>>45343607>Mind sharing what you have, if I may ask?Thanks for asking. ;__; Here's an unfinished map, it only covers the estate and mounds, with a smidge of an old powerplant building. The town of Barrowmund's plan is just that it needs a church-like building at the far end, which for Pokemon reasons will be called something like Ceremony Hall and be described as somewhere people get married. The fakemon was based on the Black Shuck which ran from town to town in a storm and struck a church spire after burning/clawing in through the bride's entrance. It was ghost-electric to reflect that, and started as a little round fellow with a stubby tail and panting tongue to represent companion black dog myths who sit with old people before they die, or follow lone travellers on moonlit paths. Then it evolves into the fast monster hound from the legend. Black Shucks are sometimes considered the same monster as Barghests, which can be broken down to mean 'barrow ghost', something that haunts burial mounds. Barrowmund's mounds are meant to be based on a real location where supposedly the forest mound has magnetic anomalies that throw off compasses and makes people feel uneasy, but I've long forgotten the name of it. It's a protected reserve for skylarks though so throw in wild fletchinder via overhead shadows and say it's rare.
Having a think about the setting today, the fakemon work very well as a ghost counterpart to Yamper and Bolthund, and in true Pokemon fashion you could leave it completely unstated for the player to point at and go 'is that it but dead?! Deepest lore!!1' It's a total coincidence though that the Galar OCs had connections to a powerplant that would have used electric types like Yampers before I decided to use Barrowmund. I don't know if I'm skilled at things coming together by coincidence or if I just like using that to finalise, but I love those eureka moments.