Pre-contact Alola
shined with golden walls, made from tough yet thin strands of Dugtrio
hair. Alola has no native quarries, but the presence of Dugtrio long
allowed its people, even before the age of international trade, to
build from metal as well as wood. Dugtrio were (and rarely, still
are) shorn by farmers like a metal, non-electrified version of
Mareep, and much of the region’s elaborate network of caves is
believed to have originated as Dugtrio farms.
Foreign sailors, who
viewed Alola from their ships, mistook the metal of Dugtrio hair
which supported its palaces for actual gold, at least until they
could hold it in their hands. Dugtrio hair, after all, is made from a
surprisingly light metal. Once its origins are discovered, this fact
is unsurprising: the Dugtrio which carry so much hair on their heads
are no Machamp or Buzzwole. Alolan Dugtrio are twice the weight of
their counterparts elsewhere, not twenty times or more.
Yet these aspiring
conquistadors sought to conquer Alola before they had the chance to
place their hands on Dugtrio hair.
Although they were defeated every time,
Alola, too,
lost many fine warriors in the struggle. Even
while the news spread of
what Alolan “gold” was made
of, Alolans
began to value the newly accessed foreign metals in
the same way that the world
they were joining valued real gold. So
they continued to tear down
buildings made of Dugtrio hair, or at least to hide them behind
grayer exteriors.
The
Dugtrio farms were abandoned, with few reminders in the present day,
and the use of Dugtrio in construction was forgotten even by most
Alolan historians. Yet whenever Dugtrio feel too forgotten, they use
their extensive tunneling ability to unearth yet
another ruin: archaeological
bonanzas
covered in the hair of their ancestors!
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