The Sea of Beginning is appropriately named, as it's where you'll begin your adventure in Ethovalon! The islands inhabiting the Sea of Beginning have been explored extensively and are quite beginner friendly. Kala Island houses plenty of easy dungeons for beginners to test the waters with, while Pele Island offers up a bit of a challenge! Kumu Island may still house secrets that the GCSF will no doubt love to hear about!
As one gets closer to the borders of the Desolate Sea and the Sea of Division, it's advised to use caution! Skull Island can be dangerous if unprepared, and the Slumbering Mountains are said to be home to Legendary Beasts! Best be on your guard as you leave the safety of Ethovalon!
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🎵 Cave and Side Path || Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky 🎵
A small section of Ash Islands that, like Sunny Slope, barely gets any ash dropped on it. Beaver Hills has Bidoof and Bibarel, among other Pokemon wandering around the hills or swimming in the shallow waters. Winding rivers and creeks dance around the hills with dams littered everywhere. The Pokemon here are pretty friendly, but if you arrive at their dams unannounced they may be cross with you!
 | Recruitable Pokemon |Â
Bidoof | Stunfisk (Unova) | Foongus | Deerling | Basculin (Unova) | Bunnelby | Wimpod | Yungoos
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Bibarel | Diggersby | Gumshoos
🎵 Sky Peak Forest || Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky 🎵
Ash Islands is, you guessed it, full of ash! The ash and volcanic dust from Pele Island carries over to these islands where ash falls nonstop on the islands. Soot Forest is no exception, and is perpetually rained on by ash. The trees appear to be grey from the soot that has fallen on them-- some could even mistake it for snow. Many Pokemon make this dusty forest their home.
 | Recruitable Pokemon |Â
Sandshrew (Kanto) | Ekans | Koffing | Zigzagoon (Hoenn) | Spinda | Wurmple | Burmy (Sandy Cloak) | Tandemaus
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Shedinja | Ninjask | Sandslash | Magcargo | Wormadam (Sandy Cloak)
🎵 Sky Peak Prairie || Blue Rescue Team 🎵
Ash Islands may not get a lot of sun, but Sunny Slope is the one spot of the island that isn’t perpetually shrouded with soot! A long slope with harder and gentler degrees of slope-age - it’s always sunny and warm! Flowers and bushes everywhere but very few trees. Strong winds pass through here and there; a good place for a picnic if you can take the slopes. It’s popular among young Pokémon who live in Sanlow!
 | Recruitable Pokemon |Â
Sunkern | Hoppip | Fletchling | Helioptile | Flabebe | Skiddo | Cottonee | Capsakid | Chikorita
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Sunflora | Cherrim | Bayleef | Whimsicott | Skiploom | Jumpluff
🎵 Nectar Meadow || Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon 🎵
Just outside of Ethovalon lays a dungeon so small, you’ll probably miss it. The creek is home to plenty of feral Pokemon that may become hostile if you enter their territory. The lush grass that borders the small stream is boggy, and the current of the water is as gentle as ever. However, there’s said to be a hidden hole towards the delta where the creek ends. Is there something hidden there?
Only one way to find out!
| Recruitable Pokemon |
Poliwag | Goldeen | Azurill | Surskit | Wooper (Johto) | Barboach | Tympole | Ducklett | Bidoof
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Politoed | Marill | Masquerain | Quagsire | Whiscash
🎵 Murky Forest || Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky 🎵
At the edge of the meadow lies a wood full of creepy-crawly creatures awaiting you inside. The trees have a thick canopy which the sun sneaks through occasionally. The grass is also quite dense which allows these bugs to hide safely away from predators. Despite their efforts, some bird Pokemon lurk in the branches, waiting to swoop down.
| Recruitable Pokemon |
Caterpie | Weedle | Pineco | Wurmple | Ledyba | Kricketot | Starly | Sewaddle | Scatterbug | Blipbug
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Metapod | Butterfree | Kakuna | Beedril | Ledian | Kricketune
🎵 School Forest || Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon 🎵
A meadow that extends until it meets a forest. The lush, tall grass harbors many feral Pokemon that make their homes there. Flowers sway in the gentle breeze and pollen dances in the air.
| Recruitable Pokemon |
Sunkern | Budew | Pidgey | Nidoran | Oddish | Seedot | Bulbasaur | Bellsprout | Rattata (Kanto) | Skwovet
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Sunflora | Gloom | Bellossom | Weepinbell | Raticate (Kanto)
🎵 Dark Wasteland || Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky 🎵
Deep in the jungle lies the biggest swamp you’ve ever seen! The water is foul, bubbling, and you’re pretty sure if you fall in, there’s no coming back. Everywhere you step, the land feels static to the touch-- is the murky water paralyzing …? You’re not sure what’s at the end of this disgusting swamp, but it better be worth it for your sake!
 | Recruitable Pokemon |Â
Venonat | Gligar | Croagunk | Stunky | Trubbish | Skrelp | Dewpider | Mareanie
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Venomoth | Skuntank | Araquanid | Toxicroak
🎵 Mystifying Forest || Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky 🎵
Barely any light shines through the thick canopies in this dungeon. The jungle floor is but a barren wasteland compared to the branches high up. Bird Pokemon fly about and several Grass types make their homes high up in the jungle trees. If you’re not good at climbing, good luck.
 | Recruitable Pokemon |Â
Mankey | Pinsir | Tangela | Exeggcute | Heracross | Aipom | Natu | Tropius | Comfey | Pikipek
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Exeggutor (Alola) | Tangrowth | Primape
🎵 Calm Craggy Area || Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon 🎵
A tomb that has since been covered in thick vines and buried beneath the ground. Whoever the tomb was built for, they must have been important, because the inside is massive! The only way into the dungeon is by taking the vines down to the base and from there you can explore. Small streaks of light shine down from the top of the tomb where cracks are beginning to form. Glowing mushrooms have begun forming in the crevices on the wall too. The longer you linger here, the more dread you begin to feel … but rumor has it there’s good loot to be found here! Don’t worry, it’s not grave robbing it if the tomb is abandoned … right?
 | Recruitable Pokemon |Â
Sableye | Spiritomb | Yamask (Unova) | Honedge | Morelull | Nincada | Ferroseed | Seedot
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Nuzleaf | Shiftry | Ferrothorn | Shedinja
Difficulty || Legendary (90+)
🎵 Hyrule Field (Night) || The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 🎵
Covered for a millennium, this ancient pyramid can only be accessed via the disorienting jungle surrounding it. An ancient city surrounds the long forgotten pyramid, both equally lost to time. Vines, flora, and all kinds of tropical flowers have begun growing through the cracks of the stone lining the streets of this city. Careful where you step! There seems to be active tripwire that may trigger booby traps! Who put them there? Or are they from an era long gone?Â
The inside of the pyramid is dark, decrepit and hazardous. One wrong move and you could be tumbling down a trapdoor or hurdling yourself into a pit of spikes! Despite the dangers and the active traps, there may be treasure in it's depths! However, it seems like someone isn't very keen on visitors here.
Legendary dungeons may only be explored by characters of level 90 or higher!
 | Discoverable Items |Â
Overgrowth Juice | Fiendish Potion | Animal Potion
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Runerigas | Shedinja | Tropius | Carnivine | Gigantamax Venasuar | Zarude
🎵 Ancient Barrow || Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon 🎵
Long ago, it is said that a meteor crashed into this spot on Pele Island. While you may be expecting some cool Pokemon from space, the only extraterrestrials you’ll find here are Cleffa and Elgyem. The rest of the crater is inhabited with plenty of rock and fire type Pokemon! The crater is lined with space rock, obsidian, and shining gems. Lava flows freely through some parts of the crater.
| Recruitable Pokemon |
Geodude (Kanto) | Cleffa | Mawile | Elgyem | Drilbur | Pansear | Sandygast | Salandit | Tinkatink
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Coalossal | Gigalith | Crustle | Salazzle | Tinkaton
🎵 Mt. Horn || Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky 🎵
The steep slopes of the volcano give way to this dungeon and its difficult to navigate terrain. If you can fly, or easily maneuver around rocks, you’ll have a better time with this dungeon. With the sun beating down on you and all of the climbing you’ll be doing, you may need to find one of the many hot springs scattered around the area and relax. Rock types and Fire types make this bluff their home.
| Recruitable Pokemon |
Dunsparce | Shuckle | Cyndaquil | Dwebble | Sandile | Rhyhorn | Diglett (Kanto) | Orthworm
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Typlosion | Krookodile | Krokorok | Rhydon | Dugtrio (Kanto)
🎵 Spring Cave || Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky 🎵
It is said that a volcanic deity rests here to this very day. The actual shrine is a long way down, but you need to get through a dungeon to get there. The people of the island offer up prized possessions to the deity that watches over them. A winding path leads down, splitting off into different sections. A crater full of lava is in the center of the volcano, so be careful where you step! Lavafalls are everywhere here, so be careful of those too! Rumor has it that the travelling shop keepers Agni and Edan are descendants of the deity resting in here.
| Recruitable Pokemon |
Slugma | Shieldon | Cranidos | Solrock | Heatmor | Oricorio (Baile Style) | Sizzlipede | Growlithe (Hisui)
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Macargo | Centiskorch | Bastiodon | Rampardos
🎵 Sky Fortress || Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs 🎵
A giant fortress that sits among the cloud tops. The only way to reach it is to ascend to the cold skies. Once you’re there, keep flying until you find the entrance. Inside awaits you many hard trials and fights, so be sure you’re well stocked up. Deep inside the Fortress, it is said that the Legendary Rayquaza awaits you, but none have ever seen it before. Is it just a myth?
 | Recruitable Pokemon |Â
Noibat | Chatot | Nosepass | Skarmory | Rufflet | Vullaby | Shelmet | Karrablast | Minior
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Escavalier | Accelgor | Braviary | Mandibuzz
🎵 Calm Craggy Area || Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon 🎵
If you’re not careful, your ship could be thrown into a whirlpool around this area of the sea. Close to the Frozen Isle, if you were to dive straight into the whirlpool, you’d find yourself in the underwater crevice. It’s freezing, but at least dungeon physics allow you to breathe, no? There are lots of nooks and crannies down here, so be sure not to get lost. The cold sea glows with a dark blue chill.
 | Recruitable Pokemon |Â
Lapras | Horsea | Seel | Slowpoke (Kanto) | Remoraid | Chinchou | Mantyke | Clobbopus | Pincurchin | Arrokuda
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Gyarados | Lanturn | Seadra
🎵 The Ghost Ship || The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker 🎵
Haunting the Sea of Beginning is a ship that had sunk long ago-- only it isn’t sunken-- it’s afloat! And the Pokemon aboard are coming for your souls! This ship is beyond tattered and destroyed and carries a fog with it everywhere it goes. The minute you set foot on it, you can feel your soul leaving your body, but there’s bound to be plenty of treasure aboard! Don’t let the creaky floorboards and ghostly moans sway you from taking the treasure!
 | Recruitable Pokemon |Â
Carnivine | Dhelmise | Skrelp | Tynamo | Drampa | Drifloon | Frillish | Mareanie | Corsola (Galar)
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Dragalge | Jellicent | Eelektross
🎵 Friend Areas 8 || Pokémon Mystery Dungeon 🎵
Again, you’ll have to dive to the depths of the oceans for this dungeon. Located north in between the Isle of Steam and Serene Isle lies a warm sea floor where tons of water Pokemon relax in the sun’s rays. The sands are white as can be and the water flowing from the southern islands brings untold peace to these waters.
 | Recruitable Pokemon |Â
Finneon | Clamperl | Bruxish | Wailmer | Carvanha | Relicanth | Staryu | Finizen | Clauncher
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Wailord | Sharpedo | Whiscash
🎵 Burned Bodies || OFF OST 🎵
A mass of bones and carcasses are scattered about this dungeon. Walls of various Pokemon skulls line the area. Pools of strange red liquid decorate the halls of this ancient crypt. The smell of decay is strong within. Inside the dungeon you can hear the clacking of bones and the dragging of limbs. Something is in here. Moving through the dungeon, skeletons reach out as if to grab you and stop you from continuing .Unfortunately, their attempts are for naught. Will you survive the threat that lurks?
 | Recruitable Pokemon |Â
Houndour | Cubone | Duskull | Vullaby | Yamask (Galar) | Tynamo | Carvanha | Corsola (Galar) | Arrokuda
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Barraskewda | Marowak (Alola) | Runerigus
🎵 Scourge of Iron || Cannibal Corpse 🎵
Further into the Island the smell of rust and Iron hits you hard. Looks like this mysterious island held mysterious technology. The civilization that lived here prior is no more. All that is left of their existence is the rusted materials left behind. Feral pokemon plague this area, thriving off the metals that exist within. Careful, they’re not friendly!
 | Recruitable Pokemon |Â
Meowth (Galar) | Klink | Aron | Beldum | Ferroseed | Honedge | Nosepass | Varoom
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Aggron | Probopass | Metang | Mega Metagross | Klinklang
Difficulty || Legendary (90+)
🎵 House of Hope || Baldur's Gate 3 🎵
Hidden in plain sight at the very center of the island are the ancient, decaying remnants of what may have once been an impressive house of knowledge. After some searching, you happen upon a half-buried trapdoor with stairs beyond that descends into darkness. Whatever awaits is ominous and forboding... and yet you press on as if it has called to you with the offer of something you cannot refuse.
There are many rooms and corridors that have been left to rot as the years have gone on. Some of them appear to be places of respite, worship, and even study. Perhaps this was once some sort of institution? You are acutely aware that you are being watched -- stalked even -- by Pokemon and otherworldly presences who have made these labyrinthine-like halls their home. Despite darkness that surrounds you, you can see the occasional speckle of light against the walls and the ceiling, reminisecent of stars. Occasionally, a sinister chuckle echoes throughout the halls. Is someone there? Or is your mind beginning to play tricks on you?
Eventually, you find something in-tact; a library! Though there are shelves and racks lined with books and scrolls, every one of them seems liable to crumble to dust the moment you so much as breathe on them. But, there is one thing that remains: a heavy grimoire chained shut to a podium. It doesn't seem like it's going to be budging any time soon. And even if you wanted to try and pry it from its binds, it doesn't seem like the residents of this place are going to let you take it without a fight...
Legendary dungeons may only be explored by characters of level 90 or higher!
 | Discoverable Items |Â
Fiendish Potion | Horror Potion | Astral Potion
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Houndoom | Dusknoir | Unown | Beheeyem | Runerigus | Mega Gengar | Delphox
🎵 Mt. Blaze || Blue Rescue Team 🎵
To the West of the Slumbering Mountains, you’ll find a field that’s been set ablaze! Due to the presence of natural springs and magma running directly under the ground, it has caused the grasslands to catch fire. With the rocky terrain that surrounds the field, there's no chance of the flames leaving the area. The Pokemon that live here don't seem to mind it. Rumor of a Mirage Pokemon that prowls the field at night has been the talk of the dungeon.
 | Recruitable Pokemon |Â
Vulpix (Kanto) | Machop | Ponyta (Kanto) | Magby | Numel | Sizzlipede | Ditto | Scorbunny
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Machoke | Camerupt | Rapidash (Kanto) | Magmar | Magmortar | Ninetales
🎵 Frosty Grotto || Blue Rescue Team 🎵
To the north of the Slumbering Mountains, you’ll find a chilly, frosted field. A beautiful, frigid grassland with plenty of rivers and lakes spread about. Frost perpetually covers the land. It is said that a Mirage Pokemon lives here and dances across the waterways with grace. It's so fast that all you see left behind are ripples on the water's surface.
 | Recruitable Pokemon |Â
Vulpix (Alola) | Smoochum | Delibird | Illumise | Volbeat | Absol | Audino | Milcery
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Wartortle | Golduck | Croconaw | Jynx
🎵 Amp Plains || Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky 🎵
On the southern side of the Slumbering Mountains, you’ll find a grassy field ravaged by thunderstorms constantly. The entire area is teeming with static electricity. With thunderclouds that could shoot lightning at you at any given moment, this place is definitely treacherous. It's rumored that a Mirage Pokemon that howls with the thunderclaps roams this field.
 | Recruitable Pokemon |Â
Pichu | Magnemite | Voltorb (Kanto) | Electrike | Shinx | Joltik | Tynamo | Mareep | Plusle | Minun
 | Unrecruitable Pokemon |Â
Luxio | Electric-Tera Luxray | Manectric | Electrode | Raichu