Description
Niall is a historian and an etymologist specialized in the Galar region. He’s been trying to research the most mysterious parts of Galar’s history and piecing together a coherent image of what the past might have looked like. One theory he’s been working on is reconstructing the name Galar and suggesting it might have originally been “Gal-Ard”, which translates out to “high battle frenzy”. (an early name for Gigantamax, perhaps?)
As a youngster Niall had started his journey on becoming a Pokémon trainer, but had to stop when his parents got sick and he returned home to care for them until they passed away. Now he has dedicated himself to research and his team is more or less retired, though they all stick around because he lives in an isolated cottage in the countryside (they have the option to leave if they wish to return to the wild, but they enjoy each other’s company too much to split ways for the time being)