what are the towns in pokemon games named after?

[UtterAddict]

It's sort of an orangey-red, isn't it?

 

[TTEchidna]

Kanto confuses me. All the names are colors of the type the gym leaders use, if you look hard enough, and then there's Vermillion. What the fuck, dubbers, what the fuck. I can see Fuschia for Poison, and I know Saffron flowers are purple, for psychic, but how the hell is electricity red?

Actually, it's the color of the badges. And the roofs.

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

Pastoria = (pastor) The Bible used pastor as a term like "being a Shepard" or "feeding sheep". Pastor could refer to Crasher Wake/Maximum Mask who uses his prize money to help others. (Bulbapedia says he was based on a real lucha libre who was an actual pastor)

Um what?


http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Pastoral

 

[Æsahættr]

And what about Solaceon Town, Jubilife City, and Eterna City in Sinnoh?

Solaceon Town: Solace -It's tranquil and calm. Eon - It's very old fashioned and unchanged by time.

Jubilife City: Jubilant. Life. It's a huge bustling city. I'd say that life there is rather jubilant.

Eterna City - I'd say it was named after "Eternal" because of the statue of Dialga/Palkia in the town.

 

[Geoffrey]

I'm sure I saw it somewhere that Phenac was taken from Phoenix and not Phenakite.

I remember now that I got this from Wikipedia, and it's still there to this date.

 

[Adamant]

Actually, it's the color of the badges. And the roofs.

The rainbow badge isn't really celadon.

 

[TTEchidna]

But the roofs are. Look at the name origin on 'pedia.

 

[TTEchidna]

But Kuchiba is, and that's what matters.

 

[ShinyFlareon]

I heard somewhere that the Hoenn region's names for cities actually have meanings for both parts. One of them is supposedly 'natural,' while the other is 'man-made.' For example, 'slate' is a stone, and 'port' is...well, a port. A man-made place for ships to go.

And isn't Vermillion more on the yellow side of the orange scale? Even if it isn't, yellow was the most obvious color associated with electricity that wasn't already being used. Electric blue might have been plausible, had blue not already been used for the water-type and city of Cerulean.