The origin of tuxemon

The Nature and origin of tuxemon

(Apollonios)

There's been a few proposals floated, but it doesn't seem like one has been chosen yet. Here are some different possibilities:

• Completely digital: Monster's physical forms are merely “vessels” or manifestations of data. Or maybe the entire world is a simulation. Digimon takes different variations of this approach.
• Otherworldy: Tuxemon somehow arrived in the world at some point in the past. Variations include: extraterrestrials, spirits, or organisms from parallel universes. A lot of RPGs use one of these.
• Synthetic biology: At some point in the past a new kind of life-form was created.
• Ancient creatures revived: The Monster Rancher approach.
• Unexplained: This is the approach Pokemon takes. Some Pokedex entries explain where a certain species comes from, but not pokemon in their entirety. Lack of explanation gives a wider freedom to create varieties of monsters, but leaves a lot of questions unanswered and creates a wider suspension of disbelief. The relationship of pokemon to animals is ambiguous.

Sanglorian's thoughts

Five Elements have always shaped the universe, their interactions being the generative - and destructive - forces that made life - and death - possible.

• Tuxemon grow and mature through interaction with all of the Elements of the universe. Battling is a particularly effective and speedy method, because it involves such violent and potent interactions, but all life presents conflicts that lead to personal growth: digging in the ground, sweating under the noon sun, cutting down a tree that blocks your path, etc. Only tuxemon that are prevented from interacting with the world dim and fade, eventually dwindling to nothing.

Different stories have been told by different peoples about how humans first came to be in the world.

• Some say that they evolved separately to tuxemon, a different form of life with a different genetic structure. This, they say, explains why the seemingly powerful attacks of tuxemon are unlikely to severely harm humans - it's the interaction of two different kingdoms of life. This also explains why humans are not associated with a particular Element.
• Some say that they are a variety of tuxemon themselves, albeit a very advanced and intelligent one. This, they say, explains why the seemingly powerful attacks of tuxemon are unlikely to severely harm humans - just like other tuxemon, humans are extremely resillient and quick to heal. Perhaps it is the humans' lack of association with a particular Element that is the unique feature of their variety.
• Some say that humans came to this planet (or even this universe) from somewhere else. Perhaps a mighty tuxemon summoned them, or perhaps they used their own advanced technology or magic to make it here by themselves. They may even have brought tuxemon of their own from another world. Being of another world is why tuxemon's attacks do so little damage to humans, and why humans are not associated with a particular Element.
• Some say that tuxemon are the spirits of the universe, each variety representing - and having responsibility for - a different thing. Not being spirits is why humans are not associated with a particular Element.
• Some say that there were only humans and plants in the world, and then humans designed all tuxemon using their advanced technology.

What all accounts agree on is that humans have always had a special relationship with the Element of Metal, even though humans themselves have no Element (or are of all Elements). For as long as there are archaeological records, humans have seemed to prefer Metal tuxemon, create Metal tuxemon, turn other tuxemon into Metal tuxemon by domesticating them, attract Metal tuxemon, turn into Metal tuxemon upon death or as a result of alchemical experiments, and so on. The oldest traces of human-tuxemon interaction are fossilised Cataspikes, which have been found with scraps of fabric impaled on their spikes.

• Some claim that all Metal tuxemon are of human origin, or at least human domestication.