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pkmn map concept
(this is where I had every reigon with all this text on the map then made the maps blank and later realized that I should've kept the labels when I made the maps blank but OH WELL lol):
not to scale at all, all the map
qualities on wikis are vastly
different lol
hoenn is connected to kanto and Johto.(based on sevii islands
meteor event)
something in between johto and kanto as well
hoenn is at the tail end of japan if IRL connections are
taken to account plus there has to be a connection because of the
sevii islands wireless connection quest
johto kanto (very obviously connnected)
white city from stadium (idk exact location but somewhere in johto kanto area)
it's based on IRL Japan so my alignment's might be horribly wrong
I failed geography class lol
tcg islands are also here, considering calling this the spinoff island
containment zone
if great rocket is here that's how they
took over sevil, with card games.
very tiny sevii islands (said to be located south of kanto)
orange islands (might as well be in same area)
none of these are remotely to scale on this map, driving me nuts.
Spinoff questions
what is fiore connected to???
is it close to hoenn because it's gen 3
pokemon or is it close to hoenn
because that was the latest
reigon out
fiore is said to be far away from sinnoh but it's never said how south
oblivia is from it so for all we know they could literally be right next to
each other (AKA I had no clue where to put it on the map)
oblivia from rangers 3. guardian signs feel like an anime concept/
weird historical lore plus deoxys event makes it feel like sevii
Filler space where I post other weird official artwork stuff (got cut from the OG map and I just moved everything in closer)
They casually had time travel working in the 90s and only used it to get pokemon
sinnoh and johto have some connection because of the sinjoh ruins but
nothing in between kanto exists in universe yet. So there's a whole reigon
that's been missing for years presumably. Perfect for fangames.
ransei
a giant reigon shaped like arceus lol
I just plopped it by the other spinoff islands.
almia
lines up with the tail end of sinnoh that's inaccessible + heavy gen 4
emphasis/ manaphy event. Fiore is said to be further away.
Pasio: Artificial island made for PML and doesn't have any set location
to any other reigon
At this point I move onto the Unova side of the map and start immediately getting weird.
what war did Lt. Surge fight in anyways
Hypothetical American Country that will never be revisited in Pokemon Lore
if he was stationed in IRL Japan
was it woud've had to either been the
gulf war or vietnam OR WW2 which is
probably why it was never mentioned in
pokemon again
gameboy also had the weirdness of
pokemon and IRL animals coexisting/
being a recent discovery
No man's land, Tiksi, and Russia by that
one Sliph Co grunt
Mew was found in south america(?)/Guyana/ French Guiana? (Note: IRL there are multiple places named Guyana.)
Dex entry stuff?
Arcanine and China
Deliberd mentions mt. everest
African mask in Unova + Kenya from
Johto
Poliwrath and the Pacific Ocean
Ponyta being able to jump the eiffel
tower
The moon landing implies that there was
a pokemon Space Race
What other reigons have been mentioned but never actually confirmed to exist
Back in Early Days of Gen 1 when pokemon was still just regular earth we had:
Raichu electrocuting Indian Elephants (changed to be Copperjah)
Greece is in PokeSpe but only in the early english translation because of a lever thing
Tom Sawyer is also mentioned in early pokespe english translations which is weird to think about
Regice's body is said to be made up of antarctic ice
trying to not dip into too much anime territory stuff since a lot
of those locations are definitely their own thing for when the
anime is in filler hell so it makes no sense to start putting down
the towns
Ultra space doesn't fit onto the map because that starts getting into
multiverse nonsense.
Technically only some things should exist in one timeline (Gameboy or 3DS)
versus the other but that would be incredibly weird to discern since that is
also weird canon wonky territory. Consider this as a "all the games happened
on one timeline" map.
in Pal park professor oak mentions that kanto johto sinnoh and hoenn are
all part of the same reigon which is another piece of evidence for them all
being analogous to japan
other reigons make their referential country pretty blatant
Hypothetical Reigons based on early dex entries
India
Russia
China
Africa
South America
Greece
Other parts of the US (South, West, Florida)
Possibly Canada
Now I had a part for the kalos reigon onwards but all the note says is: ITS JUST EUROPE LIKE IT's 1 TO 1
North Pole
Santa
real in the pokemon world?
Alola is analogous to hawaii
Orre as Arizona
Unova is based off the tristate area
Unova isn't 1 to 1 with the US so I propose that the in game unova is a part of a larger unnamed country that I'll call BIG UNOVA.
There's also a multiverse in the aspect of multiple game
versions and 3rd editions, team rainbow rocket has
versions from timelines where the protags failed, the
various adaptions like Special and the like also make up
their own seperate universes
The anime also had photobombs in Pokemon GO which pretty much
means I'll give an arbritary multiverse thing I have going on for my
pokeverse at least
Universe 1: Gameboy Games/Gen 1 and 2 Spinoffs
Universe 2: Gameboy Advance Games+ Gen 3-5 Spinoffs
Universe 3: 3DS and Switch games (it gets weird because of the mega
evolution stuff zinnia mentioned) and Ultra sun and moon happen
Universe 4: Everything is the exact same except original sun and moon
happen because 3DS is when they started leaning on multiverse
theory
Universe 5: Pokemon Go Shennagins
Universe 6: Anime Shennagins. Technically the anime has its own
multiverse because of various dimensions and having a movie canon
but I don't care.
Universe 7: The non canon universe. Fangame heaven.
misc thoughts:
By the way, Regular IRL Earth exists in pokemon canon as a
seperate existence because of GO
Team Rainbow Rocket Giovanni either gets into Pasio (Masters)
or GO and creates GO rainbow rocket
What this means for actual pokemon lore I have no clue because
it seems like Spark and Willow and Blanche and Cadena are real
people too...?
GameFreak has been cameos in multiple games plus the same
goes for TCG guys and Imakuni.
Youtube exists in some form/ Twitch because of Iono.
Everything about Rotom phones.
Technology in the pokemon world is almost on an IRL basis with
smartphones and smartwatches and tech being replaced but
then the pokeballs themselves used to be based off magic fruit
and shrinking powers.
Paldea has it's whole paradox thing
going on
where people were like "is it
imagination
or time travel?"
and the in game explanation is
apparently
parallel timelines
so there's some world out there
where robot pokemon and caveman
pokemon roam the earth but that's
also dipping into multiverse territory
OG Kanto anime author's notes said that
pokemon
appearing was only a very recent thing and IRL
animals used to be all over the place and that
professor oak had found somehing out that he
didn't like.
also the scrapped t rex movie. obviously that's no
longer canon but it's an... interesting aspect for
the gameboy universe.