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World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting: 1980: G N Halkeginia: Noboru Yamaguchi: A world whose social structure is similar to that of medieval Europe. The Familiar of Zero: 2004: N A Fictional universe of Harry Potter: J. K. Rowling: The Wizarding World co-exists with and is mainly hidden from the mundane world of the non-magical Muggles.
World Tree RPG: High fantasy: the World Tree Padwolf Publishing 2001 Focuses on the culture and social structure of anthropomorph animals and monsters in a surreal setting where the world is a large living tree Yrth: Sword and Sorcery: The Planet YRTH GURPS Fantasy, GURPS Banestorm: Steve Jackson Games 1986-2005 Alternate Earth with multiple ...
A fantasy world or fictional world is a world created for fictional media, such as literature, film or games. Typical fantasy worlds feature magical abilities. Some worlds may be a parallel world connected to Earth via magical portals or items (like Narnia); an imaginary society hidden within our earth (like the Wizarding World); a fictional Earth set in the remote past (like Middle-earth) or ...
From the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson. Al Amarja: Island nation located in Mediterranean, from the role playing game Over the Edge. Albion: A sovereign state in Western Europe from the Japanese light novel series, Trinity Blood. Aldovia: A European kingdom in A Christmas Prince by Netflix.
In many respects, Morris was an important milestone in the history of fantasy, because, while other writers wrote of foreign lands, or of dream worlds, Morris's works were the first to be set in an entirely invented world: a fantasy world. [36] These fantasy worlds were part of a general trend.
Fantasy with an alternate history undercurrent. History unfolded much as it did in our world, except that magic took the place of science. For example, Adolf Hitler waged a brutal war in the 20th century with magic weapons, Werner Heisenberg defined the uncertainty principle of thaumaturgy, and flying carpets take the place of automobiles ...
Mystara originated as a fantasy world developed by Lawrence Schick and Tom Moldvay for their own Dungeons & Dragons game sessions from 1974 to 1976. Their original setting consisted of a large continent with fictionalized nations that were based on real-world historical cultures.
Fantasy cartography, fictional map-making, or geofiction is a type of map design that visually presents an imaginary world or concept, or represents a real-world geography in a fantastic style. [1] Fantasy cartography usually manifests from worldbuilding and often corresponds to narratives within the fantasy and science fiction genres.