Cogita

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Cogita コギト Cogito
Artwork from Legends: Arceus
Gender	Female
Eye color	Gray
Hair color	White
Hometown	Ancient Retreat
Region	Hisui
Generation	VIII
Games	Legends: Arceus

Cogita (Japanese: コギト Cogito) is a character who appears in Legends: Arceus.

She bears a striking resemblance to Cynthia, but the relationship between them, if any, is unknown.

In the core series

Cogita lives alone at the Ancient Retreat and possesses a vast knowledge of Hisuian legends. After the player is exiled from Jubilife Village, Volo guides them to her home. She tells them about an artifact known as the Red Chain that could bind the world together and cause the space-time rift above Mount Coronet to disappear, specifying that the materials to craft it must be collected from the three lake guardians. Once all the materials have been gathered, she travels to the Shrouded Ruins to witness the crafting of the Red Chain. After the player has obtained the Origin Ball, Cogita appears in Jubilife Village to check out the Clothier.

During the post-game, Cogita tells the player where to find most of the remaining Plates. Once the player has collected them, she gives the player the Pixie Plate, which she had been using as a cutting board, unaware of its true nature.

After the player has collected all eighteen Plates, Cogita appears at the Galaxy Hall. She tells the player about the Forces of Nature and to speak with her after completing their Pokédex entries. After the player has completed this task, she reveals there to be one more of them, summoning Enamorus, whom she has used to travel with around Hisui. Once the player has caught Enamorus and completed her Pokédex entry, Cogita gives the player the Reveal Glass and states that she has nothing left to pass on.

Pokémon

Befriended

Enamorus ♀

Quotes

Pokémon Legends: Arceus

Ancient Retreat

"Shirking your work to come pester me again? Even beneath a bleeding sky, you never change."

"No "mistress," thank you. Just Cogita. And this is?"

"Ah, the poor wretch you spoke of. Lost in time and space. Dear me, lost one... It seems I'll be able to fulfil my duty at long last, thanks to you."

Regardless of choice: "Indeed––I am to guide you, lost one. For the task of preventing great disaster falls to you. The rift in space-time must be mended, lest time and space themselves be thrown out of balance."

"But come. You may enter my dear hideaway. There's much to be told."

• Inside

"The space-time rift is said to be a portal to innumerable other dimensions... In one such realm, far and farther still from ours, dwells almighty Sinnoh."

Regardless of choice: "The expanse from antiquity to eternity and the expanse to all sides, above, and below... Time traces the path we tread from the here and now into the future... While space yawns all-encompassingly, surrounding us in every direction."

"You see, don't you? The two together, time and space, comprise all creation–the universe. How can one claim that either is greater than the other, as those two clans do?"

Regardless of choice: "Perhaps the truth is clearer to a wanderer such as you–one who has known other ages."

"Now listen, lost one. Here is what you must do. His holds three lakes of great importance–Lake Verity, Lake Valor, and Lake Acuity. At each dwells a Pokémon said to embody one aspect of the mind. Complete the trials each one will set you, and bear their gifts to the Shrouded Ruins. There you may receive the Red Chain. With it, perhaps you can bind the world together."

"Kindly spare me your doubts, young man. I know the old words and what they bid us do. How true they are isn't mine to know. And regardless of their truth, I am bound to pass them on. How callous of my ancestors–to leave their legends to their children without a single thought for the hardship it would cause them! But...here we are. You know your duty, and you'll do it. Won't you?"

"Of course!": "There is nobility in knowing what must be done and seeing to it."

"What was that cry? Have we now a lost Pokémon as well as a lost child? Do see to it, please."

• After completing Mesprit's trial

"Ahh, Mesprit's Plume... So the legends told it true. Then the Red Chain must be real as well."

"Your doubts suggest a keen intellect. I see you're not your clan's leader for nothing. Without the mind, were the rift to widen and the very world to end, would we even know it? One might even say the world–time, space, all creation–exists only because our minds are there to perceive it. Perhaps the Red Chain's purpose is to let one see creation as it truly is."

"Such are myths, my child... Teaching us about the world in their own incomprehensible ways. They urge is to think more for ourselves–on the nature of almighty Sinnoh and on the nature of the world in which we dwell."

"How nonchalant you sound. How confident of successes to which you contribute nothing. You tag along only for the chance to gawk at more ancient ruins."

• After completing Uxie's trial

"So that's Uxie's Claw... I sense a warmth to it."

"What makes you say so?"

""One of those Ginkgo Guild merchants"? You make it sound as if you're not one of them."

""Watch"? Is that all you really do? Remember: once you've sought the third lake and found what's needed for the Red Chain, make for the Shrouded Ruins."

Shrouded Ruins

"Seems I've made it in time."

"I had the aid of a rather remarkable Pokémon, if you really wish to know."

"I would hardly know. We speak of a divine instrument–one said to be capable of binding the very world. Do you really imagine it can be forged by mortal hands?"

"Ah... The Pokémon of the lakes!"

"So it was true... The pact our people have passed down for all these generations has been kept. At last, I can set this burden aside!"

Trivia

• In an Old Verse, its author describes themselves as "waiting an eternity for the one with the mission", having a friendship with a god of spring, and having been left behind — all of which mirrors Cogita's description, her friendship with Enamorus, and her experience of being left behind respectively; this implies that Cogita herself could be the very same author of the Old Verses.
• Cogita's teardrop-shaped ornament on her dress is similar to Volo's necklace and Cynthia's teardrop-shaped ornament on her dress, implying a connection.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	コギト Cogito	From cogito (Latin for "I think") and the philosophical statement cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I am)
English, German	Cogita	Similar to her Japanese name
Spanish	Metis	From μῆτις mêtis (Ancient Greek for wisdom)
French	Penséa	From pensée (thought) and the statement je pense, donc je suis (cogito, ergo sum)
Italian	Noesis	From νόησις nóēsis (Ancient Greek for intelligence)
Korean	코기토 Cogito	Transcription of her Japanese name
Chinese (Mandarin)	吾思 Wúsī	From 吾 wú / ǹgh (I), 思 sī (think), and the statement 我思故我在 Wǒ sī gù wǒ zài / Ngóh sī gu ngóh joih (cogito, ergo sum)
Chinese (Cantonese)	吾思 Ǹgh-sī
Russian	Когита Kogita	Transcription of her English name

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