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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 ...
Worldbuilding is the process of constructing an imaginary world or setting, sometimes associated with a fictional universe. [1] Developing the world with coherent qualities such as a history, geography, culture and ecology is a key task for many science fiction or fantasy writers. [2]
The world in which Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 take place. Final Fantasy X: 2001: V Temerant: Patrick Rothfuss: The setting for The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear. The Name of the Wind: 2007: N Tékumel: M. A. R. Barker: A technological world is suddenly cast into a "pocket dimension".
The portion of the world where most of the events take place is called the Four Corners of Civilization in the books, and the whole world has been officially named "Temerant" by Patrick Rothfuss in his blog. [3] World of Tiers: The Maker of Universes: 1965 Philip Jose Farmer: Series of pocket universes created by an advanced, decadent humanoid ...
The fantasy writings of J. R. R. Tolkien have had a huge popular impact. His Middle-earth books have sold hundreds of millions of copies. [1] [2] The Lord of the Rings transformed the genre of fantasy writing. [3] It and The Hobbit have spawned Peter Jackson's Middle-earth films, which have had billion-dollar takings at the box office.
Morris's work represented an important milestone in the history of fantasy, as while other writers wrote of foreign lands or of dream worlds, Morris was the first to set his stories in an entirely invented world. [46] Authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde also contributed to the development of fantasy with their writing of horror ...
High fantasy, or epic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy [1] defined by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot. [2] High fantasy is usually set in an alternative, fictional ("secondary") world , rather than the "real" or "primary" world. [ 2 ]
The Opening of the World Series is a trilogy of novels by Harry Turtledove set in a fantasy world. In the trilogy, the Raumsdalian Empire is the dominant political entity, which shares ties to a loose collection of barbarian tribes with a common ethnicity , known as the Bizogots.