The end of the world – or even of the region in which one lives – is generally held, in this day and age, to be an event one ought to delay as long as possible. Yet it has not always been this way. The Darkest Day, the catastrophe borne of Eternatus, has at times been seen as a leveling of society, not merely a leveling of buildings at the hands of rampaging Dynamax pokemon – an escape from despair, not from life.
Although it is probably true that Zacian and Zamazenta defeated Eternatus in ancient times, an alternate version of the story, cherished by Eternatus' own boosters, holds that it won the fight and departed far later, once it ran out of energy. Galar's kings invariably feared Eternatus, and its radicals at times acted like Giratina cultists, hoping it had the power to save them.
Galar today shines with the dark light of a source which, unbeknownst to most, lies deep with Eternatus' veins. The resurrection of Eternatus will be marked by widespread surges and outages, by an overloaded power grid, by a rampage at precisely the time that people are least able to band together to stop it – so some have proposed to solve the problem by killing it early.
One can, of course, no more destroy Eternatus than divide by zero; the world of nothingness does not permanently succumb to anything. Even proposals to awaken it for capture, to take advantage of the strong trainers of this era to defeat it for the first time since antiquity, foment far more chaos than these infinite dreamers ever imagined. Nor should one take solace in the widely repeated notion that Eternatus can not Dynamax, for it is the source of Dynamax energy. In truth, it can, although last time it did not.