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Can someone please explain verdante to me? I don't remember it at all and I can't find it in the opening post. 
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In the previous version, it was an 'emerald sea', a forested nature land whose god was Celebi.

Whether it is retconned or altered is up to us. But we'll get to that. Like NuttsnBolts said, we can pass it off as some sort of Antarctica - few to no humans, lots of Pokemon, and replace frosty fields with forests and swamps.