Far Across Zones

The Far Across Zones are dangerous areas in the sky filled with often turbulent clouds. They extend for several thousands of miles across certain parts of the world, hence the name, but in width they are only a few miles on average. The Far Across Zones have made communication between their regions difficult and have helped towards their relative isolation. They effectively separate the Known World in five regions:
 * the Oras region, which includes the whole of Sonara and Carajol Sea
 * the Antuiris region, encompassing the Tundarean Sea & Continent
 * the Hakiwara region, made solely of the upper half of Antara
 * the Bola region, consisting of the lower half of Antara
 * the Osenian region

The Far Across Zones are classified as Constant & Perpetual weather phenomena, as they have been observed for millennia to remain in more or less the same positions. They have been described to be "invisible walls" between the regions that hat have formed.

Getting through a Far Across Zone
Besting what becomes a maze of solid clouds inside a Far Across Zone is not an easy matter. In these zones, there are several kinds of clouds, friendly or hostile, that form a moving labyrinth that only wild flying-type Pokemon can instinctively get through. Once a ship enters a zone, it takes not only the most skilled of navigators to look for the signs that point towards the exit that leads to the other side, but a certain amount of luck and a fair wind.

Even when there are no clouds in a Far Across Zone, fliers may crash upon thin air that is hard as a rock. That is a phenomenon that the Marine Charting Committee has attributed to Vapor Lock, another one of the listed phenomena that have been observed.

Inflation Theory
Those who busy themselves with maps all across the world have observed that the borders of a region within a Far Across Zone, as well as the width of the Far Across Zone itself, are expanding beyond what they used to be. The change is gradual and very minimal, and an average lifetime of 80 years is barely enough for a person to notice a small difference. In various maps of old, it has been noted that the Oras region once did not include Coastal Antara and that it has only recently expanded so far.

This has led to the conception of the Inflation Theory: that the Far Across Zones are spread further and further, thus inflating the size of the regions in between them.