Eterna City

Eterna City (Japanese: ハクタイシティ Hakutai City) is a city in the Sinnoh region; it is an older city, showing the signs of history.
There is a rather large statue of an ancient Pokémon (in Diamond and Brilliant Diamond, it is named as ; in Pearl and Shining Pearl, ; and in , it is a combination of both) on the east side of town. The statue was once the main center of festivals in the town, although signs of the town's culture and rituals have started to slip away. During the events of the games, both Team Galactic and Cynthia become interested in the statue.
The city is home to the Underground Man, who teaches the about the Underground/Grand Underground. Professor Oak also has a house in the southernmost part of the city, where he usually resides while he's staying in Sinnoh.
In Platinum, after the clears out the Team Galactic Eterna Building in the city and approaches the Bicycle Shop, Cynthia will appear and give them an which will hatch into a .
==Slogan==
History Living (Japanese: The town that ties the past to now.)
==Places of interest==
===Eterna Condominiums===
Located east of the Poké Mart, Sinnoh's Name Rater can be found here, as well as a person named Norton who will trade a for a , and another person who will give away .
===Eterna Gym===
Located in the southeast of the city, the Eterna Gym is run by the Gym Leader Gardenia, who specializes in Pokémon. Defeating Gardenia yields the , , and the ability to use outside of battle.
===Team Galactic Eterna Building===
Located in the northwest of the city, this is one of the two Team Galactic headquarters. In , the building looks vastly different from its appearance in . To reach the building, the move must be used on a small tree blocking the entrance.
===Herb Shop===
The Herb Shop is located to the east of the Team Galactic Eterna Building, and sells effective yet inexpensive herbs.
===Rad Rickshaw's Cycle Shop===
This Bicycle shop is located just southeast of the Pokémon Center. The cannot purchase a Bicycle here, but one is instead obtained for free once the store's owner is rescued from the Team Galactic Eterna Building.
===Ancient statue===
This Pokémon statue is up a little hill to the east of Eterna City. In and , the statue has a plate (dependent on the game), while in the plate has been torn off the statue. It was once the centerpiece of many festivals.
A man in the house just south of the statue will tell the player the two inscriptions. In the Team Galactic HQ building in Veilstone City, a report can be found with missing text generated with a machine (indicated by "...") when described by the man in the house. The text extracted by the machine is written in bolded text.
==Demographics==
===Pokémon Diamond and Pearl===
The population of Eterna City is 51, not counting members of Team Galactic, with the majority of the population in buildings along the main street.
===Pokémon Platinum, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl===
The population of Eterna City is 50, not counting members of Team Galactic, with the majority of the population in buildings along the main street.
==Poké Mart==
===Generation IV===
===Generation VIII===
==Items==
===Underground Man's missions===
===Eterna Gym===
===Eterna Condominiums===
==Pokémon==
===Generation IV===
===Generation VIII===
==Trainers==
===Pokémon Platinum===
On certain days, the player can challenge a Trainer who appears in the Pokémon Center. Depending on the game's progress, these Trainers will have teams with higher leveled Pokémon upon rematch.
==Gallery==
===Artwork===
Concept art from
==Appearance==
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 
==Music==
Games	Situation 	Song name (Japanese)	Song name (English)	Composition	Arrangement
 	Overworld (Day) 	ハクタイシティ (昼) 	Eterna City (Day) 	Go Ichinose	Go Ichinose
 	Overworld (Night)	ハクタイシティ (夜) 	Eterna City (Night)	Go Ichinose	Go Ichinose
 	When encountering	ライバル 	Rival 	Go Ichinose	Go Ichinose
==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
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 and arrived in Eterna City in A Secret Sphere of Influence!, where they visited the Eterna Historical Museum. During their visit, the museum alarm went off as the Adamant Orb was stolen by a disguised , who had been hired by Team Galactic. Although Officer Jenny had arrived at the crime scene before the crooks could leave the place, they still managed to trick her with 's and hide from the policemen, prompting her to quickly order all the exits to be locked.
With the museum locked, they began to search for the suspects. The first one to be found was Nando, who was at the museum studying the rich history of the Sinnoh region. Ash, , , and Gardenia all told Jenny that Nando could not be the thief. However, she had a picture of a stealing the Adamant Orb, and since Nando owns a Sunflora, she was certain he was responsible for the theft. The problem was only solved after it was revealed that the Sunflora in the picture was actually Team Rocket's a Sunflora.
After helping to recover the orb, Ash was ready for his at the Eterna Gym, which took place in The Grass Menagerie!. He had a hard time battling Gardenia's skilled , but in the end, he managed to defeat them all, thus obtaining the , his second Sinnoh League Badge. During Ash's Gym battle, Team Rocket attempted to dig a tunnel under the battlefield, but instead dug their way into the Underground and met the Underground Man, who made them dig spheres for him and left with them while the trio ate lunch.
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In Nightfall? Nightmares!, Johanna announced an upcoming Pokémon Contest in Eterna City. While heading out to see it, Chloe met Dawn, who revealed that she was going to participate in said Contest. In the next episode, Ash and Goh joined them, but the Contest ended up occurring off-screen after the episode had ended, leaving the winner unrevealed and the city's Contest Hall unseen.
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==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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Eterna City first appeared in Ring Around the Roserade I, where , , and arrived there while on their journey to Mt. Coronet. While for Platinum's Eterna Gym challenge, the trio's first partner Pokémon evolved, and they met Cynthia, who had come to the city to search for the missing Rad Rickshaw. While Platinum challenged Gardenia at the Gym and eventually managed to earn herself the , Cynthia found Rad Rickshaw being held captive by Team Galactic in the Team Galactic Eterna Building and saved him using her . Afterwards, Rad Rickshaw mistook Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum as the ones who had saved him and gave each of them a Bicycle as a gift.
In Cautious Clefairy, Pearl returned to the city to deliver a package to Rad Rickshaw. In return, Rickshaw helped Pearl with his errand by revealing the reason why Team Galactic had held him hostage: his ancestors had been the ones who built the statue in the city. In this canon, the statue is neither or , but a combination of the two statues (similar to how it appears in the games). Rickshaw also built a tandem bike using the parts he had ordered in order to help Pearl and himself get to Lake Valor before Team Galactic, as they were planning to blow up one of Sinnoh's three lakes.
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In Unplugging Rotom (Heat, Wash, Mow, Fan, Frost), Diamond and Pearl followed from the Old Chateau to the city, eventually befriending it. At the end of the chapter, created a portal to the city and attacked it, destroying the statue to demonstrate its superiority over Dialga and Palkia. As Diamond's Regigigas started fighting against Giratina in The Final Dimensional Duel I, Charon, on his quest to capture all the Legendary Pokémon of Sinnoh, sent his newly- out to fight Regigigas. When Giratina eventually re-entered the portal, Charon chose to abandon the fight, which wasn't even going in his favor anymore, and pursued Giratina into the Distortion World, followed by Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter, who had been observing the events and decided to try finding Cyrus from the other world, where he had disappeared into at the end of the previous arc.
====Gallery====
The statue	 	 		
The statue	Original design	Second design		
 	 	 		
===Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!===
Eterna City briefly appeared in Win with Teamwork!!, where Hareta and Mitsumi found their way there after getting lost in Eterna Forest and meeting Gardenia there.
==Trivia==
* In , there is a man in Eterna that states there was another Plate, other than and 's plate, but he has never seen it. It may have been for .
===Name origin===
Language 	Name 	Origin
Japanese 	ハクタイシティ Hakutai City 	From 百代 hakutai (eternity)
English 	Eterna City 	From eternal
German 	Ewigenau 	From ewig (eternal) and -au (suffix for settlements by the river)
Spanish 	Ciudad Vetusta 	From vetusta (ancient)
French 	Vestigion 	From vestige (remnant)
Italian 	Evopoli 	From evo (era) and the suffix -poli (city)
Korean 	영원시티 Yeong-won City 	From 영원 (永遠) yeong-weon (eternity)
Chinese () 	百代市 Bǎidài Shì 	From 百代 bǎidài / baakdoi (aeon, lit. "a hundred generations")
Chinese () 	百代市 Baakdoi Síh 	From 百代 bǎidài / baakdoi (aeon, lit. "a hundred generations")
Polish 	Eterna 	Same as English name
Brazilian Portuguese	Cidade de Eterna 	Same as English name
Russian 	Этерна Сити Eterna Siti 	Transcription of its English name
Vietnamese 	Thành phố Hakutai 	Transcription of its Japanese name
==Related articles==
Category:Cities
Category:Diamond and Pearl locations
Category:Platinum locations
Category:Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl locations
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