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[The 'gear is at an angle this evening - it was obviously turned on on purpose, but it's not recording him head-on, instead from his side, while he's lying down. That doesn't mean you won't be able to make out things like the tiger stripe-like markings on his arms, or the fact that he's wearing sunglasses at night, or the fact that there's a tiny yellow spider cuddling very happily between his neck and shoulder, but.]

So, I'm kind of curious. Anyone got any interesting legends or anything, back where they come from?

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Legends? Hmm... [He scratches his head, thinking.] There's the one about how humans came to be on Naraka, but it isn' very happy. Neither is the one about the Fall, which is what caused the world to be thrown into ruin...

Well, honestly, most of the ones I've ever heard aren't all that happy, so that isn't really a problem... Is Naraka where you come from?

Oh... Yes, it is. Um... Which would you like to hear about? There are those two, and there's also the tragic love story of Asura and Inanna... which sort of ties in with the Fall, I guess.

How about how humans came to be, then?

All right. [He clears his throat, pauses to gather his thoughts, and starts.]

Once, there wasn't a heaven or an earth - only the Primeval Giant, a powerful being who was also the god of creation. However, he was incredibly lonely - so much that he died from it, eventually. From his body came Devaloka and from his head came the gods, and so that's how the world was formed.

Unfortunately, even gods are greedy, and the ones that lusted after power the most were cast down from Devaloka and onto a land - a prison, really - that the other gods created, and that was Naraka. And that's how humans came to be. For thousands of years, the fallen gods - the humans - prayed to the gods and wished for entrance back into Devaloka, but they never were allowed. Eventually, humans forgot all together that they were descended from gods and stopped believing in a way to get back the Providence they had sought for many years before.

Descended from gods, huh.

Yeah. But um... my world has had the problem, recently, of humans being born with the souls of gods, as since the Fall those souls had no where to go... They hate those kind of people and either use them for experiments or for war. But really, those people are just the same as any other person, except they can remember their past lives as gods.

Seriously? Experimenting on people like that just because of that kind of thing... That really, really sucks.

[Especially because he knows all about how that works.]

...I guess they have the advantage of having a higher endurance and being able to access unimaginable power, since they're technically reincarnations of gods in human form, but they still feel pain and have the same amount of tolerance for it, generally, as anyone else. It was horrifying to see them all in tubes, being used to power machines or otherwise.

[It was chilling, really.]

Just because someone is born with something special about them doesn't mean they should be treated that way. It's never right.

I know, but that's how things are back home. I think the only thing that could change that is the Manifest... That's the Primeval Giant's will and wish, left over from when he died, and it was sought after by the gods for many years before the Fall, and was guarded by a fierce three-headed dog named Cerberus. After the Fall, it was in Sky Castle, the last piece of Devaloka that remained, but it ended up getting stolen by the leader of a radical organization. I think if we had that, maybe things would get better. But there's nothing I can do right now.

While you're here in Johto, anyway. Maybe whenever you get back, you should try to recover it?

We are. Um, my friends and I, I mean. I'm not sure what we'll do after we have it, but we can't just sit by and let people use it to destroy the world.

[...Now he wishes he was home again.]

I hope that goes well for you, then. Whenever it happens, anyway.

Me too. Um... Do you have any interesting legends from home?

I know a few, sure. Digging them up is kind of a hobby of mine, I guess you could say.

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