[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dragonstrike]

So what is main reason to do that journey?

That would be because of Kirlia.  Or rather, Ralts.

Spoiler

2 years after his dad disappeared (so, 1 year before the journey started), Nathan found a wild Ralts that was beaten, battered, and bruised in the middle of the forests at the base of Mt. Molten, a place where he'd occasionally go on strolls to try and keep his mind off other things.  Ralts are rare species as it is, but there's typically no wild pokemon in the lower reaches of those forests, and if there are wild Ralts somewhere in Creshire, they live nowhere near Trillium.  A Ralts being in that area is incredibly exceptional.

Nathan, valuing life in all forms as much as he does, did the only thing he could do: picked up the dying Ralts and ran back to the Pokemon Center in Trillium as fast as he could, not letting the rain nor the Scarred Absol discretely following him from a distance slow him down.  He barely made it back in time to save Ralts's life.  

And the little guy became incredibly attached to him.  He'd found a new friend when he previously had none, and they've stuck together ever since.  Of course, he was never a League registered trainer until the journey started, so the only pokeball he had on hand to register his new best friend to was the really dull looking Premier Ball his dad had given him just before he'd disappeared...

Flash forward a year, and Mallorn's called for Nathan to meet him at the lab.  Along with Shiva, Ventus, and two other characters that left the campaign some time ago.  Mallorn had something for each of them, but Nathan's was the only 'gift' with no physical value.  Mallorn had new information concerning Ralts.

The Almanac is Mallorn's business rival, and their stated goal is to publish the most complete written record of pokemon information to date (I think that's what it is, anyways).  But there's a bit of a...dark side to it.  Their book (The aptly named Almanac) contains information that the Pokedex doesn't.  Information that would be very, very difficult to know and record if you didn't conduct cruel, unknowable experiments on the pokemon in question...and one of the entries they recently updated with such information was...

...Ralts.

And that's the basis of my character's backstory that I'd come up with.  Nathan's parents came later, and there's a couple other things that have been added along the way (Absol was one of them, actually.  Caused a right headache for everyone, unfortunately, but we worked it out in the end.  I'm liking the result, too).