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70 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Ash Ketchum — The eternal ten-year-old from Kanto, transplanted into a classroom instead of a road — and, for the first and only time in his life, a League Champion
• Bewear — A wild Alolan Bewear who has inexplicably adopted Team Rocket — specifically Meowth — as her children, and carries them home at the end of every episo
• Faba — Aether's Branch Chief — a preening, sneering scientist whose cruelty to Type: Null created Gladion's defection and most of the foundation's secret rot
• Gladion — Lillie's estranged older brother — a pale-haired boy in black who ran from Aether with a stolen Pokémon and became Ash's sharpest rival.
• Guzma — Boss of Team Skull — a failed trial-goer from Kukui's old class, loud, broken, and operating the island's official loser organization until an Ultra B
• Hala — Kahuna of Melemele Island — a mountain of a man who wrestles Pokémon for sport and gave Ash his first grand trial.
• Hapu — Kahuna of Poni Island — the youngest and smallest kahuna, a farmgirl on a Mudsdale who was accepted by Tapu Fini itself.
• Hau — Kahuna Hala's grandson — cheerful, malasada-obsessed, and the friendliest serious threat Ash meets in Alola.
• Incineroar — Ash's Fire/Dark heel-wrestler Pokémon — a Hau'oli street cat turned roaring luchador who fought the Masked Royal himself in the League exhibition.
• James — Team Rocket's wealthiest, softest member — a rich runaway who in Alola catches a Mareanie that is in love with him and an adorable obsession with bott
• Jessie — Team Rocket's loudest third — in Alola she catches a Mimikyu, becomes a minor Alolan celebrity as 'Mysterious Masked Matron Jessadia,' and keeps losin
• Jessie's Mimikyu — A Ghost/Fairy Pokémon in a ragged Pikachu costume that hates Pikachu — the Pokémon who has decided Ash's partner is the embodiment of everything it re
• Kiawe — The class's Fire-type specialist and resident serious person — a farm kid who delivers milk on a Charizard's back before school and inherited his gran
• Lana — The quiet one — a Water-type trainer with a fisher's patience, prophetic deadpan jokes, and the first fully evolved starter in the class.
• Lillie — An impeccably polite rich girl in a wide white hat who loves Pokémon more than anything — and cannot bring herself to touch a single one. Her mother i
• Lusamine — President of the Aether Foundation — a beautiful, brilliant, coldly obsessed mother who opened the sky to chase her missing husband and nearly destroy
• Mallow — The class's cook, the class's matchmaker, the class's reckless heart — a Grass-type specialist whose mother is gone and whose kitchen is sacred ground
• Meowth — Team Rocket's talking cat — in Alola stranded, befriended by a wild Bewear, adopted into her family, and occasionally rescued on her back.
• Nanu — Kahuna of Ula'ula Island — a retired, cat-adjacent detective who would very much prefer to not be a kahuna at all.
• Nebby — A Cosmog Lillie secretly raised — the 'pack of stardust' that becomes, over the course of the series, Solgaleo.
• Nihilego — The jellyfish-like Ultra Beast that possessed Lusamine — Alola's oldest wound, a parasite that latches on and rewrites the host.
• Olivia — Kahuna of Akala Island — Rock-type specialist, jeweler, and Alolan Elite Four member with a celebrity's warmth.
• Pikachu — Ash's oldest friend and only constant — a yellow Electric mouse who in Alola finally lands a Z-Move and a Kahuna-tier guardian's blessing.
• Plumeria — Team Skull's second-in-command — the grunts' fierce older-sister, a Poison-type specialist who actually holds the gang together while Guzma fails upwa
• Poipole — An Ultra Beast Ash befriended — a small, grinning purple Poison-type that painted pictures of its home and later returned as Naganadel for the League
• Professor Burnet — Dimensional researcher and Kukui's wife — the scientist who actually understands Ultra Space, and becomes the mother Lillie didn't have.
• Professor Kukui — Ash's host, teacher, and secret wrestling persona — the man who took personal hits from Pokémon moves for research, and built the Alola League on the
• Rotom Dex — A Rotom possessing a talking Pokédex — Ash's closest non-battler companion, a screen with opinions.
• Samson Oak — The Pokémon School's principal and Professor Oak's near-identical Alolan cousin, whose entire professional personality is Alolan form puns.
• Silvally — Gladion's partner — the Type: Null that chose to shed its mask and take his name, a weaponized synthetic Pokémon that became a family.
• Snowy — Lillie's Alolan Vulpix — a small white fox with blue-tipped tails, raised from an egg, the first Pokémon Lillie ever touched.
• Solgaleo — Nebby's final form — the Sunne Pokémon, a colossal white-and-gold lion of light that opens Ultra Wormholes and carried Lillie through Ultra Space.
• Sophocles — The class's inventor — an Electric-type engineer who is afraid of the dark, genuinely loves mathematics, and intends to become an astronaut.
• Stoutland — An elderly Normal-type who raised Ash's Litten as a kitten in the back alleys of Hau'oli — and whose departure is one of the anime's saddest scenes.
• Tapu Bulu — Ula'ula Island's guardian deity — Grass/Fairy, lazy-seeming, deceptively strong, and the one who conscripted Nanu as kahuna against his will.
• Tapu Fini — Poni Island's guardian deity — Water/Fairy, most secretive of the four, the one who chose Hapu.
• Tapu Koko — Melemele Island's guardian deity — Electric/Fairy, mercurial, deeply invested in Ash for reasons it will not explain.
• Tapu Lele — Akala Island's guardian deity — Psychic/Fairy, languid, capricious, and almost entirely amused by mortals.
• Team Rocket (Jessie, James & Meowth) — The franchise's oldest comic villains on an extended Alola tour — a balloon, a Wobbuffet, a Mimikyu, and no actual plan.
• Team Skull — Alola's bargain-bin villain organization — a gang of failed trial-goers led by Guzma, headquartered in a rained-out ruin town, secretly bankrolled by
• Team Skull Grunts — Alola's enthusiastic failed-punk gang — trainers who washed out of their island challenges and now hang around the Shady House rapping about being bad
• The Aether Foundation — Alola's prestigious Pokémon conservation organization — publicly a charitable rescue initiative, privately the region's Ultra Beast R&D lab.
• The Ultra Beasts — A collection of transdimensional creatures from Ultra Space — Buzzwole, Pheromosa, Xurkitree, Celesteela, Kartana, Blacephalon, Stakataka, Guzzlord —
• The Ultra Guardians — The Aether-sanctioned task force formed from Ash's class — the kids with Beast Balls, the ones who actually caught the Ultra Beasts.
• Togedemaru — Sophocles' small Electric/Steel spike-mouse — a ball of static fur and fierce loyalty whose Lightning Rod ability powers half the class's inventions.
• Type: Null — The pre-evolution of Silvally — a masked synthetic Pokémon built as an anti-Ultra-Beast weapon, whose pain is Gladion's origin story.
• Ultra Necrozma — A cosmic entity from Ultra Megalopolis that blackened Alola's sky while hunting Solgaleo and Lunala's light — the series' most apocalyptic threat.
• Wicke — Aether Foundation's head of operations — a soft-voiced, pink-haired woman who actually loves the Pokémon the foundation claims to protect.

Locations

• Aether Paradise — Lusamine's floating artificial island between Akala and Ula'ula — a gleaming conservation facility with glass habitats above and monstrous secrets bel
• Aina's Kitchen — Mallow's family restaurant on Akala Island — Alolan home cooking, Oranguru pranks, and the series' unofficial dining room.
• Akala Island — Alola's second island — pastoral, with Paniola Ranch, Konikoni City's jewelry markets, and Kahuna Olivia.
• Alola League (Manalo Conference) — The first-ever Pokémon League tournament held in Alola — Kukui's creation, the site where Ash finally won.
• Alola Region — A tropical archipelago of four inhabited islands plus Aether Paradise — Pokémon's most distinctive regional setting, with Z-Moves, Tapu guardians, and
• Altar of the Sunne — The ancient ring of standing stones on Poni Island where Ultra Wormholes open — Nebby's evolution site, portal to Ultra Space.
• Hau'oli City — Melemele Island's main city — Alola's tourist showpiece, with the Pokémon School on the hill and Team Skull grunts in the back alleys.
• Iki Town — The traditional Melemele village of Kahuna Hala — host of the island's annual festival and first grand trial grounds.
• Konikoni City — Akala's bright coastal market town — jewelry shops, Z-Crystal cutters, and Kahuna Olivia's boutique.
• Kukui's Beach House — The professor's cliffside cottage where Ash lives as a house guest — a small, cluttered, happy home perched over the sea.
• Melemele Island — The starting island of Alola — home of Hau'oli City, the Pokémon School, and Kahuna Hala.
• Mount Lanakila — Alola's snow-capped highest peak — home of Kukui's newly-built Alola League stadium, site of the Manalo Conference.
• Paniola Ranch — Akala Island's sprawling dairy ranch — Kiawe's family farm, where Charizard deliveries start before sunrise.
• Po Town — Ula'ula's abandoned ruin-town — perpetually rain-soaked, walled off from the rest of the island, and occupied entirely by Team Skull.
• Pokémon School — The Melemele Island school where Ash becomes, for the first time in his life, a student with a desk and homework — and where Team Skull is genuinely a
• Poni Island — The remote final island — wildlands, Vast Poni Canyon, the Altar of the Sunne/Moone, and the youngest kahuna.
• Ula'ula Island — Alola's largest island — home of Malie City, Po Town, Mount Lanakila's League summit, and Kahuna Nanu.
• Ultra Space — The alternate dimension beyond the wormholes — home of the Ultra Beasts, Ultra Megalopolis, and the missing Professor Mohn.
• Vast Poni Canyon — Poni Island's lightless gorge — ancient, sacred, and home to Pokémon that are not seen on any other island.

Items

• Beast Ball — The specialized Poké Ball developed by Aether to catch Ultra Beasts — required equipment for the Ultra Guardians.
• Z-Crystals — The colored cut stones that slot into a Z-Ring — each one tied to a type or Pokémon, and granted only by a kahuna or a Tapu.
• Z-Ring / Z-Power Ring — The bracelet Tapu Koko gave Ash — the focusing device that converts a trainer's bond with a Pokémon into a Z-Move.

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