Anyone who has seen this https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/crashcourse81/pokemon-neoverse-logo will know what this is about. I recommend reading the description in this pic before reading this.
This is Part 1 in a series of documents detailing the Neoverse Project, which I've been working on for some time now.
Notes: The titles will be at the sides because they won't stay centered for some reason. -_- Also, these are all copy and pasted from my DA St.ash Journals with a few alterations.
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The Neoverse
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Pokemon's Origins
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In the segment of existence that would become the Pokeverse, there was Ralyaoanta, a primary-platinum being whose body was made up of powerful jewels that had different elements in them. Born long before the beginning of the Pokeverse, Ralyaoanta saw that no other deities had reached this segment of existence yet, so it set up shop by creating a network of pocket dimensions called the Shards, which were born using the different elements in the being's body. These elements would give birth to creatures of varying kinds, who would be able to travel between their worlds through timespacial channels that linked them. Ralyaoanta would make its home in the center of these worlds, where it created one using the energies from the others. This world was called Spectrum, and in it was born beings not bestial or monstrous like those in the Shards, but vastly intelligent and adept with a special technology that very few other dimensions have, called alchemanicry. These machines fused science and magic together to create forces that could control and even create any other, and are FAR unlike what any texts would have you believe. These beings, called Ralyenka (non-plural lacks the a), would come to name the conglomeration of worlds after the elements they were centered around, worship Ralyaoanta as their god, and even create a city around its abode within Spectrum using their technology. The beings would then name the conglomerate of worlds itself: Platoil.
The Ralyenka made a habit of journeying to the Shards and seeing the creatures they had to offer. While on the level of the Ralyenka, the Shard creatures (which they named Shardkin) were much stronger spiritually than the Ralyenka, who despite being born of an almighty power, were lacking in the combat department, thus they relied on their technology to do their jobs for them. They grew curious of how it would be to have Shardkin among them, and created spherical devices to contain and control them. The process of capturing Shardkin was rough at first, and befriending them was even trickier at times, but the Ralyenka perservered. Some weakened Shardkin using other alchemanicry, while others took a chance and approached Shardkin to earn their trust before putting them into the devices, with their consent. It didn't take long for Shardkin to take their place among the Ralyenka population as allies. Although it was pleased with its creations, Ralyaoanta began to feel like it needed to fill up more of its empty segment. That's when it learnt of worlds being born outside of Platoil, which were filling the void. It seems the elements from the Shards were leaking out and entered the emptiness outside, whirling and wrapping around it all and joining themselves together to eventually create their own worlds. Ralyaoanta decided to take advantage of this by setting Spectrum's denizens out to enhance these worlds into whole dimensions. Their technology, which was centered around alchemy (which is very different from how it appears in old texts), made this possible; the worlds were expanded into galaxies, then over time into universes, which came together to form multiverses. Finally, when it had seen how many there were, it created a gigantic bubble of prismic energy around the multiverses to encapsulate them, in a sense, then moved Platoil to the center of it to form the omniverse.
From here, Platoil's denizens watched as the planets within each omniverse birthed its own kind of beings...
(Fun Facts:
- Ralyaoanta (ral-yow-ant-ah) and Ralyenka are part of a language I came up with that holds importance in my Ultimate headcanon (another series I've been working on, the main one at that), which uses noises and sounds rather than words. The words translate to "Rainbow-born beast of radiance" and "Rainbow-born people".
-- They also happen to be Necrozma and the Ultra Megalopolis's people.
- Platoil is a combination of "platinum" and "toil", referring to how the Ralyenka toil away within it most of the time. It's also a slight combination of "soil", referring to how it's the Ralyenka's home.
-- It is also Ultra Space.)
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Planet Aterr
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As Platoil's denizens watched the multiverses grow, they took notice of a few worlds that caught their interest, which Ralyaoanta itself decided to bless with with a jewel comprised of each element from its body. These jewels would either be warped to the worlds, or sent to impact them like meteors to reconstitute them if they were lacking. One of these worlds was Planet Aterr, which was more recently born than most other worlds. The planet bore just one landmass and a large ocean, both of which held many creatures of mostly large sizes that fought it out for food and drink. Because of their constant fighting however, the world was starting to become a mess, which is what made Ralyaoanta send a jewel to impact Aterr, creating an explosion that didn't devastate the planet, but restore its wounds. Torn-down trees regrew, diminished lakes and rivers refilled, lands burnt away from volcanic eruptions recovered, etc. But something else happened to the planet, or rather its denizens; they were becoming warped by the energies, which transformed them into something...different. They bore heavy resemblances to their former selves, but were now bigger, stronger, faster, even smarter to some extent, and they were also able to control the elements. The world also got a bit of a makeover, such as the land increasing in size and flourishment, the seas becoming purer than ever before, and the energies from the jewel flowing into the planet's very core, transforming it too in some way. Now the core was producing springs of energy that rose to the surface, which the transformed creatures bathed in and gained even more power from through prolonged exposure, even transforming further. These springs also created an extra atmosphere around the planet that, ironically enough, prevented the energy from leaving it. Aterr was practically reborn, and its new beasts were called Primon. Their time was known as the Origin Era.
Out of all the Primon however, three stood out: the Motenadon, Kyositarus, and Raezarba. These creatures were gigantic in size, great in strength and cruel in instinct, able to control the planet's elements to unspecified yet amazing levels, and caused great destruction in their wake. They ruled the lithosphere, aquasphere and atmosphere of the planet, essentially making it their gods. The other Primon attempted to avoid them whenever possible, but there was just no doing so when they went on a rampage, especially against each other, as they were enemies.
Alongside the Primon were humans, wild ones that only hunted and survived like the creatures did. Their numbers were small and their abilities and power minimal compared to the Primon, and they would've went extinct if not for Ralyaoanta's jewel. Rather than outright transform them, the humans were empowered by the energies that came from it to the point that they could fight against the Primon, but there was something else they gained too; the ability to mix their DNA with a Primon's to become a Hybreed. They bore features of Primon and heightened instincts, including the instinct to kill, and were more adept at controlling elements depending on the Primon they were mixed of. It made the two sides equally matched, if you're not counting the mighty trio. Interestingly enough, both sides grew a reverence towards the jewel that changed them, which became wedged into the planet. Many Primon and Hybreeds would come and worship the jewel, though instead of bowing they would bring objects of "value" to it and let out prideful roars. An odd but generous sense of worship...But their jewel would also be what caused their doom.
One day, another meteor was streaking towards the planet, this one less kind than the jewel. This one carried with it a creature that sensed the jewel's power and redirected itself towards Aterr, impacting it with the same force as the jewel did, but not the same gentleness. The ensuing explosion killed many beings and decimated the singular continent, leaving few Primon and Hybreeds alive. A bunch of energy blew out from the meteor during the explosion, which aroused and caused the Motenadon, Kyositarus and Raezarba to appear out of the blue and start to ransack the entire world out of power craze, all on their own. They caused disasters on unimaginable scales; plate-cracking earthquakes, massive tsunamis and whirlpools, giant tornadoes and powerful thunderstorms, all of which damaged the already-weakened continent. But then, out from the meteor spewed forth another gigantic creature, this one appearing far more...alien. It looked of a skeletal frame surrounded with energy, powerful energy, which was the cause of the trio's madness. The alien's reveal drew the attention of Motenadon, Kyositarus and Raezarba away from the world's destruction and towards itself, as they all fought to claim its power. The alien, surprised by their sudden attacks, did battle with the titanic Primon and bested them by absorbing their power and weakening them drastically, forcing them to retreat back to their respective homes to recover. Despite the alien's close save however, the damage was already done.
The seas were ruined with bodies of dead Primon and aquatic Hybreeds, and the continent was in utter shambles. It's a wonder it wasn't covered in blood with all that happened. THAT wasn't the bad part though; that was the continent coming apart, splitting into seven pieces that drifted across the world. They lacked foundations to stop them, and they would eventually collide and cause even greater damage to each other. As if driven to save the world, the alien beast dove into the planet and entered its very core, which it absorbed energy from. In turn, it GAVE energy to the core, empowering it to greater levels than before and giving the alien some control over Aterr itself. It used its power to create new foundations for the continental fragments, stopping them in their tracks. Now they were spread across the whole planet, with the jewel having been lost to the seas due to being in the middle of the continent when it was coming apart, thus dropping it into the ocean. The alien couldn't retain its control over Aterr for long; shortly after creating the foundations, it fell unconscious due to the force of the energies within the core, remaining trapped in there for the following eons.
But its sacrifice would not be in vain...
(Fun Facts:
- The Primon are the fossil Pokemon, but made into actual dinos. Their name is a combo of "primal" and Poke"mon". As you can guess, the Origin Era is basically the prehistoric era.
- The being from the second meteor is Eternatus.
- The three titans, as you can guess again, are Groudon, Kyogre and Rayquaza, whose new names I attempted to keep a part of each while making them new at the same time. Their new names are respectively made of the following words: "motus", "fundamentum" and "don" (meaning "quaking foundation lord"; "concitare", "aedificium" and "kaio" (meaning "stirring building king"); and "volubilis", "spira" and "caesar" (meaning "whirling spire emperor").
- Aterr is a rearrangement of terra, which is Latin for earth (a pun on how Aterr is a different version of Earth.)
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Aterr's Ice Age
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The alien may have been locked inside the core, but its quality to give energy after taking it remained active, and the core was constantly giving its own energy to the alien as it remained inside it. The enhanced power it gained after taking those of the three Primon made the alien's traded energies greater for the core, which in turn remained in its empowered state and gave the alien greater energies in turn. As for what was happening to Aterr...
Thanks to the dormancy of the Primon and the empowerment of the core, Aterr was heading on the road to recovery. Its climate was given time to return to normal after the Primon's abusement of it, and the planet's energies began to restore its surface. Sadly, the energies came too late to heal the very few survivors of the earlier near-armageddon, and they had perished from their wounds. However, life on the planet would not be lost; the corpses of the Primon and Hybreeds became fossils over time, but before they did, Aterr's energies took parts of their genetic codes and kept them for something that would happen later on. Until then, all life had bit the dust, though the planet would receive NEW visitors soon.
Yet again was Aterr met with something from space, this time being a whole meteor shower! Luckily these ones were of much smaller sizes, but their numbers were in the hundreds. They impacted different parts of the world, some in the ocean and the rest on the landmasses. These asteroids broke apart to reveal marked triangles, which turned into new aliens. This was the Deoxys species, an alien race that bore both a scary and useful ability: copying the atomic structures of anything they wished. This allowed them to take on numerous forms, but there was sadly nothing of use to copy on this planet, which they had sensed powerful energy emanating from. The same energy that drove the previous alien towards this planet. They searched all around for it until they found the giant jewel beneath the ocean, far away from the landmasses. Unexpectedly though, they didn't try to claim it, but instead wanted to bury it. They had apparently feared the jewel for its great power, insinuating that they knew what had happened because of it, and so they wished to get rid of it so nothing like that would happen again. To this end, they used their powers to warp the atoms of the atmosphere itself, causing the climate to become harsh and freeze most of the entire world over, encasing the oceans in ice and the landmasses in snow. This ended the Origin Era and began the Flashfreeze Era, as modern-day scientists call it.
After the jewel was frozen in the ocean, the Deoxysi decided to establish a settlement for themselves on the planet, creating numerous structures by manipulating the atoms of both objects and weather, and even their own powers to a degree. Little did they know that they would be quickly followed by a new race of beings, whose birth was coming from the planet itself. These new beings were made up of humans and animals like before, but without the features of their predecessors. In fact, the latter were completely different, being woolly, furry and more used to cold rather than scaly, tough and used to heat. It was almost like a complete inversion of the prior races, but they did bear the same abilities the originals gained from the jewel's impact a long time ago, most likely due to the planet having absorbed its energies while stuck in its surface. The Deoxysi were surprised at this sudden appearance of life, but weren't opposed to living with them. Sadly, the new Primon and humans, which eventually became Hybreeds of their own, weren't as onboard with the idea, as they still bore chaotic and killer instincts like their former races, and saw the Deoxysi as more creatures to slaughter. The Deoxysi merely defended themselves, not wishing to kill off this newly-born life, and they could've easily done so too. But something weird was happening; despite being completely frozen, the giant jewel beneath the oceans was still pulsing with power, which fuelled the Primon and Hybreeds greatly and gave them strength to match, if not surpass the aliens! A bunch of them were lost to the assaulters, and they were forced to use their atomancy to deal with them. But amazingly, the creatures and humans were able to resist their control, AND they were capable of demi-godly feats such as causing blizzards, creating glaciers, making tidal waves, etc! The conflict eventually became too much for the aliens and they decided to abandon Aterr earlier than expected. They fled the planet in a bunch of large pods, leaving the Primon and Hybreeds with themselves to contend with...and also the changing climate.
Without the Deoxysi to manage it, the coldness of Aterr was slowly starting to change back to its hot state. This caused the snow on the landmasses to melt, the ocean around them to unfreeze and the glaciers to collapse, which didn't bode very well for the new Primon and Hybreeds. They wouldn't all die out this time though; some of them managed to hide away in safe havens such as underwater dens or mountain caves, while the strongest survived out of sheer will. It took millennia for the Flashfreeze era to end, but when it did, it caused the oceans to rise by a tremendous amount. Unlike what would normally happen though, where the landmasses would become flooded, for some reason they remained unharmed, floating on top of the ocean as it expanded! Some say this is due to the core raising the lands' foundations so they wouldn't flood, but who could really say...?
The important part was that Aterr had survived another doomsday, and this time, so did its denizens. And apparently, so had a chunk of the Flashfreeze Era itself; a whole continent's worth of ice remained from it, which was in the same area as the jewel was. It would seem the jewel's power was reinforcing the ice, preventing it from melting even as temperatures increased. This, alongside the survival of some Primon and Hybreeds, would lead to quite the evolution...
(Fun Fact: The Flashfreeze Era is basically the Ice Age, but with somewhat different events.)
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The Aterrians' Legacy
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Though they had endured the end of the Flashfreeze Era, the Primon and Hybreeds now had to contend with hotter, meeker weather than before, as well as unfrozen lands and seas. They had trouble coping at first, but they learned how to adapt to their new environments. But here's the REAL twist: they started coping with each other too. Both sides grew curious of one another, approaching each other with cautious yet peaceful intent, and bonding together. It was the first time in Aterr's history that such a thing happened, and in such a period like this, where intelligence was minimal. Their interactions with one another, their adaptions to the environment and their eventual grouping together in fact heightened their intelligence, slowly getting rid of the instincts that drove them and replacing them with rational thought. These Primon and Hybreeds even learned how to make their own structures, weapons and other objects, including garb infused with the elements, which bore many uses. It was a prehistoric revolution, and it was merely the beginning of Aterr's true life.
Back in Spectrum, Ralyaoanta was witnessing the events occurring on Aterr since the jewel's impact, and grew increasingly impressed with the proactivity between its denizens. They were surviving even under the harshest of conditions, but with the expanse of the oceans, they required more land to work with...and more hands. Ralyaoanta decided to give them some. It created another jewel, this one much smaller than the last but still quite large, and teleported it to Aterr, whose energies resonated with it to give it form. The jewel took the appearance of a gigantic being, looking humanoid and yet not so much, bearing the elements of fire, water, wind and earth on its body. The four primary elements of a planet. The denizens of Aterr looked up at the massive being as it stood up from the seas, gazing down at them silently for a moment before reaching its hands out to the sides and performing a miraculous feat.
The planet's main elements were gathering around it; fire from the core's magma (yes, it had that), water from the seas, wind from the sky and earth from the...well, earth. It bundled them together and crushed them one-by-one in its hands, creating smaller titans that stood around it. As the beings stood up to greet their new master, it spoke to the denizens below in a loud yet calm voice.
"My identity...is Regigigas. I am from...a world far beyond here, yet this one...is my home. The names of my followers...Regiblaiz, Regiwaiv, Regigail and Regilyth. They shall...form the world into a better creation."
With those words echoing in their minds, the Primon and Hybreeds watched as Regigigas split the servant titans up to perform different tasks, with Regilyth's being the most prominent. It created new land for each landmass, to expand them far more than they were now. Regiblaiz and Regigail's task was to alter the climate so that it would become suitable for current AND new life. Shortly afterwards Regiblaiz created volcanoes for when the world needed a bit more...flame. Regiwaiv didn't do much besides restoring some parts of the ocean, which were damaged after the Primon apocalypse and rampage from the Origin and Flashfreeze Eras. After their primary tasks were done, the Regis disappeared into different parts of the world themselves to begin their secondary tasks: watching over it and making sure it was balanced elementally.
After that, Regigigas performed its task by pulling the landmasses to certain parts of the world using energy chains, putting them close to one another that they could be easily reached (in the future) while not being TOO close. Regigigas then took its own place within the world, opening a hole directly into it that disappeared as soon as the titan went into it, looking as it never was even there. Before it did though, it had this to say:
"The world's new sculpture...is finished. My originator...is pleased. I...shall watch from below....with my servants as the world warps...May your own lives be...evolutional ones..."
This was all a lot for the denizens to take in, but they were grateful to the Regis for their assistance. They decided to build temples to worship them at as a token of their appreciation, offering up objects of the Regis' respective elements as tribute, even crafting some. This was the birth of traditions. As the Primon and Hybreeds went on, they gave birth to civilisation, and eventually, to offspring. However, the offspring began to lose the strength their elders had, though they kept the DNA-mixing and element-controlling abilities, but to a lesser extent. Eons passed, and the Primon and Hybreeds were unfortunately no more, replaced with weaker creatures and lesser adept humans. They did have some major positive differences from their progenitors though.
For starters, humans had created and mastered technology, which was invaluable for making cities, developing weapons and gadgets and creating barriers to keep unwanted beings out, and they were much more numerous than the Hybreeds. Smarter too. Meanwhile, the creatures had also become more numerous than their predecessors, and with help from the planet, new ones were being born practically every day, which were turned slowly yet surely into enhanced forms just like the Primon. Some of them were cruel and monstrous like the Primon as well, but others were docile and peaceful, while the rest were calm and neutral, neither attacking nor defending a side unless it suited them. Some of them even gained intelligence enough to communicate with and/or understand humans, with a few among them becoming human-like themselves! Nearly indistinguishable if not for a few select features that stood out. They also made their own settlements like humans, though smaller and more naturally-made than mechanically.
This has led to humans and Pokemon having a mixed relationship. Some live amongst each other on the other's side (or both), some hunt each other for sport or out of hate or hunger, and others live on their own, not caring for much besides themselves. One thing is for sure, the world did indeed evolve after the Origin and Flashfreeze Eras, with many countries and such set up on the landmasses, which were now fully-fledged continents. It was also during the beginning of modern times that a name for the creatures was finally given, which also served as the basis for their progenitors' name.
Pokemon.
(Fun Fact: The new four Regis would replace Regirock, Regice and Registeel in the Neoverse.)
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That's it for this part. The explanations are continued here. https://crashcourse81.newgrounds.com/news/post/1309029