Starting Towns and the World

[OkashiraShinomori]

I realize many have recognized this already (at least I hope), but I thought I'd mention it anyway. In the original series of game (FR and LG included), as well as the second-generation series of games, the name of the player's starting town is prophetic of the names of the rest of the towns in the corresponding region.

Obviously, Pallet Town refers to an artist's pallet, and the names of the cities are all colors. Littleroot conjures images of a small tree, and generally the names of the cities are those of trees, alluding to the small town's aspirations to grow, perhaps.

This alone is an interesting point of discussion, but if someone could point out the correlation of S, R, and E's starting town and various other towns, I would appreciate it. It seems rather less obvious than the first two.

 

[ImJessieTR]

I can't think of what Mauville might mean, but the names seem to reflect, by and large, the type of environment found there, like Lavaridge and Petalburg and Mossdeep and Lilycove and such. Perhaps Rustboro is talking about the big old buildings that may have rust on them. Anyway, that's my two cents.

 

[FabuVinny]

Littleroot Town is the Hoenn starting town. New Bark Town is the starting Johto Town.

There is a lot about nature in R/S/E, so that the towns are all linked to nature sounds plausable - Rustboro being the most town-like, expanding upon ImJessieTR's point.

I'm guessing Mauville's emphasis is on the Mau as Rustboro is Rustborough.

 

[The Big Al]

Mauville is the name of the author of Moby Dick. Othere than that, I'm stumped. :/

 

[OkashiraShinomori]

Littleroot Town is the Hoenn starting town. New Bark Town is the starting Johto Town.

((Blinks then smacks himself in the forehead.)) Yeah, that's right. Thanks for correcting that. ^^;

ImJessieTR and FabuVinny, you two do make a logical argument for it. Mauville does seem to be the exception. although the logical ending for a town is affixed to it (-ville, -burg, -borough (kinda sorta)). Unless someone can pop up with something else, I guess that basically solves the problem...

And that's not quite the author of Moby Dick. The great book was written by Melville, though the pronounciations are quite similar.

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

You guys never heard of the color mauve?

 

[The Big Al]

You guys never heard of the color mauve?

I can't honestly say I've never heard of that color.

 

[OkashiraShinomori]

That's....yeah, that's a good point. But it still leaves it as an anomoly among the others. It'd fit in with the Kanto towns, but Hoenn....

 

[Blazikanio]

You guys never heard of the color mauve?

No.

 

[PDL]

Kanto's towns are named after colours (obviously)

Pallet is from the artist's pallet of colours
Viridian is a shade of green (I think)
Pewter is a shade of gray (also a metal)
Cerulean is a shade of blue.
Vermillion is a shade of dark yellow or orange.
Lavender's a soft purple.
Saffron is a bright orange
not sure what Celedon is...
Fuschia is a bright purple-pink.
Seafoam is a shade of greenish-blue.
Cianabar is dark orangish-red.
and Inidgo is a bluish-purple.

Jotho's towns all have something to do with types of trees or plants

New Bark refers to new... bark?
Cherrygrove refers to the cherry tree and a grove is a group of trees.
Violet is a flower.
Azalea's also a flower.
Ilex appears to be some kind of holly or something (that's the pictures I got when I googled "ilex").
Goldenrod's a flowering plant.
Ecruteak refers to teak, which is a pretty rare and exotic wood.
Olivine refers to the Olive tree.
Cianwood also refers to some kind of wood...
Mahogany is another rare wood.
and Blackthorn refers to thorns.

Hoenn's towns are all compound words that have something to do with nature or something

Littleroot refers to roots and the fact that it's really small.
Oldale refers to dales and maybe this city is pretty old.
Petalburg refers to petals and many citys have "burg" on the end.
Rustboro refers to rust and "burogh" is found city names as well.
Dewford refers to dew... and other cities have "ford" as well.
Slateport refers to Slate (a type of rock) and the fact that it's a port town.
Mauville probaby refers to the colour mavue... and many cities have "ville" in the title.
Verdenturf comes from the fact that "turf" is grass and "Vert" is green in french.
Fallarbor obviously comes from "Fall" and "Arbor" as in Arbor Day.
Lavaridge is derived from the fact that it's right next to a volcano.
Fortree comes from the fact that people live in treehouses.
Lilycove is named so because it's near a cove.
Mossdeep refers to moss
Sootopolis comes from the fact that it's inside an extinct volcano and also the acropolis ruins in greece (thus why it's theme music sounds greek-ish)
Pacifilog comes from the fact that it's in the middle of the ocean (Pacific) and that the city floats on logs.
Evergrande is the final city and it's supposed to be "grand".

 

[Roses Ablaze]

No.

Wow, you bumped a month-old topic just to say that? (in other words, please don't do it again)

 

[ImJessieTR]

I can't honestly say I've never heard of that color.

LOL. Watch the movie Beetlejuice -- you won't be able to hear mauve and viridian without smiling ever again.

 

[watergod]

Fallarbor obviously comes from "Fall" and "Arbor" as in Arbor Day.

I'm guessnig you're American right? You know how I know that? "Arbor day". An American thing unless I am very much mistaken. Arbor as in Arbor Day doesn't help anyone outside America or who doesn't know a lot about American customs. Just checked and yes it is American. How about saying Arbor as in short for arboretum, a place where trees are grown. Or the proper definition A place where an extensive variety of woody plants are cultivated for scientific, educational, and ornamental purposes. Or maybe saying arbor as in the Latin for tree. See they're both pretty self-explanatory to everyone.

 

[ashita]

ARBOR comes from french and means tree
sot that would make fallarbor
falling trees
but fallarbor itself is similar to arborville from 4ever which literally means tree town

 

[ZetaNLI]

I'm unimpressed with all town names after Gen1. Kanto actually had a clever theme going on with the colors. All the towns since then have just been generic naturey sounding names. If you hear a name with colors in it, you immediately know it's in Kanto. If you hear a name about a flower or a tree or grass, there's no way to instantly tell Johto apart from Hoenn.

I hope Gen4 goes back to having clever names for the towns that tie the region together and make it distinct. No more of this "Naturflowerspring Town" crap.

 

[watergod]

ARBOR comes from french and means tree
sot that would make fallarbor
falling trees
but fallarbor itself is similar to arborville from 4ever which literally means tree town

No, I knew before and have double and triple-checked this and arbor is definitely the Latin for tree.

 

[Kthleen]

Indeed. Arbre is French for tree. Guess where it and the Spanish Arbol come from.

Yep, Latin arbol.