The season is SPRING. The cold has finally receeded, and leaves are beginning to sprout from trees. Pokemon are coming out of hibernation and poking their heads out into the world again.
A black morass, Marratu Swamp's a suddenly overgrown area in the otherwise desolate Tohu Expanse. Emptiness gives way to dense underbrush, sub-tropical foliage, and aquatic pokemon gathering in the swamp's dark waters. It was never much of a town, but the outcaste of Tohu Expanse called the swamp home. They had a village, but it was destroyed by the scourge. The world doesn't care about them, but there were no survivors.