It is said that Klink come not from this world, but from a mechanical realm full of strange pokemon, where mega stones are common and pokemon speak in the human tongue. In their homeland, they were a slightly darker shade of metal in body and ringed in a gold frame, with a single head but two silver wheels, but the trip through the dimensions has changed them into a form more fitting this world. Their method of evolution has changed, too – from branching into metallic creatures as numerous as Eevee's evolutions, but far less remarkable, for the same could be said of every creature in that land, to the similar forms of Klang and Klinklang.
Few Klink living today have seen the world their ancestors called home, but they have heard the stories in their pokemon speech – of a land where eggs were not new life created by parents, but the souls of the dead brought back to this world anew. A land where humans came rarely, only as chosen heroes; where battles were life-and-death, where a metal dragon – compared to Dialga, but with Blastoise-like cannons and a shorter neck – had once ruled through destruction and terror. Their world has passed into the realm of legend, and where its troubles of the age once meant that few Klink wished to return, today many are curious, but whatever portal somehow carried them here is long forgotten.
A few Klink have claimed inspiration from their tales led to the creation of Porygon and the pokemon storage system, but this is most often considered coincidence. Yet once translated from their ancient, blocky script – which the Klink alone can write – they have inspired some of the most popular and renowned television shows of this world, full of weird and digital pokemon.