Be very wary, traveler, if you are lost in a dark, abandoned building or a twisting cave and a purple flame comes to guide you, for that purple flame is a Litwick, and the only place it will take you is the land of the dead. The ghastly flames of these pokemon are fueled by life itself, and these messengers of the dead do not restrict themselves to those whose times have come, for they feel a consuming urge to keep their flames burning ever brighter.
Litwick are easily defeated if one recognizes them for what they are; even a small jet of water, pile of sand, or gust of wind will douse their fires and see them run away until their flames can burn again. But the lost and desperate rarely consider that their guide has ulterior motives; even if they know the stories of the Litwick, they seldom appreciate the significance of the ghost pokemon before them. Some lost individuals follow these pokemon to their graves willingly – not out of any desire to perish, but because they are so lost that they believe starvation or dehydration will surely take them first, and wish their expiration to be on less painful terms. Indeed, those facing true despair often get lost in areas where Litwick are common on purpose, for the death these pokemon provide is a painless one.
Although Litwick have been often demonized in legends, they are not malicious creatures, and are typically baffled when humans consider them villains. To these pokemon, who can pass freely between the two, the land of the dead is simply another realm, no worse from than that of the living. Although for the living this passing is an irreversible one, it is a journey which they all must eventually take.