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"Fictional universe", as used here, applies to the settings and characters of a fictional work or works. The main purpose of the type is to gather characters, locations, and fictional works that belong to a common setting. Therefore, stand-alone works may not need to use this type. Note that a...
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| x Buffyverse |
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Joss Whedon | Sunnydale | Angel |
The Buffyverse, also known as the Whedonverse or Slayerverse, is the shared fictional universe in which the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel are set. This term, originally coined by fans of the TV series, has since been used in the...
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| Hellmouth | Rupert Giles | ||||
| Pylea | Willow Rosenberg | ||||
| Hyperion Hotel | Xander Harris | ||||
| Sunnydale High | Illyria | ||||
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| x Whoniverse | Gallifrey | The Doctor |
Whoniverse, a portmanteau of the words "Who" and "universe", is a word used to describe the fictional setting of the television series Doctor Who, K-9 and Company, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and K-9, as well as other related stories. The...
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| x Xenaverse | Ares |
Fictional setting for the stories and characters that were created for the TV and Book series for Hercules: Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. A historical fantasy mostly taking place in Ancient Greece.
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| x Star Trek |
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Gene Roddenberry | Milky Way | Jonathan Archer |
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
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| Alpha Quadrant | Worf | ||||
| Beta Quadrant | Data | ||||
| Delta Quadrant | Jean-Luc Picard | ||||
| Gamma Quadrant | Benjamin Sisko | ||||
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| x Middle-earth |
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J. R. R. Tolkien | Eä | Sauron |
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.
Tolkien prepared...
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| Arda | Saruman | ||||
| Bree | Aragorn | ||||
| Númenor | Aragorn I | ||||
| Mordor | Galadriel | ||||
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| x Earthsea |
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Atuan | Tehanu |
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,...
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| Havnor | Tenar | ||||
| Gont | Ogion | ||||
| Éa | Erreth-Akbe | ||||
| Roke | Ged | ||||
| x Sherlock Holmes Universe |
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221B Baker Street | Professor Moriarty |
Sherlock Holmes lives on for us all in current fiction and in the works of the originating author Arthur Conan Doyle. Almost every genre of fiction writing/films/tv has been graced by a visit from the penultimate deductive detective superstar...
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| x The Riddle-Master Trilogy | Hed | Raederle | |||
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| x The Tortall Universe | Tamora Pierce | Copper Isles | Rebakah Cooper |
Tortall is a major country in the universe in which the Song of the
Lioness, Immortals, Protector of the Small, Trickster and the Provost's
Dog books take place. Its capital is Corus, located near the western
coast on the Emerald Ocean. To the north...
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| Galla | Alianne of Pirate's Swoop | ||||
| Tortall | Keladry of Mindelan | ||||
| Scanra | Veralidaine Sarrasri | ||||
| Carthak | Alanna of Trebond | ||||
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| x The Circle Universe | Emelan | Sandrilene fa Toren |
Both the 'Circle of Magic' and the 'Circle Opens' series are set in the land of Emelan. The story of four children, Sandrilene fa Toren, Trisana Chandler, Daja Kisubo and Briar Moss,
who are discovered by a powerful mage Niko and told that they are
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| x Known Space |
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Larry Niven | We Made It | Gil Hamilton |
Known Space is the fictional setting of some dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author Larry Niven. It has also in part been used as a shared universe in the Man-Kzin Wars spin-off anthologies sub-series...
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| Wunderland | Roy Truesdale | ||||
| Jinx | Lit Shaeffer | ||||
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| x Alliance-Union universe | C. J. Cherryh | Ariane Emory |
The Alliance-Union universe is a fictional universe created by science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh. It is the setting for an epic future history series extending from the 21st century out into the far future.
To date, the corpus of the...
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| Ariane Emory PR | |||||
| x Lovecraft Mythos |
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H. P. Lovecraft | Arkham | Yog-Sothoth |
The Lovecraft Mythos is the term coined by the scholar S. T. Joshi to describe the imaginary mythical backdrop, settings, and themes employed by the American weird fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft's mythos is the foundation of a fictional...
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| x Cthulhu Mythos |
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H. P. Lovecraft | Arkham | Cthulhu |
The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.
The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu – a...
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| K'n-yan | Shoggoth | ||||
| R'lyeh | Francis Wayland Thurston | ||||
| x Stratemeyer Syndicate Universe | Tom Swift | ||||
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| The Hardy Boys | |||||
| x Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Universe | Olaf | ||||
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| x Battlestar Galactica 2003 | New Caprica | Lee Adama |
Battlestar Galactica refers to a "re-imagined" science fiction universe debuting in 2003 and based on the 1970s Universal Studios movie and television franchise of the same name. It is not simply a remake, but a new direction taken from the same...
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| Caprica | Kara Thrace | ||||
| Kobol | Sharon "Boomer" Valerii | ||||
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| x Battlestar Galactica |
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Baltar |
Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction franchise created by Glen A. Larson. The franchise began with the original television series in 1978, and was followed by a brief sequel TV series in 1980, a line of book adaptations, original...
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| x Oz Universe | L. Frank Baum | Land of Oz | Wicked Witch of the West | ||
| Yellow brick road | Glinda | ||||
| Quadling Country | Tin Man | ||||
| Munchkin Country | Cowardly Lion | ||||
| Winkie Country | Scarecrow | ||||
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| x Star Trek Expanded Universe | Vaatrik Pallra |
The Star Trek Expanded Universe is an unofficial, fan-created term to describe an extrapolation of events which occur in the Star Trek Universe outside the scope of the television series and feature films. Information from the Star Trek "Expanded...
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| x Expanded Universe |
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Luuke Skywalker |
The Star Wars Expanded Universe encompasses all of the officially licensed, fictional background of the Star Wars universe, outside of the six feature films produced by George Lucas. The expanded universe includes books, comic books, video games,...
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| x Future History |
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Jubal Harshaw |
The Future History, by Robert A. Heinlein, describes a projected future of the human race from the middle of the 20th century through the early 23rd century. The term Future History was coined by John W. Campbell, Jr. in the February 1941 issue of...
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| x The Foundation Universe |
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Isaac Asimov | Trantor | Gaal Dornick |
The Foundation Series is a science fiction series by Isaac Asimov. There are seven volumes in the Foundation Series proper, which in its in-universe chronological order are Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation, Foundation, Foundation and...
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| Terminus | Hari Seldon | ||||
| Anacreon | Salvor Hardin | ||||
| Smyrno | Hober Mallow | ||||
| Comporellon | Mule | ||||
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| x Dune universe |
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Frank Herbert | Giedi Prime | Leto Atreides I |
Dune is a science fiction franchise which originated with the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert. Considered by many to be the greatest science fiction novel of all time, Dune is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history....
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| Arrakis | Paul Atreides | ||||
| Salusa Secundus | Gurney Halleck | ||||
| Caladan | Ghanima | ||||
| Kaitain | Shaddam Corrino IV | ||||
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| x Uplift Universe | David Brin | Alvin Hph-wayuo |
The Uplift Universe is a fictional universe created by science fiction writer David Brin. A central feature in this universe is the process of biological uplift.
His books which take place in this universe:
There is also a short story "Aficionado" ...
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| x Humanx Commonwealth |
The Humanx Commonwealth is a fictional interstellar ethical/political entity featured in the science fiction novels of Alan Dean Foster. The Commonwealth takes its name from its two major sapient species, who jointly inhabit Commonwealth planets and...
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| x CoDominium |
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CoDominium is a series of future history novels by Jerry Pournelle.
The point of departure of Pournelle's history is the establishment of the CoDominium (CD), a political alliance and union between the United States of America and a revitalized USSR...
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| x Stargate |
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Dean Devlin | Destiny | Richard Woolsey |
Stargate is an adventure military science fiction franchise, initially conceived by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Stargate. It was originally released on October 28, 1994, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
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| Roland Emmerich | Prometheus | Teal'c | |||
| Daedalus | Jack O'Neill | ||||
| Chulak | Samantha Carter | ||||
| Chulak | Jacob Carter | ||||
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| x Marvel Universe |
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Baxter Building | Captain America |
The Marvel Universe is the shared fictional universe where stories in most comic book titles and other media published by Marvel Entertainment take place, including those featuring Marvel's most familiar characters, such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, the...
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| Olympia | Tina Minoru | ||||
| Cassidy Keep | Robert Minoru | ||||
| Farmingham | Frank Dean | ||||
| Ust-Ordynski Collective farm | Leslie Dean | ||||
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| x Farscape |
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Moya | Talyn |
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....
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| Qujaga | Moya | ||||
| Arnessk | John Crichton | ||||
| Uncharted Territories | Aeryn Sun | ||||
| Acquara | Ka D'Argo | ||||
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| x Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip |
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Jack Rudolph |
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is an American dramedy television series created and written by Aaron Sorkin. It ran for 22 episodes.
The series takes place behind the scenes of a live sketch comedy show (also called Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip or...
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| Tom Jeter | |||||
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| x Dragonlance |
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Raistlin Majere |
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...
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| Laurana Kanan | |||||
| Kitiara Uth Matar | |||||
| Lord Soth | |||||
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| x Metal Gear |
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Solid Snake |
Metal Gear (メタルギア, Metaru Gia) is a series of stealth video games created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami. The first game, Metal Gear, was released in 1987 for the MSX2. The player takes control of a special forces operative...
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| Raiden | |||||
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| x Calvin and Hobbes |
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Bill Watterson | Midwestern United States | Spaceman Spiff |
Calvin and Hobbes is a syndicated daily comic strip that was written and illustrated by American cartoonist Bill Watterson, and syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. It follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a precocious and...
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| x Blade Runner Universe | Los Angeles | Roy Batty | |||
| Rick Deckard | |||||
| Pris | |||||
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| x Forgotten Realms |
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Abeir-Toril | Sarevok |
The Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D;) 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...
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| Hillsfar | Imoen | ||||
| Jarlaxle | |||||
| Jon Irenicus | |||||
| Drizzt Do'Urden | |||||
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| x Terro-Human Future History |
The Terrohuman Future History (TFH) chronicles the expansion of the
human race from its origins on Terra (Earth) out into the galaxy.
Consisting of the novels of the famous Fuzzy trilogy (plus the
authorized sequels Fuzzy Bones by Bill Tuning...
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| x Invader Zim |
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Jhonen Vasquez | Earth | Zim |
Invader Zim is an American animated television series created by Jhonen Vasquez. It was produced by and subsequently aired on Nickelodeon. The series revolves around an extraterrestrial named Zim from the planet Irk, and his ongoing mission to...
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| Irk | Dib | ||||
| Foodcourtia | GIR | ||||
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| x Alien vs. Predator |
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Aliens vs. Predator, also known as Alien vs. Predator and Aliens versus Predator (all titles abbreviated AvP), is a science fiction horror fiction series spanning several media. The series is a crossover between two film franchises about...
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| x Monkey Island |
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Monkey Island | Largo LaGrande |
Monkey Island is the collective name given to a series of five graphical adventure games produced and published by LucasArts, originally known as LucasFilm Games through the development of the first game in the series; the games have produced a...
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| Carla the Swordmaster | |||||
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| x Bewitched |
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Samantha Stephens |
Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York (1964–69) and Dick Sargent (1969–72), Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who...
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| Darrin Stephens | |||||
| x Millennium |
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Seattle |
Millennium is an American television series created by Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files. Millennium aired on the Fox Network from 1996 to 1999. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, though most episodes were ostensibly set in or...
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| x Aud Torvingen Series | Aud Torvingen | ||||
| x Greyhawk |
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Principality of Ulek | Yolande |
Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. Although not the first campaign world developed for Dungeons & Dragons—Dave Arneson's Blackmoor...
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| x Spelljammer |
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Spelljammer is a campaign setting for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (2nd edition) role-playing game, which features a fantastical (as opposed to scientific) outer space environment.
Spelljammer introduced into the AD&D; universe a comprehensive...
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| x Dark Sun |
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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.
The themes of this setting could fit in the Dying Earth subgenre and include...
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| x Eberron |
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Keith Baker | Xen'drik |
Eberron is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, set in a period after a vast destructive war on the continent of Khorvaire. Eberron is designed to accommodate traditional D&D; elements and races within a differently toned...
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| x Ravenloft |
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Darkon | Strahd von Zarovich |
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...
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| Markovia | Kas the Bloody-Handed | ||||
| Castle Ravenloft | Azalin Rex | ||||
| Vallaki | Lord Soth | ||||
| Borca | Vecna | ||||
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| x Mystara |
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Specularum |
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...
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| x Planescape |
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Planescape is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, originally designed by Zeb Cook. The Planescape setting was published in 1994. As its name suggests, the setting crosses and comprises the numerous planes of...
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| x Birthright |
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The Rjurik Highlands |
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...
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| x Kingdoms of Kalamar |
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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 &...
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| x The Wheel of Time |
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Robert Jordan | The Two Rivers | Perrin Aybara |
The Wheel of Time (abbreviated by fans to WoT) 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;...
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| Rand al'Thor | |||||
| Elyas Machera | |||||
| Alanna Mosvani | |||||
| x Mythic Europe |
Mythic Europe is the setting for the role-playing game Ars Magica, closely based on the Medieval Europe of history and folklore. Note that this is a "Mythic" world, so the folklore, fairy tale and myth is every bit as real (in the game-world) as is...
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| x Wild Cards |
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Puppetman |
Wild Cards is a science fiction and superhero anthology series set in a shared universe. The series was created by a group of New Mexico science fiction authors, but it is mostly pulled together and edited by best-selling author George R. R. Martin...
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| Captain Trips | |||||
| Dr. Tachyon | |||||
| Le Miroir | |||||
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| x Surf's Up Universe | Cody Maverick | ||||
| x Red Dwarf |
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Kristine Kochanski |
Red Dwarf is a British comedy franchise which primarily comprises eight series (plus a ninth smaller series named Back To Earth) of a television science fiction sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999 and Dave from 2009–present. It gained...
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| Arnold Rimmer | |||||
| Dave Lister | |||||
| Cat | |||||
| Kryten | |||||
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| x Asterix |
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Gaul | Obelix |
Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (French: Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois, IPA: [asteʁiks lə ɡolwa]) is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo (Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series...
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| Geriatrix | |||||
| Getafix | |||||
| Cacofonix | |||||
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| x Hundred Acre Wood |
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Winnie-the-Pooh |
The Hundred Acre Wood (also spelled as 100 Aker Wood, Hundred-Acre Wood, and 100 Acre Wood; also known as simply "The Wood") is the fictional land inhabited by Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Winnie-the-Pooh series of children's stories by...
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| Tigger | |||||
| Eeyore | |||||
| x Madeleine Duncan Brown is mistress of LBJ | Steven Mark Brown |
This is the universe described in the book Texas in the Morning in which Madeleine Duncan Brown's son Steven Mark Brown was allegedly fathered by president Lyndon B. Johnson.
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| Lyndon B. Johnson | |||||
| Madeleine Duncan Brown | |||||
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