A Traveler's Guide to the World of Pokémon/Johto/Ruins of Alph
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The Ruins of Alph is a place in the games Pokémon Gold and Silver and Pokémon Crystal. It is located south of the small town of Violet in the land of Johto. The place has a lot of drawings on the wall inside, all of them bearing resemblance to the Pokémon Unown. Inside the ruins, the player will continuously run into the Unown Pokémon, and after traveling to Goldenrod City, achieving a Radio Card by winning the Pokémon Quiz in the Radio Tower there, the player may hear strange noises from the radio when tuning it inside the Ruins of Alph. These noises indicate a wave of mystical energy flowing through the place. This is of no known relevance to the game itself, it is simply present to indicate this is a strange place.
After catching three Unowns of different character forms, a scientist will give you the Unown Dex. This can record the Unowns of different alphabets you have caught. Completing the Unown Dex allows you to print out Unown using a Gameboy printer.
In the Johto League Champions episode Fossil Fools, research at the Ruins of Alph discovers living specimens of Omanyte and Omastar, much like the Kabuto in the Orange Islands episode Shell Shock.