Back in school days, a friend of mine, Ofek (mentioned on my Shinji Ikari and I piece), rather dedicatedly created his own imaginary Pokédex in a notebook (a fanfic of sorts, I suppose). This series of yours makes me wonder what sort of mythologies he had drawn his inspiration from, so to speak.
Slowly catching up to this series, really high-quality articles right here!
It's not the main focus of these first posts, but it honestly never clicked for me why Silph was called like that, it was a small epiphany I had reading this.
Also, I don't know if you are aware, but I highly recommend these series of articles:
Its a collection of translations from an old official guidebook, that gives some additional lore to the Generation I Pokémon. There are some interesting stuff that never made it to the games that may be useful for your analysis, like people drinking Moltres' blood to achieve immortality.
But I haven't much to add beside congratulating for the great work. I'll read the rest as soon as I can!
Ps. I'm going in vaguely Pokedex order, skipping the Pokémon I don't have much to say about. The most recent post was about Vulpix and Ninetales -- who would you like to see in the future?
Back in school days, a friend of mine, Ofek (mentioned on my Shinji Ikari and I piece), rather dedicatedly created his own imaginary Pokédex in a notebook (a fanfic of sorts, I suppose). This series of yours makes me wonder what sort of mythologies he had drawn his inspiration from, so to speak.
There's a lot to choose from -- humanity seems to have an insatiable appetite for creating mythical creatures.
Also out of other humans!
Slowly catching up to this series, really high-quality articles right here!
It's not the main focus of these first posts, but it honestly never clicked for me why Silph was called like that, it was a small epiphany I had reading this.
Also, I don't know if you are aware, but I highly recommend these series of articles:
https://lavacutcontent.com/1996-creatures-pokedex-translation-1/
Its a collection of translations from an old official guidebook, that gives some additional lore to the Generation I Pokémon. There are some interesting stuff that never made it to the games that may be useful for your analysis, like people drinking Moltres' blood to achieve immortality.
But I haven't much to add beside congratulating for the great work. I'll read the rest as soon as I can!
Ps. I'm going in vaguely Pokedex order, skipping the Pokémon I don't have much to say about. The most recent post was about Vulpix and Ninetales -- who would you like to see in the future?
Thanks so much, I'll have to check that out.