so i believe cohdopia/allebahst & babahl could be somewhere in northern italy. quercus alba and colias palaeno have the scientific names of a tree and a butterfly respectively, therefore, they are both latin (though i have no fucking idea what colias palaeno actually means in latin, or if it actually is fully latin because i cant find shit about its naming, but quercus alba still stands. the only thing i can figure out about colias palaeno is that “colias” is either latin or greek) and therefore, i think they could come from somewhere that speaks a romance language. I think italy is probably the best bet because it’s a lot closer to latin. Im pretty sure (i could be wrong) that Palaeno gives you either a coupon or a postcard about mountains in babahl at one point, and since somewhere in the heart of italy seems a little unlikely to me (a country that is liable to split in half is something that is easily gobbled up by other nations, that threat is exacerbated to a million if that nation is surrounded by one singular other nation), im saying somewhere around either the alps or the maritime alps. Palaeno is also pretty tan, which makes the most sense (assuming he’s largely ethnically babahlese, which he could very easily not be) if he’s from southern europe. And Manny is short for Emmanuel, which is a pretty christian name, though I don’t know how common it is just for that reason in italy despite its heavy catholicism. Tourism is also a pretty prominent industry in italy, so there’s parallels with babahl there.
Also i dont think the location of any of the species used as names matters because cohdopia is stated to be european, but white oaks (quercus alba’s namesake) are not native to europe, theyre native to north america. The names of the nations are also pretty distinctly not latin, but also, that could be easily chalked up to english bastardizations (that happens a lot—you will probably be surprised at hungary and finland’s real names, and we probably all know the weird ass deal with germany).
pretty shaky premises? yeah. but to be quite honest with you there are far shakier and stupider cases in ace attorney that some people still love so its okay. if you have a better idea or more evidence feel free to add, but honestly, there is so little evidence for where cohdopia could be that i dont think theres really all that much more you could say. Honestly i think you could probably find leads for a different spot in europe using the symbols on the flags or even the architecture of the embassy or using some real world analogue to whitcrystal oil, but im not really aching to look into that right now.
Romania may also be a contender lol.
this was all so i could figure out what language family to base a potential conlang off of lol. fuckin goodnight i shouldve already been asleep an hour and a half ago
