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 animated series-exclusive location and one of the settings for Jirachi: Wish Maker. It is characterized by scrubs and pillar-like rock formations. The area's mountainous terrain makes it difficult to access even on foot.

The caverns beneath the valley are where the Mythical Pokémon Jirachi hibernates for a millennium between the periods where it is awakened by the Millennium Comet for seven days. The power that Jirachi absorbs from the comet is said to maintain Forina's natural beauty.

Butler and Diane first visited the area and obtained Jirachi in the hope of restoring the Legendary Pokémon Groudon from a fossil. Butler somewhat succeeded, with Jirachi's power managing to unleash Meta Groudon. However, it began absorbing energy from Forina's landscape with its tentacles, consuming people and Pokémon alike. After a long battle, Jirachi used Doom Desire to destroy the Meta Groudon. As a result, Ash, his friends, Team Rocket, Diane, Butler, and Forina's Pokémon were revitalized.

While Jirachi returned to its crystalline slumber, Diane and Butler decided to stay in Forina. In the ending credits of Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, Kidd Summers visited Forina and met up with Butler and Diane.

According to promotional posters, it is located just southwest of Hoenn's Mt. Chimney and northwest of Lavaridge Town.

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• Pokémon seen at Forina
• In the TCG
• Trivia
  • Origin
• Names
• References
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Pokémon seen at Forina

Absol	Breloom (multiple)	Poochyena
Nuzleaf (multiple)	Electrike	Linoone (multiple)
Tropius	Vibrava	Flygon
Swablu (multiple)	Altaria (multiple)	Jirachi

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.
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

• In Chuang Yi's English translation of the manga adaptation of Jirachi: Wish Maker, Forina is spelled as "Ferina".

Origin

Main article: Pokémon world in relation to the real world → In the movies

Forina is based on Wulingyuan, a scenic area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the province of Hunan in China. The site is dominated by thousands of quartzite sandstone pillars several hundred meters high that are spread across the forested landscape.

The production notes in the official Japanese movie pamphlet reveals that Director Yuyama found his inspiration for the setting after seeing a photo of Wulingyuan on a magazine cover. He noted that the tall rock formations would provide a sense of scale for the aerial battle, along with the mysterious atmosphere surrounding the site would make it an ideal spot for Jirachi to hibernate.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ファウンス Fauns	From Faunus, the Roman god of the forest, plains, and fields
English, German, European Spanish, Latin American Spanish, French, Italian	Forina	From forest and fauna
Korean	파운스 Fauns	Transcription of its Japanese name
Chinese (Taiwan and mainland China)	法恩斯 Fǎ'ēnsī	Transcription of its Japanese name

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This article is part of both Project Anime and Project Locations, Bulbapedia projects that, together, aim to write comprehensive articles on locations in the animated series.