Turnback Cave

Turnback Cave (Japanese: りの Returning Cave) is a cave which is home to the Legendary Pokémon . In Sinnoh, it is located at the north-central region of Sendoff Spring, which itself may be accessed through the Spring Path. The cave can only be entered after entering the Hall of Fame. In Hisui, it is located in the center of a tall mountain crater in the Spring Path, which lies at the northwestern corner of the Cobalt Coastlands. Due to the slope of the crater, Turnback Cave is primarily accessible via .
Escape Ropes and cannot be used to leave Turnback Cave.
==In the games==
===Geography===
====Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl====
=====Rooms and pillars=====
Turnback Cave is a maze-like cave filled with dense fog. The cave has a fixed starting point—the entrance room—and a fixed terminal room—Giratina's room. The rooms between those points are random every time the player goes through a door, and the room generated will be in one of two types of layouts: a room with a single pillar in the center, or a room with an odd pattern of rocks that may obstruct other entrances.
In , , the inscription on the wall on the central pedestal in the entrance room reads:
: ...Past three pillars... to the sleeping... ...before 30 is surpassed...
In , the inscription instead reads:
: ...Past three pillars... offer up...to the... ... before 30 is surpassed...
To reach Giratina's room, the must find three pillar rooms; the room immediately after the third pillar room found is guaranteed to be Giratina's room. If the player passes through a total of 30 rooms before arriving at Giratina's room, the next door that is entered will return the player to the entrance room, where another attempt can be made. Exiting a room through the door from which it was entered returns the player to the entrance room, with the exception of the third pillar room and the door from the entrance room returning to Sendoff Spring. Each other door has a 25% chance to lead to the next pillar room.
In the pillar rooms, The inscription at the base of the pillars features two numbers. The first denotes which pillar room the player is in, while the second denotes how many total rooms the player has traversed (including the current room) since leaving the entrance room.
In Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, saving the game and reloading from within any intermediate room will cause all doors in that room to lead back to the entrance room. In Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, reloading a save within an intermediate room will cause the door which the room was originally entered from to be forgotten, meaning no door will lead to the entrance unless 30 rooms have already been entered.
=====Giratina's Room=====
Giratina's room has four entrances like other rooms in the cave, and from each a set of stairs descends to a central pedestal upon which Giratina will stand (or an item if Giratina has already been caught). In Pokémon Platinum, Giratina will only be present if the player did not catch it in the Distortion World. If Giratina has been caught, there will be a portal to the Distortion World where the player can obtain the Griseous Orb. If Giratina is not present, there will be an item, which reappears upon each subsequent visit to the room. Exiting any one of the doors from this room will return the player back to the entrance room.
There is an inscription on the wall on the central pedestal that reads:
: This is... That where life sparkles... That where life has faded... A place where two worlds overlap...
====Pokémon Legends: Arceus====
Turnback Cave is a small yet spacious rounded cavern that is empty, with stone pillars lining the wall. Giratina will appear in the cave after accepting 91: "On The Trail of Giratina" from Professor Laventon.
===Items===
===Pokémon===
====Generation IV====
=====Before encountering a pillar=====
=====Between first and second pillars=====
=====Between second and third pillars=====
Only five of the six possible rooms have wild encounters; the between these pillars never has wild encounters.
====== Note: After third pillar ======
While there is a fourth encounter table in the game code for generating encounters where everything is a further 10 levels higher after the third pillar, it is not used and is thus not encounterable through vanilla gameplay. Any tables with values of a Lvl. 45 Bronzong in Platinum, for example, are not representative of vanilla gameplay.
====Generation VIII====
=====Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl=====
======Before encountering a pillar======
======Between first and second pillars======
======Between second and third pillars======
===Special encounters===
====Pokémon Diamond and Pearl====
A appears here on the first visit. If run from, it respawns upon leaving the area.
====Pokémon Platinum====
An Altered Forme appears here after entering the Hall of Fame if it was defeated or run from in the Distortion World. If it is defeated or run from, it respawns after entering the Hall of Fame again.
====Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl====
An Altered Forme appears here on the first visit. If defeated or run from, it respawns after entering the Hall of Fame.
====Pokémon Legends: Arceus====
 can be caught in its Origin Forme during Request 91: "On the Trail of Giratina", which becomes available after completion of Mission 26: "Seeking the Remaining Plates". It is coded to never be . If defeated, it respawns after the player exits and reenters the cave.
===Layout===
====Entrance, pillar room, and Giratina's room====
Version	Entrance	Pillar room	Giratina's room
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
  	  	  	 
====Random rooms====
Version	Between entrance and first pillar	Between first and second pillars	Between second and third pillars
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
  	  	  	 
===Music===
Games	Situation 	Song name (Japanese)	Song name (English) 	Composition 	Arrangement
 	Overworld 	もりのようかん 	Old Chateau 	Go Ichinose 	Go Ichinose
 	When battling 	戦闘！伝説のポケモン 	Battle! (Legendary Pokémon)	Junichi Masuda	Junichi Masuda
 	When battling Giratina	戦闘！ギラティナ 	Battle! (Giratina) 	Junichi Masuda	Go Ichinose
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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In The Final Dimensional Duel V, Flint and Volkner entered the Distortion World through Turnback Cave. They were soon after followed by , Palmer, Cheryl, Riley, Mira, Marley, and the Advanced level Grunt. After leading the group to the portal, the Grunt was about to head out, but he was stopped by Platinum, who voiced her distrust towards him. She, however, promised to protect him from Team Galactic, which the Grunt agreed to, and led them through the portal.
===Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!===
Turnback Cave appeared in Enter the Distortion World!. After managing to make Kaisei spill out how to get to the Distortion World, Charon traveled to the cave and entered 's realm through it with Kaisei, followed by Hareta, Koya, and .
==Trivia==
* Turnback Cave is similar to certain locations in Kanto and Hoenn:
** In Kanto, Cerulean Cave can only be visited after entering the Hall of Fame and is home to high-level wild Pokémon and a .
** In Hoenn, the Sky Pillar is home to high level Pokémon and a , and in the third version it can be visited before entering the Hall of Fame.
* Turnback Cave's system of seemingly random room layout may be an advanced version of the system used in Lost Cave in the Sevii Islands in .
* Turnback Cave and the Distortion World may draw some inspiration from the Japanese underworld, . Giratina itself can be seen as a parallel to the kami .
* Turnback Cave shares its music with that of the Old Chateau. However, in , the version of the track used in Turnback Cave and the surrounding areas is noticeably lacking certain soundfonts. Interestingly, this variation is not recognized as a separate track in the game's audio files and the normal variation of the track is used in , suggesting the difference between the versions was unintentional.
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
* Sendoff Spring
* Spring Path
* Distortion World
Category:Sinnoh locations
Category:Hisui locations
Category:Diamond and Pearl locations
Category:Platinum locations
Category:Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl locations
Category:Legends: Arceus locations
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