Role-playing campaign settings like Greyhawk by Gary Gygax, Dragonlance by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis and Forgotten Realms by Ed Greenwood are a common basis for many fantasy books and many other authors continue to contribute to the settings.

In the 2011 Marvel Studios superhero film Thor, the Asgardian warrior Thor explains that the Nine Realms of the Asgardian cosmos are linked by Yggdrasil, the Norse mythological Tree of Life, which is here interpreted as a nebula in space connecting the planets in an orbit.

Found in any campaign setting, they are particularly numerous in the Forgotten Realms.

In addition, nine former British possessions in the Americas, which are now independent of the United Kingdom, are Commonwealth Realms.

Queen's Counsel are retained in several Commonwealth Realms where Queen Elizabeth II is head of state.

The history of the two kingdoms is intertwined ; both kingdoms are known as the Realms of the Dúnedain in Exile.

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

Such warrants are issued to officers in the active or retired lists of the Royal Naval Reserve and the maritime reserve forces of other Commonwealth Realms and territories.

All the former nations of the British West Indies, except the Commonwealth of Dominica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, are Commonwealth Realms.

* The Shadows are creatures who were denied existence and live in the Rift between the Realms of Flesh and Essence.

It is described at a relatively high level in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting ( 2001 ) from Wizards of the Coast, and various locales and aspects are described in more detail by separate campaign setting books.

Former Dominions of the British Empire that have the British Monarch as their Head of State ( including Canada and Australia ) are known as Commonwealth Realms.

In the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, both tieflings and aasimar are more common than in other settings.

As in the Forgotten Realms Player's Guide, it is explained that devas are celestial beings transmigrated into a mortal frame, and thus not a race of creatures in the normal sense.

In the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, dragons are very close to the ones in Dragonlance.

In the third edition of the Forgotten Realms, they are native to the " Blood Rift " plane.

Elminster was one of the first characters Greenwood created for the Forgotten Realms ; information about him can be found in virtually all game products, but The Elminster Series of novels by Greenwood are perhaps the most definitive sources of information.

Realms or tribes are labelled black, Foreign tribes mentioned in early Vedic texts purple, Vedic shakhas in green.

As at 2012 there are 16 Commonwealth Realms.

They are thought to maintain the two poles of the Three Realms ( 三界 ) of reality, with the middle realm occupied by Humanity ( 人 Ren ).

The Law Officers of the Crown are the chief legal advisers to the Crown, and advise and represent the various governments in the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth Realms.

Realms or tribes are labelled black, Foreign tribes mentioned in early Vedic texts purple, Vedic shakha s in green.

He was least impressed by the art on the Realms cards, the most common type of card in the game, as the cards are illustrated with excerpts from maps.

BatMUD was the first MUD played by Matt " Sarapis " Mihaly, founder of Iron Realms Entertainment.

In this sense the project played the same role as Unreal did for Epic Games, and it would retain this role in the company's strategy throughout its development time in the 3D Realms studios.

George Broussard and Scott Miller, both of 3D Realms, assisted in the formation of the new company, but have no role in any of its management decisions.

With a total of 157 queens since the illithid rebellion, a long time must have passed ( according to the Forgotten Realms novel Dawn of Night, it has been approximately 10, 000 years, though some sources imply the time has been longer or shorter ).

Spyro 2: Season of Flame is a platform game in which the player controls Spyro the Dragon, who must travel through the Dragon Realms and recover the stolen fireflies from the Rhynocs.

* 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.

The section of the Forgotten Realms world in which Pool of Radiance takes place was intended to be developed only by SSI.

In Dragon Quest III, Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation, Dragon Quest VII, and Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies, several character classes can be chosen for the party members.

In the short space of three months, Huiguo initiated and taught Kūkai everything he knew on the doctrines and practices of the Mandala of the Two Realms as well as mastery of Siddham Sanskrit and ( presumably to be able to communicate with Master Huiguo ) Chinese.

The name " 3D Realms " was initially created as a branding label in July 1994 for use by Apogee which would be dedicated to just 3D games ( as Apogee was then known for several styles of games ).

This Monster Manual is notable for its descriptions of where the monsters might be found in the Eberron and Forgotten Realms campaign settings.

It was claimed at the time by many on the 3D Realms forums that it would be impossible to port Build to a multitasking OS, as it needed a large contiguous block of memory that wouldn't be available in a multitasking environment.

These create the almost-survivable Shade Realms along the Horizon, which are diluted forms the Shard Realms that can be survived with considerable skill and luck.

The game was based on Solar Realms Elite ( SRE ), and is considered by many to be SRE's successor.

Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride, Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation and the remakes of IV allow tactics to be set for characters individually rather than using one tactics mode for all characters, as well as including the " Follow Orders " Tactics mode, which allows other characters to be controlled manually.

In addition the letters stated save as aforesaid the style title or attribute of Royal Highness, Highness or Serene Highness and the titular dignity of Prince or Princess shall not henceforth be assumed or borne by any descendent of any Sovereign of these Realms.

While Mystra might be the most powerful god, that doesn't save her from Cyric and Shar, in the year 1385, when the two group together to kill her in her own realm of Dweomerheart, destroying it utterly, and ruining several smaller realms and lesser deities, as said in the final entry in the Grand History of the Realms.

Some of the characters that would later be identified as members of the Seven Sisters were first introduced in the original Forgotten Realms boxed set ( the Grey Box ) for 1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons, where they were described as a group of powerful sisters, though they were not yet revealed to number seven.

By the time the entire story of their births and lives was solidified and finalized by their creators, the Sisters had been revealed to be extremely powerful, nearly immortal, and immensely important to the Forgotten Realms setting ; tied into the very nature of magic itself, serving a purpose to balance the power of a goddess, and to help maintain the very existence and functioning of magic in their world.

The statistics for the Crown can be found in the Forgotten Realms 3rd edition book ' Magic of Faerun '.

In the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, the ophidians are said to be snake-worshiping human cultists who discovered a powerful yuan-ti relic that transformed them into degenerate reptilian humanoids.

The gods of the Realms are, like those of ancient Greece, many and varied, though individuals tend to follow one deity or another ; for instance, paladins may follow Tyr or Helm, whereas a mage, or wizard, may be a follower of Mystra.

Some consider Gromph the greatest archmage in all the Realms ; Elminster, however, is more than eleven centuries old and Khelben a few centuries younger than that ( both may be greater mages than Gromph, as they have had more time to study and perfect their mastery of the Art ); as such, it may be more accurate to list him as a rival in power to the other archmages of the Realms.