The gameworld of the series is called Gloriana and is basically a fairy tale mirror version of Earth.

Inspiration for the series is taken from multiple sources ; in addition to numerous traditional Christian themes, characters and ideas are freely borrowed from Greek, Turkish and Roman mythology, as well as from traditional British and Irish fairy tales.

Ethnographers collected fairy tales over the world, finding similar tales in Africa, the Americas, and Australia ; Andrew Lang was able to draw on not only the written tales of Europe and Asia, but those collected by ethnographers, to fill his " coloured " fairy books series.

After being defeated in a series of battles with other otherworldly beings, and then by the ancestors of the current Irish people, they were said to have withdrawn to the sídhe ( fairy mounds ), where they lived on in popular imagination as " fairies.

Frank Richard Stockton ( April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902 ) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century.

These characters have appeared in literary fiction – including penny dreadfuls, pulp comics, Victorian, Romanticism and Renaissance literature, steampunk, Gothic novels, fairy tales, mythology and folklore – as well as in film, television programs, comic book series and graphic novels, radio shows, and even video games.

While gazing at the scene around him and consulting the map, he saw, in the words of his son, " like a chain of fairy lights " a series of straight alignments of various ancient features, such as standing stones, wayside crosses, causeways, hill forts, and ancient churches on mounds.

Suddenly, a strange fairy ( which turns out to be Mokona, the creature from the original series ) appears in front of them.

Kelly began a series of comic books based on fairy tales and nursery rhymes along with annuals celebrating Christmas and Easter for Dell Comics.

* Terry Pratchett refers to several fairy tales in his Discworld series, especially in reference to witches who try to control the narrative potential of their world.

The series amalgamates characters from fairy tales and folklore, as well as children's literature ; Shere Kahn, for instance, is shot dead by Snow White, whilst Mowgli is employed as a spy by Big Bad Wolf.

Following the war he salvaged several rolls of discarded 16mm surplus film from which he made a series of fairy tale-based shorts, which he calls his ‘ Teething-rings ’.

Bremen is also the title of a manga series by Haruto Umezawa about a four-member punk rock band, each member of which bears a physical resemblance to one of the four animals in the fairy tale.

The Big Bad Wolf is a card used by Leonhard Wilson, whose deck is mostly composed of fairy tale monsters, in the second series Yu-Gi-Oh!

The popular computer-animated Shrek film series reversed many conventional roles found in fairy tales, including depicting the Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood as a friendly misunderstood crossdresser ( apparently still wearing her grandmother's clothes ) and on good terms with the three little pigs.

Arragi ( originally a Mokuren captain in the TV series ) says that it is his privilege to escort the denshi no yousei ( the electronic spirit / fairy ).

* Both ABC and the CW have ordered pilots for television shows based on the classic fairy tale with the CW version being a remake of the 1980s television series ..

Reviewers point out that although Princess Tutu is nominally a magical girl series, it is more of a " fairy tale set to ballet with a few magical girl elements mixed in ," and its use of dance in lieu of violence to solve conflicts carries " surprisingly effective emotional appeal.

* In the BBC TV series Sherlock, the final episode of Series 2, The Reichenbach Fall features a fairy tale theme with Moriarty as the classic villain.

At first only a supporting character described by her creator as " a common fairy ", her animated incarnation was a hit and has since become a widely recognized unofficial mascot of The Walt Disney Company, and the centerpiece of its Disney Fairies media franchise including the direct-to-DVD film series Tinker Bell.

Fairies cannot fly in the rain but can enable others to fly by sprinkling them with fairy dust ( sometimes called " pixie dust " by Disney, and presented as " starstuff " in Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's novel series ).

Struck by the effect produced on the audience by the introduction of the supernatural or mythical element, which he had merely used as a convenient medium for his satirical purposes, Gozzi produced a series of dramatic pieces based on fairy tales.

Clampett's colleague Friz Freleng directed a cartoon titled Goldilocks and the Jivin ' Bears in 1944, essentially Coal Black remade with a different fairy tale, and Warner's director Chuck Jones directed a series of shorts starring a prepubescent African hunter named Inki from 1939 to 1950.

Max and Moritz was a series of severely moralistic tales in the vein of German children's stories such as Struwwelpeter (" Shockheaded Peter "); in one, the boys, after perpetrating some mischief, are tossed into a sack of grain, run through a mill and consumed by a flock of geese.

* In the second book of the Danger Boy series of time travel tales, written by Mark London Williams, Dragon Sword, Peenemünde becomes a key setting in this and in the further novels.

The Polish nobleman Jan Potocki's novel Saragossa Manuscript ( begun 1797 ) owes a deep debt to the Nights with its Oriental flavour and labyrinthine series of embedded tales.

Most of his early science fiction stories were unrelated to each other, the exceptions being his " Johnny Black " tales about a black bear uplifted to human-level intelligence, and his " Drinkwhiskey Institute " stories, a series of tall tales involving time travel.

Folk tales of India series, 12 ".

Many sword and sorcery tales have been turned into a lengthy series of adventures.

In 1946, Addams met science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury after having drawn an illustration for Bradbury's short story " Homecoming " in Mademoiselle magazine, the first in a series of tales chronicling a family of Illinois monsters, the Elliotts.

In 1946, Addams met science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury after having drawn an illustration for Mademoiselle magazine's publication of Bradbury's short story " Homecoming ", the first in a series of tales chronicling a family of Illinois vampires named the Elliotts.

Zschokke's tales, on which his literary reputation rests, are collected in several series, Bilder aus der Schweiz ( Pictures from Switzerland, 5 vols., 1824 – 25 ), Ausgewählte Novellen und Dichtungen ( 16 vols., 1838 – 39 ).

They developed the practice of publishing four consecutive, related tales of, for example, Nick Carter, in the weekly magazine, then combining the four stories into one edition of the related thick book series, in this instance, the New Magnet Library.

In 2011 Big Finish Productions, under licence from B7 Productions, announced that it would be producing a series of audio dramas called Blake ’ s 7: The Liberator Chronicles, which would be " ... a series of exciting, character-driven tales that remain true to the original TV series.

While many focus on a particular event or series of events, writers like James A. Michener and Edward Rutherfurd employ generations of fictional characters to tell tales that stretch for hundreds or thousands of years.

Each eleven-minute episode features a series of vignettes with Gerald, of which the " fantasy tales " are done in Seussian rhyme.

In Vishnu Sarma's Panchatantra, an inter-woven series of colorful animal tales are told with one narrative opening within another, sometimes three or four layers deep, and then unexpectedly snapping shut in irregular rhythms to sustain attention.

In this series are tales calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation and then withhold the solution ... until the last possible moment.

In everyday life, individuals often find their thoughts pursue a series of fantasies concerning things they wish they could do or wish they had done ... fantasies of control or of sovereign choice ... daydreams '.

Furthermore, Lovecraft's discovery of the stories of Lord Dunsany with their pantheon of mighty gods existing in dreamlike outer realms, moved his writing in a new direction, resulting in a series of imitative fantasies in a ' Dreamlands ' setting.

Contemporary fantasies are set in the real world but may also include distinct fantasy settings within it, such as the Harry Potter series, in which case they would be high rather than low fantasy.

Artistically the period is mainly important for the series of watercolour fantasies around the themes of creation, crucifixion and bathing that he produced in Toronto in 1941 – 42.

The paradigmatic example is Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, which relates a drug-induced series of morbid fantasies concerning the unrequited love of a sensitive poet involving murder, execution, and the torments of Hell.

An interesting example is his " Three Men ," which became the series ' annual Christmas show ( a 1937 version circulates among collectors under titles like " Uninhabited " or " Christmas Story "); it has a plot typical of Cooper's gentler fantasies.

In many of her books, especially her mid-period and later fantasies, such as most of the Witch World series, there are settings described similarly, with ancient stone highways left by unknown civilizations, flanked by half-fallen walls overgrown with vines, and often studded with tall pillars topped by mythical shapes.

The series consisted of Iannucci pondering pseudo-philosophical and jocular ideas and fantasies inbetween surreal sketches.

Similarly, the carefully constructed " fantasy history " of She foreshadows the use of this technique that characterises later fantasies such as The Lord of the Rings and The Wheel of Time series, and which imparts a " degree of security " to the secondary world.

Airing from 1978 to 1984, the original series starred Ricardo Montalbán as Mr. Roarke, the enigmatic overseer of a mysterious island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, where people from all walks of life could come and live out their fantasies, albeit for a price.

Episodes of the revived series regularly opened and ended with a sequence set in a travel agency that actually books the fantasies, operated by two elderly travel agents played by Fyvush Finkel and 1930s silver screen leading lady Sylvia Sidney ( in her final acting role ).

On the new series, 12 contestants will greet guests to a tropical island on a weekly basis and try to turn their guests ' fantasies into reality.

His Jokes series ( beginning 1986 ) concerns the sexual fantasies and sexual frustrations of middle-class America, using stand-up comedy and burlesque humor.

In fact, the popularity of the series is due in large part to the ability of the stories to tantalize fantasies many Europeans had and have for this more untamed environment.

Muttley also enjoyed his own short segment in the series The Magnificent Muttley, where he would engage in Walter Mitty-style fantasies.

Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism and is noted for dark, spectral, symbolic fantasies, often assembled into thematic series of drawings.

On the spot Sontag created the idea for a coming of age series seen through the eyes of a teenage boy including his dreams, fantasies, and hopes.

During the late 1950s, after a series of lurid magazine articles and Hollywood films helped to sensationalize youth gangs and violence, Yates called for legislation to ban automatic-opening or switchblade knives, proclaiming that " Vicious fantasies of omnipotence, idolatry ... barbaric and sadistic atrocities, and monstrous violations of accepted values spring from the cult of the weapon, and the switchblade knife is included in this.

The first seven stories are part of his Azazel series, while the remainder are more traditional medieval fantasies.

Milieus encountered in the second series include the worlds of Irish myth and the Orlando Furioso ( again ) in " Professor Harold and the Trustees ," L. Ron Hubbard's setting from The Case of the Friendly Corpse and L. Frank Baum's land of Oz in " Sir Harold and the Gnome King ," the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West in " Sir Harold and the Monkey King ," the romantic fantasies of Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote ( with the unique twist of its being Quixote's version of reality rather than Cervantes ') in " Knight and the Enemy ," Virgil's Graeco-Roman epic the Aeneid in " Arms and the Enchanter ," the old Russian Tale of Igor's Campaign in " Enchanter Kiev ," Bhavabhuti's Baital Pachisi ( or " Vikram and the Vampire "), a proto-Arabian Nights collection of Indian tales, in " Sir Harold and the Hindu King ," Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Barsoom in " Sir Harold of Zodanga ," and William Shakespeare's The Tempest in " Harold Shakespeare.

There are many scenes in the series that look like they are actually happening but are then revealed to be the sexual fantasies of Makoto or another character.

A megalomaniac primarily motivated by a desire to live out childish fantasies of being recognized as a hero and to take revenge on the world for not recognizing the exceptionality he perceived on himself, Fukubei is an extremely charismatic leader who explores people's need to believe in something greater than themselves in order to fake a series of supernatural powers ( in reality, only stage magic tricks ) and pose as a superhuman prophet.

The Liavek series was also unique at the time of its publication for its egalitarianism-instead of absorbing itself with the sexism and gender role strife than characterized most of the contemporary fantasies, the narrative assumed that men and women were already equal.