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[ Aradia's sitting at a table with a sizeable stack of books and her binder opened to red-inked notes that can't be read clearly on the screen. She's got the pokegear propped up against something, and she smiles absently, clearly ordering her thoughts. ]

Hello! This is Aradia. I've been doing some reading - well, I suppose it's rather a lot of reading? - about the legends of this place. Jade, thank you again for that book! I actually read a reference to it there, and then it took me a little while to locate other mentions of the topic - it's been nearly two weeks? - because I suppose I'm really in the wrong region for this, but -

Hm. I'm rambling. Anyway! Here's a story that some of you might find interesting.

A long time ago, there was a pokémon known as Regigigas. It seems to be part of a creation myth, like a few others - the task Regigigas completed was pulling the continents into place. When it had completed that task, it created three golems in its image: one from an icy mountain, one from rocks, and from one magma. Regice, Regirock, and Registeel. For a time they were worshiped by the people of the land, but this would not last. They were so powerful that the people grew afraid, and took action.

Using magic they sealed away the master of the golems, Regigigas. The three golems it had created were spirited away to a new land, for if they were to come together Regigigas could rise again, and the people of that land feared that would mean endless destruction. The golems were all sealed away, their locations lost or forgotten.

[ Aradia falls silent for a minute or two, making a note in her binder, before looking back up. ] I'll admit it isn't exactly overflowing with details, but I thought I'd share anyway. The legend itself is apparently native to a place called Hoenn. "We built this" - that was in the translations they released. I wonder what it refers to in specific? The placement of the continents? This world's civilization? I really want to go to Blackthorn sometime soon to see for myself! Oh, and the rest, if you weren't following the news, I guess: "Man ends, pokémon ends, everything ends. New worlds inherit new dreams." We've certainly got worlds aplenty represented here, anyway.

This place does have something of a knack for cryptic messages, though. "Our words shall remain here for the ages. Thus we shall erect a pokémon statue outside. They possess great insight and refuse the outside world. We humans must learn to walk in harmony with them. We depart for their sakes."

I wonder how many more of these little messages are hidden around the realm. I suppose we'll just have to find out! At least reading about this makes it easier to know what to keep an eye out for when we're exploring! Although reading about all of this also makes my "to see" list absurdly long, so maybe I ought to stop until I've caught up with that.

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Rose Lalonde and Dave Strider.

Oh! That...actually makes a lot of sense. What did they do after the scratch?

Both of them were rebels, but hey were more commonly known for their work. Rose as an author, Dave as a film director. The both of them used their work as a subtle critique of the political degradation of their time.

I can actually see that fairly easily. I take it you read and watched their works?

Yeah. I practically had them memorized by the time I was fifteen.

[He taps the book in front of him.]

So it's weird to go to something I know nothing about. Not bad, just strange, you know?

That's true! I suppose...well, I've always been looking into things more. Back home, in the game. So new information isn't too strange to me.

Exploring ruins and shit, right?

Exactly! There were a lot around my home. And, well - I've always found that sort of thing interesting.

Better than just trashing them for treasure the way Jake seems determined to.

[ jake no why ]

Well, that's a part of things, but you should preserve artifacts, too!

[Because he's too much a fan of Lara Croft and Indiana Jones.]

Of course. I'm sure we can train him into agreeing.

[ so is aradia but that doesn't mean you ruin the stuff you find!! ]

Well, he is pretty agreeable.

It's one of his faults and charms.

I can see how it might be a fault if he agreed with something less than savoury, actually.

He didn't even question me when I told him about how things were in my time, until after I mentioned to him that I could have been yanking his chain. He's so trusting it can be ridiculous.