When failed actress Chalcedony gives up on the neon lights and crowds to challenge the Orre League, it isn't just the champion title she's after. She's discovered she was adopted under strange circumstances. Her biological family must be out there s...
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All locations have been expanded to a realistic scale for a story. In expanding and adding new locations, I've taken inspiration from Arizona, which Orre is based on.
For the canon locations, I've used their real life counterparts to expand: Gateon Port = Lake Havasu City Agate Village = Flagstaff Pyrite Town/The Under = old mining towns like Aguila and Wickenberg Phenac City = Phoenix Mt. Battle = San Francisco volcanic field Eclo Canyon = Grand Canyon Outskirt Stand = isolated gas stations common throughout the US
My original locations are based on: Laztaz Highlands = Mazatzal Mountains, though I've mostly just used the name and otherwise based the area on Arizona's greener highlands. Laztaz Town = Prescott Quartz Town = Sedona. The name is from Sedona's famous red rock formations, which are partly composed of quartz. Eclo Town = Small towns surrounding the Grand Canyon Phenac Desert = Sonoran Desert Nascott City = Tucson
The highways on my map are based on unnamed roads we can see on the Colosseum world map, as are the rivers.
Fool's Gold Regional Park, Gateon Plains and the Selenite Resort are based on Arizona's general landscape rather than any specific location.
Transport
We don't see many cars or bikes in the games, but we know there must be some, because Cipher and the player characters use them. There's also a whole Trainer Class for bikers (Riders).
There would be airports, so I've added five: PHC – Phenac CityInternational Airport = Phoenix Sky Harbour International Airport NAS – Nascott CityInternational Airport = Tucson International Airport GTP – Gateon PortInternational Airport = Lake Havasu City Airport CDK – Citadark IsleAirport = no real life counterpart SNT – Selenite Resort Private Airport = no real life counterpart
Battles
My battles are mostly game-based, but a little less scripted and more realistic. Pokémon get seriously injured and sometimes need a hospital stay, not the Pokémon Center. Bad guys let out all their Pokémon at once. Some people illegally carry more than six. A Pokémon considered useless in the games might be stronger than a popular Pokémon if it's better trained.
General
As always, I had fun writing this! I didn't intend to write another story between Fool's Gold and Camden growing up, but when Fire Agate 'died,' I couldn't resist a ridiculous way of bringing her back. I was very, very tempted to also find a ridiculous way of bringing Jude Mesquite back, but I decided to leave canon untouched by my far-fetched ideas!
Thank you so much to everyone who's read this story or any of my stories! I write mostly just because it's fun, of course, but if my stories can make even a few people happy (or distract them from the pandemic for a while), that makes me happy too. There will, of course, be a sequel and more prequels as well!
