#201 - Unown M by BriannaBellerose on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

The Unown are said to resemble ancient writing and hieroglyphs. It is a mystery whether they predate or postdate written language, and therefore which one is based on the other. Extremely rare in our world, these creatures hail from their own dimension, they thrive exponentially. If a single Unown moves to the Pokémon world, it tends to stick to walls like engravings of ancient texts. Otherwise, they tend to orbit around each other.

The Pokédex and Professor Oak's research disagree on whether Unown communicates using electromagnetic waves or telepathy. Either way, it can be detected by the Pokégear radio, which interprets it as the melody of the Azure Flute. It is said that an "odd power" emerges when more than one Unown come together. They have proven themselves capable of reading the thoughts of other life forms. Great numbers of Unown are capable of distorting the reality to suit the dreams and wishes of whoever is in control of the Unown. However, they can only do this when more Unown are present, so it could be a shared effort rather than an ability unique to each Unown.

Unown is a Psychic-type Pokémon. While it is not known to evolve into or from any other Pokémon, it has 28 derivative shapes, most of which are represented by a similarly shaped character of the Latin alphabet. Before the registration of Alremie, Unown previously held the record for most alternate forms in a single Pokémon specie.

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