Eastern Guardian

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Western Guardian
Map Description
One of the ancient constructs known as the Guardians. This one regulates the western part of Miato.
Connecting Locations
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Sapphire City ←	Western Guardian	→
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The Eastern Guardian is one of the ancient quasi-living constructs located in the Miato Region. Situated on a small island roughly to the east of Mount Triumph, it is associated with the autumn season and the classical element of air.

Location

At first glance, the island which holds the Eastern Guardian appears wholly unremarkable, its only apparent features of note are a small plateau with a forest of deciduous trees at its foot. On closer inspection, however, something does not add up – the island seems oddly windy compared to the mainland, flying Pokémon appear to give it a wide berth, and no matter what route one may attempt to take through the forest and towards the plateau, the forest's paths seem to somehow twist and turn away from it – with a subtle, yet steadily mounting sense of unease and doubt discouraging attempts to push further. Those who attempt to force the issue regardless find the winds become fierce whipping gales seemingly without warning, and risk attack by droves of Ghost-type Pokémon. Thus, out of respect for the creatures' habitat, the island is left to its own devices – for the most part. A ferryman in Sapphire City is known to occasionally set sail to the island, and can be convinced to take on additional passengers.

The reactivation of the Guardians, however, unravels the illusion concealing the plateau's true form: a great natural pillar of stone, with the Eastern Guardian – bearing the serpentine form of an eastern dragon – coiled around it in a helical pattern. Even when revealed, however, approaching the Guardian is a tricky prospect, as it is protected by a wall of wind – a seemingly impassable vortex denying entry by land or air – to reach the Guardian, one must utilize an ancient artifact known as a Spirit Wing to attune to the currents of this wind-wall and ride the vortex itself from a platform at the base of the pillar straight up to a magnificent marble terrace, around which the dragon's tail appears to coil.

Interior

Scaling the dragon's tail, one would eventually spot the entrance into the structure through a gap between its "scales". The living marble of the Eastern Guardian is aglow with energy of a violet hue. Though the interior still maintains the organically curving structure of the other Guardians, it also appears to feature many pillar-supported segments open to the sky – and to the creatures that live there, including multiple flying-types and even a few dragons. The Spirit Wing is an invaluable tool in navigating the interior, enabling one to glide across gaps and up air currents. Halls that are not open to the air are often fairly plain and unadorned save for checkered patterns of lighter and darker stone on the polished floors, and have a lonely air to them. The most prominent encounters in such halls tend to be patrolling Soldazza – ever moving in pairs of black and white – though their evolved forms may also be rarely encountered.

The Heart Chamber

The Eastern Guardian's Heart Chamber resembles a clearing in a forest of deciduous trees in autumn, in a state of perpetual twilight. It is very quiet, save for the crunching of leaves beneath the visitor's foot - an eerie, almost unnatural silence. The interface nodes appear to be embedded in grey marble - almost like long-forgotten gravestones. The Glyph at the heart of the chamber is protected by an empowered Falancholy, with a pervasively-generated Gravechill that cannot be overridden by any other Pokémon's weather-affecting moves.