The Palaeo Region

(Based on the monkey puzzle tree prompt)

While young, this Pokemon protects itself by pretending to be an ordinary tree and using its leafy upper body to draw attention away from its head. When it evolves, it becomes much taller and is largely branchless along its trunk to make room for its new eyes. Scientists theorize the increased height and the trunk eyes developed to allow it to have a broader view of its surroundings.

Modified with a longer neck, spikier fur, and hopefully improved art skills since a year ago.

By two votes to one for Lepiductor and none for everything else, this little guy will be named Lepticitor! I had to cut two letters to save on length.

Say hello to our first Gym Leader, courtesy of @angvard14!

I’ll redraw official art for this character once I get the time, but for now, we need to name him first! As a reminder, the gym is Water-type and is based off Mesapotamia, so try to pick your name suggestion for the head researcher accordingly.

We have yet to name our Pikaclone! How could I have forgotten?! Let’s fix that right now.

As a general rule, the name is derived from Japanese words, e.g. Pikachu (pikapika (onomatopoeia for sparkle) and チューチュー chūchū(the sound of squeaking)). We don’t have to abide by this rule, though! Four names were listed last time, so I’ve given the option to pick one or suggest your own.

Dendorable

Leptipacitor

Leptisistor

Leptiductor

Other (please specify)

One of Excaligant’s ‘dex entries has been determined: “It has mastered various techniques for fighting with its bladed tail. It moves swiftly and surprisingly gracefully as it battles both underwater and while jumping above the waves.”

We need to determine the other one - and more importantly, we need to find out how to color this thing! Given that this is a sketch, and that the original artist seems to have dropped offline recently, I’ll probably be the one to draw the final artwork based on the sketch. I need the color scheme to do that, though; about four or five colors for the various body parts will do.

As a reminder, it’s based on Stethacanthus and the myth of the Sword in the Stone.

We haven’t had a fakemon design contest for a while, so let’s set one up! We had the basis for the plant Pokemon of this region but I never got around to setting up a contest for them, so here, lemme fix that...

For this entry, you get to submit to either or both of two categories: one for the bleeding heart and one for the monkey-puzzle. You can enter up to three designs for each category.

4/15 UPDATE: For obvious reasons, do not base your designs off animals. Plants only, please!

Your entries must have a primary type of Grass. Both dual- and single-types are allowed.

Because this region is set in the Cretaceous, try to use a prehistoric motif with your designs. To this end, I’ll impose a dubious restriction excluding anything based on modern things such as human cultural references or technology.

Each of your entries must evolve at least once. Also, no split-evolutions are allowed.

All submissions must be your own original work; anyone who submits plagiarized work will be banned from future contests. All stages must also be in the same image for organization purposes.

You may submit hand-drawn, digitally drawn art, or sprites created manually (I’ll only accept fusions as reference material for others). You may also send in text-based descriptions as inspiration for other artists.

Do not send in ideas based off of copyrighted characters.

Your design must not evolve to or from any other Pokémon, canon or otherwise.

You can give your design names, abilities, flavor, and other suggested Pokédex information, but the community can suggest to change it should it win.

Water-type Gym Leader Design - Voting Poll

We haven’t had a voting poll in a good long while, so here’s one that’s been long overdue! As noted, we’re now voting for the Water-type gym leader, and two entries were submitted back when the contest was active.

Entry by stranded-on-mars

Entry by angvard14

Since I’m getting this region back up and running, it’s time for us to decide what to do next! This contest won’t be up for a while because I’ve got another one set up, but once that’s done we’ll definitely be taking care of this.

Here are the options I’ve listed that haven’t been done yet:

Pokémon based on an inanimate prehistoric object (e.g. rock formations)

Pokémon based on an outdated depiction of a species, which evolves into a more accurate depiction (DO NOT VOTE FOR THIS ONE. Team Chronos’ signature line is already based on this concept! Thanks for pointing that out, @stranded-on-mars!)

Pokémon based on Darwinian evolution - evolves from a primitive form to a more advanced one

“Slurpasaur” Pokémon, a prehistoric relative of a non-extinct creature with extraneous features attached

Eevee clone, i.e. a Pokémon that evolves into differently typed forms depending on certain conditions

Pokémon based on an overused prehistoric species - but with an unexpected type, concept, etc.