To: Samuel Oak.

Re: Yanase Berlitz.

I have enclosed in this letter the essay you requested. I would like to give thanks to Erika for compiling historical data, and my own daughter, Platinum, for inspiring me to do this, along with you.

In this essay, two topics will be covered: The land and nature of ancient Hisui, and the speculated existence of the entity named 'the Evil Djinn.' Scant evidence exists relating to these topics, so I am welcome to eventual corrections.

Of The Lay and Peoples of Hisui

Hisui, is of course our own land of Sinnoh. In the past, two regions existed which are not identified today, the Obsidian Fieldlands and the Crimson Mirelands. There also are contradictions between ancient Hisuian maps and today's landforms, especially around the coastlands, and the direction of the mountain chain that Mount Coronet is apart of. In Hisuian manuscripts, many other minor landforms are listed, including some that we can still recognize today.

The founding of Hisui is shrouded in myth, and little is clear. However, detailed manuscripts tell of the culture and peoples of the land.

The Hisuians hardly had any sense of central 'government' and all major affairs were relegated to the Assemblies of Fifties, Hundreds, Thousands, and Ten Thousands. One can draw a line to city, county, regional, and worldwide governance in this. Families mostly went about their own affairs, however, without needing higher intervention.

Hisuian relationship with Pokémon was not ill, although battling for sport was practically nonexistent. This may stem out of the lack of strategic Moves in those times, or the lack of available Pokémon that had bonded with a human. Many feats of building and invention were first accomplished by Hisuians and Pokémon, including the alleged invention of Poke Balls by Laventon, although the Kurt family disputes this.

At its height, the Hisuian territory stretched from from what we now know as Jubilife City, and the shores of Lake Valor. It was generally lightly populated, with a few major settlements.

A perplexing part of Hisuian assembly and assembly is the use of the two objects or concepts known as the Urim and Thummim, which roughy translate to 'light' and 'perfection.' They are mostly believe to have taken the form of some kind of object with mystical properties, although Roxanne of Rustboro City says that it was likely a indication of how the High Elder was supposed to rule.

If you are wishing for a more comprehensive dive into this subject, I have already put this information, along with the accounts of others, into the Annals of Hisui.

Of The Native Pokémon of Hisui

Certain descriptions of Pokémon in Hisui lead one to believe that there are extinct varieties of them, although there are six that I have taken special interest in.

There are many regional forms of the Pokémon of Hisui, including, but not limited to:

Growlith, Arcanine, Voltorb, Electrode, Typhlosion, Qwilfish, Sneasel, Samurott, Lilligant, Zorua, Zoroark, Braviary, Sliggoo, Goodra, Avalugg, Decidueye, and a variety of white-striped Bascuguin.

Also, there several Pokémon that seem to be unique that no longer live in the wild. These are named in the Hisuian tongue:

Wyrdeer, Kleavor, Ursaluna, Basculegion, Sneasler, and Overqwil. All these apparently used to evolve from Hisuian native Pokémon, and their existence is mostly unknown.

These connect with a Hisuian legend, telling of the Noble Pokémon. It is said that one of the first founders of Hisui had ten companions, and five were blessed by the Original One, or Arceus and were made exceedingly powerful. It is said that the noble blood of these first sires goes to their descendants, although since they have somehow gone extinct under mysterious circumstances. They may even still be out in the wild, hiding from us humans, until the time to reveal themselves comes again.

This legend is told in a fashion in the Lay of Hisui, a series of recovered poems, all apparently by the same writer. The fantasy epic The Legends of Arceus says that Adaman sung this when he was going down the Sereghir, although the first time he only sung the first, second, and twentieth and final stanza, with a few verses changed. This is assumed to be a error in translation.

On the Language of Hisui

The language spoken at the time of the writing of the myth cycles of the Legends of Arceus was called, properly, Hisuian, and was quite developed, and softened under Logarian influence in later days.

As there are no living speakers of this language still alive, it proves impossible to know precisely how things such as vowels, consonants, and other such mechanics of the language were pronounced, and as such, studies of the full glossary and stresses of the letters told in the Annals of Hisui are not to be spoken as a casual language, and leven the best speakers today would be ridiculed by the true original speakers of ancient Hisui.

It has proven difficult to translate, due to the poor quality of the recovered historical material, and differences from Hisuian, which has a completely original verbal and linguistic stock, and English, which is based on Latin, which is in turn based on Kalos-speak of the Old Empire. These two types of speech are completely alien to each other, and careful examination of translation is necessary, putting the thoughts of the writers over literal translation.

The concept of stress on certain vowels in certain circumstances in a major part of Old Hisuian, for example:

R as in growl,

B as in Bearctic,

A as in address,

and many others.

The Hisuians also used many compounds, and in which two words would become a single term. In English, for example, the title Pokémon Professor is considered to be a type of professor, but a unique profession. However, in Hisui, titles, as in Ered Engrin, or Iron Mountains, would be spoken as a unique designation for a thing, and sometimes so rapidly that it would be considered one word. This is seen in the translation of the Sereghir, which actually means 'Bloodflow.' The anglicized translation is, 'River of Blood,' so that is what is used.

Most proper nouns, like Pokémon and Atun-Kaah would be produced by the 'rolling of the tongue,' and a softening of stress. As such, Rei is pronounced Ray, and Lian is pronounced Leeann.

Most names have not been made more easy to pronounce for a English tongue, such as Tar-Adunakor and Taur-I-Ndeadelos. This was done to preserve the integrity of the original text.

A perplexing part of world linguistic history is that the lands of Logaria and Hisui both have the very same language, not accounting for dialects. Despite having never interacted until the first ship sent by the Logarians over the Great Sea, both societies did indeed have the same speech.

This may be explained by the common origin of several languages in Kanto and in Sinnoh, but little else is known.

To see a full examination of Old Hisuian, consult Chapter 17 through 18 of the Annals of Hisui.

On the Half-Men

This particular species pops up frequently in Hisuian and Rorian myth, rumored to be the unnatural combination of both humans and Pokémon.

The name of these creatures in the Hisuian language would actually be better translated as yorch, which sounds unfortunately similar to the modern term orc. I have decided to translate the name as half-men, as to separate these foul beings from the sillier tales of these days. In Logarian, half-men would have been called urkil, and I must say that prior to a certain point, about two thousand years ago, the Hisuians had no mention of such demons, and either they did know of them up to that point, or another force of legend was at work.

The origin is mentioned in the Legends of Arceus, but a document of better historical verticity, coming from the ruin of Logaria, tells this:

"...in the Elders Days of the world, the Evil One took the fathers of men and the fathers of Pokémon into his exceedingly deep pits, and by the slow arts of cruelty, changed them into a ruined form of life, and that race and the races of Men and Pokémon were the bitterest of foes ever after."

While one would be inclined to believe that such monsters are completely unbased in reality, I have attached a troubling transcript of a autopsy of a well-preserved suspected specimen, discovered in a underground tunnel in Fiore. (I will also mention that the position of Fiore as a whole is geographically relative to the mythical land of Dor Daedeloth.)

(BEGIN LOG.)

Bugsy: "Okay, here is what I found from the dissection, although the DNA and RNA splicing was more odd."

Bugsy: "The organs have some similarities to a Vibrava, but they are mostly humanoid, although the brain, from what I could see of it, is definitely irregularly shaped. The skeletal structure, especially around the head, is severely warped. I checked for endemic diseases, but this specimen was apparently healthy when it died..."

Bugsy: "In all, this is unlikely to be a natural creation, as it probably lived for about...say, forty years before it died. Unless there was some other force at play, the specimen would have died of encephalitis early in life."

Bugsy: "And, uh, the other readings...well, they just don't make any sense..."

Bugsy: "It's as if...well, I found three kinds of genetic tissue here, human DNA, Vibrava DNA, and a sort of hybrid of both..."

Bugsy: "But that shouldn't be possible! The only way you could do that would be through modern genetic manipulation, or viral transfers. But that can't exist in the wild, especially not between and Pokémon and a...human."

Bugsy: "I just...w-well, I just don't know what is going on here."

Bugsy addresses the dean of the medical theatre.

Bugsy: "Uh, sir...where did you get this specimen, anyway?"

(END LOG.)

As we can see from the results of this inconclusive autopsy, I myself think that this creature may have been of the kind that inspired these legends. I cannot make any conclusions on the origins of this race, but it likely has a very unpleasant answer.

On the Enemy

Many mentions of the 'Enemy' or 'Evil Djinn' are found not only the myths and histories of Hisui and Logaria, but the world at large, even ancient Kalos.

The nature of this being is uncertain, but theories range from some kind of legendary Pokémon, and great conqueror, or a complete fabrication to keep society in order.

I do not immediately subscribe to any of these things, and I think the answer may lie directly in this manuscript:

"...and in the beginning, when Time started to flow and Space was set in place, the demons that adhered to the Enemy in the days of his splendor and rebellion worshiped him, for he was not a Pokémon or mortal, but a higher being. Shadow and nameless malice was about him, and he walked in the-"

The statement ends there, and I will attempt to give credit to the reliability of it, and also to discredit some other popular theories.

First, the reoccurring nature of the Enemy is never placed in the context of a Pokémon, and as the above writing states, was not one. Also, the transliteration of the term elohim, which is applied to most Hisuian mentions of legendary Pokémon, is used, but in a different mode of text. (This same issue applies to the translation of the Legends of Arceus, in which archaic terms like 'thou' and 'thee' are simply put in place of a formal Hisuian mode of language.)

I would also mention that the human conqueror view, stating that it was one great warrior who established a religious cult of personality about him, had virtually no credibility. Two texts, three hundred years apart, mention the same Enemy in the first person context. Also, the time span across which the Enemy is said to exist is from the beginning of time till about two thousand years ago, in which most accounts cease to mention him, except as a memory of a dark past.

The Enemy was certainly real, or at least everyone who knew about it sincerely believed so.

On the War of Wrath

The War of Wrath is the supposed conflict in which the Enemy was defeated, and I believe that there is physical evidence for it existing, at least in some form.

Fiore seems to be a aboveground portion of a sunken landmass, where Dor Daedeloth is said to be. Also, Orre is dated at having emerged from the sea at about two thousand years ago, a thousand years after the battle between Kyogre and Groudon. The changing of the mountain range of the Ered Engrin, and the toppling of the peak of Mount Coronet, a mountain particularly important to my family, could indeed be explained by a cataclysm that involved the whole world.

The disappearance if the Crimson Mirelands and the waste around them may have also been caused by the War of Wrath, and the covering of Unova with volcanic ashes for a time. The coastlines of the world also seemed to have changed in maps at about two thousand years ago.

What caused this great event I cannot say. But of course, it may have had something to do with the defeat of the Enemy, as contested as his existence is.

Conclusion

There are a great many mysteries to be had in the ancient world, and lessons learned then can apply to today. Considering that there have been the most attempts to change or end the world in some way in the past twenty years than all in history, I fear for the human race's continued existence.

Still, hope remains, and this may only be a dark spot in history.

(I would also mention that I do have doubts of Cypress being appointed to Rorian regional professor. He is rather obsessed with the Enemy, and I do not think that he is a moral man. Do not tell him this directly, but perhaps he should prove his worth for a time, before he ascends to a more powerful position.)

Sincerely,

Yanase Berlitz.

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To: Samuel Oak.

Re: Jonathan Rowell Cypress.

Here is the study you asked for, the results were quite fruitful.

I am quite fascinated with the concept of spirituality, and this small letter exclusively focuses on Hisuian metaphysics, cosmology, and the concepts of the bete and hroa.

On the Bete and Hroa

These two terms, which have no reasonable translation, are essentially what modern folk would call the soul and body.

The bete, (bee-TEE) was a sort of primeval existence native to all conscious things. It was shaped by Knowledge, Emotion, and Willpower, and it was regarded as the source of morality, love, and the part of the consciousness that endured after death. Pokémon had a sort of bete, although it was not as developed, since the Pokémon are usually regarded as being slaves to their passions.

The hroa, (huh-ROW-ah) was a physical vessel for the bete. You might call this a body, for it was frail, temporary, and did not go with the bete into death. It was made of Time, Space, and Antimatter, and all living things had a hroa, even if they did not have a bete.

Some things could have neither, like the Abyss, which I will discuss further. Even planets and inanimate objects still had a hroa, although they were not regarded very highly.

On the Elohim

This perplexing term, which is best translated as 'god' or 'gods' or 'high ones' appears very frequently in ancient Hisuian and Logarian writings.

The term also applies to legendary Pokémon, and whether it is a insight on the nature of these beings, or a simple term for them is unknown.

Elohim were to be revered in Hisui for their exceptional abilities, but never worshipped, as they were still created beings, a product of He Who Created Himself, the Original One Arceus. Elohim-worship was a grave sin in Hisui, and the gods of lesser men were considered demons and servants of the Enemy, whoever or whatever he is.

Elohim was not only applicable to legendary Pokémon, but spirits, whether they be good or evil, as well. The most powerful could take physical form for a time, although the risk of becoming earthly and unglorified was exceedingly rising the more time the elohim spent in physical form.

Also, elohim were considered immortal, due to never being alive in the first place. They were almost pure bete, and could wage war with each other of higher planes of existence. However, when one of them was 'killed,' they would be sent to a spiritual dimension called Kuma, or the Abyss. They could reform, sometimes over a decade, sometimes over millennia.

On the Original One

The primary deity of the Hisuians is now known is the Legendary Arceus, and in fact, the name Arceus is Hisuian for Original One. In the mythology of the Sinnoh region, which I consider a faint shadow of true Hisuian theology, states that Arceus emerged from a egg in the Deeps of Time, and shaped all that is with its THousand Arms, then creating Time, Space, and Antimatter, and crafting the human spirit out of Knowledge, Emotion, and Willpower.

However, the true nature of the Original One would be considered incredibly greater, and far above being a powerful demiurge as pictured today. Rather, it was the supreme, personal, self-caused, almighty true God of the Universe.

In the account of the Music of the Elohim, the origins of the Universe is pictured as this:

"In the beginning, there was naught but the Egg, which the Original One then emerged from, for his own delight. Then the Count of Time began, and the Measuring of Space, and the elohim were created, the offspring of His thought. Then Knowledge, Emotion, and Willpower were assembled, thereby shaping the world. And he then bade the elohim to make a Great Dance, and his heart was gladdened, and then the Plan began, and is still being done."

"Kyogre took delight in Water, the greatest echo of the movements of the Great Dance upon the Earth, the place of the destined habitation of the Children of Arceus. (For the Children of Arceus are Pokémon and Men, the First and the Followers.) Groudon took wonder in all the earth, and the minerals that it was shaped of, and the fabric and foundation of it. The Wind-lord Rayquaza loved the Heavens, and they ever after shaped the Fashion of the World until they were sundered from each other."

On the Fall of the Enemy and Original Evil

The beginning of Original Sin to the Hisuians is told as follows, also in the Music of the Elohim.

"While the Great Dance was being first undertaken in Deep Heaven, and the World was being shaped, the Great Djinn, one of the mightiest creations of the Original One, perceived in his heart that he wished to make creations that the Original One did not ordain, and to make imaginings that were not according to the Will of Arceus. For he wished to have mastery over other creations, and to Rule over other Wills. He was discontent with his own limited authority, and wished to make things as the Original One made them."

"And the Original One perceived this, and said to the Great Djinn: "Mighty are the elohim, and mighty of them is the Great Djinn, but so that he would know, and all the elohim, that I am the Lord of All Things, and all things that ye hath thought, I have already thought of them. For you could not know what I hath ordained from the Beginning to the End, and you, o Great Djinn, hath attempted to make a design of your own, and not of me, yet all your thought have no other source that me."

"And the Great Djinn was ashamed, and his heart burned with secret anger. For he had oft gone out into the Abyss, searching for the Flame of Creation, but he found it not, for it lies with Arceus and Arceus only. And when the time came for all elohim who wished to descend into the Earth to do so, the Great Djinn made a third of all the High Ones rebel, and their thoughts were put in accordance with the thoughts of Evil, and there was war in Deep Heaven, and the Great Djinn wrestled with Dialga and Palkia, and went to the Earth, where his workings are told in full in the Tale of (unintelligible.)"

On the Cosmology of the World in the Eyes of the Hisuians

The world was considered round to the Hisuians, and floating in the vastness of space, orbiting around the sun.

In the physical realm, things were scaled according to existence, and realms were part of the Firmament, all that was created in the universe that the Hisuians inhabited.

These realms included, but are not limited to:

The first earth, and you are likely living on it. The second earth, the great interior of the planet.

As for the third earth, many names are given to it. Sheol, Gehenna, Hades, Hel, Hell, Jigoku, Naraka, Tartarus, the Tophet, the Outer Darkness. This was evidentially a unpleasant afterlife, either a place of torment or still darkness.

The first heaven, which is the air and earthly atmosphere. The second, which is all of outer space. And the third, Deep Heaven, and then up to the Timeless Halls, the highest plane of the Firmament, in which Arceus is said to hold Divine Council among the elohim. The Dream World was considered part third heaven, but could be accessed without Death.

Strangely enough, the Hisuians would not have been bothered by the existence of Ultra Space. They did accept the possible existence of other dimensions, universes, and realities, still being all apart of the creation of the Original One.

On the Abyss

This curious name appears many times in Hisuian writings, and I do not think that it is apart of the third earth. Rather, I think it is a primordial manifestation of sheer nothing, as the universe was said to be like before the Original One came into being.

It could just be interpreted as a plane of nothingness, but I think the Hisuians would have viewed it in far more sinister terms. Rather, it was a Anti-Arceus, not stronger than he, but the thing that Arceus could have been, yet it still exists.

The origin of the Abyss is described in the Tale of Constantine, recovered from the Ruin of Logaria. It tells as follows: (New Kantoian translation)

"...when the light of creation hit the still waters of Nothing, a shadow was cast. For every action that Original One did, unless he willed otherwise, a opposite was performed in the night. Even the Enemy knows it not. It is older than he. It is the nuclear chaos, the devourer of the Light of God, that shall be cast down at the End of All Things, when the world is mended."

(The term nuclear in this context does not mean a atomic reaction, but the centrality of the primeval evil that is told of here.)

On the Last Battle.

The End of the World is a popular concept. Rampaging Pokémon, nuclear holocaust, ancient evils, the clash between time and space, sea monsters, I could go on.

The Hisuians had a certain unconventional view of the End Times, as they would not come suddenly, but over a period of many long years, and with a quickening of the End when it was about to take place.

In principle, the title of the Last Battle between the 'evil' forces of the Enemy, and the 'good' forces of Arceus before the healing of the world was known as Har Mageddon to the earliest Hisuians, Ragna Rok to the Northmen, and Dagor Dagorath by the people at the time of the writing of the fantasy epic, the Legends of Arceus.

Strangely, this is not viewed as the final battle in all Universes, but that one. The true Last Battle at the End of Time would take place over all Creations, and then the Dark would be defeated for ever. The 'Plan,' would be finalized, but new plans, greater and more glorious, would increase in wonder for ever.

Conclusion

The Hisuians were unenlightened, as a rule for most ancient peoples, but possessing wistful, childlike tales.

Simply put, the views of the Hisuians are outmoded by modern discoveries, and your perception of them is not up to historical fact, but moral hygiene.

I eagerly await my promotion to the Rorian Professor of Pokémon, in a few weeks.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Rowell Cypress.