Community-Built Region RP (All Welcome, Even If Not RPing!)

What real life location shall our region be based off of?

I think it would be cool to have a Pok?mon region set in Latin America or Mexico, to showcase the different environments like deserts, rainforests or even mountain ranges (if we're talking Peru/Chile). We could even base Fakemon on Mayan/Aztec mythology!

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Yes, south american region is something I'd like to see! Include the mountains with cold areas, the Amazon, the jungle, some deserts and plains etc. And booming cities and loads of old ruins and temples.

South America is a great idea; the games pay a lot of homage to places like Guana especially, regarding Mew, so basing it there could be just as much a funny reference as an interesting locale!

I don't know much about the countries at large, only that Brazil is the biggest and most "marketed" place here in the states. Argentina has a mountain range if I'm remembering right. Basing a region from a country or other sovereign territory would prevent overgeneralizing cultural influences and just keep things more organized and contained imo.

I like the sound of Latin America too. Mexico is the go-to as someone, again, from the U.S. Not the worldliest of countries.

I'll also toss Australia into the ring. It isn't nearly as encompassing as South America, so I think it could work as one region! You have your big cities, as well as your wilderness. There's both Western and Aborigine cultures to reference. It might also be cool to have a desert-dominated region, or at least present an environment where a desert route wouldn't be so intrusive. I always thought the desert routes came out of nowhere in games like R/S/E, B/W(2). Maybe we can finally get a Sandstorm Castform too, who knows. Maybe we can finally BUFF Castform.

I did a lot of research for a Peruvian region a while back so if we go that direction I got you :D

We're already getting a lot of good suggestions, that's great to see!

I didn't determine a deadline at the time of posting, but since we're already getting a good handful of suggestions, I'll close submissions today, at 3PM HST. That's 4 hours from the time of posting this update. If you have any more suggestions you want to throw into the ring before then, now's the time! Shortly after submissions close, I'll put up a poll for everyone to vote, and that poll should close tomorrow at around the same time, assuming we get enough votes to make a definitive decision.

I'm an hour late, but submissions are now closed for the real life inspiration of our region.

A poll will be going up shortly, listing every option suggested. That poll will close tomorrow at around the same time, assuming we have enough votes in it.

No matter which wins, this'll be great. All the options are solid ^-^

Agreed! I like all of these options.

Mexico has my vote, and hopefully we can get some native Aztec and post-Spanish influence in it.

If we want to go somewhat typical, Chantli is Nahuatl for "home". Similarly Mllpa means "field" for a potentially more agricultural base.

Chantlixoc? Chantli means home, and Xoxoctic is the color green. It would be pronounced Shant-lee-shock

Shorter could be Chantixo Shan-tee-sho

I prefer the first myself. It's just fun to say and looks pretty wild.

I was thinking Espivida

Espi comes from Espiritu, which means spirit. This refers to both the day of the dead and the Mexican spirit.

Vida is the actual word for life. This balances the spirit (dead) and is a sign that this is a lively region.

Just my 2 cents cx

Well, if we wanted to be traditional, maybe Atzlan?

despite enjoying the very traditional Aztlan, I don't like to take so directly from real-culture traditions and history, ya feel?

how about a language site to look through? :D also maybe before we choose a name we should choose a theme? it's easier to name based on a theme imo :> aaaand are we aiming for a focus on aztec, mayan, olmec or spanish influence? or some? or all? or a region split between?

also, the suffix "-can" means "place of"; if we find a nice theme or ideology we can use that! "tlalli" means "land", also usable... and we can combine words and smash them up and change the spellings and whatever, y'know~

i keep editing this post but please can we have chinampas they were SO important agriculturally and i love them

heres a cool article

My suggestion for a Mexico-based region would be Chibolba (From "Xibalba", the Mayan Underworld)

that really makes me think of The Road to El Dorado lmfao

Agh, sorry! A bit late on my part, but something was brought up that I hadn't initially considered!

Aquacorde said:

also maybe before we choose a name we should choose a theme? it's easier to name based on a theme imo :> aaaand are we aiming for a focus on aztec, mayan, olmec or spanish influence? or some? or all? or a region split between?

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I think it might be a good idea to establish a theme for our region before we name it. For example, Kalos has a theme of everlasting beauty, Hoenn has a theme of the balance between man and nature, Alola has a theme about tradition and change, just to name a few examples. Try and keep it short and sweet, and try and give ideas that are flexible and can be messed with in different ways. I'll keep all the submissions for region names in mind, and once we determine a theme, I'll reopen name submissions and then start the voting for that proper.

And for your second question, I'd say all of the above. I don't want to limit any of the cultural influences, so any of those are fine.

Kung Fu Ferret said:

My suggestion for a Mexico-based region would be Chibolba (From "Xibalba", the Mayan Underworld)

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"THIS, WILL EVEN SCARE XIBALBA"

Sorry, I'm quoting Hun Batz here now. I like the name and concept, but it's a bit dark, no? Xibalba has skulls which impregnate people, headless zombies, giant bats, and death gods that play football. Too spooky for a fun Pokemon game.

I really like CountDVB's Atzlan, though!

Oh, right, a theme. I think having a cowboy theme would be pretty unique, sort of like an extension of that cowboy town in Alola.