Twilight Town (originally from Paper Mario TTYD) is a town in the Forest of Twilight, bathed in eternal sunset, located in Pennsylvania. It is a retreat for shadows who have had a falling out with their masters, and the home of the hybrid race, the Twili. The town is run and managed by World Leader, Daphne Anderson.
It is the titular setting for the Twilight Town Arc in Legend of the Seven Lights, and the 41st stage in the story. Twilight Town is also the Warping Point for the shadowbender class in Rainier's School For Benders.
History[]
In The Great Candied Adventure, Dillon trains here with his mother and three aunts to become better at shadowbending.
Stage Layout[]
The music for the Forest of Twilight is “Forest Interlude” from Donkey Kong Country 2.
Not many areas of ground were touched by the orange sunlight, but as they followed Dillon through the trees, they spotted shadows in those sun patches, who perked and sunk away when the humans looked at them. The team encountered a group of jagged rocks blocking their way, however one of the stones was movable, Dillon remembered, as he extracted Midna’s big ponytail hand to push it forward. The group entered a clearer part of the forest, where Hyper Clefts – green, spiked stone creatures – charged out of bushes to ram the kids. “Just so you know, I can make new inventions, too.” Harry announced as he placed his boombox on the ground. He turned it on, and its loud tunes shook the ground forcefully, flipping the Clefts upside-down so that Chris and Sheila could punch them senseless with their fists.
Shadows appeared on the sides of trees and rocks, grinning Cheshire-style at the kids before swooping away. The group stepped up a few short mounds before getting to a narrow pathway within the grass. Crazee Dayzees leapt out from the sides and charged at them, Kirie thought fast and tossed flower shurikens to knock them out. The path led to a barren tree, where Murkrow swooped down at them from its branches, Mason and Haru shot gas puffs to put them asleep. The path turned rightward, ending at a vast trench chasm. They questioned what to do, until Dillon punched the tree, and a swarm of shadows flew out of its shadow and down the cliff. They gasped with horror when Dillon jumped down, but the child stopped partway down in midair.
Sheila was obviously next to jump down, then the others followed suit—they realized those shadows were forming a midair pathway. However, they were against the cliff, so the kids’ shadows stood on them, making it seem like they were standing on invisible ground. Dillon assured it was fine and kept leading them forward. They had to jump square-shaped lumps in the shadows, over a slight hole, then carefully jump a series of separate platform shadows, before Wall Jumping parallel columns of shadows, landing on a dead-end shadow-platform. “Then my mom would Shadow Glide us to that path.” Dillon pointed across the trench.
“Screw that.” Django strummed his guitar, summoning a bridge of skeletons to cross over. “These guys start to fall after you step on them, ME FIRST!” Django ran across the skeletons, the kids quickly followed as one-at-a-time, the dead bones collapsed. They safely made it to a grassy path void of most trees, and the view of the orange-magenta sky was brilliant. Deinos were hidden within the grass, and when the kids drew close, the Pokémon coughed blue fire at them. Aurora and Chris caught the flames in their palms, though it was heavy and pushed them back, being of its origins. They chucked the flames at the Deinos as Aurora followed them with ice blasts, defeating the young dragons in seconds.
Dillon led them to another cliff overlooking a chasm, but no shadows led the way down. He mentioned his aunts having to find them hidden across the grass plain, so the group split up. Dillon uncovered the first shadow underneath a boulder, which he used Midna to push off. Kirie happily hopped up a pine tree, finding a shadow at the top and tagging him. Sheila wandered to a large boulder with a cave-like dent in its side, pitch-black inside, but when she punched a Light Sphere, the shadow panicked and flew out. Haylee found a very skinny, dead tree – looked more like a branch growing from the ground, and hit it with her wrench to scare the shadow out. Harry came to a garden of tall grass, but it was easy to scare the shadow out by blasting his boombox.
Django twirled his guitar and blasted a laser at each in a grouping of boulders. He discovered the shadow in the third one, but destroyed the rest just for fun. Mason and Haruka sent gas up twin trees, scaring the shadow out with no place else to go. Aurora froze a pond, seeing the shadow trapped inside, then pelted him free. Finally, Artie had a gut feeling a shadow was under that small rock—he flipped it over and found an Amazy Dayzee. Artie bolted away, not wishing to duel the golden, overpowered flower. It didn’t matter, ‘cause they found all the hiding shadows. Dillon jumped off the cliff first, a shadow grabbed him, threw him to the first one within the narrow trench, got thrown to the next, following the zigzagging path within the trench, until the shadows threw him safely on a new forest floor.
His friends were able to enjoy the wild ride as well, then they explored this open, soil ground with several trees scattered about, with varying height. Sheila spun and punched a Light Sphere; there were shadows on the trees, hidden in this area where sun didn’t shine, but Sheila’s light could reveal them. They could stand on a shadow around a tree that was almost touching the ground. The next tree had a shadow halfway up, but was too far to jump to, but when Dillon made the leap, he grabbed onto a force halfway. Clearly the shadows weren’t positioned directly beside the trees. They saw an open shadow hand on a faraway tree, Dillon made the jump, he didn’t go far before the invisible spirit grabbed, whirled him, and chucked him onto a shadow to a further tree. The friends caught up with Sheila in company, and the next alignment of trees had shadows with arms positioned like bounce pads.
Dillon led the way, landing on invisible platforms that made them go bouncy, repeating this act carefully across the trees. There was a hidden area to their right, so Kirie decided to glide over and follow it. She found a wrinkled, blue-skinned old Twili, sitting still as a ghost beside the bushes. “Iluvw H… wkhq I… qrz J. Zkdwv qhaw, K?”
Silly old man! Kirie smiled, before returning to her friends. They continued across the bounce pad shadows, lest they fall into the bushes below and have to fight Hyper Clefts, but they successfully made it to a new path. It was straightforward, though Chris was ready to set fire to bushes if anything came out—then he felt something tap his shoulder. He whipped around to Harry with a start. “What?”
Harry raised a brow. “Um… nothin’?”
“Don’t do that.” They kept walking. Something tapped Chris’s shoulder again- “Stop that, Harry!”
“I ain’t doin’ nothin’!”
“AAAH!” Haruka freaked, grabbing her dress. “Something just lifted my skirt!”
“Mason, didn’t we talk about brushing your teeth?” Haylee asked, waving an awful stench away from her nose.
“How d’you know that isn’t Django?”
“It isn’t, guys.” Dillon said with disbelief. “It’s the Ghost Pokémon.”
A Gastly, a Haunter, and a Gengar materialized, cackling humorously at the children. “Very funny, guys.” Haruka put hands on her hips. “Are you gonna help or not?”
The Pokémon exchanged glances… and nodded. They flew down the path, so the kids followed quickly. “It’s a maze over here, you have to follow the path they hint out.” Dillon said. They came to a circular path with four different roads, with bushes, trees, and rocks within the center. Chris set fire to the assaulting Green Fuzzies as the friends searched for the ghosts’ hints. Aurora studied a jagged rock close to one path, and it formed lips, leaned in, and smooched her. Aurora frantically shook the germs off, then indicated this path. Another circular area, Django shot down some Inkay Pokémon using his guitar laser. While Artie followed behind Haylee, the brother panicked when a leafless tree revealed big eyes and sharp fangs, ready to snack on Haylee unsuspectingly. Artie yelled for her, but the tree stood back to normal when she looked. His heart racing, Artie pointed this as the correct path.
On this next circle road, some Weavile zipped out of the bushes, Sheila was swift to dodge their quick attacks and defeat them with Light Fists. The friends kept an eye out for the “subtle” clue—when a boot popped out of a bush and kicked Harry down a path. Must be the right way. Flower Fuzzies attacked in this area – pink Fuzzies which suck their chi – Haylee bashed them with her wrench while Artie gooped them with a M.U.S.K.E.T.. When Kirie innocently walked by a path, Haunter popped out, clamped a hand over her face, and forced a fart out of her (however that worked). Haunter laughed, and the kids followed that path. They were at the final circle road, nothing to attack them. It took a while to find the subtle hint, but then Dillon indicated the secret 5th path, within the hologram of some woods. The illusion dispersed—“BAAAAAAIIII!” Gengar screamed in Dillon’s ear, totally surprising him, but at least the kids were through with that area.
The Pokémon laughed at Gengar’s action. “Thank you for helping us.” Haruka spoke with half-politeness. The ghosts nodded and faded away. Sector V began the trek up a steep, rocky mountain, having to take high steps or climb up tall mounds, really putting their legs to work. But they heard forceful flapping of wings: a Hydreigon flew down, the three-headed final form of Deino. The dragon prepared to blast them with its breath, but Django sighed impatiently and strummed his guitar, summoning three large skeletons to jump onto and pin it to the ground. The skeletons choked the dragon’s heads, until Midna flew out and destroyed them with Shadow Balls. “Don’t do that!” she yelled at him. “It’s just protecting Twilight Town!”
“Well, I’m protecting you guys!” Django argued. “And using this guitar a lot takes my energy, so you should thank me.”
“It all worked out, so don’t worry.” Dillon said as they bypassed the weakened Pokémon. “Let’s just get there.” They had to climb a rugged wall up the rest of the mountain, but once they made it, they were there.
Story Importance[]
- It is learned that Daphne Anderson, one of the World Leaders, resides in and rules this land.
- She is the person that dealt the final blow against Nigel Uno.
- Daphne Anderson was successfully defeated by Sector V, then taken to Arctic Prison.
- Lola and Terry were brought here by their mother, after returning from space.
- Grandfather and Cole are revealed to be residents in Shady Inn, having special privileges due to Grandfather's marriage to the Shadow Queen.
- Shadow Queen, Malevolous is buried outside of Twilight Town.
- Malevolous was a Logia shadowbender who lived for thousands of years through her own shadow.
- Wuya (from Xiaolin Showdown) was Malevolous's adopted sister, and the wife of Cole Fulbright.
Cryptogram[]
“Iluvw H… wkhq I… qrz J. Zkdwv qhaw, K?” (spoken by old man on a hidden path on the right of the bounce pad shadows) (The normal letters use the Caesar Cipher, while the single capital letters use the A1Z26 Cipher in reverse.)
- First 8... then 9... now 10. What's next, 11?
WKH KHURHV RI WKH XQLYHUVH DUH ZLFNHQV! KRRUDB IRU HOOHQ! (found on gravestone during Jack and Wuya cutscene)
Enemies[]
- Hyper Clefts
- Shadows (allies)
- Crazee Dayzees
- Murkrows
- Deinos
- Amazy Dayzee
- Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar (allies)
- Green Fuzzies
- Inkay
- Weaviles
- Flower Fuzzies
- Hydreigon (sub-boss)
- Malevolous Djinn (boss)
Locations[]
Forest of Twilight[]
The Forest of Twilight is the woodland that surrounds Twilight Town. Shadows, Dark-type Pokémon, as well as other creatures roam the forest.
Shady Inn[]
The Shady Inn is a small hotel for visitors to Twilight Town. Victoria Anderson works here.
Minerva's Cathedral[]
Minerva's Cathedral is an ancient church located within the forest. Every day at 7:00pm, Daphne Anderson summons the sentient shadows here with the toll of the bell. She hosts a "session", steadily turning the shadows gray and gloomy like her own. It is her form of mindless bliss, which then spreads to the shadows' masters.
Geography[]
Twilight Town is located in Pennsylvania, in a region that sits in eternal sunset. The town itself sits atop a small mountain, so that the twilight sun can always touch them. The town is surrounded by a vast forest.
Residents[]
- Victoria Anderson
- Isabelle Anderson
- Daphne Anderson
- Mayor Dour
- Freddy
Stories It's Appeared[]
Trivia[]
- The Forest of Twilight act uses the same music as Forest of Darkness from Legend of the Eight Firstborn. (The music is "Forest Interlude" from Donkey Kong Country 2.)
- Dillon breaks the 4th wall and questions why they can't be the same forest, and Midna reminds him that shadowbenders aren't as strong at night, compared to twilight.
- Interestingly, there was another issue like this regarding Dusty Desert and Sand Kingdom, which actually are the same desert.