So you came for me.\nThanks for that.
That’s really good, [VAR TRNAME(0000)].\nI really feel it, right here.
That’s really good, [VAR TRNAME(0000)].\nI really feel it, right here.
Mm-hmm...
Since you’ve been a good boy, I think\nI’ll give you something I’ve been keeping.
Since you’ve been a good girl, I think\nI’ll give you something I’ve been keeping.
Look...\c\nThe paintings that cover the walls of this tower...\c\nSee, these are the history of humanity, of Pokémon,\nand of nature itself.\c\nThey’re the tales that have been passed down by my\nancestors, the Draconids, for thousands of years.\c\nAnd now...I will pass that history and lore on to you.
Thousands of years ago, in the primal age long lost,\nthe world was overflowing with natural energy.\c\nPrimal Groudon and Primal Kyogre fought\nover that energy in endless, furious clashes.
In the face of Primal Groudon and Kyogre’s great power,\npeople could do nothing.\c\nThe only choice was to watch as disaster upon\ndisaster swept over them.
It was in such a time that a great many meteoroids\npoured from the darkness of space, from a place\r\nhigher even than the heavens.\c\nAnd the meteoroids fell in their multitude upon\na waterfall that had long been home to a\r\ntribe of Dragon-type-Pokémon users...
...OK! That’s it!\c\nThat’s the end of the first chapter of my tale.
I’ll tell you the next part of the story\non the next floor. Look forward to it!
Oh! Here you are!
Let me continue.\c\nIt’s finally time for chapter two.\nHere we go!
At last, right?\nHah! I know you’re thrilled.
The meteors shone with a rainbow brilliance, as if some\ngreat life was held within.
That was when, as if drawn by the brilliance, a Pokémon\nthat shone in a blazing emerald hue descended from\r\nthe heavens...\c\nThat Pokémon was none other than Rayquaza.
Rayquaza’s power overwhelmed that of the two\nPrimal Pokémon, and peace returned to the world.\c\nThe people of Hoenn revered Rayquaza as a true savior.
A thousand years after this time, the meteoroids once\nagain fell.\c\nA huge meteoroid, far greater than any before,\nstruck the planet, boring deep into the ocean\r\nand leaving behind it a crater larger than any other.\c\nThe land born of this event later become known\nas Sootopolis.
And that is it!\nChapter two is over!
But we’ve only just left the starting line.\nThere’s a long way yet—don’t fall behind now!
Now, our tale reaches the best part.\c\nSootopolis was born from a great meteoroid strike.
The great meteoroid was the first of many disasters to\nbefall humanity.\c\nWhen it punched into the planet, the land cracked\nbeneath it, and a great welling of natural energy\r\npoured from beneath Hoenn.\c\nThirsting for that energy, Primal Kyogre and\nPrimal Groudon once again woke.
The people had a wish—a memory\nfrom a thousand years before...\c\nThey wished that the Legendary Pokémon\nclad in emerald light would appear again.\c\nThe huge Meteorite that lay at the heart of\nSootopolis gave off a boundless brilliance.\c\nIn its brilliance, it resembled a vast and\npowerful Key Stone.\c\nAnd once again, Rayquaza descended\nfrom whence it came in the heavens.
The people fell to their knees before\nRayquaza and made a wish for salvation.\c\nAs they did, a great change came\nover the Legendary Pokémon.\c\nIt was enveloped in blinding light.\nAs the light receded, they beheld\r\na Rayquaza beyond all knowledge—\r\na sublime figure, incandescent\r\nwith overwhelming life force.
It was humanity’s wish that brought about\nRayquaza’s transformation in the face of\r\nthe rainbow stone...\c\nYes... A wish...\nAn intangible thing, invisible to the eye.\c\nYet this wish bound people and Pokémon\ntogether, enabling the Legendary\r\nPokémon to change its appearance...\c\nDoesn’t it remind you of something?\c\nThat’s right...\nIt sounds like Mega Evolution, doesn’t it?
And how did the story end?\c\nAfter being transformed by the wish of the\npeople, did Rayquaza save them from disaster?
Rayquaza once again confronted Primal Groudon and\nPrimal Kyogre.\c\nThe golden filaments that sprang from its body covered\nthe sky.\c\nAn emerald brilliance illuminated the area.\nA terrible wind rose.
The wind and emerald light visibly sapped the power from\nPrimal Groudon and Primal Kyogre.\c\nDrained of their primal powers, the two vanished into the\ndepths of land and sea.\c\nRayquaza watched them go, regaining its\nusual appearance.\c\nThen it soared back up into the heavens where\nit dwelled.\c\nA witness to this series of events, a tall visitor from a\ndistant land, said, “It is the Δ (Delta), born of the great\r\ndisturbances in this world.”\c\n“By the bonds born of mankind’s wish and the power\nof the stones, it will calm the troubles that plague\r\nthe world.”
That was when the Draconids constructed their\ngreat tower, to hold the rainbow stone that had\r\ngranted Rayquaza its power, and to try to get a\r\nlittle bit closer to Rayquaza in the heavens above.\c\nTo record the history of their trials and the great feats\nof mighty Rayquaza for all to know, they left\r\nbehind the murals you see here.
A giant tower...\nAnd paintings of the past...\c\nYou know, I feel like I’ve seen something like\nthat recently.\c\nHeh. But now, I suppose it’s time for the last chapter\nin our tale.
At last we reach the final chapter...
A thousand years of peace followed after\nthat disastrous time.\c\nBut the Draconid people, learning from\ntheir long history’s cyclical nature, foretold\r\nthat the meteoroids would fall on this land again.\c\nThe meteoroid to come, they prophesized, would\nbe far greater than those that had come before it.\c\nThis meteoroid would be great enough to break\nthe world forever...
In order to prevent this great calamity, those who held\nthe knowledge of the past arrived at a plan.\c\nTheir plan was to invoke Rayquaza, the great savior,\nand summon it to this land before the meteoroid\r\ncould strike.
And that’s it.\c\nThat’s the end of our...\nof the Draconids’ tale.
I spent a long time thinking about\nhow I could protect the happiness\r\nof as many people as possible.\c\nWhat I must do, as one who holds both\nthe knowledge and the power...\c\nOne who bears the heavy wishes of those\nwho could not...live up to that fate...\c\nWell, I had to be really creative, you know?