Why you’re here
This is as Moonless is on its mission to capture Uxie and bring them to the distortion world.
plus, I have decided on a few points of lore mentioned previously, if anyone is still curious.
I indeed have decided to cut a lot of the legendaries for my AU. Those past Sinnoh do not exist, and neither do regions past Sinnoh - though most of the regular Pokémon from there remain untouched. To compensate, the regions are significantly larger and more varied in climate, to allow for said other Pokémon to continue existing.
Also, mega moonless will indeed exist. While I have decided to also lower the power of the major (box) legends, I have not made them weak enough that it would make sense for moonless to be taking them on unassisted.
Though, mega evolution works differently than in canon as well and does not require a trainer bond, though that helps. Mega evolution does, however, require strong will/emotion/desire to activate as well as a mega stone.
The mega stones themselves….originally, they were said to be created by Xerneas and Yveltal, however, those two don’t exist here. I don’t like the meteor explanation either, and ZA further muddled things for me. So, their origin in my AU is that they are formed by the energy of Pokémon who died with great want for something. They can also be created by extremely powerful Pokémon, such as Arceus and the creation trio, as they have a lot of will and life-force to use - they can create them without dying.
