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• Alagaësia – Christopher Paolini
  Christopher Paolini
  Christopher Paolini is an American author. He is best known as the author of the Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, and Inheritance...
  
  's Inheritance Cycle
  Inheritance Cycle
  The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy novels by Christopher Paolini. It was previously titled the Inheritance Trilogy until Paolini's announcement on October 30, 2007 that there would be a fourth book...
  
  
• All-World – Stephen King
  Stephen King
  Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
  
  's The Dark Tower
  The Dark Tower (series)
  The Dark Tower is a series of books written by American author Stephen King, which incorporates themes from multiple genres, including fantasy, science fantasy, horror and western. It describes a "Gunslinger" and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical. King...
  
  
• Amber – Roger Zelazny
  Roger Zelazny
  Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series...
  
  's The Chronicles of Amber
  The Chronicles of Amber
  The Chronicles of Amber is group of novels that comprise a fantasy series written by Roger Zelazny. The main series consists of two story arcs, each five novels in length. Additionally, there are a number of Amber short stories and other works....
  
   novels
• Amtor – Edgar Rice Burroughs
  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.-Biography:...
  
  ' Venus series
  Venus series
  The Venus Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a science fiction series consisting of four novels and one novelette. Most of the stories were first serialized in Argosy, an American pulp magazine. It is sometimes known as the Carson Napier of Venus Series, after their fictional main character, Carson...
  
  
• Arda
  Arda
  In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Arda is the name given to the Earth in a period of prehistory, wherein the places mentioned in The Lord of the Rings and related material once existed...
  
   – J. R. R. Tolkien
  J. R. R. Tolkien
  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
  
   novels
• Atlantis
  Atlantis
  Atlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC....
  
  
• Azeroth - Warcraft
  Warcraft
  Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy game , developed by Blizzard Entertainment and published by Blizzard and Interplay Entertainment. The MS-DOS version was released in November 1994 and the Macintosh version in late 1996. Sales were fairly high, reviewers were mostly impressed, and the...
  
   series

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• Barsoom
  Barsoom
  Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote close to 100 action adventure stories in various genres in the first half of the 20th century, and is now best known as the creator of the character Tarzan...
  
   – Edgar Rice Burroughs
  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.-Biography:...
  
   novels
• Bas-Lag
  Bas-Lag
  Bas-Lag is the fictional world in which several of China Miéville's novels are set. Bas-Lag is a world where both magic and steampunk technology exist, and is home to many intelligent races...
  
   – China Miéville
  China Miéville
  China Tom Miéville is an award-winning English fantasy fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" , and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party...
  
   novels
• Bellezza – Mary Hoffman
  Mary Hoffman
  Mary Hoffman is a best-selling British author and critic, born in 1945.- Background :Mary Hoffman won a scholarship to James Allen’s Girls’ School in Dulwich, which she describes as “an exercise in punctuation in itself.” From there she went to the University of Cambridge to study English at...
  
   novels
• Blest - Diana Wynne Jones
  Diana Wynne Jones
  Diana Wynne Jones was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction...
  
   Magid novels

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• Calaspia – Insanity Saga
  Insanity Saga
  The Insanity Saga is a fantasy series written by twin teenage novelists Suresh Guptara and Jyoti Guptara.Book One in this saga is Conspiracy of Calaspia, the first draft of which the Guptara Twins penned at the age of eleven. It was published when the authors were 17 and became a bestseller...
  
   novels by Suresh and Jyoti Guptara
  Jyoti Guptara
  Jyoti Guptara is a young novelist of British and Indian heritage, best known as co-author of the Insanity Saga .-Biography:...
  
  
• Charn
  Charn
  Charn is a fictional city appearing in the 1955 book The Magician's Nephew, book six in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, written as a prequel to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. In the book, Charn is described as a very large and completely deserted city that is in a semi-ruined state....
  
   – C. S. Lewis
  C. S. Lewis
  Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
  
   novels
• Cloud - novels by Greer Gilman
  Greer Gilman
  Greer Ilene Gilman is an American author of fantasy stories.Her stories are noted for their dense prose style, which is strongly focused on native English roots, sometimes reminiscent of Gerard Manley Hopkins...
  
  
• Cittàgazze – His Dark Materials
  His Dark Materials
  His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman comprising Northern Lights , The Subtle Knife , and The Amber Spyglass...
  
   series
• Corona
  Corona (fictional world)
  Corona is the name of the fantasy world in which R.A. Salvatore's The DemonWars Saga and The Highwayman are set.-Geography:It can be noted that the world of Corona bears a striking resemblance to Eastern Canada. Major rivers as well as landmasses are shown...
  
   – R.A. Salvatore (The DemonWars Saga
  The DemonWars Saga
  The DemonWars Saga is a series of seven novels written by R.A. Salvatore. The series is set in the world of Corona, principally in the kingdoms of Honce-the-Bear and Behren, and amongst the nomadic To-gai-ru. The Saga is separated into two trilogies bridged by a single book, Mortalis...
  
   and The Highwayman)

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• Damar - Robin McKinley
  Robin McKinley
  Robin McKinley is a distinguished author of fantasy and children's books who has written sixteen books to date. Her latest book Pegasus was published in 2010...
  
   novels
• Darkover
  Darkover
  Darkover is the focus of the Darkover series of science fiction novels and short stories by Marion Zimmer Bradley and others published since 1958. According to the novels, Darkover is the only human-habitable of seven planets orbiting a fictional red giant star called Cottman...
  
   – Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...
  
   novels
• Discworld
  Discworld (world)
  The Discworld is the fictional setting for all of Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy novels. It consists of a large disc resting on the backs of four huge elephants which are in turn standing on the back of an enormous turtle, named Great A'Tuin as it slowly swims...
  
   – Terry Pratchett
  Terry Pratchett
  Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...
  
   novels (also 3 video games)
• Dinotopia
  Dinotopia
  Dinotopia is a fictional utopia created by author and illustrator James Gurney. It is the setting for the book series with which it shares its name. Dinotopia is an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked humans and sentient dinosaurs who have learned to coexist peacefully as a single symbiotic...
  
   – James Gurney
  James Gurney
  James Gurney is an artist and author best known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia, which is presented in the form of a 19th century explorer’s journal from an island utopia cohabited by humans and dinosaurs...
  
   novels
• Deltora – Emily Rodda novels
• Dreamlands – stories by H. P. Lovecraft
  H. P. Lovecraft
  Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....
  
   and others
• Dying Earth – Jack Vance
  Jack Vance
  John Holbrook Vance is an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen...
  
   novels
• Davy Jones' Locker
  Davy Jones' Locker
  Davy Jones's Locker is an idiom for the bottom of the sea: the state of death among drowned sailors. It is used as an euphemism for death at sea ....
  
  

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• Earthsea
  Earthsea
  Earthsea is a fictional realm originally created by Ursula K. Le Guin for her short story "The Word of Unbinding", published in 1964. Earthsea became the setting for a further six books, beginning with A Wizard of Earthsea, first published in 1968, and continuing with The Tombs of Atuan, The...
  
   – Ursula K. Le Guin
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction...
  
   novels
• Eärwa
  Prince of Nothing
  The Prince of Nothing is a series of three fantasy novels by the Canadian author R. Scott Bakker, first published in 2004, part of a wider series known as "The Second Apocalypse". This trilogy details the emergence of Anasûrimbor Kellhus, a brilliant monastic warrior, as he takes control of a holy...
  
   - R. Scott Bakker
  R. Scott Bakker
  Richard Scott Bakker is a Canadian fantasy author. He grew up on a tobacco farm in the Simcoe area. In 1986 he attended the University of Western Ontario to pursue a degree in Literature and later an MA in Theory and Criticism...
  
   novels
• The Edge Chronicles
  The Edge Chronicles
  The Edge Chronicles is a young-adult fantasy novel series by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. It consists of three trilogies, plus three additional books, and others . Originally published in the United Kingdom, this series has since been published in the United States, Canada and Australia. To...
  
   – Paul Stewart
  Paul Stewart (writer)
  Paul Stewart is a writer of children's books, best known for the bestselling The Edge Chronicles, the Free Lance novels and the Far Flung Adventures series which are written in collaboration with the illustrator Chris Riddell...
  
  
• Emelan
  Emelan
  Emelan is a fictional realm that provides the main setting of the Circle of Magic quartet by Tamora Pierce, primarily in the capital city of Summersea and the nearby temple of Winding Circle...
  
   – Tamora Pierce
  Tamora Pierce
  Tamora Pierce is an author of fantasy literature for young adults. She is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania. Best known for writing stories involving young heroines, she made a name for herself with her first quartet The Song of the Lioness, which followed the main character Alanna...
  
   novels
• Eidolon – Jane Johnson novels
• Erde - L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
  L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
  L. E. Modesitt, Jr. is an author of 56 science fiction and fantasy novels. He is best known for the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce....
  
  's Spellsong Cycle
  Spellsong Cycle
  The Spellsong Cycle is a fantasy series written by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. Set in the fictional world of Erde, it is notable for its system of magic, based on music and song....
  
   novels
• Everworld
  Everworld
  Everworld is a fantasy novel series written by K. A. Applegate and published by Scholastic between 1999 and 2001. It consists of twelve books.-Premise and Plot:...
  
   – K. A. Applegate
  K. A. Applegate
  Katherine Alice Applegate is an American author, best-known as the author of the Animorphs, Remnants, Everworld and other book series, although some of the books in these series are ghostwritten by other authors. Applegate's most popular books are science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels...
  
   novels
• Ellesméra - Christopher Paolini
  Christopher Paolini
  Christopher Paolini is an American author. He is best known as the author of the Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, and Inheritance...
  
  's Inheritance Cycle
  Inheritance Cycle
  The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy novels by Christopher Paolini. It was previously titled the Inheritance Trilogy until Paolini's announcement on October 30, 2007 that there would be a fourth book...
  
  

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• Faltha – Russell Kirkpatrick
  Russell Kirkpatrick
  Russell Kirkpatrick is a geography lecturer and a novelist. He holds a PhD in geography from the University of Canterbury, and currently lectures at the University of Waikato in Hamilton...
  
  's Fire of Heaven
  Fire of Heaven
  Fire of Heaven is a fantasy trilogy by Russell Kirkpatrick. Its three volumes are Across the Face of the World, In the Earth abides the Flame and The Right Hand of God .- Across the Face of the World :...
  
   Trilogy
• Fantastica – Michael Ende
  Michael Ende
  Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German author of fantasy and children's literature. He is best known for his epic fantasy work The Neverending Story; other famous works include Momo and Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver...
  
  's novel
• The Final Empire
  Mistborn series
  The Mistborn series is a trilogy of high fantasy novels, written by Brandon Sanderson. Published by Tor Fantasy between 2006 and 2008, the series currently consists of Mistborn: The Final Empire, Mistborn: The Well of Ascension, and Mistborn: The Hero of Ages. A stand-alone short novel titled...
  
   – Brandon Sanderson
  Brandon Sanderson
  Brandon Sanderson is an American fantasy author. A Nebraska native, he currently resides in American Fork, Utah. He earned his Master's degree in Creative Writing in 2005 from Brigham Young University, where he was on the staff of Leading Edge, a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine...
  
  's Mistborn
  Mistborn: The Final Empire
  Mistborn: The Final Empire is the first novel of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. It was followed by Mistborn: The Well of Ascension...
  
   trilogy
• Fionavar – Guy Gavriel Kay
  Guy Gavriel Kay
  Guy Gavriel Kay is a Canadian author of fantasy fiction. Many of his novels are set in fictional realms that resemble real places during real historical periods, such as Constantinople during the reign of Justinian I or Spain during the time of El Cid...
  
   novels
• The Four Lands
  The Four Lands
  The Four Lands is the fictional world where Terry Brooks' Shannara series is set. The Genesis of Shannara trilogy reveals the Four Lands to be located in the modern Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada. Much of the landscape has been changed from a future holocaust, but some...
  
   – Terry Brooks
  Terry Brooks
  Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career, and has over 21 million copies of his books in print...
  
   novels
• Forgotten Realms
  Forgotten Realms
  The Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories...
  
   - Dungeons and Dragons

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• Gezeitenwelt
  Gezeitenwelt
  Die Gezeitenwelt is the name of a series of German fantasy novels. They are set on a planet named World of Tides that is hit by large fragments of a comet with dramatic consequences: The coasts are hit by gigantic tsunamis, earthquakes alter the landscape, a global climate change ensues - and ...
  
   – Magus Magellan novels
• Green–sky – Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  Zilpha Keatley Snyder is an acclaimed author of books for children and young adults. Snyder was awarded three Newbery Honor Book awards for The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid and The Witches of Worm. Since 1964, Snyder has completed 43 books...
  
   novels
• Grimney - Fantasy Website

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• Halla – D. J. MacHale novels
• Hyborian Age
  Hyborian Age
  The Hyborian Age is a fictional period within the artificial mythology created by Robert E. Howard, in which the sword and sorcery tales of Conan the Barbarian are set....
  
   – Robert E. Howard
  Robert E. Howard
  Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre....
  
   novels and short stories
• The Hidden Land - Pamela Dean
  Pamela Dean
  Pamela Dean Dyer-Bennet is an American fantasy author whose most notable book is Tam Lin, based on the Child Ballad of the same name, in which the Scottish fairy story is set on a midwestern college campus loosely based on her alma mater, Carleton College in Minnesota.She was a member of the...
  
  's Secret Country trilogye

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• Ithania - Trudi Canavan
  Trudi Canavan
  Trudi Canavan is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician trilogy and Age of the Five. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic designer...
  
   - Age of the Five (novel series) Age of the Five trilogy
• Idris - Cassandra Clare - The Mortal Instruments Trilogy
• Inkworld - Cornelia Funke
  Cornelia Funke
  Cornelia Funke is a multiple award-winning German author of children's fiction. She was born on 10 December 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia. Funke is best known for her Inkworld trilogy, with the English translation of the third book, Inkdeath, released on 6 October 2008. Many of her...
  
   - Inkheart trilogy

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• Kelewan
  Kelewan
  Kelewan is one of the fictional worlds described by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. Kelewan was first described in his novel Magician though it is not described in any detail before the Empire Trilogy.- Outline :...
  
   – Raymond E. Feist
  Raymond E. Feist
  Raymond Elias Feist is an American author who primarily writes fantasy fiction. He is best known for The Riftwar Cycle series of novels and short stories. His books have been translated into multiple languages and have sold over 15 million copies.- Biography :Raymond E...
  
   & Janny Wurts
  Janny Wurts
  Janny Wurts is an American fantasy novelist and illustrator. She has written several series, including the Wars of Light and Shadow, The Cycle of Fire trilogy, several stand-alone novels, a short story collection and the internationally best selling Empire Trilogy that she co-authored with Raymond...
  
   – Empire Trilogy
  Empire Trilogy
  The Empire Trilogy is a collaborative trilogy of novels written by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. It traces the story of Mara of the Acomas rise to power from a convent novitiate to the most powerful woman in the fictional world of Kelewan...
  
  
• Keltia - Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
  Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
  Patricia Kennealy-Morrison is an American author and journalist. Her published works include rock criticism, a memoir, and a series of science fiction/fantasy and murder mystery novels...
  
   - The Keltiad
  The Keltiad
  The Keltiad is a body of fantasy works written by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison. Currently there are eight novels in the series.The books are set in a star system far from our own, where various Celtic peoples emigrated after the rise of Christianity and the purge of the Old Religion that followed...
  
   novels
• Krynn
  Krynn
  Krynn is the fictional world of the Dragonlance novels, co-written by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis. It has also been used in many other books, set in the Dragonlance universe. It is also used as the main setting in the Dragonlance campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing...
  
   - Margaret Weis
  Margaret Weis
  Margaret Edith Weis is a fantasy novelist who, along with Tracy Hickman, is one of the original creators of the Dragonlance game world and has written numerous novels and short stories set in fantastic worlds.-Early life:Margaret Weis was born in 1948 in Independence, Missouri, and later attended...
  
   & Tracy Hickman
  Tracy Hickman
  Tracy Raye Hickman is a best-selling fantasy author, best known for his work on Dragonlance as a game designer and co-author with Margaret Weis, while he worked for TSR...
  
  , and numerous others - Dragonlance
  Dragonlance
  Dragonlance is a shared universe created by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and expanded by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis under the direction of TSR, Inc. into a series of popular fantasy novels. The Hickmans conceived Dragonlance while driving in their car on the way to TSR for a job application...
  
   novels
• Kyralia - Trudi Canavan
  Trudi Canavan
  Trudi Canavan is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician trilogy and Age of the Five. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic designer...
  
   - The Black Magician
  The Black Magician (novel series)
  The Black Magician trilogy is a fantasy novel series by Australian author Trudi Canavan. The books follow a slum-dwelling girl named Sonea who, although born and raised in the slums of Imardin, discovers that she has natural magical abilities usually restricted to the upper classes...
  
   trilogy

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• The Land
  The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
  The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Stephen R. Donaldson. It was followed by The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, also a trilogy, and The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, a planned tetralogy....
  
   – Stephen R. Donaldson
  Stephen R. Donaldson
  Stephen Reeder Donaldson is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for his Thomas Covenant series...
  
   novels
• Landover
  Magic Kingdom of Landover
  The Magic Kingdom of Landover series is a series of six fantasy novels by Terry Brooks following the adventures of a former trial lawyer named Ben Holiday, and the collection of friends and enemies the he encounters when he purchases a magical kingdom...
  
   – Terry Brooks
  Terry Brooks
  Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career, and has over 21 million copies of his books in print...
  
   novels
• Lodoss - Ryo Mizuno
  Ryo Mizuno
  is a Japanese author and game designer. Mizuno created Record of Lodoss War, Rune Soldier, Sword World RPG and Starship Operators. He was also involved with the Galaxy Angel manga. Mizuno recently worked on Tri-Ace and Square Enix's action-RPG Infinite Undiscovery. He has shown talent in both...
  
   - novels

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• Malazan World – Steven Erikson
  Steven Erikson
  Steven Erikson is the pseudonym of Steve Rune Lundin, a Canadian novelist, who was educated and trained as both an archaeologist and anthropologist....
  
   novels
• Magic Moon
  Magic Moon
  Magic Moon is a young adult fantasy novel written by German authors Wolfgang and Heike Hohlbein in 1982....
  
   - Wolfgang and Heike Hohlbein
  Wolfgang Hohlbein
  Wolfgang Hohlbein is a German writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction who lives near Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia. His wife, Heike, is also a writer and often works with her husband. She often comes up with the story ideas and therefore is generally credited as co-author...
  
  's Magic Moon novels
• Midcyru
  Midcyru
  Midcyru is a fictional land and is the setting for events that take place in The Night Angel Trilogy. The landscape is composed of many of the normal elements you would find in any natural realm. There is a main body of land, where most of the story takes place, as well as a few outlying islands...
  
   - Brent Weeks
  Brent Weeks
  Brent Weeks, born , is an American author living and writing in Oregon. Born in Montana, Weeks graduated from Hillsdale College with a degree in English. After brief stints teaching and bar tending, he devoted himself to writing full time....
  
  ' Night Angel Trilogy
• Middle-earth
  Middle-earth
  Middle-earth is the fictional setting of the majority of author J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy writings. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place entirely in Middle-earth, as does much of The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales....
  
   – J. R. R. Tolkien
  J. R. R. Tolkien
  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
  
   novels
• MiddleGate - Rae Bridgman
  Rae Bridgman
  Rae Bridgman is a Canadian anthropologist, and the author/illustrator of The MiddleGate Books, a series of fantasy books for children inspired by the Narcisse Snake Pits of Narcisse, Manitoba -- The Serpent’s Spell , Amber Ambrosia and Fish and Sphinx...
  
   children's novels
• Midkemia
  Midkemia
  Midkemia is a fictional world created by a fantasy role-playing group and popularized by Raymond E. Feist where most of the Riftwar books take place...
  
   – Raymond E. Feist
  Raymond E. Feist
  Raymond Elias Feist is an American author who primarily writes fantasy fiction. He is best known for The Riftwar Cycle series of novels and short stories. His books have been translated into multiple languages and have sold over 15 million copies.- Biography :Raymond E...
  
   – Riftwar
  Riftwar
  The Riftwar Saga is a series of fantasy novels by Raymond E. Feist, the first series in The Riftwar Cycle.-Magician:"To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan called Pug came to study with the Master Magician Kulgan...
  
   saga novels
• Mistmantle island - M.I. McAllister - Mistmantle Chronicles novels
• Mithgar - Dennis L. McKiernan
  Dennis L. McKiernan
  Dennis Lester McKiernan, born , is an American writer best known for his high fantasy The Iron Tower. His genres include high fantasy , science fiction, horror fiction, and crime fiction.- Biography :...
  
   novels
• Muddle Earth
  Muddle Earth
  "Muddle Earth" is also the title of a 1993 novel by John Brunner.Muddle Earth is a children's book by Paul Stewart, published in 2003, and illustrated by Chris Riddell. It is largely a parody of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien...
  
   – Paul Stewart
  Paul Stewart (writer)
  Paul Stewart is a writer of children's books, best known for the bestselling The Edge Chronicles, the Free Lance novels and the Far Flung Adventures series which are written in collaboration with the illustrator Chris Riddell...
  
  
• The Multiverse – Michael Moorcock
  Michael Moorcock
  Michael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels....
  
   novels

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• Narnia
  Narnia (world)
  Narnia is a fantasy world created by C. S. Lewis as the primary location for his series of seven fantasy novels for children, The Chronicles of Narnia. The world is so called after the country of Narnia, in which much of the action of the Chronicles takes place.In Narnia, some animals can talk,...
  
   – C. S. Lewis
  C. S. Lewis
  Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
  
   novels
• Nehwon
  Nehwon
  Nehwon is the fictional world created by Fritz Leiber in which his heroes, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, adventure. It is notable for the city of Lankhmar."Nehwon", the reverse spelling of "No When", alludes to Erewhon.-Ilthmar:...
  
   – Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...
  
   stories
• Neverland
  Neverland
  Neverland is a fictional world featured in the works of J. M. Barrie and those based on them. It is the dwelling place of Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and others...
  
   – J. M. Barrie
  J. M. Barrie
  Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright...
  
  's Peter Pan
  Peter Pan
  Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie . A mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang the Lost Boys, interacting with...
  
   novel
• The New and Old Worlds – Terry Goodkind
  Terry Goodkind
  Terry Goodkind is an American writer and author of the epic fantasy The Sword of Truth series as well as the contemporary suspense novel The Law of Nines, which has ties to his fantasy series, and The Omen Machine, which is a direct sequel thereof. Before his success as an author Goodkind worked...
  
   novels
• Nirn- The Elder Scrolls
  The Elder Scrolls
  The Elder Scrolls is a role-playing video game series developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.-History:...
  
   video game series
• Nyumbani – Charles R. Saunders
  Charles R. Saunders
  Charles R. Saunders also credited as Charles Saunders is an African American author and journalist currently living in Canada. During his long career, he has written everything from novels both fiction and non-fiction, to screenplays and radio plays.- Background :Saunders was born in Elizabeth,...
  
   novels
• Nyusigrube – Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is an American author of fantasy and young adult literature. She was born in Silver Spring, Maryland and lived most of her life in Concord, Massachusetts. Her debut novel, In the Forests of the Night, was published in 1999, when she was just fourteen years old...
  
   novels

O

• Oerth
  Oerth
  In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Oerth, pronounced as "Orth" or "oyth", is the name of the fictional planet on which one of the earliest campaign settings, the World of Greyhawk, is located...
  
   - Gary Gygax
  Gary Gygax
  Ernest Gary Gygax was an American writer and game designer best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Dave Arneson. Gygax is generally acknowledged as the father of role-playing games....
  
   and others - Greyhawk
  Greyhawk
  Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game...
  
   novels
• Osten Ard – Tad Williams
  Tad Williams
  Robert Paul "Tad" Williams, born in San Jose, California, is the author of several fantasy and science fiction novels, including Tailchaser's Song, the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, the Otherland series, and The War of the Flowers....
  
   novels
• Oz
  Land of Oz
  Oz is a fantasy region containing four lands under the rule of one monarch.It was first introduced in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, one of many fantasy countries that he created for his books. It achieved a popularity that none of his other works attained, and after four years, he...
  
   – novels by L. Frank Baum
  L. Frank Baum
  Lyman Frank Baum was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...
  
   and others

P

• Pellucidar
  Pellucidar
  Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. In a notable crossover event between Burroughs' series, there is a Tarzan story in which the Ape Man travels into Pellucidar.The stories initially involve the...
  
   – Edgar Rice Burroughs
  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.-Biography:...
  
   novels
• Pegana – stories by Lord Dunsany
• Pern
  Pern
  Pern is a fictional planet created by Anne McCaffrey for the Dragonriders of Pern series of fantasy and science fiction books. It is said to be "Rukbat 3", the third planet in orbit around the star Rukbat, counting outward....
  
   – Anne McCaffrey
  Anne McCaffrey
  Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...
  
   novels
• Prydain
  Prydain
  Prydain is the modern Welsh name for Britain.-Medieval:Prydain is the medieval Welsh term for the island of Britain . More specifically, Prydain may refer to the Brittonic parts of the island; that is, the parts south of Caledonia...
  
   – Lloyd Alexander
  Lloyd Alexander
  Lloyd Chudley Alexander was a widely influential American author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy novels for children and adolescents, as well as several adult books...
  
   novels

R

• Randland – Robert Jordan
  Robert Jordan
  Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. , under which he was best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Reagan O'Neal and Jackson O'Reilly.-Biography:Jordan was born in Charleston, South Carolina...
  
   novels (The Wheel of Time
  The Wheel of Time
  The Wheel of Time is a series of epic fantasy novels written by American author James Oliver Rigney, Jr., under the pen name Robert Jordan. Originally planned as a six-book series, the length was increased by increments; at the time of Rigney's death, he expected it to be 12, but it will actually...
  
   series)
• The Realm - Wayne Thomas Batson
  Wayne Thomas Batson
  Wayne Thomas Batson is an American writer. He has been married to his wife for seventeen years and has four children...
  
  's The Door Within Trilogy
  The Door Within Trilogy
  The Door Within Trilogy is a set of three novels written by American author Wayne Thomas Batson describing the adventures of three adolescent protagonists through a fantasy world. The titles of the books are The Door Within, The Rise of the Wyrm Lord, and The Final Storm...
  
  
• The Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb
  Robin Hobb
  Robin Hobb is the second pen name of novelist Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden who produces primarily fantasy fiction, although she has published some science fiction....
  
   novels
• Riverworld
  Riverworld
  Riverworld is a fictional planet and the setting for a series of science fiction books written by Philip José Farmer . Riverworld is an artificial environment where all humans are reconstructed. The books explore interactions of individuals from many different cultures and time periods...
  
   – Philip Jose Farmer
  Philip José Farmer
  Philip José Farmer was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories....
  
   novels Riverworld
  Riverworld
  Riverworld is a fictional planet and the setting for a series of science fiction books written by Philip José Farmer . Riverworld is an artificial environment where all humans are reconstructed. The books explore interactions of individuals from many different cultures and time periods...
  
   series

T

• Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
  Katherine Paterson
  Katherine Paterson is an American author of children's novels. She wrote Bridge to Terabithia and has received several of the major international awards for children's literature.- Early life:...
  
  's Bridge to Terabithia
• Thieves World
  Thieves World
  Thieves' World is a shared world fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin in 1978. The original series comprised twelve anthologies, including stories by such science fiction authors as Poul Anderson, John Brunner, Andrew J. Offutt, C. J. Cherryh, Janet Morris, Chris Morris...
  
   – stories by Robert Lynn Asprin and others
• Tir - Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  Cecilia Dart-Thornton is an Australian author of fantasy novels, most notably the Bitterbynde Trilogy.-Biography:Cecilia Dart-Thornton was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, graduating from Monash University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology. She became a schoolteacher before...
  
  's Crowthistle Chronicles
• Toontown
  Toontown
  Toontown is a fictional anthropomorphic city where animated cartoon characters, known as Toons, reside.-Description:In the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the whole city of Toontown is cartoonish, except for anything foreign to the city, such as people and objects from outside of Toontown...
  
   - Home of all the cartoon characters in Roger Rabbit
• Tortall – Tamora Pierce
  Tamora Pierce
  Tamora Pierce is an author of fantasy literature for young adults. She is an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania. Best known for writing stories involving young heroines, she made a name for herself with her first quartet The Song of the Lioness, which followed the main character Alanna...
  
   novels

V

• Velgarth
  Velgarth
  Velgarth is the planetary setting created by Mercedes Lackey, the author of the Valdemar Saga novels. The continents are not named. The Valdemar Saga primarily focuses on the story of the nation of Valdemar, and according to Mercedes Lackey’s , there are twenty-seven novels and six anthologies.-...
  
   – Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes Lackey
  Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...
  
   novels
• Videssos
  Videssos
  Videssos is a series of fantasy novels series by Harry Turtledove.-The Videssos novels:*The Videssos cycle**The Misplaced Legion **An Emperor for the Legion **The Legion of Videssos...
  
   – Harry S. Turtledove The Misplaced legion novels

W

• Whandoodleland - Julie Andrews
  Julie Andrews
  Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honors...
  
  ' The last of the Really Great Whangdoodles novel
• Westeros
  Westeros
  The fictional world in which the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin take place is divided into several continents. Most of the story takes place on the continent Westeros, which consists of the Seven Kingdoms and an unmapped area to the north, separated by a massive wall of...
  
   – George R. R. Martin
  George R. R. Martin
  George Raymond Richard Martin , sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of...
  
   novels
• Wonderland
  Wonderland (fictional country)
  Wonderland is the setting for Lewis Carroll's 1865 children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.-Geography:In the story, Wonderland is located underground, and Alice reaches it by travelling down a rabbit hole, possibly on the banks of the Thames between Folly Bridge and Godstow...
  
   (Looking-Glass Land
  Looking-Glass Land
  Looking-Glass Land is the setting for Lewis Carroll's 1871 children's novel Through the Looking-Glass.-Geography:The entire country is divided into squares by a series of little brooks with hedges growing perpendicular to them.-Government:...
  
   is part of Wonderland)– Lewis Carroll
  Lewis Carroll
  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
  
  's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures...
  
   and Through the Looking–Glass
• The Wizarding World
  Wizarding world
  The fictional universe of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of fantasy novels comprises two separate and distinct societies: the wizarding world and the Muggle world...
  
   – in the Harry Potter series
• World of the Three Moons
  World of the Three Moons
  The World of the Three Moons is a fantasy realm that serves as a setting for the Trillium series of fantasy novels by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, and Andre Norton.- Description :...
  
   – stories by Bradley
  Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...
  
  , May
  Julian May
  Julian May is an American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer who also uses several literary pseudonyms, best known for her Saga of Pliocene Exile and Galactic Milieu Series books.- Background and early career :Julian May grew up in Elmwood Park, Illinois, a suburb of...
  
   and Norton
  Andre Norton
  Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston...
  
  

X

• Xanadu
  Xanadu
  -Description of Xanadu by Toghon Temur :The lament of Toghon Temur Khan , concerning the loss of Daidu and Heibun Shanduu in 1368, is recorded in many Mongolian historical chronicles...
  
   – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla...
  
  's poem Kubla Khan
  Kubla Khan
  Kubla Khan is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in Christabel, Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep in 1816...
  
  
• Xanth
  Xanth
  Xanth is a fantasy world created by author Piers Anthony for his Xanth series of novels, also known as The Magic of Xanth.-History:The name Xanth is in itself an unintentional pun, which matches the playful tone of the books...
  
   – Piers Anthony
  Piers Anthony
  Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best...
  
   novels
• Xiontel - World of chaos and insanity

Z

• Zimiamvia – from the Zimiamvian Trilogy
  Zimiamvian Trilogy
  The Zimiamvian Trilogy is the title given to a collection of three novels by the author E. R. Eddison.- Books in the trilogy :*Mistress of Mistresses*A Fish Dinner in Memison*The Mezentian Gate...
  
   novels by Eric Rücker Eddison
  Eric Rucker Eddison
  Eric Rücker Eddison was an English civil servant and author, writing under the name "E.R. Eddison."-Biography:...
  
  
• Zamonia - from The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear, The City of Dreaming Books
  The City of Dreaming Books
  The City of Dreaming Books is the fourth novel in the Zamonia series written and illustrated by German author Walter Moers, but the third to be translated into English by John Brownjohn...
  
   and The Alchemaster's Apprentice, all novels by Walter Moers
  Walter Moers
  Walter Moers is one of the best-known and commercially most successful German comic creators and authors.-Life and work:...
  
  

Comics and graphic novels

• Estarcion – Cerebus comics
• World of Two Moons – Elfquest
  Elfquest
  Elfquest is a cult hit comic book property created by Wendy and Richard Pini in 1978. It is a fantasy story about a community of elves and other fictional species who struggle to survive and coexist on a primitive Earth-like planet with two moons. Several published volumes of prose fiction also...
  
   comics
• Quin
  Quin (Sigilverse)
  Quinn is a fictional planet, situated in CrossGen comic's fictional universe, the Sigilverse. It features primarily in the American comicbook series Sojourn.-Geography:...
  
   – Sojourn comics

Film and television

• Andalasia - Enchanted film
• Atlantika
  Atlantika
  Atlantika is a Filipino telefantasya produced by GMA Network about the fictional undersea kingdom of Atlantika. The series premiered on October 3, 2006 and ended on February 9, 2007. A behind-the-scenes introductory special, Atlantika: Ang Lihim ng Karagatan , was aired on October 1, 2006. The...
  
  , from the Filipino television series of the same name
• Avila "Mulawin
  Mulawin
  Mulawin is a speculative fiction Television drama series about two races of winged humanoids. The Mulawin must fight the Ravena to protect the mortals from its wrath. It tells the story of Aguiluz portrayed by Richard Gutierrez and Alwina which was portrayed by Angel Locsin.It was originally aired...
  
  " - Filipino television series
• Cybertron
  Cybertron
  Cybertron is a fictional planet, the homeworld of the Transformers in the various fictional incarnations of the metaseries and toyline by Hasbro. In the Japanese series, the planet is referred to as "Cybertron" pronounced as セイバートロン Seibātoron...
  
   - Home planet of the Transformers
  Transformers
  A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling.Transformer may also refer to:* ASUS Eee Pad Transformer, an Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet computer manufacturer by Asus...
  
  
• Cuckoo Land - from the children's TV series Jamie and the Magic Torch
  Jamie and the Magic Torch
  Jamie and the Magic Torch was a British children's animated television series, made by Cosgrove Hall for Thames Television and shown on the ITV network, running from 1976 to 1979. It was shown again in the 1980s to a new audience of children...
  
  .
• Encantadia
  Encantadia
  Encantadia is a Filipino fantasy television series produced by GMA Network. The pilot episode was aired on May 2, 2005. Its last episode was aired on December 9 of the same year to give way to its second book, Etheria. This series aired its pilot episode on December 12, and its last episode on...
  
   - Philippines television series
• Eternia
  Eternia
  Eternia is the name of the fictional planet that serves as a setting for the Masters of the Universe toy collection and animated series.-Origins:...
  
   - The mythical world of the Masters of the Universe
  Masters of the Universe
  Masters of the Universe is a media franchise created by Mattel....
  
   animated series.
• Both Far Far Away and Deloc are examples of fantasy worlds, which are known from the Shrek franchise.
• Guk - The home planet of the Alien Robots in Terrahawks
  Terrahawks
  Gerry Anderson & Christopher Burr's Terrahawks, simply referred to as Terrahawks, was a British science fiction television series produced by Anderson Burr Pictures and created by the production team of Gerry Anderson and Christopher Burr. The show was Anderson's first in over a decade to utilize...
  
  
• New Texas - Home of BraveStarr
  Bravestarr
  BraveStarr is an American space Western animated television series. The original episodes aired from September 1987 to February 1988 in syndication. It was created simultaneously with a collection of action figures. BraveStarr was the last animated series produced by Filmation and Group W...
  
  .
• Pandora
  Pandora
  In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman. As Hesiod related it, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts...
  
   - Avatar
• Pylea
  Pylea
  In the fictional universe established by the television series Angel, Pylea is a world in an alternate dimension where demons are the dominant life form and humans are treated as animals to be used as beasts of burden or even food...
  
   - Angel
  Angel (TV series)
  Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999...
  
   television series
• Prysmos - Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light
  Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light
  Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light was originally a range of action figures from Hasbro, released in 1987. This action figure range was promoted by two different media, telling the stories of the characters...
  
   television series
• Third Earth
  ThunderCats
  ThunderCats is an American animated television series that was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions debuting in 1984, based on the characters created by Tobin "Ted" Wolf. The series follows the adventures of a group of cat-like humanoid aliens...
  
   - Adopted home of the Thundercats
  ThunderCats
  ThunderCats is an American animated television series that was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions debuting in 1984, based on the characters created by Tobin "Ted" Wolf. The series follows the adventures of a group of cat-like humanoid aliens...
  
   from the children's TV series
• Thra - The Dark Crystal
  The Dark Crystal
  The Dark Crystal is a 1982 British-American fantasy film directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz. Although marketed as a family film, it was notably darker than previous material created by them. The animatronics used in the film were considered groundbreaking. The primary concept artist was the...
  
   film
• The Uncharted Territories - Farscape
  Farscape
  Farscape is an Australian-American science fiction television series filmed in Australia and produced originally for the Nine Network. The series was conceived by Rockne S. O'Bannon and produced by Jim Henson Productions and Hallmark Entertainment...
  
   television series
• Wheelie World - From the children's TV series Chorlton and the Wheelies
  Chorlton and the Wheelies
  Chorlton and the Wheelies was an animated children's television series that ran from September 1976 until June 1979 on British Television Channel...
  
  

A

• Abeir-Toril
  Abeir-Toril
  Abeir-Toril is the name of the fictional planet that makes up the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, as well as the Al-Qadim and Maztica campaign settings and the 1st edition version of the Oriental Adventures campaign setting.The name is archaic, meaning "cradle of life." It...
  
   – Forgotten Realms
  Forgotten Realms
  The Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories...
  
   novels and Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
  
   RPG (includes Faerûn
  Faerûn
  Faerûn is a fictional subcontinent, the primary setting of the Dungeons & Dragons world of Forgotten Realms. It is described at a relatively high level in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting from Wizards of the Coast, and various locales and aspects are described in more detail by separate...
  
  , Kara-Tur
  Kara-Tur
  Kara-Tur is a fantasy world created by David Cook in the Oriental Adventures rulebook for the First Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game in 1986. Kara-Tur's cultures and peoples are fantasy analogues of medieval China, Korea, Japan, the Ryukyu Islands, Tibet, and other regions of...
  
  , Maztica and Zakhara)
• Angeous - Lost Heritage novels and Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
  
   RPG
• Aldrazar - Hackmaster
  HackMaster
  HackMaster is a role-playing game produced by Kenzer & Company, being a revised expansion of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. It started out as a fictional game, a parody of the most ludicrous aspects of D&D played by the characters of the Knights of the Dinner Table comic strip by Jolly R. Blackburn...
  
   RPG
• Aldea - Blue Rose
  Blue Rose
  Blue Rose were an all-star all-women band that played bluegrass music. All of the musicians in the group are solo artists in their own right who joined together to record an album as a group in 1988 for Sugar Hill Records.-Personnel:...
  
   RPG; d20 system
  D20 System
  The d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons...
  
  
• Archaeus - Talislanta
  Talislanta
  Talislanta is a fantasy role-playing game written by Stephen Michael Sechi, with significant stylistic input by artist P.D. Breeding-Black. Initially released in 1987 by Bard Games, the game quickly gained a reputation as an alternative to Dungeons & Dragons that was both much simpler mechanically...
  
   RPG and d20 system
  D20 System
  The d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons...
  
  
• Aebrynis - Birthright
  Birthright (campaign setting)
  Birthright is a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting that was first released by TSR in 1995. The setting based on the world of Aebrynis on the continent of Cerilia, in which the players take on the role of the divinely-empowered rulers, with emphasis on the political rulership level of gameplay...
  
   novels and Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
  
   RPG
• Athas – Dark Sun
  Dark Sun
  Dark Sun is a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting featuring the fictional desert world of Athas. The original Dark Sun Boxed Set campaign setting was released in 1991....
  
  ; Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
  
   RPG

D

• Demiplane of Dread - Ravenloft
  Ravenloft
  Ravenloft is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. It is an alternate time-space existence known as a pocket dimension called the Demiplane of Dread, which consists of a collection of land pieces called domains brought together by a mysterious force known only as "The Dark...
  
  ; Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
  
   RPG - dimension of gothic horror
• Dominaria – Magic: The Gathering
  Magic: The Gathering
  Magic: The Gathering , also known as Magic, is the first collectible trading card game created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic continues to thrive, with approximately twelve million players as of 2011...
  
   card game
• d20 System
  D20 System
  The d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons...
  
   - various whole and partially described worlds including:
  • Aereth (Gazetteer of the Known Realms)
  • Arcanis
  • Freeport (a seaport with pirates)
  • Khemti (Hamunaptra; an Egypt
    Egypt
    Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
    
    ian setting)
  • Naranjan (Mindshadows; an India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
    
    n setting with psionics
    Psionics
    Psionics refers to the practice, study, or psychic ability of using the mind to induce paranormal phenomena. Examples of this include telepathy, telekinesis, and other workings of the outside world through the psyche.-History and terminology:...
    
    )
  • Nyambe-Tanda (Nyambe; an Africa
    Africa
    Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
    
    n setting)
  • Scythae (Maidenheim)
  • Xcrawl Earth (Xcrawl)
  • Land of Shadow (Midnight)

K

• Kamigawa - Magic: The Gathering
  Magic: The Gathering
  Magic: The Gathering , also known as Magic, is the first collectible trading card game created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic continues to thrive, with approximately twelve million players as of 2011...
  
   card game
• Kelestia - Harn
  Hârn
  Hârn is a world published by and designed for use in fantasy role-playing games . It was designed by N. Robin Crossby, and it was published by Columbia Games in 1983. In 2003, Crossby claimed that the contract between him and CGI had ended...
  
   RPG
• Krynn
  Krynn
  Krynn is the fictional world of the Dragonlance novels, co-written by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis. It has also been used in many other books, set in the Dragonlance universe. It is also used as the main setting in the Dragonlance campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing...
  
   – Dragonlance
  Dragonlance
  Dragonlance is a shared universe created by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and expanded by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis under the direction of TSR, Inc. into a series of popular fantasy novels. The Hickmans conceived Dragonlance while driving in their car on the way to TSR for a job application...
  
   games and novels, Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
  
   RPG
• Kulthea (Shadow World
  Shadow World
  Shadow World is a high-fantasy campaign setting situated on the fictional planet of Kulthea. Originally produced for the Rolemaster role-playing game system, the setting is owned by Iron Crown Enterprises . It is currently maintained by the primary author of the setting, Terry K...
  
  ) - Rolemaster
  Rolemaster
  Rolemaster is a role-playing game published by Iron Crown Enterprises. Rolemaster has come in four separate editions. The 3rd edition, first published in 1995, is also known as the "Rolemaster Standard System" . There are two editions currently in production...
  
   RPG

L

• Lands of the Diamond Throne - Arcana Evolved; d20 system
  D20 System
  The d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons...
  
  
• Layonara – Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
  
   RPG
• Lejendary Earth - Lejendary Adventure
  Lejendary Adventure
  Lejendary Adventure is a role-playing game created by Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, and creator of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons...
  
   RPG
• Legend - Dragon Warriors
  Dragon Warriors
  Dragon Warriors is a fantasy role playing game system written by Dave Morris and Oliver Johnson and published by Corgi Books between the years 1985 and 1986. In 2009 it was re-collected in a new hardcover edition by Mongoose Publishing...
  
   RPG
• Lore - Dragon Fable RPG

M

• Mad Lands - GURPS Fantasy II; GURPS
  GURPS
  The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting...
  
   RPG
• Magnamund – Lone Wolf
  Lone Wolf (gamebooks)
  Lone Wolf is a series of 28 gamebooks, created by Joe Dever and initially illustrated by Gary Chalk. The series began publishing in July 1984 and sold more than 10.2 million copies worldwide....
  
   gamebooks and d20 system
  D20 System
  The d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons...
  
  
• Mirrodin
  Mirrodin
  Mirrodin was the 50th Magic: The Gathering set, the 30th expert level set, and the first set in the Mirrodin Block, released in October 2003. It is a 306-card expansion set. It is also the name of the block containing the Mirrodin, Darksteel and Fifth Dawn expansion sets...
  
   - Magic: The Gathering
  Magic: The Gathering
  Magic: The Gathering , also known as Magic, is the first collectible trading card game created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic continues to thrive, with approximately twelve million players as of 2011...
  
   card game
• Mystara
  Mystara
  Mystara is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role playing game. Although it has officially been dropped from production by its creators, many fans continue to develop and evolve this fantasy setting jointly, continuing its original theme of group development.-Development:It...
  
   – Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
  
   RPG

N

• New Europa - Castle Falkenstein
  Castle Falkenstein (role-playing game)
  Castle Falkenstein is a steampunk-themed fantasy role-playing game designed by Mike Pondsmith and originally published by R. Talsorian Games. A GURPS version and several supplements were later published by Steve Jackson Games. The game is named for a legendary unbuilt castle in the Bavarian Alps...
  
   and GURPS
  GURPS
  The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting...
  
   RPGs

O

• Oerth
  Oerth
  In the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Oerth, pronounced as "Orth" or "oyth", is the name of the fictional planet on which one of the earliest campaign settings, the World of Greyhawk, is located...
  
   – Greyhawk
  Greyhawk
  Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game...
  
  ; Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
  
   RPG
• Old World and other places in the world of Warhammer
  Warhammer Fantasy (setting)
  Warhammer Fantasy is a fantasy setting, created by Games Workshop, which is used by many of the company's games. Some of the best-known games set in this world are: the table top wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle, the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay pen-and-paper role-playing game, and the MMORPG...
  
   – Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
  Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
  Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is a role-playing game set in the Warhammer Fantasy setting. Over the years, it has been through a number of phases and different publishers, most of which were related in some way to Games Workshop...
  
   and other tabletop miniature games by Games Workshop
  Games Workshop
  Games Workshop Group plc is a British game production and retailing company. Games Workshop has published the tabletop wargames Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000...
  
  

T

• Tellene - Kingdoms of Kalamar
  Kingdoms of Kalamar
  The Kingdoms of Kalamar is a fantasy role-playing game campaign setting created by Kenzer and Company and released in 1994. Shortly after Wizards of the Coast announced the 3rd Edition of Dungeons & Dragons, they announced jointly with Kenzer & Company that Kenzer had acquired a license to produce...
  
  ; Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons
  Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
  
   RPG
• Terra de Santa Cruz - Desafio dos Bandeirantes
  Desafio dos Bandeirantes
  O Desafio dos Bandeirantes is a fantasy/history role playing game written and released in Brazil in 1992....
  
   a Brazilian RPG published by GSA Ltda, a Brazilian folklore
  Folklore
  Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...
  
   setting.
• Tékumel
  Tékumel
  Tékumel is a fantasy world created by Professor M. A. R. Barker over the course of several decades from around 1940. With time Barker also created the role-playing game Empire of the Petal Throne, set in the Tékumel fictional universe and first published in 1975 by TSR, Inc...
  
   – Empire of the Petal Throne RPG
• Titan
  Titan (world)
  Titan is the fantasy world which serves as the setting for the majority of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy and Sorcery! gamebooks and novels. The title contains "backstory on...the villains and NPC's" found throughout the Fighting Fantasy series.-Summary:The fictional world of...
  
   – Fighting Fantasy
  Fighting Fantasy
  Fighting Fantasy is a series of single-player fantasy roleplay gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. The first volumes in the series were published by Puffin in 1982, with the rights to the franchise eventually being purchased by Wizard Books in 2002...
  
   gamebooks and RPG

W

• Wilderlands - Dungeons and Dragons, d20 system
  D20 System
  The d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons...
  
   and Castles and Crusades

A

• Albion - Fable
  Fable (video game)
  Fable is an action role-playing video game in the Fable series. It was developed for Xbox, Mac OS X, and Windows platforms, by Big Blue Box, a satellite developer of Lionhead Studios, and was published by Microsoft. The game shipped for Xbox on October 14, 2003...
  
   video game series
• Argus - Warcraft
  Warcraft
  Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy game , developed by Blizzard Entertainment and published by Blizzard and Interplay Entertainment. The MS-DOS version was released in November 1994 and the Macintosh version in late 1996. Sales were fairly high, reviewers were mostly impressed, and the...
  
   series of computer games
• Ashan
  Heroes of Might and Magic V
  Heroes of Might and Magic V is the fifth installment of the Heroes of Might and Magic turn-based strategy video game series. It was developed by Nival Interactive, under the guidance of franchise-owner Ubisoft...
  
   – Might and Magic
  Might and Magic
  Might and Magic is a series of role-playing video games from New World Computing, which in 1996 became a subsidiary of The 3DO Company...
  
   (Ubisoft
  Ubisoft
  Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....
  
   continuity)
• Aurbis (Nirn, Aetherius, and Oblivion) – the realm in which The Elder Scrolls
  The Elder Scrolls
  The Elder Scrolls is a role-playing video game series developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.-History:...
  
   game series takes place
• Azeroth – Warcraft
  Warcraft
  Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy game , developed by Blizzard Entertainment and published by Blizzard and Interplay Entertainment. The MS-DOS version was released in November 1994 and the Macintosh version in late 1996. Sales were fairly high, reviewers were mostly impressed, and the...
  
   series of computer games

C

• Caelestia - AdventureQuest
  AdventureQuest
  AdventureQuest is an online flash based single-player RPG developed by Artix Entertainment in 2002. As of June 14, 2010, aq.battleon.com, the game's hosting website, and www.battleon.com, the game's homepage, have an Alexa rating of 3,041...
  
  
• Corneria, the main planet of the Lylat System in Nintendo's
  Nintendo
  is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....
  
   Star Fox series of video games.
• Cronos - Heretic / Hexen
  Hexen
  Hexen is a first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software, published by id Software, and distributed by GT Interactive beginning on September 30, 1995. It is the sequel to 1994's Heretic, and the second game in the Serpent Riders series...
  
   series of relative DOOM engine
  Doom engine
  The Doom engine is the game engine that powers the id Software games Doom and Doom II. It is also used by HeXen, Heretic, Strife, Freedoom, and HacX, and other games produced by licensees. It was created by John Carmack, with auxiliary functions written by Mike Abrash, John Romero, Dave Taylor and...
  
   computer games by ID Software
  Id Software
  Id Software is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...
  
  

D

• Drakan – computer game series
• Draenor - Warcraft
  Warcraft
  Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy game , developed by Blizzard Entertainment and published by Blizzard and Interplay Entertainment. The MS-DOS version was released in November 1994 and the Macintosh version in late 1996. Sales were fairly high, reviewers were mostly impressed, and the...
  
   series of computer games

G

• Gielinor – RuneScape
  RuneScape
  RuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game released in January 2001 by Andrew and Paul Gower, and developed and published by Jagex Games Studio. It is a graphical browser game implemented on the client-side in Java, and incorporates 3D rendering...
  
   MMORPG.
• Glorianna – Quest for Glory
  Quest for Glory
  Quest for Glory is a series of hybrid role-playing/adventure computer games designed by Corey and Lori Ann Cole. The series combined humor, puzzle elements, themes and characters borrowed from various legends, puns, and memorable characters, creating a 5-part series of the Sierra stable.Although...
  
   computer game
• Great Sea - The Legend of Zelda
  The Legend of Zelda series
  , occasionally called Legend of Zelda or simply Zelda, is a high fantasy action-adventure video game series created by Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. It is developed and published by Nintendo, with some portable installments outsourced to Flagship/Capcom, Vanpool, and...
  
   video game series

I

• Ivalice
  Ivalice
  is a fictional location in the Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Vagrant Story universe. The world was conceived by Yasumi Matsuno when he joined Square Co. in 1995, and has since been expanded upon by several games, with more yet due with the Ivalice Alliance series...
  
   - Final Fantasy Tactics
  Final Fantasy Tactics
  is a tactical role-playing game developed and published by Square for the Sony PlayStation video game console. It is the first game of the Final Fantasy Tactics series and was released in Japan in June 1997 and in the United States in January 1998...
  
  , Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
  Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
  is a tactical role-playing game developed and published by Square for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. A spin-off of the popular Final Fantasy series, the game shares several traits with 1997's Final Fantasy Tactics, although it is not a direct sequel. The player assembles a clan of characters, and...
  
  , Final Fantasy XII
  Final Fantasy XII
  is a console role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2. Released in 2006, it is the twelfth title in the Final Fantasy series and the last in the series to be released exclusively on the PlayStation platform...
  
  

M

• Mushroom Kingdom - Super Mario video game series
• Myrthana - Gothic video game series

N

• Nexus - WildStar (video game)
  WildStar (video game)
  An upcoming MMORPG developed by NCsoft's Southern California-based Carbine Studios, WildStar offers epic high adventure, where players make their mark as Explorers, Soldiers, Scientists or Settlers and lay claim to Nexus, a mysterious planet on the edge of known space...
  
  
• Nirn - the planet that is the setting for The Elder Scrolls
  The Elder Scrolls
  The Elder Scrolls is a role-playing video game series developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.-History:...
  
   video game series
• Norrath – Computer games Everquest
  EverQuest
  EverQuest, often shortened to EQ, is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game that was released on the 16th of March, 1999. The original design is credited to Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover, and Bill Trost...
  
   and Everquest 2
• Nosgoth – Legacy of Kain
  Legacy of Kain
  Legacy of Kain is a series of action-adventure video games developed initially by Silicon Knights in association with Crystal Dynamics. After a legal battle, Crystal Dynamics continued the series without Silicon Knights and Eidos Interactive became the publisher...
  
   video game

O

• Oddworld
  Oddworld
  Oddworld is a comprehensive fictional universe presented in video game form, created by game developers Oddworld Inhabitants under the direction of Lorne Lanning. Throughout games set in the Oddworld universe, Oddworld's peaceful nature is in danger of being consumed by the industrial ambition of...
  
   – video game series
• Oblivion - the name of the four realms: Solum, Aquis, Aetha and Volca, in Primal
  Primal (video game)
  Primal is an action-adventure video game released in 2003 for the PlayStation 2. It was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe aka SCE Studio Cambridge. It tells the story of Jennifer Tate, a 21-year-old woman searching for her boyfriend through a series of demonic realms...
  
  

P

• Parthorus - Heretic / Hexen
  Hexen
  Hexen is a first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software, published by id Software, and distributed by GT Interactive beginning on September 30, 1995. It is the sequel to 1994's Heretic, and the second game in the Serpent Riders series...
  
   series of relative DOOM engine
  Doom engine
  The Doom engine is the game engine that powers the id Software games Doom and Doom II. It is also used by HeXen, Heretic, Strife, Freedoom, and HacX, and other games produced by licensees. It was created by John Carmack, with auxiliary functions written by Mike Abrash, John Romero, Dave Taylor and...
  
   computer games by ID Software
  Id Software
  Id Software is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...
  
  

S

• Sacred Realm, also known as The Golden Land, or Dark World - The Legend of Zelda
  The Legend of Zelda series
  , occasionally called Legend of Zelda or simply Zelda, is a high fantasy action-adventure video game series created by Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. It is developed and published by Nintendo, with some portable installments outsourced to Flagship/Capcom, Vanpool, and...
  
   video game series
• Sylvarant & Tethe'alla – Tales of Symphonia
  Tales of Symphonia
  is a video game first released for the Nintendo GameCube and later for the PlayStation 2 in Japan. It debuted in Japan on August 29, 2003, selling 953,000 copies, in Canada and the United States on July 13, 2004, and in Europe on November 19, 2004. The game received a Japanese-only PlayStation 2...
  
  

T

• Tamriel - The Elder Scrolls
  The Elder Scrolls
  The Elder Scrolls is a role-playing video game series developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.-History:...
  
  
• Termina - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
  The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
  is an action-adventure video game developed by Nintendo's Entertainment Analysis and Development division for the Nintendo 64. It was released in Japan on April 27, 2000, North America on October 26, 2000, and Europe on November 17, 2000. The game sold approximately 314,000 copies during its first...
  
   video game
• Thyrion - Heretic / Hexen
  Hexen
  Hexen is a first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software, published by id Software, and distributed by GT Interactive beginning on September 30, 1995. It is the sequel to 1994's Heretic, and the second game in the Serpent Riders series...
  
   series of relative DOOM engine
  Doom engine
  The Doom engine is the game engine that powers the id Software games Doom and Doom II. It is also used by HeXen, Heretic, Strife, Freedoom, and HacX, and other games produced by licensees. It was created by John Carmack, with auxiliary functions written by Mike Abrash, John Romero, Dave Taylor and...
  
   computer games by ID Software
  Id Software
  Id Software is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...
  
  
• Twilight Realm - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
  The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
  is an action-adventure game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development, and published by Nintendo for the GameCube and Wii video game consoles. It is the thirteenth installment in The Legend of Zelda series...
  
   video game
• Tyria - Guild Wars
  Guild Wars
  Guild Wars is an episodic series of online 3D fantasy role-playing games developed by ArenaNet and published by NCsoft. Although often defined as an MMORPG the developers define it as a CORPG due to significant differences from the MMORPG genre. It provides two main modes of gameplay—a cooperative...
  
   and Guild Wars 2
  Guild Wars 2
  Guild Wars 2 is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game in development by ArenaNet. Set in the fantasy world of Tyria, the game follows the re-emergence of Destiny's Edge, a disbanded guild dedicated to fighting the Elder Dragons, a Lovecraftian species that has seized control of Tyria in...
  
   computer games (both the name of planet and one of its continents)

V

• Vana'diel - Final Fantasy XI
  Final Fantasy XI
  , also known as Final Fantasy XI Online, is a MMORPG developed and published by Square as part of the Final Fantasy series. It was released in Japan on Sony's PlayStation 2 on May 16, 2002, and was released for Microsoft's Windows-based personal computers in November 2002...
  
   MMORPG
• Videlectrix game world - Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People
  Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People
  Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is an episodic point-and-click adventure game developed by Telltale Games based on the Homestar Runner web cartoon, with Strong Bad as the lead character. A total of five episodes were released for WiiWare and Windows between August 11, 2008 and...
  
  

W

• Warhammer
  Warhammer Fantasy (setting)
  Warhammer Fantasy is a fantasy setting, created by Games Workshop, which is used by many of the company's games. Some of the best-known games set in this world are: the table top wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle, the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay pen-and-paper role-playing game, and the MMORPG...
  
   world - Warhammer
  Warhammer computer games
  - Warhammer Fantasy :The following games are set in the Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Blood Bowl and HeroQuest settings.-Warhammer 40,000:The following games are set in the Warhammer 40,000, Epic, Space Hulk and Space Crusade settings....
  
   - Tabletop miniature game (with a few video-games based upon it)
• Weyard - Golden Sun
  Golden Sun
  Golden Sun, released in Japan as , is the first installment in a series of fantasy role-playing video games developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo. It was released in November 2001 for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance and was followed by a sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, in...
  
   - Nintendo video-game series
• The World - The planet in Jak & Daxter, consisting of the fantasy centered Old World, multicultural yet dystopian Haven City
  Jak II
  Jak II, , is a platform game developed by Naughty Dog...
  
  , and the post-apocalyptic Wasteland
  Jak 3
  Jak 3 is a platform game for Sony's PlayStation 2 console developed by Naughty Dog. It is the third game in the main Jak and Daxter series. Jak 3 was completely localized and dubbed in Japanese, but was not released in Japan due to Jak IIs poor sales...
  
  .

Music

• Avantasia
  Avantasia
  Avantasia is a heavy metal project created by Tobias Sammet, vocalist and frontman of the band Edguy. The project's title is a portmanteau of the words "avalon" and "fantasia" and describes "a world beyond human imagination"...
  
  , from the Edguy
  Edguy
  -Demos, AFM years :Edguy was founded in 1992 by 14-year-old students Tobias Sammet, Jens Ludwig, Dominik Storch and Dirk Sauer. The name "Edguy" was an affectionate epithet for Mr. Edgar Siedschlag, their math teacher at the time. In 1994, the band released two demos, Evil Minded and Children of...
  
   symphonic metal
  Symphonic metal
  Symphonic metal is a term used to describe heavy metal music that has symphonic elements; that is, elements that are either borrowed from classical music or, as with progressive rock music, create a style reminiscent of it, e.g...
  
   project
• Blashyrkh from the lyrics of the Black Metal
  Black metal
  Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
  
   band Immortal
  Immortal (band)
  Immortal is a black metal band from Bergen, Norway, founded in 1990 by current frontman/guitarist Abbath Doom Occulta and former guitarist Demonaz Doom Occulta...
  
  
• Enchanted Lands, from Rhapsody of Fire
  Rhapsody of Fire
  Rhapsody of Fire is an Italian symphonic power metal band led by Alex Staropoli. Since forming in 1993, the band has released eight studio albums, one live album, two EPs, and a live DVD...
  
  

See also

• List of fictional universes
• Planets in science fiction
  Planets in science fiction
  Planets in science fiction are fictional planets that appear in various media, especially those of the science fiction genre, as story-settings or depicted locations.-History:...
  
  
• Simulated reality
  Simulated reality
  Simulated reality is the proposition that reality could be simulated—perhaps by computer simulation—to a degree indistinguishable from "true" reality. It could contain conscious minds which may or may not be fully aware that they are living inside a simulation....
  
  
• Imaginary world