Zen_Arcade
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I payed $7 for an original booster pack a few months ago. Still in the cardboard packaging. Probably overpaid, but whatever.
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PokéBOMB: Pokémon X and Y for 3DS (Coming October 2013 WW) - Lord Fennekin Ascends
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Huh.
Dark Orchid
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Be careful, this is how it started with some of my friends last year. Now they're trying to complete the entire series and have spent close to $2,000.
I feel partially responsible for that after reintroducing them to the series.
Everyone, everyone: Check out this SUPERB illustrated article that goes in-depth about the Norse mythology connection! Simply amazing. 
You could've mentioned that before I started falling down the rabbit hole.
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kittens
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Everyone, everyone: Check out this SUPERB illustrated article that goes in-depth about the Norse mythology connection! Simply amazing.
That article has scans in it. It's awesome, tho!
Wha? Didn't even think of that. Fuck, I can't even link this freaking analysis? It has a cropped sliver of a scan, nothing more.
Awesome pic, btw -- note the eagle, stag and serpent (our three legendaries, no doubt):
Everyone, everyone: Check out this SUPERB illustrated article that goes in-depth about the Norse mythology connection! Simply amazing.
This is awesome
Can't wait to see the Jormungandr legendary
I've got a holographic charizard. Come at me bro. I've had it since '98.
HAH! I still got mine too.
And I still have three of those cards that you got at the original movie.
If true this would be awesome.
The fact the four stags around Yggdrasil each have a colored gemstone in the color of the four gems Xerneas has is another great point in the article. And Yveltal's eyes being bright blue in tint, like blindness. And the X/Y/Z axis correspondence with their different realms/stations on the tree. Damn. It -is- Norse mythology.
Yep. Still the potential for Dragon/Poison, though.
Oh man, Norse mythology is amazing. I wonder what the Articuno/Zapdos/Moltres equivalent could be, in terms of drawing inspiration from Norse mythology?
Well, personally I think that they will only base Xerneas on this myth. I continue to believe that Yveltal is based on a wyvern. Google them and you'll find many Y-shaped dragons. And I prefer legendary pokemon from various european mythologies than just the norse one.
Why not both? Design-wise, Yveltal has elements of a wyvern, but conceptually/thematically it's based on the Blind Eagle of Yggdrasil.
Not without precedent, either: Groudon and Leviathan were based on the biblical Behemoth and Leviathan, for example.I love when mythology mixes in with certain games. That Norse mythology may be intended to be so heavily referenced in a Pokemon game is just awesome.
C'mon Nintendo, you already teased me by releasing in my birth month, now I'm getting restless. >__<
As I said, this means that they'll use only the Norse Mythology. It's a great mythology, sure, but I'd like to see more of Europe. And I don't think that this will happen if they stick to this concept. It is interesting thought.
But you can mix elements: Borrow some visual cues from wyverns in Western Europe, for example, and ascribe them to what is functionally a Norse analogue. Which I believe is the case here with Yveltal.
You're 130 posts away! HOP TO IT
If I donated my posts from this thread he would be there xD
Go go go, gather the posts and vote for Fenneking.
Hahaha yeah, i'm halfway xD
is there any other requirement besides the 300 posts?
Sorry for the offtopic.
Hahahaha
yeah i will
does the poll have a close date?
Yes, but you've met the other requirement. Have to be a junior for a certain amount of time, I think 3 months or so
Just going to assume you mean Chespin
yeah i will
Just going to assume you mean Chespin
Great, more votes! #Team Fennekinyeah i will
does the poll have a close date?
Probably there isn't a closing date but the sooner the better.
Gotta post them all!
Ooh ok, i guess i will make it before january ends then, thanks.
YES, of course i meant Froakie!.
:O Ban him before he vote for that frog!
ColtraineGF
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That analysis is tops - completely convinced me. I wonder if this sort of analysis was even done with past reveals? I'd also wonder about whether the trio will be pulled from the same source, or somewhere else.
The Musketeers would've fit in nicely if they were in this rather than in G5.
The Musketeers would've fit in nicely if they were in this rather than in G5.
Don't jump the fence too often. You may get cut on it.
I created a thread for the Norse theory since I bet a lot of mythology geeks tuning out this mega-thread would dig it. 
I created a thread for the Norse theory since I bet a lot of mythology geeks tuning out this mega-thread would dig it.
sweet, yeah I was thinking that'd be a good idea
No one's posted in it yet, though. Hope it doesn't get lost, as well, lol.sweet, yeah I was thinking that'd be a good idea
Goddamn these legendaries are amazing.
Vermillion
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Yveltal... still loving it.
So beautiful.
So beautiful.
Nah, I still believe it's a gym. So I guess we have a grass, a bug and a fire gym confirmed. Which also means that we should expect Pokemon from these types.
Nah, I still believe it's a gym. So I guess we have a grass, a bug and a fire gym confirmed. Which also means that we should expect Pokemon from these types.
as In we were assuming not every type was recieving a new pokemon?
Well I think they showed it off because of the Yggdrasil link. It wasn't supposed to make us think of the Elite 4 instantly.
If the analogy is true, they probably wouldn't put it in a normal gym; it'd either be plot-related, and you'd catch a legendary there, or something of more significance, like the Elite 4.
If the analogy is true, they probably wouldn't put it in a normal gym; it'd either be plot-related, and you'd catch a legendary there, or something of more significance, like the Elite 4.
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