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[thetombkeeper]

[The feed starts to Marik holding the small, freshly polished face mask of Yamask in one hand as he settles in to sit back down then passes it off to Chenzira, who looks quite pleased and sets it back to its proper spot on his tail. There's an amused smirk before he turns his full attention to his device. What a fitting time to bring up ghosts with the holiday he's unaware of approaching.]

I've been trying to learn as much as I can of Yamask since I arrived in this world. I think I've got a fairly good understanding of them by now. I wasn't entirely convinced of their pokedex entry at first but after spending more time with them, I believe there's some truth behind their story of origin. It's too on the nose not to be.

I don't know if anyone's interested in hearing about it. I.. guess if people want, I can post a summary of what I learned.

[It's a weird thought, that people might be genuinely interested in hearing what he has to say instead of him just talking to hear himself speak. Because he does that a lot. Not as much as before but still.]

I've tried asking some of the natives about it, particularly the people working at the Ruins of Alph but they all gave rather vague responses that didn't answer any of my questions at all.

[Marik clicks his tongue in annoyance.]

I know Yamask aren't the only ones with human origin. There's a number of ghost types that are said to be once human in their previous life and some that take others to the Afterlife.

[He's been reading up on the legends of the legendary pokémon in his free time, trying to make sense of everything.]

So both reincarnation and an afterlife exist here. Has anyone been able to learn any more stories or history about... any of those subjects? I'm genuinely curious.

[A pause as he exchanges a look with his Yamask.]

And does anyone have or seen a Cofagrigus in person? Neither myself of Chenzira here want him to evolve but I'm still interested in learning about his evolved species.


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Comments

[crystalmaster]

Yeah, I don't know a lot of details, just some basics. And I haven't heard about the Pokemon, no. I wonder if there's a lot of ghost stories about the Ghost Pokemon.... Although a lot of that would probably be kiddie fare....

[thetombkeeper]

With this place, it's hard to say. I believe they have some truth behind the stories, even if it's become exaggerated.

[crystalmaster]

I wonder if all the stories started with truth or if some are completely made-up.

[thetombkeeper]

Why lie about how a creature is created though? Even if it's vague or outdated, that's better than giving everyone false information.

[crystalmaster]

Kids could have made up spooky stories for fun and over time people forgot they weren't true. It sounds like it probably is true about Yamask, though.

[thetombkeeper]

This will definitely keep me busy for a while, that's for sure...

[crystalmaster]

I'll bet! I wonder if there's people around who collect all the legends or even remember the origins of some of them.

[thetombkeeper]

The natives are always extremely vague when I've asked. I've gotten a decent amount of information from other trainers so far though. More than I thought I'd get.

[crystalmaster]

Huh. I wonder why they're so vague and why the Trainers seem to know more.

[thetombkeeper]

If I had to guess, it's because the natives are used to everything so they might not see it as uniquely as we do.

[crystalmaster]

That's the best case scenario, true. Where do the Trainers learn things?

[thetombkeeper]

Piecing together whatever vague information they can find and combine it with their own knowledge? That's what I did at least.

[crystalmaster]

Probably. It would be nice if there really was a place to learn more, like old people with a wealth of knowledge about this world.

[thetombkeeper]

I still haven't visited every city so I'll see if I can find anything like that along the gym route.

[crystalmaster]

Good luck! I can't believe there wouldn't be something like that somewhere here.

[thetombkeeper]

Thanks. I'll let you know if I come across anything.

[crystalmaster]

I'll let you know if I find something too!