They revealed what Terapagos REALLY is... It's kind of sad

[@TyranitarTube]

:( Free my homie and homegirl Terapagoses, they aint do nothing wrong How would y'all feel if there was a second Terapagos somewhere out there? Fun idea or nah?

[@ainsleygoodwin1396]

Hello :3

[@jockson7574]

Probably in the next gen we’ll see another Terapagos to catch

[@Magma-Idiot-2001]

I think Terapagos shares similarities to Mew, two Pokémon that were nearly driven to extinct due to environmental changes.

[@jockson7574]

@@Magma-Idiot-2001 so are you saying there’s a Pokémon that’s bigger than Terapagos and more evil, created by an evil team?

[@Magma-Idiot-2001]

@@jockson7574 No, I was just comparing Terapagos' situation to Mew. Where'd you even get THAT from?

[@coldseraphim]

Also another thing to add the "pagos" from Terapagos refers to the galapagos archipelago where one of the saddest things about it was that the Giant Galapagos Turtle only had one living specimen till sometime ago,a male that unfortunely passed away thus making the species extinct The fact that the Terapagos we met might as well be the last one could be in reference to that

[@ZimVerse]

That's actually really interesting(and sad) thanks for sharing.

[@Ryodraco]

To clarify, it was one variety/possible subspecies of the Galapagos tortoise that had one individual left, many others still survive. Also, "galapagos" simply means "tortoise" in Spanish (i.e. the Paldea region), so the name would apply regardless of any connection to the Galapagos islands.

[@coldseraphim]

@@Ryodraco Huh didn't knew that one about it being tortoise in spanish However i do think it still applies seeing how often times Pokemon makes multiple intertexts in a same pokemon

[@XParasiteOctoling]

Unfortunately he isn’t interested in my ditto

[@Sam24600]

actually surprisingly, a female one was found 112 years later after it's extinction and fortunately we had the male sperms of the last specimen to produce more baby tortoises.

[@djosmi5083]

Remember that guy on the internet that reproduced his Lapras so he can release the offsprings into the wild because he read that Lapras were an endangered species? After some time game freak must've seen it because one of Lapras's new dex entry states that due to mass breeding they're no longer endangered. It would've be awesome if we could do the same for that little guy with ditto. Sadly... unknown egg group.

[@RogueGamerM]

What I just realized is that this story about Terapagos is even sweeter and sadder that the moment its finnaly awakened and able to be with people again and just like a baby, it imprints the first person it sees and its the player. It's honestly really sad and puts into perspective that yeah, its just a baby that got caught up in all this.

[@Syiepherze]

I think the "fossils" of the extinct Terapagos are the Terastal crystals scattered around Paldea. Terapagos's dormant form is a crystal, so when one dies maybe all of that energy is released into the environment and manifests as "dead" crystals. These crystals would be dated in modern times to figure out how long ago they lived

[@MegaBakuganfreak]

To take that idea even further since we know there were a bunch of them before I think not only are they the crystals they are able to “come to life” when we terastilize and basically they have become Tera energy. Whenever we use Tera once the orb fills with the energy on the inside of that ball it’s a terapagos shell like the one we find. And then the eyes on the crown from any type we use is the terapagos.

[@XParasiteOctoling]

Imagine the big crystals were from larger Terapagoses, they would be similar to the giant Xurtikree from Ultra Plant Unless you’re taking about the Crystal dens

[@justinpartogi]

Hey...did anyone notice that the "globe" under the terapagos looks like a tera orb?...come on, I can't be the only one who noticed it

[@ApollosCorner]

Omg yes but I say the crystal with in the orb is the fossil which is why they eyes are in the crown. Omg.

[@MegaBakuganfreak]

@@ApollosCorner yea that’s what I said. Its crazy

[@agoodname7980]

Honestly, I kind-of like the idea of there being "legendary" pokemon who aren't just deities or godlike beings such as actual legendaries; but pokemon such as Terapagos or Genesect who could have their own category of pokemon that were all-but-lost to time with few survivors.

[@brendanboomhour7606]

Genesect wouldn't count, it's so far removed (courtesy of Team Plasma/Ghetsis) from whatever it once was that it can't be compared to any remnants of it's original species

[@pokerus4511]

So mythical Pokémon?

[@Jake38nine]

Mythologies tend to always happen to have some kind of myth about something completely harmless and small made out to be huge and scary. Humans distort a lot of reality with their imaginations and fears.

[@vaquishers]

I mean when you think about it, mythical are just pokemon you will only see once in a lifetime if you’re god damn lucky. And legendaries are just incredibly powerful, extremely rare pokemon. So ya I’d classify terapagost as a legend due to implications

[@gabeclements2501]

Like the legendary birds, eon duo, kubfu line, cosmog line, koraidon, miraidon, and heatran?

[@turkeysandwich1703]

A little unrelated to Terapagos, but I went back to talk to Arven after the Crystal Pool cutscene and he had some flavor text when he saw you carrying the book. It wasn’t anything special, he just seem a little confused to see you holding the Scarlet/Violet book but he immediately brushed it off as a sign of friendship

[@34autobot]

The Turtles all the way down idea is funny, especially when you think about the fact that Paldea itself is kind of shaped like a turtle/terapagos

[@edgarcubillan8046]

One of the clues that might tie Terapagos to Unova even more could be the common existence of elemental-boosting-gems in Unova which are super rare in other regions.

[@youngreckless1608]

Lol Watch Pokémon change that to Terashards lol 😅.

[@Fr4yDay]

I have a headcanon that there’s a Terapagos somewhere inside the Extralink in Unova. But, instead of Pokemon being given different types, they gained Hidden Abilities. And instead of the Tera Shards being scattered across the region, there are the Type Gems.

[@cosmictraveler1146]

OOOOMG THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE and why they can’t be found out of unova besides normal

[@Z0neXDthebest]

Unovan Terapagos???? 😨😨

[@deadlydingus1138]

I want to capture the second Terapagos and show it to the one I caught during The Indigo Disk so that my boy knows that he’s not alone.

[@Lagi42800]

I love that, Terapagos deserves to not be alone

[@DarkAngelEU]

Just breed it w a Ditto

[@HeavyHebi]

@@DarkAngelEU That is not possible.

[@DarkAngelEU]

@@HeavyHebi A turtle that can't lay eggs? Ridiculous.

[@MrDeathBunny]

​@@DarkAngelEU manaphy is still the only breedable legendary

[@Ayu91625]

"Turtles all the way down" aka infinite regress, could also be a nice reference to the time paradox in the game. The events in every new timeline is started by the professor getting the book from the protagonist from some other timeline, and this goes back infinitely many times

[@combak2712]

I can honestly imagine the next Legends game starting by the player character returning the Scarlet/Violet book to the Time Machine.

[@halyoalex8942]

A futuristic sci-fi Legends game could be insanely fun tho

[@rileyschow6445]

That would actually be so cool

[@tedscheett9420]

It's kind of crazy to think how powerful this little turtle guy is. It is able to displace people, Pokemon and items through time and space even possibly from other timelines. It is able to stabilize seismic activity by creating crystals. In fact, those crystals are powerful enough on their own to create a functioning AI and a time machine. It can break its own Pokeball, EVEN IF IT'S A MASTER BALL. Some of its most pure crystals can create a mask so powerful that even a few of them can make Ogerpon a force to be reckoned with. Terapagos is a Pokemon of unrestrained power within a tiny turtle body.

[@meatkirbo]

So my theory about why it’s there is basically said in the video: It can crystallize energy, and we find it initially in a crystal form, so maybe it, in a last ditch attempt to protect itself, tried to do that to itself. And it succeeded, but had no way to undo it without external help due to being young and inexperienced with this power. So when Kieran pulls it away from crystals it formed in the process (disconnecting it from the energy locking it in place maybe) it reverted, and came back to life in its original, youthful looking form. I believe this would line up with its imminent battle, as it lost control of a sudden major influx of energy from terastalizing after being asleep for so long. After we forcefully calm it down, it learns to control the energy, and can safely enter that form. (Why we’re still allowed to use it after)

[@cis22]

I also heard from somewhere that Terapagos' Stellar Form is based on the Chinese dragon turtle. Figurines of dragon turtles often feature a large turtle sitting on top of treasure (usually coins) and there's a smaller turtle on its back. So the thing Terapagos is sitting on may not be a planet or an even larger turtle. It's supposed to represent treasure.

[@geroshand8623]

Exactly! There’s another theorist who stated the Orb may be treasure, like a Faberge Egg, a form of jeweled treasure that could go along with the ‘Crown’. There’s also another theorist who said the Sphere, with it’s weird spikes poking down at the bottom of the model, could be something called the ‘Firmament’, an ancient depiction of how the ancients perceived the world that would fit the dex entry, better than turtles all the way down does.

[@michichuuu]

Seismic shifts being mentioned in the Pokédex entry is interesting phrasing considering Terapagos’ ability is called Tera Shift (Tera could be derived from Terra, which is Latin for “earth”)… and Terapagos changing into its Stellar form, the ground starts to break apart near Carmine… is this a coincidence? What if Terapagos shifting into its Stellar form in Paldea causes a seismic shift so powerful that it makes a female Terapagos in Unova fall into the Earth… creating the loop all over again for the female Terapagos to be discovered as a lost treasure, like the Terapagos in Paldea was discovered?

[@dinoszografos3244]

Terapagos being only male in the story is a reference to lonesome George, the last male of his species that sadly passed away not too long ago but thankfully we found a female and had frozen sperm and were able to produce baby tortoises. A giant Galapagos island tortoise. It's a treasure because it's basically extinct and should be protected as one just like a real life animal that is nearing extinction. This only one part of it's inspirations.

[@VoidHearted]

‘Terapagos all the way down’ sort of represents the loop of the protagonist giving the professor the white book. It’s a paradox that circles back around onto itself.

[@Fenriskoll]

Holy shit dude. The moment I thought Paldea was shaped like terapagose, and there was a smaller on the inside, I kept thinking about "Turtles all the way down" one of my favorite phrases about mythology. I can't believe this silly thing I thought had relevance.

[@halyoalex8942]

Crackpot theory: The entire pokemon planet actually is shaped like Terapagos. Look, if Arceus can have a whole region shaped like him (the one from Conquest), Terapagos can have a planet :')

[@pokefandylan2117]

There’s also Stellar Form Terapagos having a little baby on its head (part of the Stellar Tera Jewel) and a bigger shell thing underneath, which likely also references the phrase

[@CaptainObliviousV]

Something I thought of while watching this, makes it even more sad, the Tera Orbs have gems inside of them that are shaped like baby Terapagos’s shell. When turtles die and their bones scatter over time, you’re left with an empty shell. If the little guy really is the last of his kind, then that means manual Terastization is possibly triggered via Terapagos fossils.

[@brendanboomhour7606]

Think of it this way, if the Terapagos are composed purely of Terastal energy, there's always the chance they resurrect from prolonged use in the Tera Orb, if the gem inside is a baby Terapagos

[@roast_beef]

thats sad wow

[@Sahnt11]

My theory is that the terapagoses lived in the center of paldea 2 million years ago when it was flat, and the "seismic shifts" were what carved area zero out of the earth, and the last terapagos crystallized itself in time to save itself and thats why you find it at the bottom asleep

[@jcstr5853]

Just to make it simple for myself, As like as what Celebis are to Dialga, I just took Terapagos comes from the same vein as Arceus, since it's energy is close to being omnipotent in nature. Has Multitype, has some power to access Time and Space/Alternate realities

[@jockson7574]

Terapagos has to be the true god of Pokémon, not Arceus

[@deadlydingus1138]

@@jockson7574 I’d worship a cute and majestic turtle over a llama that got stuck in a fence any day.

[@aahhhhhhhhhhhhh]

​@@jockson7574maybe one aspect of it. I still buy into the theories of eternatus, zygarde, necrozma and now terapagos being somehow connected

[@jockson7574]

@@deadlydingus1138 I mean then again the Arceus we see in the games is just a clone and fake Arceus

[@yairiscapellan4874]

Two things first, if it is male or female it doesn't matter, you just need one and breed it with Ditto to restore the species. Second, if it represents the way the ancients saw the world, that explains why Paldea has that turtle shape, literally it is one turtle on top of another.

[@jamesperrott1]

paldea is not turtle shaped. that idea was always nonsense

[@rafaelrivera7594]

​@@jamesperrott1correct, its terapagos shaped lmao

[@HeavyHebi]

There are pokemon that can't breed with Ditto with genders. Ditto is in it's own meta-egg group that can breed with egg groups that aren't in the undiscovered egg group (aside from manaphy). Terapagos could simply be a pokemon that cannot breed with Ditto, either because it is unable to. Or because it *will not* breed with something outside of its species.

[@jamesperrott1]

@@rafaelrivera7594no, it isnt. at all.

[@Bruhsaurus-Moment]

It mates on its own species except you can't do it in the game. Not every Pokémon can pair with a Ditto.

[@SirWeibrot]

A second terapagos would be an easy way of explaining the tera phenomenom occuring in another region

[@cis22]

That's how they did dynamaxing in Pokémon Masters. They literally had to introduce some random wild Eternatus that Leon eventually catches in order to explain how trainers in the game can dynamax even when they're not in Galar. Maybe this is the key to revisiting old battle gimmicks. Just always involve Necrozma, Eternatus, Terapagos, and/or whoever is in charge of mega evolution in a post-game story or something. They bring back a bunch of legendaries in one go every generation anyway. Might as well make the ones tied to old battle gimmicks grant you their powers. Then for balance reasons, the protag can only use one mechanic at a time. (i.e. You can switch between having a Tera Orb, a Key Stone, a Z-Ring, or a Dynamax Band but never having more than one simultaneously.)

[@XParasiteOctoling]

@@cis22 An entire species of Eternatus (or even Necrozma) sounds pretty cool, at least to me

[@eeveeofalltrades4780]

​@@cis22I think Mega Evolution can be used anywhere as long as you have the Mega Stones, it's not tied to any legendary. And Z-moves can be used outside of Alola without the need for Necrozma, it was shown in the anime; it probably works because Z-moves draw from the trainer and Pokemon's internal power.

[@lorekeeper685]

@@eeveeofalltrades4780 z is light mega is life

[@ED-ns8fj]

​​@@cis22Mega Evolution happened because of the energy released by a machine, not a Pokèmon. So because this energy is kept inside every keystone it's universally usable

[@jamesperrott1]

the idea of 50+ terapagoses just falling into the earth as tectonic plates move is painful and why does it sound fitting for their entire species to all be in one place, clueless, and all fall in together it reminds me of that video of the ducks in some river all going down a hole one by one lmao

[@PoorGamingHabits]

Here's an interesting thought: Mega evolution/X&Y created a scizim of timelines, Mega Evo games and no-mega games Terrastal has now officially spread to all regions of Poke-Earth, Kitakami (Gen 1-4) Blueberry (Gen 5, 7) and Paldea (Gen 6, 8, 9) Meaning this could possibly become an evergreen mechanic in all Pokemon going forward.

[@enzoul777]

It’s true, it was probably a species. But the species probably came inside a meteor since there’s a giant crater. The Stellar type and motif also connects it to the stars, and you can find a Star Piece in the Underdepths. The fact that it resembles the world as the ancients saw it is probably referencing the World Turtle or a similar myth in the Pokemon world.

[@minecraftplayer1295]

There might not be caves as big as what we found in ScVi, but there could be atleast small clusters, like maybe 2 or 3 feet wide of very sporadic cyrstals, and not like entire sphears, so there could really be just thousands of terapagos's burried underground, all asleep too

[@voidastralbirth]

Terapagos is literally turtles, all the way down.

[@notshockwavedemon7543]

So technically there used to be more of these things out there But the meteor that made the great crater of Paldea which would be also known as Area Zero must have nearly wiped them out.

[@owengonzalez6819]

I just finished the DLC yesterday (since I’m writing this at midnight) and I can say, without a doubt, that Pokémon Scarlet is my favorite video game. I have never played a game that has spoken to me this much with its content and lore. Thank you, Game Freak, for giving me a low resolution masterpiece (could do without the low res tho)

[@AZUREPHOENIX777]

Maybe the "world as the ancients saw it" could be referring to the fact that it's made of crystal (i.e. they see the world as a treasure)? Also I'd love there to be a female Terapagos somewhere, and Unova could be the best place for it. Maybe in a deeper part of the Giant Chasm?

[@Ryodraco]

More likely a reference to the mythologies that saw the world as being supported by a gigantic turtle.

[@SatireGod]

I bet if terapagos got a gmax it’ll be twenty terapagoses stacked on top of each other

[@sonic72fast]

They just announced the epilogue's release date now 😂

[@FUCCP123]

Terapagos story seems to mirror lonesome George irl, the tortoise which was the lone survivor of its species.

[@GravityTheGhost]

I think I got it. The "fossilized" Terapagos are in the Tera Orbs, it's cry comes out when you are terastalizing

[@jockson7574]

I think the Terapagos Heath saw was a separate Pokémon or an evolution of Terapagos

[@17jibz]

It looked just like the Stellar form or whatever it’s called. Only difference was the lack of baby terapagos at the top and the type crystals around the globe thing, but otherwise if anything it was Heaths best drawing 🤣🤣🤣

[@francescocorrias9090]

​@@17jibz perhaps the form we have see in the Heath's book was the original look that Game Freak want to give to Terapagos Final Form but then maybe for some reason they use the one we have see in the DLC.

[@jockson7574]

@@17jibz it didn’t. No hexagons, full sphere, killer eyes, bigger size, or long tail.

[@jockson7574]

@@francescocorrias9090 or then again Heath was probably over exaggerating

[@Kyublitz]

@@jockson7574 Over Exaggerated drawings, similar to his other parodox drawings

[@Spiritchronicles47]

I love how legendarys went the gods of time and space and the forces against heaven and hell to 2 sandwich lovers and a baby turtle

[@ACG-Koopah333]

As a turtle lover I can’t even argue against turtles all the way down

[@TheJoelMH]

An entire species that could alter reality suddenly killed in an earthquake. Arceus be smiting

[@murlo_pls]

Maybe these fossils of terapagos are the Tera shards we have in the Tera orbs we have..

[@FringedHorizon]

HOLY SH*T, what if the reason Unova had the type boosting gems is there's another dormant Terapagos that was leaking energy into the environment?!!?

[@flookaraz]

The ruinous pokemon causes Terapagos to fall deep into the Earth and become only a myth. Like Atlantis, the codename of Paldea....

[@augustmyers339]

I’ve thought of it as 2 million years ago a meteor fell that contained Tera energy and crystals, then in “ancient times” when turtle Pokémon called terapagos with basic crystal powers got caught up in seismic shifts, most of them died but the ones that survived ended up in the area zero underdepths and were imbued with terastal power. We know that Paldea and Kitakami had some connection to crystals way before 2 million years ago as Carbink, which is found in Oni Mountain and the underpaths, is said to have formed deep underground hundreds of millions of years ago and that somewhere in the world there is a large mineral vein housing packs of carbink. I also refuse to believe that a Pokémon as strong as a Seaking could have this much power and not be able to save itself and go extinct.

[@StanleySophana]

Funny enough, Khu did say they can stack and Terapagos’ Stellar Form is what he meant

[@PHiLLy2c]

Nah he more than likely meant something else and it never happened

[@MelodyLumina]

@@PHiLLy2c khu's reliable but he's also a complete troll, i am 100% willing to believe that this is in fact what he actually meant

[@valentin4561]

11:07 Huh... I really like that clever theory of what his stellar form represent. Thank you for sharing these sick ideas! This representation of the infinite regress problem might as well be my new headcannon.

[@nickortiz4986]

I think the dex entry for stellar form Terapagos actually means how all the types orbit Terapagos is reminiscent of how people used to think everything in our solar system orbited earth

[@pokefandylan2117]

Oh yeah, I never thought about that; I thought the dex entry was a reference to the World Turtle myth

[@TeamAguaChris]

Another thing to consider is that the Tera Symbol floating above the Terapagos-shaped Tera Jewel is also supposed to represent Terapagos’ Gem form we first find it in when we reach its chamber in the Underdepths. Further alluding how its Stellar Form is just Terapagos all the way down.

[@ZoeyAlexandria]

We need a “void” legendary or mythical. Darkrai is close but just isn’t scary enough. Like giratina’s distortion realm and arceus’s heaven, and then there’s the void. The space inbetween. Let’s get a legendary or mythical for that!!

[@IIPM6500]

When I saw Terapagos’s new form, I was immediately reminded of this Asian thing where turtles are stacked on top of each other to represent family generations and longevity

[@navavelu151]

Terapagos might have been the origin for every known gimmick so far since gen 5. Starting from the elemental boosting gems from gen 5, mega stones from gen 6, Z-crystals from gen 7, gigantamax is from eternatus, and now gen 9 for terrastilize. This might be a stretch, but instead of unknown, Terapagos or at least the great ancestor to is could be the "hands of Arceus" which would make much more sense as, from what we know, Unknown are only able to create perfect illusory substances that don't last very long while Terapagos can seemingly produce a near infinite amount of energy. That would also coincide with the whole turtles on turtles thing as the "Hands" of Arceus wouldn't just create the world but physically hold the world together, hence why we aren't able to "see" them. This would also but eternatus into perspective since it is a literal hand maybe making the "dominate hand" of Arceus much like how most of us have a dominant hand. Of course there is evidence against this, and a lot of it at that but I think it could be something cool to think about.

[@mysticalkappa4127]

this is an absolute crack theory but what if the globe / hill terapagos sits on in its stellar form is area zero? like the land mass that is missing from the crater??

[@torterratortellini6641]

Theory: Paldea and Kitakami were once the same region and Terapagos lived there in the crystal pool until the seismic shift (Which split Kitakami apart from Paldea). One fell into an empty cave (Which will eventually be known Area Zero) and protected itself by using terastal energy which formed into solid crystals. And for extra protection, it summoned the Paradox Pokemon to keep the exploration team away from it (This is why Heath was able to meet the Paradox Pokémon) but later fell asleep and so no Paradox Pokémon were being brought into Area Zero because they either died/broke down (if they were from the future), escaped from Area Zero, or retreated into the Underdepths. Also what if Great Tusk/Iron Treads are the highest ranking Paradox Pokémon according to Terapagos? I ask this question because in some interpretations of the World Turtle Myth, The Turtle is carrying Elephants on its shell which carry the earth for The World Turtle.

[@alexandernelson3703]

I believe it was implied/stated that Tera Crystals weren't native to Kitakami, but were brought there by Ogerpon's original trainer. Ogerpon's four masks were made using crystals "that man brought from his homeland".

[@torterratortellini6641]

@@alexandernelson3703 Valid point.

[@dspace4514]

What if each Terapagos had a Tera Type and when they died, that energy would go to another Terapagos, allowing them to have another Tera type. This process continues until there is only one Terapagos, and the combination of all the types formed the Stellar Type and that Terastal Form of it

[@zinzolin14]

I'd reason that Terapagos' Stellar Form is what inspired the ancient people to come up with the idea of "turtles all the way down". Terapagos just happened to look that way when he goes tera.

[@shadowtakamiki1]

Isn’t it funny how Arceus and Terapagos are both normal types

[@MelodyLumina]

i mean a lot of pokemon whose types change around are normal types, kecleon ditto etc.

[@ShadowXZ0271]

Those markings in that cave where Roaring Moon/ Iron Valiant is, I imagine that was the adult Terapagos but maybe its body eventually dissipated overtime.

[@starch_lad]

The smile on my face when Ttar brought up “Turtles all the way down”

[@velvet_echo]

I love that the wikipedia entry for "turtles all the way down" has three turtles stacked on each other as the main image.

[@nativisions]

Yo TTar! Hope you've been well brother. Appreciate these videos. Much love from your old friend.

[@tanyaapps5601]

The dome represents the earth with nothing and then all the types represents everything that’s on the earth now

[@marvoeous9022]

Pokemon has a fascination with crystals, Pokemon: Crystal, the "Ultimate Weapon" From X & Y with a crystal appearance, Z-Crystals, Dynamax Crystals, Teracrystallisation.

[@marvoeous9022]

Unova: The Dark Stone, The Light Stone, The Grey... Crystal/Gem?

[@Sup_D]

*_"Hidden Treasure of Area Zero - Epilogue"_* release date has been confirmed to be 11th Jan 2024.

[@SaiyanTCG]

Terapagaos is the Last Avatar. When the world needed him most he was lost to time. Frozen in his state. But he was watching Paldea through the terastal state of people's pokemon.

[@kylespitzley5707]

The terastal form also represents a crown jewel, in addition to turtles all the way down. It’s a clever design truly. So much lore and history distilled into a cute turtle for a kids game

[@Netherwolf6100]

The thing is, there actually might be more. In fact, that entire cavern may be a bundle of Terapagos all in their crystal state. Even if its been lying dormant for centuries or a millennia, the amount of crystalized energy that covers nearly the entire surface of the crater is insane and couldn't possibly come from 1 single little guy just resting in hibernation. Chances are, if people were to keep digging and possibly break away at the crystal near the core, you could probably find more and more Terapagos, all sheltering themselves using those energy tera crystals.

[@ryanegeler6059]

An idea I have about the extinction of Terapagos is that during the earthquake that caught all of them by surprise some were able to turn themselves into crystals kinda like how you see the different crystal formations in Area 0. Think of that state as a kind of hibernation, however since a lot of the Terapagos were caught in the fissures during the earthquake ("seismic event") they couldn't remain in that state as long as the one we find in the game could, and over time due to erosion, and more sediment is layered on top of them that's how the Tera Crystals were formed, along with some caves lets say when explorers are trying to find fossils, and maybe some fossils that were found could be completely fossilized Terapagos in their "hibernation" but died because they couldn't reawaken themselves for whatever reason. And the reason Terapagos wasn't found sooner was that the scientists, and other adventurers who stumbled upon the fossilized Terapagos just didn't know at the time it was a pokemon, and either left it, or sold it as just some really pretty crystal.

[@christianlopez1]

Terupogos is based on the Turupoheh which is the “turtle of all knowings” in the anhkh mythological abdescrecities

[@gel6689]

Insane how middle Terapagos' tail looks like the crystal 'hair' for the lower Terapagos, thus resembling its normal form

[@BlazeStar00]

Did the Pokémon Company explore the origins of types before gen 9? Because if not, I feel like Terapagos as a species is meant to be that explanation, like Mew is a nearly extinct species that became all the pokémon we see, Terapagos is a nearly extinct species that help spread the powers of types to other pokémon in ancient times.

[@ObsidianDragon616]

Just introduce it to a nice Ditto when it's older.

[@asmrtpop2676]

unknown egg group

[@jaysayspidey4013]

Torterra's Scarlet Pokedex entry supports this theory of how the Ancient people saw the World and how they saw Terapagos in the lore of the game!! It was a really cool find!!

[@Anastasis1610]

This is actually a very satisfying conclusion/theory.

[@splatachu5543]

What if the mini terapagos guy on the stellar tera type is a fossil of a deceased terapagos

[@RD-A4R1Z]

The whole thing about 'Turtles all the way down' and the World Turtle idea could work. In some Asian beliefs, The world turtle a huge turtle with 3 elephants on top that support the world. All the stuff about the seismic changes and him hibernating in the earth, plus the stellar form's orb that resembles a planet, all of this could line up.

[@ozairh18]

I think it would have been a nice idea to introduce Terapagos in Area Zero without it terastalizing. However, if you bring Terapagos back after completing The Indigo Disk, the crystals jutting from the ground become undone and you encounter the Terapagos Heath drew

[@Ty-lr1uw]

Seems like thats how they will introduce terapagos into future games. A random new cave pops up post game, briar shows up and tells you about an abnormal terastal energy reading and shes needs your help investigating. And boom terapagos in now available in any region gamefreak wants.

[@Jake38nine]

It kinda makes sense that Terapagos goes crazy with this theory because it's supposed to be a peaceful, neutral pokemon, but then you use your teraorb on it, it absorbs all that energy after being dormant for thousands of years or more, it cannot handle the power and goes berserk.

[@jakeoruru2475]

What if the Terrapagos that heath saw was a full adult hence him being amazed and the one we find is like a fresh hatchling that it had kept safe. Instead of the crystals being a last effort defensive attack. What your seeing is the burrows ancient Terrapagos used for their young like real tortoise burrows

[@snow7981]

Maybe we get a second terapagos to fuse with the first / vice versa to give the full globe on the terastal form like shown in the book, as the current one looks like it has been shattered in half , maybe the fact we got both of the fuse legendaries (kyurem / necrozma) at the end of the dlc forebodes this?

[@Magnezone962]

About a cave with crystals in Unova, Chargestone Cave is filled with electrified crystals and you can fine gem items in there as well. Another cave that is not Unova, but Kalos with crystallized walls is the reflection cave where Carbink and Gem-obssessed Sableyes dwell in.

[@dlib89]

Am I the only one who feels like GF is cooking up something bigger for a future game since the 3DS released? Since Gen 6, there always been: A gimmick that transforms the pokémon. The gimmick is related to a crystal/rock. The crystal/rock came from a meteor. The crystal/rock also is related to some kind of parallel universe/timeline. The legendary master of that specific gen is somehow related to the meteor. You can check that with every single Pokémon game released since X/Y in a way or another.

[@Heem-oj7uz]

7:11 ngl looked and thought there was a sheep outside my window… on the 4th floor… in a city

[@lavenchanSSP]

I'm going to start using the expression, "turtles all the way down". Thank you ttar

[@jtdavis2393]

Maybe the ultimate weapon was really made by another terapagos, and the earthquake that killed many of them off was the ultimate weapon firing

[@Ben-zg8xk]

Lmao

[@jayroc62]

Area Zero is the aftermath of the ultimate weapon laser from X&Y…would explain the seismic event that wiped out all the Terapagos except one…

[@AloneTheorist]

Tbh, I'd like to know why Terapagos instinctively runs towards the player when awakened. Seems odd to me that a dormant creature kept well away from humans under the guard of some mighty tera Pokémon would immediately rush to the side of a human.

[@Thorax420]

i LOVE this idea even though how sad it is T o T but it means that heath probably saw an adult terapagos !! i really hope they keep expanding on the lore and connecting the games. also pretty sure terapagos is also from space it fell from a meteor, it just lived in paldae for millions of years

[@rosenrot234]

Heath falling down and not remembering how could also just be a sad lil hint with terapagos. Maybe it was an egg and it fell. So Terapagos wouldn't know how it fell down after it hatches.

[@-Reagan]

I love how excited you get about this idea - it’s contagious and speaking to my heart 💜 YES we need to wake the terrapagos crystals in Lost Crystal Cave and repopulate the species! There has to be more to this mysterious lore! It’s too intricate! Clever young man, very clever but It’s TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN 🐢 🐢 🐢 I read that joke/metaphor in the introduction of Stephen Hawking’s A brief history of time and it’s stuck with me - I ❤️ that you knew it and quoted it right when I was thinking about it!! Small universe...

[@Porkupine69]

4:10 cosmic shifts

[@michichuuu]

Terapagos went into slumber to protect itself after encountering hostile outsiders, I wonder who the hostile outsiders were? Ancient people? Ancient Team Rocket? Heath? Sada/Turo? The Loyal Three?

[@daniellelondon439]

“Turtles all the way down” is a saying I’ve never heard of, but it’s pretty silly. It reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s Disk World series, where the world is a disk being carried on top of a bunch of elephants standing on a giant turtle in space.

[@aestheticallymeme6614]

I think its worth noting that the "seismic shifts" that made it sink into the Earth could be from the 4 relics of destruction. We know that their power was able to drastically change the environment of Paldea and it happened in "Ancient Paldea". Idk, something to ponder ig. 😊

[@littledevildarlin414]

I also wonder if what the Scarlet entry is referencing is that maybe the Paldea map looks like a Terapagos with the center being the crown or centerpiece of it and maybe that they saw Terapagos as their land or another idea is that maybe the stellar form represents the world under Terapagos under Paldea that looks like another Terapagos. Also I read the book about "Turtles all The Way Down" aswell and yes the main idea is that the world is supported by turtles, but in the book it also is used as an example that no matter how much you try or search down to find a beginning or core answer to something, that you'll never find it, there will always be more turtles.

[@jamesperrott1]

wow that turtle all the way down thing really makes sense for it

[@angelsartandgaming]

To add to that world turtle thing, there's a book series by Terry Pratchett called the Discworld series. The main setting is a flat earth on top of four elephants and of course, the world turtle Great A'tuin (and also what I nicknamed my own Terapogos). It's not the only world turtle but there's many others throughout the universe. It's been a very long time since I've read the books, but the fact that the Stellar spinning disc, Terapogos' tera form, as well as the name of the DLC Indigo Disc reminded me of Discworld.

[@natsuja_fl]

I really like your theory here! What if the reason as to why Sada/Turo created the Time Machine was to actually try and find a Terapagos and bring to their time line. 🤷🏾 but your theory kinda made me thought of that

[@aldingess1248]

Maybe the reason we dont have any regional fossils this gen is because of Terrapagos? The large crystals we see underground could be asleep/dead ancient terrapogos who are large due to age. I find it hard to believe that one Pokémon, especially one as small as him, could generate all those crystals to such an expansive degree. Maybe ancient paldeans brought terrapogos’ to kitakami to try and develop other regions and thats how the crystal pool came to be, it was a sacred resting ground for the terrapogos