The Pokémon Village seems to be a focal point for Gabriel's story, with seemingly all of his Pokémon having something tying them to it. The Team Revengeance trio came from there and are searching for a baby version of Xernies named X, who set up the Pokémon settlement and then abandoned it, so they want to kill him. Raziel wants to go there to find his aunt and wants to kill her. Gabriel's name has come up a few times concerning X, but he doesn't remember ever meeting him. X blessed several Pokémon with the names of angels, who are all older siblings or parents to Gabriel's current team, dubbed "Team Archangels". They are dead, we found their souls trapped inside of the bodies of the other players of the game, trying to take control of them and transform them into their proper vessels through something the GM dubbed "Ego Death." And I do mean actual transformation, like the other players are on a time limit before they are turned into Pokémon and effective get a game over for their PCs.