Over the weekend, Pokemon developer Ga💟me Freak was the victim of a historic🌼 data breach. The hack revealed crucial information about Gen 10, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the inner-workings of the anime, an MMO, and even the creation myth of the Pokemon universe itself.

Before I try to unravel this surprisingly in-depth lore, I need to preface that much of it is now outdated. Pokemon like Giratina hadn't been created yet when this was written, so the fictional legend has likely chang🐭ed behind-the-scenes. Regardless, it's the best official insight we have so far on how this iconic world came to be.

It All Starts With An Egg

The leaked document reveals that the universe began as✱ a "vortex of chaos" (as reported by ), mixing together slowly in a hazy blur until o🅰ne day, an egg appeared.

Much like a trainer carrying an egg in their pocket — annoy𝓰ingly taking up a spot on their team — it "continued to shake" for a long time until it finally broke🔥. Only instead of spawning a Smoochum, "the absolute god Aus was born."

The War Against Giants, And The Birth Of Man And Pokemon

Aus means Arceus, so for the sake of simplicity, we'🌠ll refer to Aus as their canon name from here on.

Fragments of the egg scattered and became giants, who in turn attacked Arceus, but they were ultimately defeated in a "fierce battle". Arceus would even fill their corpses with its own blood. The aftermath would shake the foundations of this fledgling universe, a꧟s the weakened Arceus split into two forms — I🎀a, god of light, and Ea, god of dark.

Ia refers to Dialga, and Ea to 🐽Palkia, which we'll stick with as well.

Arceus then "commanded that the world be filled with people", and so their two halves... had children together. Pokemon was doing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Elden Ring before Elden Ring was cool.

But they forgot to make a world for their descendents to live on, so they quickly died out. To remedy this, Dialga and Palki🐷a had three new children — Rei, the god of eyes, Ai, the god of heart, and Hai, the god of voice. We know them as Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf.

The Earth Is Formed

"When [Uxie] opened its eyes, everything that was there appeared. There was now contour and colour in the world. When 🦹[Mesprit] wished for it, everything that was there could b🗹e felt. A sense of calm spread. When [Azelf] shouted, everything that was there trembled. A blessed timbre began to resonate."

Dialga and Palkia the𝓡n gave the seed of life to their children and told them to nurture it, and so they "gathered in a circle and prayed" — this seed became the tree of life. But a new problem qui♐ckly emerged, the tree filled the entire world and nobody was able to move.

Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf went to their parents for help, so Dialga and Palkia had three m🍸ore children — Rayquaza, Groudon, and Kyogre. "Rayquaza wrapped its body around the tree of life. Groudon and Kyogre slammed their bodies into𒀰 the tree of life. Eventually, the tree fell and broke into three pieces."

Primal Groudon a🍌nd Primal Kyogre would later clash over dominance of the Pokemon world, until Rayquaza put an end to their conflict.

These broken pieces formed the sky, earth, and ocean, and so "Rayquaza bec🗹ame the pillar that holds the sky," "Groudon became the land that covers the earth," and "Kyogre became the veins of the water". And in that moment, the world as we know it was born.

Arceus' Return In Modern Day Pokemon

With the Earth finally formed, the gods began to call those who dwelled on its surface bꩵy two names — the children of Dialga were Pokemon, and the children of Palkia humans.

The leaked document ends with a teaser that Arceus will return, which they did♔ in Gen 4 when we caught them in a cave.

Only fragments of this story are told in the games, but it's a fascinati🦩ng deep dive into Game Freak's mindset and just how much goes on behind the scenes to inform the games we play.