Fondent region

The Fondent region is a small coastal country in the The World, dominated by mega-corporations, called Pillars. Of these, the most prominent and powerful is the news and entertainment media monopoly Omnichannel. It is the location of two proposed plots:

• The Spyder in the Cathedral, where five Pillars are scheming together to take full control of the region.
• Qiangong2's plot, where Omnichannel has total control and the other Pillars do not exist.

Name

The region is named after "fondant", the icing on wedding cake, and the "fundament" (the Heavens, referring to the Cathedral). The towns and cities in the region are named after wedding anniversaries.

Other names proposed by Apollonius:

Ancient names of the Nile: Fiaro, Iteru, Neilo, Shihor

Chinese-inspired: Jingdi, Jingsho, Jangjo, Tiensha (I can explain the meanings, if you like)

Anagrams of “libre”: Lerbi, Lirbe, Berli, Birle

Locations

Town mottos in brackets.

• Paper Town
  • Daycare Centre
• Route 1
• Cotton Town ("A growing force")
  • Art Shop
  • Omnichannel HQ
  • Dryad's Grove
• Route 2
• City Park ("Proof that beauty and mining can co-exist")
  • Achievement Maniac's Hut
• Leather Town
  • Museum
  • Battle Pit
• Route 3
  • Shaft HQ
  • Wayfarer Inn
• Route 4
• Flower City
  • Nimrod HQ
  • Pet Shop
  • Side Route A
  • Mansion
• Route 5
• Timber Town
  • Dojo of the Five Elements
  • Scoop HQ
  • Walled Garden (endgame)
• Tunnel B
• Route 6
• Candy Town
  • Hospital
  • Greenwash HQ
  • Private Garden
  • Art Critic's House
• Sea Route C
  • Dragon's Cave

Original layout

The original map was spread out.

Town features

Scoop Stores

These combination fast food and retail stores sell items, and will also heal your tuxemon - for a fee, or if you sit through an ad from one of their sponsors.

They offer other services that are slowly made redundant by Team Bazaar:

• Banking
• Renaming
• Contacts
• Badges
• Healing

Team Hideouts

In each city, Team Bazaar, the hackers and free spirits, find hideouts where they can avoid the Pillars' scrutiny. They're a place for battle and healing, as well as scoring new open source apps that Team Bazaar programmers have developed.

Examples include:

• An abandoned Mansion they're squatting in
• Cafes

Challenge Circles

Before each city or town's hideout will accept you and give you free healing, you have to defeat a bunch of them in battle.

Apps

• Bank App
• Renaming App
• Contacts App
• Map App
• Booster Tech

Riverboat Stations

Once reopened, they allow you to travel immediately and safely to any city or town that you have already been to.

Organisations at the time of The Spyder in the Cathedral

see Cathedral

Organisations at the time of Qiangong2's plot

see Qiangong2's plot