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| x Island |
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Númenor |
An island /ˈaɪlənd/ or isle /ˈaɪl/ is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or an island in a lake may be...
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| Atlantis | |||
| Prison Island | |||
| Resort Island | |||
| Lemuria | |||
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| x Country |
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Grand Fenwick |
A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a...
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| Ruritania | |||
| Freedonia | |||
| Cygnar | |||
| Cryx | |||
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| x Inland sea | Sea of Rhûn |
An inland sea (also known as an epeiric sea) is a shallow sea that covers central areas of continents during periods of high sea level that result in marine transgressions. In modern times, continents stand high, eustatic sea levels are low, and...
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| x U.S. County |
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Yoknapatawpha County |
In the United States, a county is a geographic subdivision of a state (or federal territory), usually assigned some governmental authority. The term "county" is used in 48 of the 50 states; Louisiana is divided into parishes and Alaska into boroughs...
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| Caldecott County | |||
| Carburetor County | |||
| x Apartment |
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221B Baker Street |
An apartment (in American English) or flat (in British English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building. Such a building may be called an apartment building, apartment house (in...
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| x Planet |
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Polis Massa |
A planet (from Ancient Greek αστήρ πλανήτης (astēr planētēs), meaning "wandering star") is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear...
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| Kobol | |||
| Caprica | |||
| Kashyyyk | |||
| Qo'noS | |||
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| x Continent |
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Immoren |
A continent is one of several very large landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, with seven regions commonly regarded as continents—they are (from largest in size to smallest): Asia, Africa,...
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| Xen'drik | |||
| Khorvaire | |||
| Sarlona | |||
| Argonnessen | |||
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| x City |
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Sharn |
A city is a relatively large and permanent settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status...
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| Radiator Springs | |||
| Bard's Gate | |||
| Lima | |||
| Marchion | |||
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| x District |
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Caravanserai |
A district is a type of administrative division, in some countries managed by a local government. Entities known as districts vary greatly in size, spanning entire regions or counties, several municipalities, or subdivisions of municipalities.
In...
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| Azabu Juuban | |||
| x Capital |
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Vorbarr Sultana |
A capital city (or just, capital) is the area of a country, province, region, or state considered to enjoy primary status; although there are exceptions, a capital is typically a city that physically encompasses the offices and meeting places of the...
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| Minas Tirith | |||
| Chulak | |||
| Michel Delving on the White Downs | |||
| Ranke | |||
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| x Boarding school |
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Enfield Tennis Academy |
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...
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| Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry | |||
| Durmstrang Institute for Magical Learning | |||
| sorcerers' school | |||
| x Spacecraft |
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Destiny |
A spacecraft or spaceship is a craft, vehicle, vessel or machine designed for spaceflight. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, earth observation, meteorology, navigation, planetary exploration and transportation...
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| USS Enterprise - D | |||
| USS Enterprise - E | |||
| USS Enterprise - C | |||
| x Railway platform |
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Platform 9 3/4 |
A railway platform is a section of pathway, alongside rail tracks at a train station, metro station or tram stop, at which passengers may board or alight from trains or trams. Almost all stations for rail transport have some form of platforms, with...
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| x Dwelling | Hagrid's Hut |
A dwelling is a house or some other place where someone or people live
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| x Business |
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The Barrel |
A business (also known as enterprise or firm) is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn...
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| x English country house |
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Brinkley Court |
The English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a London house. This allowed to them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these people,...
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| x Building |
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L.A. Dollhouse |
In architecture, construction, engineering, real estate development and technology the word building may refer to one of the following:
In this article, the first usage is generally intended unless otherwise specified.
Buildings come in a wide...
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| Inn of the Prancing Pony | |||
| Aperture Laboratories | |||
| Sunnydale High | |||
| Baxter Building | |||
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| x Cafe / Coffee Shop | Central Perk | ||
| Coffee A Go-Go | |||
| x Battlefield | Battleplain of Chaeronea | ||
| Meridian battleplain | |||
| Beyond Overlook | |||
| Abarsis Valley | |||
| Shamshi's rest-place | |||
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| x Sword and sorcery |
Sword and sorcery (S&S;) is a sub-genre of fantasy and historical fantasy, generally characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent conflicts. An element of romance is often present, as is an element of magic and the...
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| x Ancient warfare |
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Chaeronea |
Ancient warfare is war as conducted from the beginnings of recorded history to the end of the ancient period. In Europe and the Near East, the end of antiquity is often equated with the fall of Rome in 476, and the wars of the Eastern Roman Empire...
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| Beyond Sanctuary | |||
| Mari, Syria | |||
| x Mythology |
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Chaeronea |
The term "mythology" can refer either to the study of myths (e.g., comparative mythology), or to a body or collection of myths (a mythos, e.g., Inca mythology). In folkloristics, a myth is a sacred narrative usually explaining how the world or...
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| Beyond Sanctuary | |||
| x Classical antiquity |
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Chaeronea |
Classical antiquity (also the classical era or classical period) is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively...
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| x Ancient city-state | Downwind | ||
| Theban Cadmea | |||
| Badlands south of Tyse | |||
| Syr | |||
| Machad | |||
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| x Slum | Downwind | ||
| Ratfall | |||
| x Science Fiction |
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the Federation of Free States |
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible (or at least non-supernatural) content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities. Exploring the...
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| x Walled city |
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Sanctuary |
A walled city is a settlement which is fully or partially surrounded by a defensive barrier, typically a stone or wooden wall. It may also be surrounded by other defensive measures such as ditches, moats and tank traps.
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| x eternal cities |
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Lemuria |
In the Sacred Band of Stepsons fictional universe, their are four mythologized 'eternal cities' that are transdimensional and exist on islands or land masses that change their location on land or sea and may or may not be accessible to the...
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| City at the Edge of Time | |||
| Meridian | |||
| Bandara | |||
| Meridian, archipelago of dreams | |||
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| x Mountain range |
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Ironcrag Mountains |
A mountain range is a geographic area containing numerous geologically related mountains. A mountain system or system of mountain ranges sometimes is used to combine several geological features that are geographically (regionally) related.
Mountain...
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| Wizardwall | |||
| Black Nisibis | |||
| x Seventh sphere |
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Meridian | |
| Meridian, archipelago of dreams | |||
| The archipelago of Meridian | |||
| x Palace |
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Pinnacle House |
A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop. The word itself is derived from the Latin name Palātium, for Palatine Hill, one of the...
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| Pinnacle House | |||
| x Mountain Stronghold |
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Wizardwall | |
| Nisibis | |||
| base of operations | |||
| Citadel | |||
| x Mansion |
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Sanctuary Mageguild |
A mansion is a very large dwelling house. U.S. real estate brokers define a mansion as a dwelling of over 8,000 square feet (740 m). A traditional European mansion was defined as a house which contained a ballroom and many bedrooms. Today, however,...
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| Rankan Mageguild | |||
| sorcerers' school | |||
| x Headquarters |
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Sanctuary Mageguild |
Headquarters (HQ) denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated. In the United States, the corporate headquarters represents the entity at the center or the top of a corporation taking...
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| Rankan Mageguild | |||
| x base of operations | Hidden Valley stock farm | ||
| Stepsons' barracks | |||
| x stock farm |
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Hidden Valley stock farm |
The Hidden Valley stock farm is a location in the Sacred Band of Stepsons fictional universe and the literary series, The Sacred Band. The farm serves as temporary barracks and staging area for the Sacred Band of Stepsons in the novels "Beyond...
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| Free Nisibis | |||
| x Stepsons' barracks |
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Hidden Valley stock farm | |
| Free Nisibis | |||
| Nisibis | |||
| Citadel | |||
| x Space station |
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Space Colony ARK |
A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space (most commonly in low Earth orbit) for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is...
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| Death Egg | |||
| x Historical fantasy |
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Beyond Sanctuary |
Historical fantasy is a sub-genre of fantasy and related to historical fiction, which makes use of specific elements of real world history. It is used as an umbrella term for the sword and sorcery genre and sometimes, if fantasy is involved, the...
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| x Hell | Heroes in Hell fictional universe |
The fictional universe of Janet Morris's Heroes in Hell is described in the text as being about the geographical area of Australia, on the top level. Of course, there are circles of Hell and everyone who ever was successful in life ends up there...
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| x City-state |
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Nisibis |
A city-state is an independent or autonomous entity whose territory consists of a city which is not administered as a part of another local government. A city-state can also be defined as a central city and its surrounding villages, which together...
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| Sandia | |||
| Ranke | |||
| Helium | |||
| x Festival of Man |
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Festival village |
In the Sacred Band of Stepsons fictional unvierse and the Thieves' World shared fictional unvierse, once every four years a Festival of Man is held somewhere in the Rankan Empire, where the best teams and individuals come to compete in events...
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| Tyse | |||
| Festival barracks | |||
| Amphitheatre | |||
| x Amphitheatre |
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Festival of Man |
An amphitheatre (or amphitheater) is an open-air venue used for entertainment and performances. The term derives from the ancient Greek ἀμφιθέατρον (amphitheatron), from ἀμφί (amphi), meaning "on both sides" or "around" and θέατρον (théātron),...
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| Ranke | |||
| Tyse | |||
| x Contestants' village | Festival of Man | ||
| x competition grounds | Festival of Man | ||
| x Hidden Valley stock farm |
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| x Military organization |
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Mountain Stronghold |
Military organization is the structuring of the armed forces of a state so as to offer military capability required by the national defence policy. In some countries paramilitary forces are included in a nation's armed forces. Armed forces that are...
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| Citadel | |||
| x Citadel |
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Mountain Stronghold |
A citadel is a fortress protecting a town, sometimes incorporating a castle. The term derives from the same Latin root as the word "city", civis, meaning citizen.
In a fortification with bastions, the citadel is the strongest part of the system,...
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| sorcerers' school | |||
| Black Nisibis | |||
| Lemuria | |||
| Lemurian windows into any place or time | |||
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| x Barracks |
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sorcerers' school |
Barracks are specialised buildings for permanent military accommodation; the word may apply to separate housing blocks or to complete complexes. Their main object is to separate soldiers from the civilian population and reinforce discipline,...
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| island fortress | |||
| Rankan Army | |||
| x Badlands |
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A badlands (also badland) is a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water. It can resemble malpaís, a terrain of volcanic rock. Canyons, ravines, gullies, hoodoos and other...
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| x Factory |
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Egg Factory |
A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is an industrial building, or more commonly a complex having several buildings, where workers manufacture goods or operate machines processing one product into another. Most modern factories...
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| x Aircraft |
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Egg Carrier |
An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the...
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| Final Fortress | |||
| x Highway |
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Radical Highway |
A highway is any public road. In American English, the term is common and almost always designates major roads. In British English, the term (which is not particularly common) designates any road open to the public. Any interconnected set of...
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| x Casino |
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Casinopolis |
In modern English, a casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships or other tourist attractions....
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| x feral fields | Abarsis Valley | ||
| Beyond Overlook | |||
| x Ridge | Abarsis's Overlook |
A ridge is an elongated region of relatively high atmospheric pressure, the opposite of a trough.
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| x Labyrinth |
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Labyrinth |
In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos, "place of the double-axe," possibly the building complex at Knossos) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at...
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| x Ruins |
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Labyrinth |
Ruins are the remains of human-made architecture: structures that were once complete, as time went by, have fallen into a state of partial or complete disrepair, due to lack of maintenance or deliberate acts of destruction. Natural disaster, war and...
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| x Virtual reality |
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Sonic Simulator |
Virtual reality (VR), is a term that applies to computer-simulated environments that can simulate physical presence in places in the real world, as well as in imaginary worlds. Most current virtual reality environments are primarily visual...
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