Gaiien Region: Gaiien DPPt-Style Map

Don't look too closely or you'll see the antialiasing errors I got tired of fixing, lol. Some of the minor location names were changed from previous maps because this is a "game" map with thematic consistency instead of being more like a real place with place names from many different immigrants and cultures. In the "real" Gaiien the "routes" are meaningless-- most of them are too far to walk and the real places of interest would be smaller areas connected by vehicles like buses, trains, ships, and terrifying immortal flying pokemon. The "game" setting gets a huge distance squish instead and you can fast travel, similar to the last couple seasons of Game of Thrones lolsob

Here's some info on the region and its gym cities from previous maps:

Gym Leaders and their specialties:

1. Luciana “Tierra” Rodriguez – Ground – Dust Badge – Umber Village
2. Alex “Hawthorn” Wong – Grass – Seed Badge – Verdure Town
3. Bryony “Belladonna” Jourdain – Poison – Venom Badge – Porphyry City
4. Brent “Pyre” Carter – Fire – Pyre Badge – Russet Town
5. Galen “Lord Ironhelm” Richter – Steel – Gear Badge – Port Brac
6. Mikoto “Tsukuyomi” Arata – Ghost – Oblivion Badge – Sere Island
7. Genevieve “Nocturna” Park – Dark – Starlight Badge – Sunset Mountain
8. Matti “Polaris” Virtanen – Ice – Frost Badge – Sastruga Fjord

Gaiien’s league is famously “wild”, spread over a large area with only the main roads and parks patrolled by rangers. Trainers intending to earn badges are required to have an adult trainer license (18 years old or 8 outregion badges) in contrast to more populous regions where only a junior trainer license is required (10 years old). As a result, some junior trainers travel to other regions to begin earning badges, while others train with their pokemon in towns until they turn 18. Backcountry hiking is not recommended without a team of strong (lv. 40+) pokemon.

Due to the young age of the Gaiien League, wild pokemon are often unused to human presence and will attack aggressively to defend territory rather than to test a potential partner, complicating pokemon capture. Several pokeball manufacturers offer rebates on the pokeballs of released pokemon, although disappointments can generally be avoided by not pursuing fleeing wild pokemon.

There is a community college in Port Littoral and Pokemon Professor offices in Port Littoral, Porphyry City, and Port Brac. Many students travel to other regions for post-secondary education and there are several government stipends to assist.

Various places of interest beyond the gym towns are marked out on the map in smaller writing, or just given a location button without a name. These would be areas for "side quests", exploration for more pokemon, caves, springs, places to power up your pokemon, and other areas. I have diving areas as well; so sue me, I actually liked the 7.8 too much water, but long water routes in "my" "game" would a) have pokemon on the overworld that you interact with or not or b) "tall grass" where you encounter pokemon rather than it being the whole damn ocean at the very least. The pokemon variety underwater would be very good as well, ideally, with lots of treasure and shit to find, and diving trainers and, idk, ocean berries or w/e to make sure it's as interesting as the land-based world Team Aqua 4 lyfe etc.

"My" "game" would also let you go to other regions, so you could take an airplane from Porphyry City or a boat from Port Littoral to go to Hoenn and such.