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==In the core series games==

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|"Once there were two.<br/>And {{p|Dialga|one}} looked upon time's steady pace.<br/>And {{p|Palkia|one}} looked upon the expanse of space.<br/>And the two set out:<br/>the fullness of the future they did seek,<br/>the world's far end would they greet.<br/>Two different paths&mdash;<br/>each walking alone a path their own,<br/>though they walk with {{p|Arceus|almighty Sinnoh}}."

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|2

|"O you, who at the world's far-off end dwell,<br/>I know your wish&mdash;it is my wish as well.<br/>My own beloved is now gone from me,<br/>departed to a place I cannot reach.<br/>My old companions have left me behind,<br/>their faces faded into days gone by.<br/>Still to my breast I clutch this hopeless dream,<br/>a futile wish for us once more to meet.<br/>Oh you, who at the world's far-off end dwell<br/>I know your wish&mdash;it is my wish as well.<br/>But ours are cold and endless winter days,<br/>warmed only by memories locked away."

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|3

|"No claws nor fangs, no strength to claim&mdash;<br/>no man could hope to hold his own<br/>to mighty Pokémon.<br/>But {{m|Judgment|bolts of light rained down one day,}}<br/>ten times they fell, ten times struck true<br/>upon ten Pokémon.<br/>Then to weak man did these ten turn,<br/>his strength to be, and all were blessed<br/>by loyal Pokémon.<br/>Were not these bolts a gift to man?<br/>Were they not your almighty grace,<br/>great Sinnoh, paragon?"

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|4

|"Ten Pokémon, the ancient hero's<br/>loyal retinue&mdash;<br/>though these companions now are gone,<br/>their [[Noble Pokémon|noble duty]] passes on<br/>to generations new.<br/>The people thank the ten descendants<br/>for their gen'rous toil<br/>by lining vessels built to last<br/>with water clear and choice repast<br/>before the arenas' soil."

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|5

|"Long a longer yet ago,<br/>Celestica was here.<br/>But folk and town alike,<br/>both did disappear.<br/>In time, came new folk sailing,<br/>sailing 'cross the sea,<br/>called by their love for Sinnoh,<br/>great and almighty.<br/>But diff'rent were the Sinnoh<br/>that [[Diamond Clan|each]] [[Pearl Clan|folk]] did hold dear,<br/>And bitter strife and angry war<br/>were always at the near.<br/>'Celestica' they called themselves,<br/>the name not theirs to take.<br/>Yet claim it from the past they did,<br/>for tragic quarrel's sake.<br/>So once again did our name live,<br/>though all our people gone.<br/>But even if the name endures,<br/>its heart does not live on."

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|6

|"When {{p|Uxie|that Pokémon}} was born,<br/>intelligence bloomed among us,<br/>enriching all our morrows.<br/>When {{p|Mesprit|that Pokémon}} was born,<br/>emotions bloomed among us,<br/>giving us joy and sorrows.<br/>When {{p|Azelf|that Pokémon}} was born,<br/>willpower bloomed among us<br/>to act and not to wallow."

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|7

|"O, lake in [[Alabaster Icelands|alabaster lands of ice]],<br/>lake brimming o'er with rich [[Lake Acuity|acuity]]...<br/>How many seek the Pokémon that shows<br/>itself there, out to answer its words true<br/>and earn its boon through ingenuity?<br/>But should they fail to understand its words<br/>and let its questions meet with reply,<br/>their minds will be wiped clean of memory...<br/>O, lake in alabaster lands of ice,<br/>depths where rich acuity goes to sink."

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|8

|"Throughout Hisui, [[plate]]s lie scattered&mdash;<br/>plates with powers all diverse.<br/>Forever lasting, each inscribred<br/>with eternal prayer's verse.<br/>Through space and time they will bear<br/>secret wishes for the universe."

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|9

|"I set the bones of Pokémon<br/>adrift upon the river.<br/>I let my memories flow on,<br/>adrift upon the river.<br/>And to the ocean they will flow,<br/>perhaps around the world they go.<br/>How many bones in days now gone<br/>have I now set adrift from me?<br/>How many bones in days to come<br/>will I yet set adrift to sea?<br/>While every gift with which I part<br/>takes a sliver of my heart."

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|10

|"'Twas long ago he earned the name 'hero'...<br/>He led his retinue, ten Pokémon,<br/>against the {{p|Arceus|almighty unknowable}}.<br/>In battle did his valiance proclaim<br/>at last the strength of humble humankind.<br/>The great unknowable approved this feat,<br/>and to its [[Hall of Origin|domain of no place]] returned."

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|11

|"'Let our wishes reach heaven's crown,'<br/>the people together vowed.<br/>So they and their Pokémon bore stone<br/>to [[Temple of Sinnoh|the peak]] of [[Mount Coronet|heaven's mount]].<br/>The people carved and gathered stones<br/>in shapes of Pokémon&mdash;<br/>the ten Pokémon that Sinnoh shone its almighty light upon."

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|12

|"Wintry... Austere...<br/>Brimming with strange power...<br/>Certainly the land of Hisui<br/>bears some resemblance to [[Sinjoh Ruins|Sinjoh]].<br/>Here, where the ancient Sinnoh people<br/>were born, I will spend an eternity...<br/>until {{player|the one with the mission}} appears."

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|13

|"Sootfoot, humble root&mdash;harvest it, and peel it.<br/>Broiled, banked, or steamed will do,<br/>just let nobody steal it.<br/>Mash the root, then knead the mash,<br/>then once more heat it over&mdash;<br/>Grill it only till it browns&mdash;<br/>use {{m|Ember}}, not {{m|Flamethrower}}.<br/>Now harken well, and listen closely:<br/>the wise adore potato mochi.<br/>A day spent eating all in reach,<br/>is no day wasted, if you ask me."

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|14

|"The [[Obsidian Fieldlands|fieldlands]] rush by underhoof<br/>as {{p|Wyrdeer}} carries me astride&mdash;<br/>Companions of mine run with us<br/>and Pokémon dash alongside.<br/>We come to stand where wind had swept<br/>and old days play before my eyes...<br/>The memories come running through,<br/>linking this place to times gone by.<br/>Time and space here blend together<br/>and enfold my heart as I remember."

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|15

|"The flow of time never stops...<br/>The past, future, and present...<br/>Space is ever-expanding dimensions...<br/>Our spirits, too, are as space..."

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|16

|"Heaven's crown,<br/>nearest to almighty Sinnoh...<br/>Power of almighty Sinnoh,<br/>gather as stone at heaven's mount.<br/>Stone, let your power flow&mdash;<br/>distort and bend the world around you."

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|17

|"Once there was a {{p|Landorus|god of field}},<br/> and once there was a {{p|Enamorus|god of spring}}.<br/>Upon Hisui's winds it wheeled,<br/>brough life to every growing thing.<br/>'Where go you when you are not here?'<br/>asked I one day the god of spring.<br/>No answer would it give me clear,<br/>but still did I have an inkling.<br/>There is no great dark truth untold&mdash;<br/>it simply does not like the cold."

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|18

|"Offer only friendship to those around you.<br/> Angering ??? in turn confounds you.<br/>Sorrowing ??? will in woe drown you.<br/>A land, once riven, cannot become new.<br/>Let only peace and amity surround you."

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|19

|"When first this land was formed,<br/>man and 'mon lived happily,<br/>sharing all that they could see,<br/>by kind acts born and warmed.<br/>One Pokémon then proposed<br/>that they should always ready be<br/>to help humans should they need,<br/>and let their presence be disclosed.<br/>And that is why, to this day,<br/>not all Pokémon do flee<br/>when a human they do see&mdash;<br/>they leap out where [[tall grass]]es sway."

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|20

|"Once it shone upon us all,<br/>with all the warmth of welcome sun.<br/>But now we weep, to grief we fall,<br/>starved of light now it has gone.<br/>And some they go, despair withal,<br/>in search of it they reel and run.<br/>They quit their hearths, abandoned hall,<br/>and leave our lands to be undone.<br/>And when they're gone beyond recall,<br/>this land will be a home to none.<br/>This land will only ever be a home to Pokémon."

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===Acquisition===

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