Forina
Forina ファウンス Fauns | |
Forina | |
Region | Hoenn |
Debut | Jirachi: Wish Maker |
Forina (Japanese: ファウンス Fauns) is an anime-exclusive cavernous valley in central Hoenn. It is characterized by scrubs, pillar-like rock formations, and powerful and rare wild Pokémon like Flygon and Absol. It also contains Pokémon such as Nuzleaf, Tropius, and Breloom. The caverns beneath the valley are where the legendary Pokémon Jirachi hibernates for a millennium between the periods when it is awakened by a comet for seven days. It is only fully featured in the movie Jirachi: Wish Maker, but had a small cameo in the credits of Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, where Kidd Summers was shown talking to Butler and Diane.
According to promotional posters, it is located just southwest of Mt. Chimney and directly north of Lavaridge Town.
In the TCG
This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring Forina or Pokémon that reside there in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
Forina's Pokémon Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats. | |||||||
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Card | Type | English Expansion |
Rarity | # | Japanese Expansion |
Rarity | # |
Forina's Nuzleaf | Movie Commemoration VS Pack | 001/019 | |||||
Forina's Breloom | Movie Commemoration VS Pack | 002/019 | |||||
Forina's Tropius | Movie Commemoration VS Pack | 003/019 | |||||
Forina's Jirachi | Movie Commemoration VS Pack | 004/019 | |||||
Forina's Linoone | Movie Commemoration VS Pack | 005/019 | |||||
Forina's Flygon | Movie Commemoration VS Pack | 006/019 | |||||
Forina's Altaria | Movie Commemoration VS Pack | 007/019 | |||||
Forina's Absol | Movie Commemoration VS Pack | 008/019 | |||||
ADV-P Promotional cards | 040/ADV-P | ||||||
Trivia
Origin
Forina is based on the Wulingyuan which is located in the Hunan Province of China.
Names
Language | Name | Origin |
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Japanese | ファウンス Fauns | From Faunus, the Roman god of the forest, plains, and fields. |
English, German, Italian | Forina | Possibly forest and fauna. |
Chinese (Mandarin) | 法恩斯 Fǎ'ēnsī | Transliteration of its Japanese name. |
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