Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Hell Hath no Fury: an Ice Queen's Saga. As you can see from the reviews, I have juggled this story around a little bit. Before, I had the original and Extended versions of this fic, but now I'm just going to have the Extended Version in this thread.

Now, with that said, I'd like to give you the background information you will need to get the most out of this work of fiction. There are two main sections that you need to know about. Everything else SHOULD be explained elsewhere in the fic.

The two categories are my created countries and my created teams. Also, please note that this is based mainly on the game, and NOT on the anime. While I am using quite a lot of anime sources for this, it is mainly from the game, with a large dose of my own imagination (this is why I'm going to keep Lorelei's home country as Alto, and not the Orange Islands. Sorry, Farla.).

My Created Countries:

This fic will deal mainly with two major countries. Nuschantz and Alto. However, at least five more will be mentioned in this fic. I'll explain about four of them for you here, and detail the remaining three when we get to that point.

Major Countries:

1) Alto. At the outset of the fic, Lorelei will be in this country, as it is her home. Alto is an island country home to the largest, most powerful air force in the world. Because of this, the natives generally inhabit flying types (no, I'm not making the Falkners be from Alto, sorry). All of their cities are named after various types of clouds. Such as Cumulo, Stratun, Smogh (smog), Fogh (fog), etc. Their culture is very heavily military centric, but not as much as Tintia (see below). However, they do still have a league, known as the Skye League (after a small island off the coast of Alto called the Isle of Skye). It is, however, intensely difficult. Nearly five times as difficult as Kanto's Indigo League.

2) Nuschantz. The ski capital of the Pokemon World, unit is known as the ski capital of the world, and is the vacation favorite of the rich, famous, and newly married. It is a rough, rugged country with no major roads or major airports, except in the "capitol," the Verin Retreat. That's another thing. They don't have cities. They have ski resorts. While there are nearly a hundred scattered around the country, there are twelve major ski resorts. And you don't generally walk from resort to resort. You don't fly, you don't really go anywhere under your own power. Nuschantz has a very sophisticated system of Teleportat-enabled Jynx throughout the country, allowing for the instantaneous travel of a person, Pokemon, or thing to anywhere in the country that is in range of the Jynx stations. This is generally within ten miles or so of each station. Nuschantz comes complete with its own unique team, Team Blizzard (see below).

Minor Countries:

3) Tintia. Extremely xenophobic, they allow no more than five hundred non-citizens across their borders every year. This includes Pokemon Professors, ambassadors, and ordinary trainers. They boast the strongest military in the world, and also the strongest rival in the world (see Engara, below). Tintians are generally thought of as thugs and gangsters, but they are generally just like other people. Some are nice, and some are bad. Most of them are good, hardworking people, however.

4) Engara. The bullies of the international world, they have the second strongest military in the world, and a bone to pick with Tintia. The country is ruled by a theocracy, which preaches that sometime in the future, an extremely powerful Pokemon or human known as Lont will return to the Pokemon world and give inconceivable power to his faithful. For centuries the Engarans have tried to purify the world, to allow them to be a part of Lont's kingdom. They are extremely zealous, and want to take over the world because of this. The only thing that has prevented them from doing this overtly is Tintia. The Tintians have defeated them time after time, and prevented them from invading any other country. However, the Engarans have the largest special operations branch in the world. It is theorized that Team Rocket (at this time, part of a much larger corporation called Specter Corp, see Specter Corp Shadow Warriors, below), Team Aqua, Team Magma, and the myriad other teams all receive a large percentage of their funding from this country.

My Created Teams:

In this fic, we will be dealing with two major created teams and one relatively minor. It might not even be mentioned at all.

1) Team Blizzard. Founded as a political party in the country of Nuschantz, it has grown to the point that it has literally thousands of followers. These followers do not always act in the best interests of the team's founder, Gertal, and many have generally made themselves a nuisance around Nuschantz. Because of this, the entire team has been branded an enemy of the state, and been actively hunted. Team Blizzard has two major bases. One, a major fortress is hidden. No one really knows where it is, except for the Blizzards, and is nearly impervious to all but an all-out attack by hundreds of thousands of men. The second base is on the Effeulan border (explained later. Basically, there's a civil war. Pokemon and their talents on one side, and humans and their technology on the other), and is also secret. However, it is much smaller, and not defended as well.

2) Specter Corporation Shadow Warriors. The Shadow Warriors began when Specter Corporation had a monopoly on Pokemon technology, and Silph Company began to blossom very quickly. At first, they were just thugs that threatened Silph company management, but when htat began attracting the attention of the Global Police, the Shadow Warriors were born. An elite group of men and women, they use the latest Specter Corporation technology to further their single purpose—to be rich. By any means necessary. Many of the operatives are Engaran, and have been trained in Engara. As such, they are truly excellent agents, and are fairly high up in the Shadow Warrior's ranks. Most such agents believe in Lont (see Engara, above), and their actions reflect that philosophy.

3) Team Ivy. Not a team in the regular sense of the word, Team Ivy is a company of the most brilliant scientists on the Pokémon world, gathered together with one common goal—to learn more, protect, and improve plant life wherever they go. As their name suggests, they use only grass types. Not really that important, but I thought I'd toss it in to show you that I don't just make up martial Pokémon teams.