Twenty Years

More than a century had passed since the League's founding. The first thirty years had been a period of rapid expansion, with iron and blood forging the League's foundation.

The following thirty years were spent consolidating its gains and stabilizing its interior, and expansion slowed. During that time, the great founder also passed away from old injuries.

In the twenty years after that, the League's territory expanded once more, bringing Sinnoh and Unova into its fold.

From then on, the smoke of large-scale war largely faded away, and the Pokémon world entered a relatively long era of peaceful development led by the League.

Another fifty or sixty years had passed since then.

Fifty or sixty years... enough for a generation to grow up and grow old, and enough for a new generation that had never experienced the cruelty of war to take peace and prosperity for granted.

And that was precisely the problem—all the older powerhouses who had personally witnessed the horrors of war, understood how hard-won the League was, and possessed a flesh-and-blood-deep understanding of the founder's ideals were now growing very old.

Within the next ten or twenty years, these pillar-like figures would inevitably pass away one after another. The League would inevitably enter a delicate period of transition, where power and ideals changed hands between old and new generations.

Most of those rising to power would be a generation that had grown up listening to the legends of their elders, yet had never been tempered by war and conspiracy.

They might have heard their predecessors' stories and might agree with the League's ideals, but most had never witnessed war's cruelty firsthand, never personally felt the darkness where the strong preyed on the weak before "order" was born. They likely lacked sufficient clarity and bone-deep vigilance toward the