Abyssal Ruins

Abyssal Ruins		かいていいせき Undersea Ruins
"Wild Missingno. appeared!"

Map description:

An ancient tomb that is said to be the resting place of an ancient king.

Location:

East of Undella Town

Region:

Unova

Generations:

V

Location of Abyssal Ruins in Unova.

Pokémon world locations

Abyssal Ruins (Japanese: 海底遺跡 Undersea Ruins) are sunken temple ruins in eastern Unova, accessed through the use of Dive outside of battle. It is east of Undella Town in Undella Bay. Most Plates are located here. There are four floors and no wild Pokémon or Trainers. In Black 2 and White 2, the Abyssal Ruins are not marked on the Town Map until the player has visited them.

Each time the player enters the ruins, he or she is only allowed to take 500 steps until a torrent of water sends the player back to the water's surface. The ruins are divided into four floors, each smaller than the last. Due to the step limit, it is impossible to get all items of the Ruins in one trip; rather, to reach the second floor, the player must reach the pillar in the middle of the ruins in fewer than 190 steps (thus ignoring all items). The Ruins are filled with 32 Relic items which have a total value of $1,706,000 when sold to the item maniac in Undella Town. To reach the third floor, the player must use Flash at the purple pillar located in the central-west path of the floor at a dead end. To reach the fourth floor, the player must use Strength at the purple pillar in the central-east part of the floor.

Items

1F

	Location	Games
Dread Plate	North of the western entrance	B W B2 W2
Earth Plate	Southeast quadrant	B W B2 W2
Fist Plate	Southwest corner	B W B2 W2
Flame Plate	West of the room's center	B W B2 W2
Icicle Plate	South of the room's center	B W B2 W2
Insect Plate	Near the northeast corner	B W B2 W2
Iron Plate	Northwest quadrant	B W B2 W2
Meadow Plate	Southwest quadrant	B W B2 W2
Mind Plate	North of the room's center	B W B2 W2
Sky Plate	North of the eastern entrance	B W B2 W2
Spooky Plate	Southeast quadrant	B W B2 W2
Stone Plate	Near the northern entrance	B W B2 W2
Toxic Plate	Southeast corner	B W B2 W2
Zap Plate	South of the western entrance	B W B2 W2
Relic Gold ×3	Near the northwest corner Southwest quadrant East of the room's center	B W B2 W2
Relic Silver ×3	Northwest quadrant Northeast quadrant Southeast quadrant	B W B2 W2
Relic Copper ×4	Inside the northern entrance Inside the eastern entrance Inside the southern entrance Southeast of the western entrance	B W B2 W2
Relic Statue	Just north of the room's center	B W B2 W2
Relic Vase	Southeast quadrant	B W B2 W2

2F

	Location	Games
Relic Gold ×3	Northwest quadrant Northeast quadrant Along the east wall	B W B2 W2
Relic Silver ×2	Northeast quadrant Southwest quadrant	B W B2 W2
Relic Copper ×2	Southwest quadrant Near the entrance from 1F	B W B2 W2
Relic Statue	Southwest corner	B W B2 W2
Relic Vase	Northwest corner	B W B2 W2
Relic Band ×2	Southeast corner Northeast quadrant	B W B2 W2

3F

	Location	Games
Relic Gold	Southwest corner	B W B2 W2
Relic Silver	South side	B W B2 W2
Relic Statue	Northwest corner	B W B2 W2
Relic Vase ×2	Northeast corner Along the west wall	B W B2 W2
Relic Band ×3	Northeast quadrant Southeast quadrant In the room's center	B W B2 W2

4F

Item		Location	Games
	Relic Crown	In the center of the room	B W B2 W2

Mysterious letters

This section contains fan speculation.
There is no solid evidence for or against some parts of this article.

Pokémon Black and White

Some of the pillars that comprise the corridors of the four floors of the abyssal ruins are colored purple and marked with mysterious letters. These letters can be transliterated into letters of the Roman alphabet using the correct cipher. When read the correct way (right to left, bottom to top) the sentences from each pillar can be gathered into a coherent message. The cipher shifts between floors: when one moves up a floor the symbols move "down" one letter in the Roman alphabet; for example, if two separate symbols corresponded to the letters G and H on one floor, on the floor above they would correspond to F and G, and on the floor above that they would correspond to E and F, respectively.

Four of the symbols used— , , , and —do not appear to have any corresponding letter; it is strongly speculated that they are logograms.

Pokémon Black 2 and White 2

The messages are identical to the ones found in Pokémon Black and White.

After defeating the Champion, if the player defeats Hugh at Undella Bay and receives HM06 (Dive) from him, Zinzolin will approach the player after Hugh leaves. He gives the player documents which allow the deciphering of the symbols in the ruins.

While inspecting the symbol-inscribed blocks in the ruins, an additional text box containing the direct transliteration of the symbols will appear after the symbols are shown. The player still has to read the transliteration backwards—or if they are on the upper levels, further decipher the translation—before getting a clear message. However, the unknown symbols still cannot be translated using Zinzolin's documents, and instead appear as several black circles in the direct translations provided by the game.

In other language versions, the deciphers provided by Zinzolin's documents are translated into the language of the game, and are still enciphered in a similar manner.

The message

In all languages, the inscriptions on the ruin's walls remain the same.

Inscription	Transliteration	Message	Notes
1F
	SDROWSGNIKOTNETSIL	Listen to King's words.
	HTURTTODAELSEMIRP	Primes lead to truth.
	EVARBSIGINK	King is brave.
	EPOHSESOLREVENGINK	King never loses hope.
	DNIKSIGNIK	King is kind.
	MAERDASAHGNIK	King has a dream.
	SUORUTNEVDASIGNIK	King is adventurous.
	LLASTPECCAGNIK	King accepts all.
	RENROCDNOCESSNRUTGNIK	King turns 2nd corner.	In the transliteration, "2nd" is spelled out as "second".
	RENROCDRIHTSNRUTGNIK	King turns 3rd corner.	In the transliteration, "3rd" is spelled out as "third".
	RENROCHTFIFSNRUTGNIK	King turns 5th corner.	In the transliteration, "5th" is spelled out as "fifth".
	RENROCHTNEVESSNRUTGNIK	King turns 7th corner.	In the transliteration, "7th" is spelled out as "seventh".
	GNIKFOTRAEHEHTEVAH	Have the heart of King.
	GNIKESIARPEWEREH	Here we praise King.
	SENIHSTHGILSGNIK	King's light shines.
	ELPOEPSIHSEVOMGNIK	King moves his people.
	EVOLHTIWSTCAGNIK	King acts with love.
	DERTAHTHGUOFGNIK	King fought hatred.
	TSOLSTEGGNIKON	No king gets lost.	This message only appears on the middle pillar if the player takes more than 190 steps to reach it.
	GNIKEVARBNOOG	Go on, brave king.	This message only appears on the middle pillar if the player takes fewer than 190 steps to reach it.
2F
	FEVUJUBSHTJFGJM	Life is gratitude.
	FGJMHOJWJFDFSTJHOJUBF	Eating is receiving life.
	MMBUOTJMJWFSPEPPH	Good or evil isn't all.
	DJSBCSBCFCUPOPE	Do not be barbaric.
	FUTBXUPOUTVNFOP	One must not waste.
	TVPJDFSQTJMMB	All is precious.
	TSBFUFUBFSDTSBX	Wars create tears.
	EFFSHBGJFOJIT	Shine if agreed.
3F
	UIPKGDNNCQVUMNCVIPKM	King talks to all beings.
	UGXCYOQTHNNCFQXCU	Saved all from waves.
	NNCTQHGRQJUKIPKM	King is hope for all.
	GXQNJFKYVEKMPKJV	Think, act with love.
	FGGTICHKIPQTVUVEC	Act strong if agreed.
4F
	HQROD●●●●●GHWDHIHGJQLN	King defeated alone.
	BDGDQLJQLNGHQLRM●●●●●	joined King in a day.
	VJQLHE●●●●●GHOODFJQLN	King called beings.
	HUXWXIGQDHSRKVLJQLN	King is hope and future.
	●●●●●●●●JQLNWDHUJHKW	The great King .

Interpretation

On 1F, the inscriptions talk about a brave king who fought hatred and pursued peace. Some of the lines state that primes lead to truth and that the King turns on corners; these corners correspond with the intersections while entering the ruins. Every time the player comes to a choice in the path, either going straight or turning, can be considered a corner. Following this pattern, turning on the prime-numbered intersections, the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 7th, and continuing straight on the others, will lead the player very close to the center of 1F, regardless of which entrance is taken.

This key of 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 7th corners works on all floors (with the obvious exception of the last floor), and will lead the player to the Relic Crown.

The inscriptions on the 2nd and 3rd floors tell the player to "shine light" and "act strong" if agreed, respectively. Both at the end of these floors, the player must use Flash and Strength, respectively.

is represented using Zinzolin's documents by ●●●●● in the Japanese and Korean versions; ●●●●●●●● in the English, French, and Italian versions; and ******* in the Spanish version. This symbol is speculated to stand for "Harmonia", the last name of N and Ghetsis, as it has five characters in Japanese (ハルモニア); five in Korean (하르모니아); eight in English, French, and Italian (Harmonia); and seven in Spanish (Armonia).

, , and are all represented using Zinzolin's documents by ●●●● in the Japanese and Korean versions, ●●●●● in the English and Italian versions, ●●●●●●● in the French version, and **** in the Spanish version. There is currently no leading theory as to what these symbols stand for, though it is believed to not be any Pokémon's name as the number of letters in the Spanish and English versions are different (no Pokémon has a Spanish name different from its English name).

In the German version, all four symbols are represented as ########## in Zinzolin's documents.

Layout

Version	1F	2F	3F	4F
Black
White
Black 2
White 2

In the anime

Abyssal Ruins in the anime

The Abyssal Ruins first appeared at the end of Piplup, Pansage, and a Meeting of the Times! as Jessie, James, Meowth and Dr. Zager spoke about using Meloetta's song to undo a seal inside the ruins. They later discovered the entrance to the ruins in Goodbye, Junior Cup - Hello Adventure!.

The Abyssal Ruins played a key role in the climax of Team Rocket's Operation Tempest in Meloetta and the Undersea Temple! and Unova's Survival Crisis!. Giovanni brought Meloetta to the ruins to unlock the Reveal Glass, allowing Giovanni to summon Tornadus, Thundurus and Landorus and take control of the three in their Therian Formes.

Trivia

The Splash Plate and Draco Plate are the only Plates that are not found here, located instead on Route 13^BW or in Undella Bay^B2W2. However, the man who gives these two plates to the player in Black and White states that he found them in the Abyssal Ruins himself, meaning that all the plates originate from the Abyssal Ruins.
The ruins strongly resemble the Yonaguni Monument, off the southernmost coast of the Ryukyu Islands.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	海底遺跡 Hóidái Wàihjīk
Chinese	Mandarin	海底遺跡 Hǎidǐ Yíjì
European French		Ruines des Abysses
German		Unterwasserruine
Italian		Rovine degli Abissi
Korean		해저유적 Haejeo Yujeok
European Spanish		Ruinas Submarinas