#@Poketablet-venturer

[pokemon-teacology]

Is there Pokehistory classes? Asking for future reference, I’m on a personal journey to try and prove the Ruinous Pokémon exist, and I feel this may help. Or if you know any possible info, that’d be appreciated too! (@Poketablet-venturer)

There are! Paldea's Naranja-Uva Academy (Ive picked up that the younger students will pick a fruit based on their assigned section and stick with it, but us older uni level students hav been calling it Naruva for a while now) has history lessons at all levels!

Though it depends on your level, really. If you're enrolled in the school at a younger age (11-17) for standard school time, you'll be going over more general history, while only briefly touching on Pokémon specifically. However, once you reach 18 and you start degree level work, you can definitely specify!

I've got a buddy doing a degree in Pokémon History at the moment! I've asked them and done a bit of research, and last year their modules were as follows:

• An Introduction to History

• Hands-on History: Sources and their Historians

(both classes are shared between general history and Pokémon history students)

• Pokémon Myths and Legends (a class focused on legendary Pokémon and mythicals)

• Pokémon Legends and Myths (a hilariously similar name, this module is about stories based around Pokémon and how they affect and shape cultures, for example the Darkest Day in Galar and how the energies created by this ancient powerful creature made Pokémon massive and the rightful king of Galar vanquished the creature and harnessed its power into energy so that Pokémon could continue being massive, just only in certain places and only for a little bit, as a treat.)

• The Basics of Archaeology: Preserving the Past

• An introduction to Pokémon biology

Side note: we also had a class with this name in the Pokéology degree scheme, but it has a different module code (BR-16320 for us and HY-86520 for the history guys) and teachers. While ours went in-depth about how Pokémon biological systems work, such as breathing, diets, evolution methods, and slow-evolution, it's my understanding that the module in the history department goes over the basics in terms of historical findings.

This includes but is not limited to: how different types of Pokémon are preserved, the basics of evolution and how it was seen by ancient cultures, and slow-evolution, since having a basic idea of how to recognise and research past ancestors of the Pokémon we have today is important to knowing what sorts of Pokémon were important to past cultures.

I've got to say, I'm fascinated by your theory of the ruinous Pokémon being real! I've not really thought about it myself, but I'm curious as to what you plan on doing if you find them! The stories are about how human selfishness and cruelty brought them to life, and how they're suffering because it's all that they know, and they think the humanity is cruel and unkind always, so I'd hope that your mission after finding them is to teach them that that isn't the case :)

From what I've heard, they're sealed away using some ancient chain? There's a couple sets of ruins out of the way in paldea that nobody can get into, not with the usual methods or by Pokémon means. I've heard not even teleporting Pokémon can get inside. The story states that the king who sealed them away hid the keys to the seals all throughout the region. Since there were four Pokémon, there are four chambers, and four sets of seals, I dunno how many seals there are, but it's a start to go off of! The history teacher here who's name I can never remember is very scary, but she loves this shit from what I can recall. If you come here, definitely speak to her about it.

All in all, I really recommend this place! Naruva is genuinely such a fun environment when you're doing your degree here, the staff in the school are lovely, and Mesagoza is a really nice city to live in for that first year. I'm in a little house just in the outskirts this year, so I get the best of both worlds in terms of walking distance and peace and quiet.

But anyway!! I hope this gave you a bit of insight into what you might be studying here if you choose to take your degree in Pokémon history!

[pokemon-teacology]

I appreciate the response so so much!! It’s always been said on places like YouMew vids and Rotomblr that they’re just urban legends. Which I refuse to believe and want to prove their existence, after hearing about the fact grudges against others and suffering created them, I don’t want them to be sealed away and locked in constant suffering alone. I’d want to offer my friendship and if they want, to be my Pokémon to catch or at least let me take care of them to show not all humans are bad. May I ask if you know more details about Wo-Chien? That’s my first goal as I know most about them! - Poketablet-Venturer

Ooh, if I recall correctly that's the tablet of ruins Pokémon! My buddy who does pokemon history was kind enough to let me borrow some of his notes on these myths from last year, since I asked about them.

It says in the notes that Wo-Chien is a Pokémon made from the anger of a human who was forced to carve his king's evil deeds onto wooden tablets. I'd imagine it's a grass type, since it's made of wood. The original story says that the chains that bind Wo-Chien are bathed in purple light, and leave a pit of dread in the stomach of anyone daring enought to get close.

The Pokémon itself has the body type of a macargo mixed with a piloswine, in my opinion, except it looks like it's made of moss and leaves. Though, these are very very old drawings, so I can't speak to their accuracy. It's said here that it can drain the life out of plants, such that entire forests and fields can become barren. Again, I can't speak to how accurate this is, it may have been an overdramatisation because it showed up during a famine or a dry spell or something, I dunno. My buddy says that the historians of the time of the treasures of ruin were more focused on telling a story than making accurate observations.

That's all I've got from the notes, unfortunately since nobody's been able to get into the sealed chambers that hold these guys, we've got no other evidence to go off of. Id love to research how they work if you do end up finding them, I'm sure they're quite fascinating lil guys. I also wonder what they eat, since they've been sealed away for so long.

It sounds like you have the right intentions, though, so I'm happy to help wherever I can! :)