Lore Theory: Incoming Apocylypse?

[Hemiptera]

Given the paldeck descriptions for Astegon, Jetdragon and Frostallion/Frost Noct and of Selyne, added to the journal entries from the Sakurajima tower boss, it makes me wonder if there will eventually be some big, destructive endgame boss monster or event added when the game is complete?
Either they (devs) are making stuff up as they go along (no problem with that, makes it interesting and organic, so to speak) or they've got some really interesting story/plot already planned for this game.

I'm unsure if the Bellenoir/Libero entries may also provide hints for eventual story/plot, but they DO seem ominous. Has anyone got a Blazemut Ryu yet, and if so, could they post the paldeck description? I'm curious about whether it seems like another hint.

Thoughts?

[Toy Box Heroes]

Blazamut Ryu Paldeck Entry

“Long ago, it emerged from the depths of the earth. With relentless, raging flames showing no mercy, it burned the entire island until nothing remained. It was known as the Eternal Flame”

There you go!

[Nicodemous52]

Pretty much agreed. The way I've described the story to others as I understand it... Something truly horrific happened here, and now you're stuck in the middle of it.

I take some of the land formations to be evidence of some kind of apocalyptic battle that happened between basically Pal gods in the past. I think we can point to the Genetic Research Unit and the Raine Syndicate as evidence that there are modern horrors happening on the islands as well.

[Nicodemous52]

However, to add to that, I do think the devs are just kind of making it up as they go. I don't think they plan to have a clear cut story of what happened, neither in the distant past nor the recent. A lot of such entries seem almost folkloreish.

[Hemiptera]

Originally posted by Toy Box Heroes:

Blazamut Ryu Paldeck Entry

“Long ago, it emerged from the depths of the earth. With relentless, raging flames showing no mercy, it burned the entire island until nothing remained. It was known as the Eternal Flame”

There you go! :AHIEYE::AHISMILE::AHIEYE:

Thanks a bunch! Yet another ominous entry... Very helpful for the theory!

[Hemiptera]

Originally posted by Nicodemous52:

Pretty much agreed. The way I've described the story to others as I understand it... Something truly horrific happened here, and now you're stuck in the middle of it.

I take some of the land formations to be evidence of some kind of apocalyptic battle that happened between basically Pal gods in the past. I think we can point to the Genetic Research Unit and the Raine Syndicate as evidence that there are modern horrors happening on the islands as well.

Yeah, a massive apocalypse does seem to have plagued the past, and there are all those giant skeletons here and there on the islands... What exactly happened in/to this place?
Whatever it was, they seem to be hinting that it could happen again. I hope that's the direction the devs take it. Move the level cap to 1000 and bring out massive, island-sized pals for us to conquer. And have the Reincarnated Pizza guy start a restaurant to provide the Pal Tamers with healthy food to get them through the battle! ;)

[Toy Box Heroes]

Originally posted by Hemiptera:

Originally posted by Nicodemous52:

Pretty much agreed. The way I've described the story to others as I understand it... Something truly horrific happened here, and now you're stuck in the middle of it.

I take some of the land formations to be evidence of some kind of apocalyptic battle that happened between basically Pal gods in the past. I think we can point to the Genetic Research Unit and the Raine Syndicate as evidence that there are modern horrors happening on the islands as well.

Yeah, a massive apocalypse does seem to have plagued the past, and there are all those giant skeletons here and there on the islands... What exactly happened in/to this place?
Whatever it was, they seem to be hinting that it could happen again. I hope that's the direction the devs take it. Move the level cap to 1000 and bring out massive, island-sized pals for us to conquer. And have the Reincarnated Pizza guy start a restaurant to provide the Pal Tamers with healthy food to get them through the battle! ;)

Yeah those are skeletons belong to a type of flying whale pal that hasn’t been released yet. They had a trailer awhile back where it showed some people and pals riding one. You can tell they are the same because they have that “Arceus belt” which can also be seen amongst the skeletal remains.

It’s simply called the “Colossal/Celestial Whale” pal.

They all probably died in the mentioned calamity or some other terrible event.

[Toy Box Heroes]

Originally posted by Nicodemous52:

Pretty much agreed. The way I've described the story to others as I understand it... Something truly horrific happened here, and now you're stuck in the middle of it.

I take some of the land formations to be evidence of some kind of apocalyptic battle that happened between basically Pal gods in the past. I think we can point to the Genetic Research Unit and the Raine Syndicate as evidence that there are modern horrors happening on the islands as well.

The dark mutant pal is probably one of those modern horrors.

[Nicodemous52]

Originally posted by Toy Box Heroes:

Originally posted by Hemiptera:

Yeah, a massive apocalypse does seem to have plagued the past, and there are all those giant skeletons here and there on the islands... What exactly happened in/to this place?
Whatever it was, they seem to be hinting that it could happen again. I hope that's the direction the devs take it. Move the level cap to 1000 and bring out massive, island-sized pals for us to conquer. And have the Reincarnated Pizza guy start a restaurant to provide the Pal Tamers with healthy food to get them through the battle! ;)

Yeah those are skeletons belong to a type of flying whale pal that hasn’t been released yet. They had a trailer awhile back where it showed some people and pals riding one. You can tell they are the same because they have that “Arceus belt” which can also be seen amongst the skeletal remains.

It’s simply called the “Celestial Whale” pal.

They all probably died in the mentioned calamity or some other terrible event.

But that introduces a hole in what little lore there is. If pals don't decompose, those skeletons can't be pals. If they are pals, then they do decompose. But we are told directly they do not. The corpse simply vanishes after a time.

[Toy Box Heroes]

Originally posted by Nicodemous52:

Originally posted by Toy Box Heroes:

Yeah those are skeletons belong to a type of flying whale pal that hasn’t been released yet. They had a trailer awhile back where it showed some people and pals riding one. You can tell they are the same because they have that “Arceus belt” which can also be seen amongst the skeletal remains.

It’s simply called the “Celestial Whale” pal.

They all probably died in the mentioned calamity or some other terrible event.

But that introduces a hole in what little lore there is. If pals don't decompose, those skeletons can't be pals. If they are pals, then they do decompose. But we are told directly they do not. The corpse simply vanishes after a time.

That’s interesting. Never heard about pals not decomposing.

Another thing that was going around for theories is that the skill fruit trees formed/grew from mountains of pal corpses. So I guess that kind of goes along with that, but I’m not sure.

That or they are just extensions of the big tree. We can only guess until more information is revealed.

[Celator]

There are a ton of geographical details in the game that tell some kind of story. A lot of rock formations look unnatural, as if the ground was torn up or fractured on a huge scale. In particular there's the place east of the Verdant Brook, just north of one of those giant skeletons, that looks like a gigantic laser or something fired across the land and carved a massive ravine through it. Since the whale skeleton is at one end of the ravine, it may or may not have been what killed it.

Considering the scale of these features, whatever created them must be orders of magnitude more powerful than any of the pals we've seen so far. Even the big whale and dragon shown in the trailers don't look big enough to cause this kind of destruction. This means that either there is going to be a huge gap between the pals we already have and the eventual endgame, or whatever did it will not actually be obtainable.

Some theories that come to mind could be:
-Much larger pals existed in the past, but are now extinct.
-It wasn't a pal but something man-made. Considering the laser technology the Rayne Syndicate managed to develop, it wouldn't surprise me if paldium enabled people to build even bigger weapons in the past.
-It wasn't a pal but some one-off eldritch horror that we'll either never see or never get to obtain. Hope it's not this because that'd be boring.

Another idea that could prevent a huge power gap between early and endgame pals is that there's another kind of mutation that makes them even bigger and more powerful than an alpha. For example, you could find a Titan Chikipi that is as big as a hill and can go toe-to-toe with normal legendaries, or you could find a Titan Frostallion that's as big as a whale and even more powerful.

[King of Amazons]

Originally posted by Hemiptera:

bring out massive, island-sized pals for us to conquer.

I don't know; we already have problems with large Pals navigating the bases. Maybe give us the option to shrink Pals first?

[Hemiptera]

Originally posted by King of Amazons:

Originally posted by Hemiptera:

bring out massive, island-sized pals for us to conquer.

I don't know; we already have problems with large Pals navigating the bases. Maybe give us the option to shrink Pals first?

If I can have a palm-sized Foxsparks I'm all-in.

[Hemiptera]

@Nicodemous52
We have to keep in mind that the whole "pal corpse disappearing" thing (as referenced in Castaway's journal entries for those who don't know) is how things are NOW, but not necessarily how they always were. It could be it wasn't always like this, or there may be means of killing pals that instantly crystalizes/fossilizes their skeletel structure, or these skeletons could literally be the "drops" left behind from these massive pals and were just too big to be hauled away by anyone.
I mean, plenty of pals drop bones. Imagine a really, really big pal dropping lots of really, really big bones too large to fit in an inventory.
That'd be my thoughts anyhow, though the devs may come up with a defferent reason to explain it in the future.

[Hemiptera]

@Celator
Man-made superweapons seem a good possibility for some of the wanton, cataclysmic damage/destruction we see, especially considering how advanced some of the ruins are. The big question is, who, or what, were they fighting? Humans on humans, or humans vs space invaders? Or maybe the weapons were from space and the human civilization was helpless to defend itself?
The most interesting thing in all of this is that the islands are apparently isolated from the rest of the world (if I remember my lore correctly), meaning there are either no signs of these conflicts elsewhere in the world, the Palpagos are literally in a different world/pocket dimension, or the conflict was somehow covered-up in the rest of the world and everyone's simply forgotten it ever happened?

[King of Amazons]

Originally posted by Hemiptera:

@Nicodemous52
We have to keep in mind that the whole "pal corpse disappearing" thing (as referenced in Castaway's journal entries for those who don't know) is how things are NOW, but not necessarily how they always were. It could be it wasn't always like this, or there may be means of killing pals that instantly crystalizes/fossilizes their skeletel structure, or these skeletons could literally be the "drops" left behind from these massive pals and were just too big to be hauled away by anyone.
I mean, plenty of pals drop bones. Imagine a really, really big pal dropping lots of really, really big bones too large to fit in an inventory.
That'd be my thoughts anyhow, though the devs may come up with a defferent reason to explain it in the future.

The "Pal corpse disappearing" thing has reminded me of the theory that Pals are actually a form of Grey Goo. Question is, if the Grey Goo disperses when a Pal or human (the latter one is something I added to the theory) is killed, then why don't their drops disperse, too?