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

Characters

• Arceus — The Original One — the creator god of the Pokémon world, who the film 'Arceus and the Jewel of Life' reveals is not abstract but an actual being with
• Ash Ketchum — A more mature, more ruthless Ash — the Sinnoh journey is the one where he finally stops being the eternal rookie, training with strategic depth and pu
• Barry — Paul's hyperactive fanboy and the son of a Battle Frontier Brain — a scatterbrained Twinleaf Town trainer who threatens to 'fine' people every three s
• Brock — The former Pewter City Gym Leader, travelling with Ash for his fourth region — part cook, part doctor, part exasperated uncle to Ash and Dawn, and sec
• Byron — Canalave City's Steel-type Gym Leader and Roark's father — a grizzled excavator whose Bastiodon is built like a moving wall.
• Candice — Snowpoint City's Ice-type Gym Leader — a giggly, cheerful teenager with an Abomasnow half the size of the Gym and a lot of opinions about handsome tra
• Charon — Team Galactic's elder scientist — a greedy, weaselly researcher with plans for Regigigas of his own, less interested in Cyrus's ideology than in perso
• Commander Jupiter — The coldest Galactic Commander — a pink-haired tactician assigned to Lake Acuity who beat Ash's party in a pitched battle before extracting Mesprit.
• Commander Mars — The most volatile of Cyrus's Commanders — a red-haired fanatic assigned to bomb Lake Valor and extract Azelf.
• Commander Saturn — The most calculating Galactic Commander — a blue-haired technician who led the Lake Verity operation and ran much of Team Galactic's day-to-day field
• Conway — An uncomfortably analytical Ash rival who shows up at tournaments with a clipboard, a creepy smile, and a soft spot for Dawn he refuses to shut up abo
• Crasher Wake — Pastoria City's Water-type Gym Leader — a flamboyant luchador in a Floatzel mask whose Gym battles open with a theatrical entrance ramp.
• Cynthia — The Sinnoh Champion — a prodigy with a Garchomp and a PhD in mythology, the most formidable trainer in the anime and, across the Sinnoh arc, a mentor
• Cyrus — The boss of Team Galactic — a brilliant, ice-cold ideologue from Sunyshore who wants to use the Creation Trio to unmake the universe and rebuild it wi
• Darkrai — The Pitch-Black Pokémon — a Legendary Dark-type that causes nightmares against its will, heroic in the Alamos Town film and infamous in the anime as T
• Dawn — A rookie Pokémon Coordinator from Twinleaf Town — daughter of a former Top Coordinator, starter Piplup who refuses to evolve, a Buneary with a very pu
• Dialga — The Temporal Pokémon — the steel-blue god of time, half of Sinnoh's Creation Duo, summoned to Spear Pillar against its will to power Cyrus's universe-
• Fantina — Hearthome City's Ghost-type Gym Leader — a theatrical Kalos-born Coordinator-turned-Leader whose Mismagius floats mid-aria.
• Flint — A Fire-type Elite Four member and Volkner's oldest friend — a laid-back afro'd specialist who sees the Sinnoh League from the top and still treats Ash
• Gardenia — Eterna City's Grass-type Gym Leader — a boisterous tree-hugger who cackles mid-battle and permanently adopts James's Cacnea.
• Giratina — The Renegade Pokémon — the third of the Creation Trio, exiled to the Distortion World, who drags Cyrus through the mirror at Spear Pillar when the uni
• Jessie, James & Meowth — Team Rocket's perpetually failing Sinnoh expedition — three criminals whose plans reliably end in explosions, and who this arc take themselves slightl
• Johanna — Dawn's mother — a former Sinnoh Top Coordinator who won the Grand Festival in her youth and whose trophy case casts a long shadow across her daughter'
• Kenny — Dawn's childhood friend from Twinleaf Town — a Coordinator who's been in love with her since kindergarten and will not, under any circumstance, say so
• Maylene — Veilstone City's Fighting-type Gym Leader — a shy, serious teenager whose Lucario is one of the best-trained Fighting-types in Sinnoh.
• Nando — A gentle bard Coordinator and Gym challenger who competes in both the Grand Festival and the Sinnoh League — harp in one hand, Poké Ball in the other.
• Palkia — The Spatial Pokémon — the pearl-pink god of space, Dialga's eternal counterpart, also bound to Spear Pillar by Cyrus's Red Chain.
• Paul — Ash's ultimate rival — a brilliant, cold trainer from Veilstone City who believes weak Pokémon should be released and strong ones drilled until they b
• Pikachu — Ash's partner and the most battle-tested Pikachu in the anime — by Sinnoh, strong enough to KO a Darkrai in the Pokémon League and refuse to evolve ou
• Piplup — Dawn's starter Pokémon — a Penguin Pokémon with a wounded ego the size of Sinnoh, who once refused a Prism Scale mid-evolution because he was not will
• Professor Carolina — Cynthia's grandmother and the elder researcher of Celestic Town's ruins — keeper of the oldest mythology in Sinnoh.
• Professor Rowan — Sinnoh's preeminent Pokémon researcher — a broad-shouldered, mustachioed elder who hands out starters with the gravity of a general drafting officers.
• Reggie — Paul's older brother — a gentle, retired trainer who runs a Pokémon daycare in Veilstone City and quietly holds the rope on Paul's worst impulses.
• Roark — Oreburgh City's first-badge Gym Leader — a Rock-type specialist and working mining engineer whose Rampardos is already a minor regional legend.
• Shaymin — The Gratitude Pokémon — a tiny green-white hedgehog legendary that blooms into a flying reindeer form and guides Ash through the Distortion World in '
• Sinnoh Gym Leaders — The eight regional Gym Leaders of Sinnoh — Roark, Gardenia, Maylene, Crasher Wake, Fantina, Byron, Candice, and Volkner — each guarding a badge Ash mu
• Team Galactic — A cult-corporation headquartered in Veilstone City that wears silver bowl-cut helmets, calls itself a space research organization, and is actually try
• Tobias — The mysterious trainer who defeats Ash in the Sinnoh League semifinals — a silent, uncontested challenger with a Darkrai and a Latios, who makes Ash's
• Ursula — Dawn's antagonistic Coordinator rival — a sharp-tongued girl with a matched pair of Eevee evolutions and a gift for finding Dawn's weak spots mid-Appe
• Uxie, Mesprit & Azelf — The Lake Guardians — the pixie trio of Knowledge (Uxie), Emotion (Mesprit), and Willpower (Azelf), whose essences Cyrus forged into the Red Chain to b
• Volkner — Sunyshore City's Electric-type Gym Leader — a once-celebrated prodigy grown tired of easy wins, who considers closing the Gym until Ash's challenge re
• Zoey — Dawn's Coordinator rival and mentor — a slightly older trainer from Snowpoint City who believes a true Coordinator battles with the same team they per

Locations

• Canalave City — A port city in western Sinnoh split by a canal — home of Byron's Steel-type Gym, a major library, and the ferry to the legendary Iron Island.
• Celestic Town — A small ancient settlement in central Sinnoh — the region's oldest town, guardian of the Celestic Ruins that record the Creation Trio's myths.
• Distortion World — Giratina's mirror-universe — a realm of inverted gravity, broken geometry, and floating islands where time barely flows, reached by accident or by Gir
• Eterna City — An ancient city on Sinnoh's western plateau — home of Gardenia's Grass-type Gym and, less publicly, Team Galactic's first major Sinnoh headquarters.
• Eterna Forest — A dense, bug-heavy forest west of Eterna City — a common first wilderness for new trainers, and the site of a haunted chateau locals avoid.
• Hearthome City — Sinnoh's cultural capital and Contest hub — a large central city hosting the Tag Battle Tournament, the Sinnoh Super Contests, and Fantina's Ghost-typ
• Lake Acuity — One of Sinnoh's three sacred lakes — home to the Lake Guardian Uxie (Knowledge), and the site of Ash's brutal Full Battle loss to Paul.
• Lake Valor — One of Sinnoh's three sacred lakes — home to the Lake Guardian Azelf (Willpower), and the target of Team Galactic's Galactic Bomb detonation.
• Lake Verity — One of Sinnoh's three sacred lakes — home to the Lake Guardian Mesprit (Emotion), and bordering Dawn's hometown of Twinleaf.
• Lily of the Valley Island — The offshore island south of Sinnoh where the Sinnoh League (Lily of the Valley Conference) is held — Ash's staging ground for his Top 4 finish agains
• Oreburgh City — A mining city in western Sinnoh — home of the first Gym Leader Roark, built around an active open-pit mine that supplies the region's fossils and mine
• Pastoria City — A marsh-adjacent city in south-central Sinnoh — home of Crasher Wake's Water-type Gym and the Great Marsh nature preserve.
• Sandgem Town — A coastal town on Sinnoh's south shore — home to Professor Rowan's laboratory, where every new trainer in Sinnoh collects their first Pokémon.
• Sinnoh Region — The fourth major region of the Pokémon world — mountainous, snow-laced, myth-heavy, home to the Creation Trio and eight very different Gym Leaders.
• Snowpoint City — The northernmost city in Sinnoh — a perpetually snowbound town home to Candice's Ice-type Gym, Zoey's childhood home, and the ancient Snowpoint Temple
• Spear Pillar — The peak of Mt. Coronet — a ring of stone pillars where Sinnoh's Creation Trio can be summoned and where Cyrus attempted to remake the universe.
• Sunyshore City — A solar-powered coastal city in eastern Sinnoh — home of Volkner's Electric-type Gym, Flint's base of operations, and raised walkways that double as p
• Twinleaf Town — A tiny leaf-shaped town in southern Sinnoh — Dawn's hometown, Barry's hometown, where the journey begins at the pond behind Dawn's house.
• Veilstone City — A city built into a meteorite crater in central-eastern Sinnoh — home of Maylene's Fighting-type Gym, Team Galactic HQ, and Paul's residence with his

Items

• Adamant Orb — A blue-tinted Sinnoh artifact — the physical anchor to Dialga, held aloft at Spear Pillar to summon the Temporal Pokémon.
• Griseous Orb — A gold-and-purple Sinnoh artifact — Giratina's anchor, which transforms the Renegade Pokémon into its Origin Forme when held.
• Lustrous Orb — A pink-pearl Sinnoh artifact — the physical anchor to Palkia, paired with the Adamant Orb at the Spear Pillar summoning.
• Sinnoh Gym Badges — The eight Sinnoh Gym badges — Coal, Forest, Cobble, Fen, Relic, Mine, Icicle, Beacon — required to enter the Sinnoh League.
• The Red Chain — Cyrus's universe-remaking tool — a chain forged from the captured essence of Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf that can bind the Creation Trio to a user's will

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