The following are bits, excerpts and sometimes full chapters of Montague Derosa's literary biographies of the great trainers of our era, in which he recounts and analyzes the events which shaped them into the people they are today. Our first sample comes from A Maze in Sapphirl, his literary biography about Steven Stone, the ex-Champion of Hoenn.

A lot has changed in the past 10 years. Cities have been turned into fortresses, open fields are synonymous with death and the few trainers that still exist are only tools of the powerful. The only hope of saving Kanto lies in the hands of an eccentric group of trainers hired by a mysterious, masked man. Their task? To find and retrieve the six stolen Lights of a long lost world.

Inyssa Dawn has dreamed all her life of embarking on her trainer journey, and when the opportunity falls into her lap she grasps it without hesitation, desperately hoping that her past struggles will be made worth it once she becomes the Champion. Yet dark clouds are slowly gathering over Sinnoh, and only Emotion, Valor and Wisdom might cast a light strong enough to guide its fate.