[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

There isn't an Aether Scimitar clan, but you'd be welcome to start one like Heart started work on a Fire Scimitar branch.

(Void is kind of another word for Aether, but it sounds a lot darker!)


Botanville

The university is the heart of the town. It's mostly an enormous hill, with many winding and redundant paths carving it up. Many go underground, as well, leading to fancy wine cellars, underground meeting halls, and little "hobbit hole" rentals. Even the Pokemon Center is underground. More commonly, the University has sponsored platforms built partially into the hillside. Most are decked with potted garden plants. These host some of the outdoor classrooms, but vendors have also taken residence on some of them, selling University merch, plants, Pokemon, and Pokemon items. (Prices are a bit higher due to the proximity of the Uni). There are also Travelling Teachers who are permitted to set up little booths on the platforms, offering free lessons on an extremely wide variety of obscure topics. History, mathematics, technology, food, hobbies, nature, and of course Pokemon. Some of the Teachers advertise "alternative education" which may not meet the usual standards for truth, like alternative medicine or weird theories about Creshire. One guy is just advertised as "PROFESSOR ASSEMBLAGE!" and is surrounded by little sprouting plants in HUNDREDS of pots.

As we ascend these squirrelly paths, we reach the crown of the hill. Immediately, our vision is obscured by the massive hedge maze that surrounds Telperion University. Taking a peek from Tropius' back, you see that more outdoor classrooms and gardens are hidden in dead ends within the maze. Lots of Pokemon live in the thick hedges, especially small Flying types and Grass types of any size. It is known that Exeggcute raised in the maze will evolve into a close cousin of the "Alolan" Exeggutor.

The Underground Library and most important Telperion buildings (there aren't many) are at the center of the maze. A constant wall of fruiting hedges, clearly distinguishable from the rest of the maze, leads visitors from all entrances to the elaborate center garden where these buildings are.

The Light of Creshire
Over them all arcs the massive Tree, almost as big as the Sentry Fern, bedecked with lights of every kind. Some are Pokemon like Illumise and Solrock, others are LED glow lights, and a few are very bright electric lights in different and varying colors, so that the Tree and its multi-shaded shadows are never the same, NEVER repeating. There are a variety of sundials beneath its boughs, measuring various complex things, such as seasons and weather, based on the combinations emanated by the Tree. Some teensy sundials are even dependent on the shadows cast by other, larger sundials, because everything in nature is intricately connected.

This Tree is said to symbolize all the knowledge buried beneath the hill and outdoor classrooms.


There's also a residential section of the town at the bottom of the hill, leading to a patchwork of farms. A few are owned by the Uni, but most are part of the breadbasket of Creshire. A lot of the buildings here are big old farmhouses or antique stone/brick buildings with quaint architecture. There are more shops there with crafts that have been almost lost to the ages, like quilting, spinning yarn, that kind of thing. You're seeing lots of Mareep, Miltank, and other farm Pokemon - whether they are livestock or assistants (Herdier).