It's...it doesn't make a lot of sense. Nothing here does. But we've apparently all come from different points in time, and none of us arrived together. ...what's the last thing you remember?

As for what kind of place this is, I couldn't say. Not even Claude knows.

[Come on, Annette. You know Felix doesn't joke.]

Oh. Yes. The Pokemon start off small, but evolve to get bigger and more powerful as they train. So Claude had a small bird that grew into a large bird that he can ride as a mount. Not quite the size of a wyvern, but close.