In 2020, I started thinking about a new Pokemon fan region. But really, I had no motivation to make a fan game, and I already have a lot of changes to the standard Pokemon setting already. Now, this is something I've gone through before in the past with a different Pokemon fan region I had as a kid. Had a region in mind, didn't want to be restrained to the Pokemon setting anymore, so I turned it into a fantasy setting. I hadn't touched it in a long time though, so I ended up kinda smashing them together and reviving it.
By the end of 2021 it was fully materialized into its own thing. The main original influence that still exists is that the magic (called enwa) in this world is different elements, like types.
This setting also falls victim to something that happens with a lot of my settings - I end up thinking of a lot of different places and time periods and so things jump around as I feel like it!