While not the most popular, Gen 4 has some really cool lore built into its story. In particular, the creation myth around its legendaries has always intrigued me so I wanted to do an aged “scroll” illustration featuring every legendary / mythical Pokemon in the general. As a bonus I also put in some of the new Origin Formes from Legends Arceus.
Buy Prints!In the margins is the original “Beginning Story” Sinnoh Myth:
はじめに あったのは
こんとんの うねり だけだった
すべてが まざりあい
ちゅうしんに タマゴが あらわれた
こぼれおちた タマゴより
さいしょの ものが うまれでたさいしょの ものは
ふたつの ぶんしんを つくった
じかんが まわりはじめた
くうかんが ひろがりはじめた
さらに じぶんの からだから
みっつの いのちを うみだしたふたつの ぶんしんが いのると
もの というものが うまれた
みっつの いのちが いのると
こころ というものが うまれた
せかいが つくりだされたので
さいしょのものは ねむりについたIn the beginning, there
was only a swell of matter.
Everything mixed together
and an egg appeared in the center.
From the spilled egg,
the first thing was born.The first thing
created two parts. Time
began to
pass. Space began to expand.
Then, from its own body, it
gave birth to three lives.When the two parts prayed,
things were born.
When the three lives prayed,
the mind was born. The world
was created, and
the first thing went to sleep.