The world of pokemon (simply referred to as the pokemon world or earth, for simplicity’s sake) is the general, overall setting that most of the story takes place in (excluding Ultra Arc).
Home to humans and over 1,000 different species of pokemon, the landmasses of the world are divided into two different continents – known colloquially as the Eastern Continent and the Western Continent. On these continents, land is politically drawn into sections known as ‘regions’. Though in present day traveling between regions is extremely easy and many are welcoming to outsiders, this wasn’t always the case.
Because as the world has grown, it’s suffered various growing pains as people and pokemon spread and interacted more and more. But thankfully, peace is widespread thanks to the work people and pokemon do together… and when the occasional bad actor tries to upset this, they’re quickly shut down.
Pokemon
The creatures known as pokemon are defined by their shared common trait – that the basis of their life and power is derived from an energy known as Infinity Energy. Aside from that, however… pokemon come in all shapes and sizes! Some are naturally born, some are created when infinity energy interacts with inanimate objects, some are experiments, some are revived souls… as long as the basis of their soul consists of infinity energy, it is a pokemon.
Because of this diversity, it’s expected that pokemon have extremely diverse ranges of intelligence, skills, and abilities. While some operate on hive-like collectives, others have been known to completely integrate into human society. And while life spans also vary wildly, many pokemon are capable of living for at least 100 years or more if natural threats are eliminated – due to the power of infinity energy.
Humans
While there’s much debate about how humans came to the pokemon world amongst its scientists, the truth is quite strange!
Created in her own image, humans originated in Ultra Space as a creation of The Skymother, the goddess of that dimension. When she fell in love with Arceus, she gave humans to their dimension as a gift. And while the history has been completely lost to time and legend, this explains the fundamental difference between the biology of pokemon and humans.
The energy that a human soul consists of is known as Life Energy, and is much less potent than infinity energy. Because of this, humans tend to look similar and have similar ranges of abilities and intelligence. But in their case, uniformity came to an advantage – humans were able to collectively team up with pokemon and successfully cohabitate and grow across thousands of years thanks to their universal abilities.
To some, pokemon are pets. Others, they’re companions, assistants, family, or comrades. One thing is certain – though they may not be quite the same, the bond between pokemon and human is what keeps unity and balance intact.
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Hoenn
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