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historianofgalar · 3 months

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Hammerlock & Their Views on Dragons

Old Hammerlocke Galarian views on Pokemon are so interesting to me. While many cultures of Galar viewed Pokemon as a part of nature and something to live side-by-side with, Hammerlocke Galarians believed that they were above pokemon; that they were something to be controlled. It's the entire reason they used pokeballs.

In the Hammerlocke Empire, killing a dragon was seen as the highest honor a knight could receive. Combine this with the fact they were living in a kingdom that saw themselves above pokemon. A lot of it adds up. Many knights would go out of their way to actively hunt dragons, which, in turn, would make dragon types more defensive and weary of humans. These dragons would now become defensive or aggressive to any human they saw, which would give the Hammerlocme Empire more reasons to hunt them. Pokemon like Dragapult and Noiverm were greatly affected by overhunting, and their populations still haven't fully recovered. Salamence in Galar went completely extinct, and pokemon that were hunted by dragons would now be overpopulated and eat all the crops, leaving nothing left for the other pokemon.

Anyways, the defensiveness of dragons over the centuries would end up leading to Hammerlocke Galarians being weary of all pokemon that wasn't a Wooloo or a Purrloin or anything like that. It's why Hammerlocke has an entire wall around it; to keep pokemon out. And while the dragon head today is used a symbol letting people know that Hammerlocke is "The Dragon Capitol of Galar," it's original purpose was meant to scare dragons off.

It's difficult to explain Old Hammerlocke's views on other pokemon, other than "We are above them and they need to be controlled." That's pretty much the gist of it. That belief has died out a lot today, but their old worldview definitely affected Galar's history.

(I have just realized I've been spelling Hammerlocke wrong this entire time. I'll fix that later)

#//My sister and I were watching Ted Ed's and we saw how a lot of mythologies around the world viewed humans as apart of nature #//While a lot of European (mostly British Latin and Greek myths) saw humans as above nature #//“Man made god in his image” and some christain mythos say that humans were made to look like god #//In Greek mythology humans look the way we do because the gods wanted humans to look like them #//and we see how that effects the way man vs nature is potrayed. A lot of greek monsters are animals while the heroes are human #//Demons arent human and resemble animals in a lot of myths and while we've seen biblically accurate angels so many depictions of them show #//angels as hummanoid fighting monstrous beasts #//i could talk about how that affected colonization and the destruction of nature and how there are even some racist views there #//but this is a pokemon blog and i do NOT feel like doing that rn. Just know that realization inspired this post #pokeblogging #pokeblog #rotomblr #pokemon #irl pokemon #rotumblr #pokemon irl #pokeblog rp #pokemon history #hammerlock #galar

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