Intro: Region, Gyms, evil Team, and Professor
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A while ago I made a collaborative worldbuilding thread for a Pokémon region, and I was itching to do something like it again but starting fresh. There the region was based on the Pacific Northwest, but this time we'll be heading to all the way over the ocean to Somni, a region based on Sydney and the surrounding metropolitan area.
In this thread, users take turns in creating a Pokémon region, stating various 'facts' about it. There's no upper limit on how many facts you can post, although please be considerate to leave stuff for other posters. Also, while you can question what another poster has submitted, you can't contradict what they've said, unless they themselves retract it.
I chose Sydney as the basis for a few reasons, mainly that myself and a fair few fellow SV users, including admin Ford and several mods, are from Australia (though not necessarily living in Sydney), so more people may be familiar with it than other region ideas I had. Also, most Australia-based Pokémon regions use the entire country as a basis, which never sat right with me due to the sheer size of Australia, whereas the biggest area a canon Pokémon region has been based on in northern France for Kalos. I wanted a specifically urban part of Australia, to contrast with its typical Outback image, even though most of the population doesn't live there, though there many be a few outback-like areas as you head west.
The Sydney Metropolitan Area is a surprisingly big place, having 658 suburbs at time of writing, and an estimated 25% of the city is covered by trees, so there's still more wilderness than you may expect. Somni will expand a little outward to include areas like the Blue Mountains, and Dharug and Dharawal national parks, as its limits.
The name Somni comes from Somnium, the Latin word for dream, as well as containing the word omni or 'all', and starting and ending on the same sounds as Sydney does.
Anyway, a few points to start us off:
Checklist
In this thread, users take turns in creating a Pokémon region, stating various 'facts' about it. There's no upper limit on how many facts you can post, although please be considerate to leave stuff for other posters. Also, while you can question what another poster has submitted, you can't contradict what they've said, unless they themselves retract it.
I chose Sydney as the basis for a few reasons, mainly that myself and a fair few fellow SV users, including admin Ford and several mods, are from Australia (though not necessarily living in Sydney), so more people may be familiar with it than other region ideas I had. Also, most Australia-based Pokémon regions use the entire country as a basis, which never sat right with me due to the sheer size of Australia, whereas the biggest area a canon Pokémon region has been based on in northern France for Kalos. I wanted a specifically urban part of Australia, to contrast with its typical Outback image, even though most of the population doesn't live there, though there many be a few outback-like areas as you head west.
The Sydney Metropolitan Area is a surprisingly big place, having 658 suburbs at time of writing, and an estimated 25% of the city is covered by trees, so there's still more wilderness than you may expect. Somni will expand a little outward to include areas like the Blue Mountains, and Dharug and Dharawal national parks, as its limits.
The name Somni comes from Somnium, the Latin word for dream, as well as containing the word omni or 'all', and starting and ending on the same sounds as Sydney does.
Anyway, a few points to start us off:
- Somni's Gyms are based around Habitats rather than Types, so for instance a Forest Gym could have a Breloom, Raichu and Heracross, while a Desert Gym could have a Flygon, Cacturne and Scrafty.
- The evil Team here is called Team Vanish, stage magicians who use illusions to steal Trainers' Pokemon, before 'regifting' said Pokemon to other Trainers Vanish deems 'deserving'. Common Pokémon they use are Lopunny and other rabbits, Roserade, Kadabra and other Psychic types, Mismagius, Zoroark, and so on. The real NSW has something of a gambling problem, stage magicians (who get linked with gambling what with Vegas) being a way to allude to this without being too blatant. I actually came up with the Team before remembering Hugh Jackman was in The Prestige.
- Professor is Mehmet Waratah, a somewhat distant intellectual of Turkish (or the Pokémon equivalent) descent, who's nevertheless dedicated to helping endangered Pokémon. Admittedly he's somewhat of a flimsy concept at this point. The waratah is usually thought of as a flower, but tree varieties exist.
Checklist
- Starter Pokemon
- New Pokemon
- Regional Variants
- Legendaries
- Pseudo-Legendary
- Gym Leaders
- Rivals
- 16-ish Towns
- Names for locations
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