Alolan Vulpix is also known as the Beacon of Mount Lanakila, for Alolans hold that the mighty trainers and fierce yet powerful wild pokemon who fill the area were summoned there by its many Vulpix. According to legend, the snow of the mountain is not a natural phenomenon, but the cumulative effect of the concentration of Vulpix found therein.
There are those who suggest that wild pokemon are so fiercely protective of Vulpix, rushing to the scene whenever one is threatened by stronger pokemon, because they know their collective efforts are responsible for the climate they so treasure. Yet many accounts attribute this behavior to the mystical powers of Vulpix itself, and suggest each tail carries within it a bond to a particular pokemon. Vulpix, similarly to humans, can supposedly claim teams of six protectors, like a massively enhanced variation of the SOS battle phenomenon.
Contemporary meteorologists do not regard the Alolan Vulpix as the source of Mount Lanakila's weather, which they consider a product of its height. Biologists do not even consider Vulpix a keystone species in its environment, and mountains and cave systems outside Alola, such as Kanto's Victory Road, have also been known to attract powerful assemblies of humans and wild pokemon. But those who have attempted to capture live specimens for further research have proven strangely unable to enter Mount Lanakila, capture a Vulpix, and escape alive. Most of what science knows about these ice-type pokemon comes from a combination of analogies to their fire-type counterparts in Kanto and a small number of Vulpix eggs in the possession of the Aether Foundation. It is difficult to resist the notion that modern Man does not know nearly enough about the Alolan Vulpix to casually dismiss Alola's legends.