Team Mortis

Team Mortis is the villainous team in the Altaris region. They are a small group consisting of Circuit Trainers. Their ultimate goal appears to be culling the region of weak Trainers and making it a place solely for Circuit Trainers and other powerful trainers.

In the game

Team Mortis is a rather small group of well known Circuit Trainers. They lack grunts like most villainous teams because of the fact that they go out of their way to recruit specific Trainers. As of the currently release of Pokémon Sardonyx: Raised to Win, Team Mortis is known to have a maximum of six members. Much like typical Circuit Trainers, they use Pokémon of various types and levels, including Legendary Pokémon. This in addition to their reputation for killing others- particularly Trainers significantly weaker to them- makes them a constant threat in Altaris.

In the story

Team Mortis makes their first appearance in Rubina City when the player and Officer Kenn confronts Zoltan. Before either party can make a move, Zemith sends his Haunter to distract the player and Kenn. He then uses the opportunity to knock the two and their Pokémon out, and escapes Rubina with Zoltan.

Zemith reappears in The Tempest, joined by Quad in their mission to capture Lugia. While Zemith's Articuno battles Lugia, the two of them battle the player and Acento, ultimately ending a brutal defeat for the former. They aren't able to stop them from fleeing thanks to Kaiser, but they succeed in capturing Lugia.

The player, Acento, and Petra eventually track down Team Mortis to the Ironis Black Market, where they discover Zoltan, now officially a member of Team Mortis. He is eventually joined by Zemith and Abel, with which he has a brief argument. Renegade quickly detects the party nearby, and before they can contemplate an escape option, they are discovered by Phlox, forcing them to reveal themselves. After revealing Petra's reputation for killing Pokémon and that they were not the ones responsible for her father's death, Abel trails off, signifying that he knows something about her father's killers. In an attempt to get the knowledge out of him, the player is made to battle Zoltan and Jetstream. Losing the battle results in a game over in which the player, Acento and Petra are presumably killed by the members of Team Mortis. Upon Zoltan's defeat however, Abel begrudingly reveals the location of one of Petra's father's killers and lets the group leave, much to the dismay of Zoltan and Phlox (the latter of who leaves as well). Once the three have left the Black Market, Abel and Zemith voice their concerns over the fact that Jetstream had lost to the player. Their leader- Divide- then joins their conversation, having heard enough of what had transpired. He offers to take care of Jetstream's training, with Zoltan reluctantly accepting.

Trivia

• Due to mortis being the genitive singular of mors, Team Mortis can be literally translated to "team of death".

Team Mortis
Leader	Divide
Members	Abel - Phlox - Quad - Zemith - Zoltan