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

Characters

• Ash Ketchum — A veteran trainer performing a deliberate reset — he left every seasoned Pokémon at Oak's lab and walked into Unova carrying only Pikachu, a notebook,
• Axew — Iris's baby Dragon-type, too young to Dragon Rage without falling over, too brave to stay out of every fight anyway.
• Bianca — A klutzy, enthusiastic rival from Nuvema Town whose father refuses to let her be a trainer — which she ignores by being one anyway.
• Brycen — Icirrus City's Ice-type Gym Leader and former martial-arts film actor — the quietest Leader in Unova and the one Iris is most scared of.
• Burgh — Castelia City's Bug-type Gym Leader — an artist who paints in the silk his Leavanny spins, and genuinely thinks Team Plasma's talking points are stupi
• Cameron — An earnest, scattered rival who counted his Unova team wrong and still won the Unova League quarterfinal against Ash — fame entirely on technicality.
• Cedric Juniper — Aurea's father — older, eccentric, and widely published on Unova's ancient Pokémon. Shows up when the plot needs a historian and vanishes when it does
• Chili — The Fire-type Striaton triplet — loud, confident, runs the front of house at the gym-restaurant like a stand-up comedian.
• Cilan — An A-class Pokémon Connoisseur, Striaton triplet Gym Leader, trained chef, amateur fisherman, and open train otaku — Cilan is a man who cannot encount
• Clay — Driftveil's Ground-type Gym Leader and the mining magnate who owns half the city — cowboy hat, businessman's suit, and no patience for Team Plasma.
• Colress — Team Plasma's scientist — a morally ambiguous researcher investigating how human-Pokémon bonds generate power, and the brain behind Kyurem's weaponiza
• Cress — The Water-type Striaton triplet — cool, composed, a sommelier in a sommelier's clothes.
• Dr. Zager — Team Rocket's Unova field scientist — old, wiry, openly brilliant, and the brain behind the Meloetta/Kyurem operation.
• Drayden — Opelucid City's Dragon-type Gym Leader, mayor, and Iris's intimidating mentor — the man who holds the line when Team Plasma tries to steal a city.
• Elesa — Nimbasa City's Gym Leader, Unova supermodel, and Electric-type specialist — her runway is a Zebstrika-shaped rollercoaster of pure voltage.
• Genesect — A prehistoric Bug-Pokémon revived and weaponized by Team Plasma — the antagonist of the sixteenth Pokémon movie, leading a swarm of fellow Genesect.
• Ghetsis — The true leader of Team Plasma — raised N as a political instrument, wants Unova for himself, and is the cruelest-written villain in the Pokémon anime
• Giovanni — Team Rocket's boss — heard by radio more than seen, funding the Unova operation from Kanto headquarters and personally hunting Meloetta.
• Iris — A hotheaded dragon trainer from the Village of Dragons, traveling with a cranky baby Axew in her hair and a chip on her shoulder about being 'a little
• James — Jessie's partner, wearing the black Rocket jumpsuit, running missions instead of stealing lunches — still a soft-hearted aristocrat pretending to be a
• Jessie — Team Rocket's operative — newly promoted, newly serious, in a black Unova uniform that signals the early seasons took them off comedy duty.
• Kyurem — The third dragon — an empty husk that was split from the Tao, and the weapon Team Plasma deploys to freeze Opelucid.
• Lenora — Nacrene City's Gym Leader and Museum Director — Normal-type specialist, archaeologist, and the adult in the room during the Dragonite incident.
• Meloetta — A Mythical Pokémon with two forms — Aria Forme sings, Pirouette Forme fights — and the one Team Rocket hunts through the entire middle of the arc.
• Meowth — Team Rocket's talking Meowth — the only Pokémon in the franchise who reads the memo before the mission, and in Unova he temporarily quits Team Rocket
• N — Natural Harmonia Gropius — The mysterious young king of Team Plasma — raised to believe Pokémon should be liberated from trainers, and genuinely able to hear them speak.
• Oshawott — The Water-type starter who chose Ash before Ash chose him — a melodramatic sea otter who cries, flirts, and wields a shell scalchop with the confidenc
• Pierce — The Team Rocket operative who actually drops into Unova first — sleek, efficient, the advance scout for the Meteonite operation.
• Pikachu — Ash's partner and the only Pokémon he brought to Unova — famously, infamously, the Pikachu who lost to a Snivy in episode one because the region said
• Professor Aurea Juniper — Unova's starter-providing Pokémon professor — younger, warmer, and noticeably more in-the-field than Oak, and the one who gave Oshawott his shot at de
• Reshiram — The white dragon of truth — one half of the Tao duo, sleeps as the Light Stone until a Hero of Truth wakes it.
• Skyla — Mistralton City's Flying-type Gym Leader and licensed cargo pilot — the battles at her gym involve an actual airplane cannon.
• Snivy — Ash's Grass-type — aloof, sharp-tongued, and the only member of the team who acts like she's the trainer.
• Stephan — A loud, earnest rival who wins the Club Battle tournament — and has to correct everyone's pronunciation of his name every time they meet.
• Tepig — Ash's Fire-type pig — abandoned by his first trainer, caught with a rope tied around his mouth, and loyal once he realizes he's allowed to eat.
• The Kami Trio — Tornadus, Thundurus, and Landorus — three genie-like Pokémon who control Unova's weather, and who intervene during the Meloetta crisis.
• The Shadow Triad — Ghetsis's three masked enforcers — identical, silent, and built for extraction operations.
• The Swords of Justice — Four noble Pokémon — Cobalion, Terrakion, Virizion, and Keldeo — who defend Pokémon from human cruelty.
• Trip — A new-trainer rival designed as an inverted mirror of Ash — photographs his Pokémon instead of loving them, treats 'Kanto' like a dirty word, and stil
• Victini — A tiny Mythical Pokémon that brings victory to anyone who befriends it — the star of the Victini and the Black/White Hero movie.
• Virgil — A Pokémon Rescue Squad member and the actual winner of the Unova League — runs a team of every Eeveelution and wears a uniform.
• Zekrom — The black dragon of ideals — Reshiram's other half, sleeps as the Dark Stone until a Hero of Ideals wakes it.

Locations

• Accumula Town — The small town north of Nuvema where Team Plasma first preaches liberation publicly — Unova's first crisis of conscience.
• Castelia City — Unova's enormous metropolis — a New-York-modeled skyscraper jungle, home to Burgh's Gym, Team Rocket's Unova field office, and the region's media hubs
• Dragonspiral Tower — Unova's oldest structure — a spiraled stone tower outside Icirrus where Reshiram or Zekrom sleeps as the Light or Dark Stone.
• Driftveil City — A working port town built around the Driftveil Mine — Clay's city, Clay's Gym, Clay's economy.
• Icirrus City — Unova's snowbound northern city — home of Brycen's Ice Gym, Dragonspiral Tower's base, and a lot of very bored Vanillite.
• Mistralton City — An airport town in Unova's northern plains — Skyla's Gym uses an actual propeller cannon to fire challengers into battle altitude.
• N's Castle — Team Plasma's hidden fortress — a medieval castle that erupts from beneath Opelucid via a mechanical lift, where N was raised and Ghetsis operates.
• Nacrene City — Unova's arts-and-museum district — the Gym is literally inside the Nacrene Museum, and Lenora curates both.
• Nimbasa City — Unova's entertainment capital — amusement parks, sports stadiums, and Elesa's runway-shaped Electric Gym, lit up 24/7.
• Nuvema Town — Unova's southernmost seaside town and the starting gate for every new trainer — small, breezy, built around Professor Juniper's waterfront lab.
• Opelucid City — Unova's Dragon City — traditional wooden architecture, dragon-culture museums, the final Gym before the League, and the target of Team Plasma's Kyurem
• Striaton City — A café-culture city whose Gym is also the fanciest restaurant in Unova — where Cilan, Chili, and Cress run a tasting-menu Pokémon Gym.
• Vertress City — The site of the Unova Pokémon League — a purpose-built tournament arena city north of Opelucid, where Ash loses to Cameron in the Top 8.
• Village of Dragons — A remote mountain village where Pokémon and people live together in close quarters — Iris's hometown, hidden in Unova's north.

Items

• The Dark Stone — The dormant form of Zekrom — a black lightning-etched stone that hatches for the Hero of Ideals.
• The Light Stone — The dormant form of Reshiram — a smooth white stone the size of a grapefruit that wakes in the hands of the Hero of Truth.
• The Meteonites — Anti-matter meteor fragments that fall around Nimbasa — Team Rocket's first Unova heist target, an energy source with weapons-grade potential.
• The Unova Badges — The eight badges awarded by Unova's Gym Leaders — Trio, Basic, Insect, Bolt, Quake, Jet, Freeze, Legend — the entry requirements for the Vertress Leag

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