Fictional Setting

Mos Eisley is a spaceport town on the planet Tatooine in the fictional Star Wars universe. In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi described Mos Eisley as a "wretched hive of scum and villainy." It is also the home of the Mos Eisley Cantina and Figrin D'an...

Unseen University (UU) is a school of wizard in Terry Pratchett's fictional Discworld city of Ankh-Morpork, staffed by a faculty composed of mostly indolent and inept old wizards.The official motto of UU is "Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides", loosely translated as "Now you...

Sunnydale, California, is the fictional setting for the U.S. television drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Series creator Joss Whedon conceived the town as a representation of a generic California city, as well as a narrative parody of the all-too-serene towns typical in...

In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Arda is the name given to the Earth in a period of fictional prehistory, wherein the places mentioned in The Lord of the Rings and related material once existed. It included several seas and oceans, and the continents of Middle-earth,...

In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Eä is the Quenya language name for the universe, as a realization of the vision of the Ainur. The word comes from the Quenya word for to be. Thus, Eä is the World that Is, as distinguished from the World that Is Not. It may thus be...

In the fantasy world of Earthsea created by Ursula K. Le Guin, Éa is an island in the Sea of Éa, between Enlad and Havnor. According to the Earthsea creation myth, The Creation of Éa, the island of Éa was the first land raised by the creator, Segoy, above the waters. ...

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, Bag End was a smial (or hobbit-hole) in Hobbiton, above Bagshot Row. Bag End is described in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The name "Bag End" comes from the farmhouse in the tiny Worcestershire village of...

The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in The Lord of the Rings and other works. The Shire refers to an area settled exclusively by Hobbit and largely removed from the goings-on in the rest of Middle-earth. It is located in the...

Rivendell (Sindarin: Imladris) is an Elven outpost in Middle-earth, a fictional realm created by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was established and ruled by Elrond in the Second Age of Middle-earth (four or five thousand years before the events of The Lord of the Rings). In...

{|align=right|-| Bree is a fictional town in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, east of the Shire and south of Fornost Erain. It is sometimes said to have been inspired by the Buckinghamshire village of Brill, which Tolkien visited regularly in his early years at...

In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Moria was an ominous name given by the Eldar to what had once been an enormous underground complex in north-western Middle-earth, comprising a vast network of tunnels, chambers, mines and huge halls or 'mansions', that ran under and...

Rohan, is a fictional realm in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy era of Middle-earth. It is also referred to as Riddermark or The Mark. (The Mark is believed to have been the Mercian name for the Anglian Kingdom of Mercia.) The realm is of significant importance in the author...

Gondor is a fictional kingdom in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. It was a Dúnedain kingdom founded by Isildur and Anárion, the sons of Elendil, after the Downfall of Númenor. Its sister kingdom was Arnor in the north, which was founded by Elendil himself. Gondor was...

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction universe of Middle-earth, Mordor (from Sindarin Black Land and Quenya Land of Shadow) is the dwelling place of Sauron, in the southeast of Middle-earth to the East of Anduin, the great river. Orodruin, the sole mountain in Mordor, was the...

Númenor is a fictional place in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings, which the author intended to be an allusion to the legendary Atlantis. An unfinished story Aldarion and Erendis is set in the realm of Númenor at the time of its noontide, and Akallabêth summarizes its...

221B Baker Street is the fictional London residence of the detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Arthur Conan Doyle. The address could indicate an upstairs apartment of a residential house on what was originally a Georgian terrace. The B of the address might,...

Hed is a fictional land that was created by Patricia A. McKillip in the Riddle-Master series of books. It is known for its beer and its Prince who bested Peven of An.

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. Of the follow-up books, only Magic Steps of the quartet The Circle Opens and...

This article is about the fictional Lovecraft city. For other uses, see the "other appearances" section of this article. Arkham is a fictional city in Massachusetts, part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H. P. Lovecraft and is featured in many of his...

Kashyyyk ( or ), also known as Wookiee Planet C, is a fictional planet in the Star Wars universe. It is the lush, tree-filled home planet of the Wookiee, who live in villages constructed in the trees similar to that of the Ewok. In the Star Wars Christmas Special the...

The forest moon of Endor, also known as the sanctuary moon or simply as Endor is a fictional moon in the Star Wars fictional universe. It appears in Return of the Jedi as the home to the Ewok, and is the body that the second Death Star is constructed in orbit around....

The Hogwarts Express is a fiction magical train in the Harry Potter series, which carries students between London and Hogwarts. The train starts from King's Cross railway station platform 9¾, which is invisible to Muggle eyes and is reached by walking through the...

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a setting in J. K. Rowling's best-selling Harry Potter series. It is a school of magic for witches and wizards between the ages of eleven and eighteen living in the United Kingdom. Six of the seven books in the Harry Potter...

In the Harry Potter series, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is divided into four houses, each bearing the last name of its founder: Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff. The houses compete throughout the school year, by...

The United Federation of Planets, (also known as the UFP or "The Federation") is a fictional interplanetary state depicted in the Star Trek television series and motion pictures. In those episodes and films, the Federation is described as an interstellar federal state...

In the fictional Star Fleet Universe, the Kzinti Hegemony is a powerful stellar empire violently opposed to the Lyran Star Empire and allied with the Hydran Kingdom and eventually with the United Federation of Planets and the Gorn Confederation in the General War. In...

In the fictional Star Trek universe the Klingon High Council (in Klingon tlhIngan yejquv) is the supreme ruling body of the Klingon Empire. The council meets at the Great Hall of the First City of the Klingon Empire on the planet Qo'noS (also known as Kronos in...

In the fiction Star Trek universe, Qo'noS is the Klingon homeworld, also known as Kronos. The Klingon High Council, governing body of the Klingon Empire, is situated in the First City on Qo'noS. Early Star Trek literature referred to Qo'noS as "Klinzhai", but the...