The Simru Region

Simru Region is based on Wales, the name Simru comes from a mispronunciation of Cymru, the Welsh name for Wales (correctly pronounced kum-ree). The names of the locations and the Pokemon are typically an English word and a Welsh word combined.

I have my own unique type, called Ancient Type, that is detailed here.

Every Pokemon posted will have a sequence of tags, making it easy for anyone to find what they want to see on the blog.

Evolution tree size

Stage of evolution

First type

Second type

Variant or convergent (and the name of the original Pokemon)

Special categories such as Starter, Legendary, multi-form, etc.

I didn’t go into much detail of the lore of Simru before, so I hope to cover more of the world, the history. the people in it, Gym Leaders, items, etc.

Ddraigoch is without a doubt based on Y Ddraig Goch, aka The Red Dragon found on the Welsh flag. There's no other inspiration here, that’s what it's meant to be.

My original design (actually the first was redrawn into the one above) was lacking a lot of details that I’m hopeful have been added here now. The main thing being colours. The original was only red, which in reflection of the flag is correct, but now I’ve added green and white to represent all the flag colours. The shiny is black and yellow, in reflection of the Flag of St David, another flag commonly used in Wales.

The other details I’ve fixed; the proportions were out of whack, the raised foot (which has taken me as much time to get right as the entire rest of the drawing took), the disconnected wings, the stunted head and neck. All look much better now.

All in all, I’m so happy with how this turned out, it really looks like a bad ass dragon pokemon now.