and Manuela Casagranda, "Divine Songstress" of the Mittelfrank Opera Company.
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I should really actually play XY but just...it's literally too easy to hold my attention. I hate to sound like a Geewun grognard but I just can't engage with something that holds my hand that hard.
Also I'm so used to people making Arceus God that I didn't think that someone would try monotheism with a different Pokémon. That's definitely on me though.
Ah, right, that came up before and slipped my mind in the middle of all that text. I didn't play Three Houses either, I only know Edelgard Did Nothing Wrong.
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I'm pretty certain that literally the only thing in Trails that's presented as fictional or mythical and isn't secretly real is ghosts, and as far as I know everything is secretly real in Pokémon, so you may be onto something here.
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Fair. I have a crapload of time in Y, but the actual plot was mostly a chore. It was just a good game to train up some Pokémon and battle online. The difficulty can work if you turn off the Exp. Share, but I can't forgive the friend group interrupting things all the time. They hadn't quite figured out making likeable casts yet.
Never actually played X or had a Xerneas myself. So I assume I mainly remember Geomancy from online battles. Whether in the game itself or via Showdown. When the deer eats a Power Herb and instantly does Nasty Plot, Amnesia and Agility all rolled into one you remember it.
Pokémon religion always seemed fairly regional. So I do appreciate dropping the "Everyone suddenly worships Arceus specifically" thing you see in a lot of Pokémon fics.
Most Legendary Pokémon are just that. Legendary. Cynthia can name Dialga and Palkia because she's a god-damn nerd. She has a specific, known interest in Sinnoh mythology and even she has to hit the books over the course of Platinum to learn about Giratina. And to her, Arceus isn't a known name. Arceus isn't even a myth. As of Platinum Arceus was speculation. It was just a possible interpretation Cynthia has of a mural in Celestic town and the words on an old Plate. She doesn't even learn the name until some time between D/P/P and HG/SS.
So, with that taken into account, odds are if there's a deity to worship it's going to be a local one because the Legendary Pokémon being present in a region is the most likely way to build a follower-base. And since Paldea is kind of lacking in things to worship (The box Legends aren't really Legendary Pokémon since they're just past/future Cyclizar and the Treasures of Ruin are less gods and more cursed artifacts) if they were to worship anything, they'd go to the nearest region we know. Kalos.
None of them did anything wrong ever. They are all my children.
Could also be Rakua. Which, from what Horizons has revealed so far, is a hidden paradise found by an ancient adventurer and his team of unreasonably powerful Pokémon.
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Heck, back in Legends Arceus, the Diamond and Pearl clans were feuding because they didn't even know Dialga and Palkia were separate pokemon.
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Man, Paldea really doesn't have its own set of gods huh. If it weren't for Xerneas we'd be some real godless heathens.
Koraidon and Miraidon have the power of a small god, but aren't actually gods. Just extremely powerful creatures who might not have ever existed until they suddenly did.
Ogerpon is on the same boat as the previous two, and just as cute if not cuter than Koraidon. She's a knight among knights here apparently.
Pecharunt is just a malevolent spirit, with powerful minions in the Loyal Three.
And while the Treasures of Ruin are the most god-like beings in Paldea, we also aren't worshipping them and in fact sealed them away. So it's more like we have 4 Satan's we don't want anyone knowing about.
Yeah it's interesting, it'd either nobody knowing about Arceus at all like in canon, or he's God in PokeChristianity.
Honestly, it seems like Sinnoh has the least known legendaries in-universe in the entire series. Nobody knows about the Lake Trio, Dialga and Palkia are thought to be the same being in the modern day and used to be called Almighty Sinnoh, Giratina is a total unknown, and Arceus is even more hidden than that.
Also. Wow, way to steal my thunder LunaticPanda and NMS.
Edit: Forgot to talk about Terapogos. According to the games (which seem to be the canon since I don't see Ash or Liko running around) it should be hibernating right now, but as gods go it is definitely one of them. Like, actual divinity.
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Truth be told, I'd bet Poké-Europe is fairly united in venerating Xerneas. Galar doesn't really have "godly" Legendaries either, at least not of the type you'd actually worship. The Z-dogs are remembered as legendary hero(es), and Eternatus...well, he's not really evil, but tends to cause more problems than he solves, historically.
Weren't the existence of the Z-dogs covered up by a government conspiracy?
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Yeah, Terapagos is up there with Arceus in terms of "this is a fundamental facet of existence embodied in a magical animal", but like Arceus, it's a complete unknown in the modern era and it takes obsessive research (or access to plot device jewelry) to have ever heard of the thing.
I'm just gonna admit straight up that I didn't play Sword and Shield either, but the fact remains that they're another unknown in history, just another "3000 years ago some shit happened and Something stopped it", with various people having various ideas on what "Something" was.