It detailed how to combine the world of Bunnies & Burrows with other fantasy worlds.

Usually set in imaginary worlds, comic fantasy often includes puns on and parodies of other works of fantasy.

In their leisure time the children created a number of fantasy worlds, which were featured in stories they wrote and enacted about the imaginary adventures of their toy soldiers along with the Duke of Wellington and his sons, Charles and Arthur Wellesley.

The game has a fantasy setting of the multiverse type, with many different worlds, some of which differed from generic fantasy.

Some of these languages, e. g., in worlds of fantasy fiction, alternative universes, Earth's future, or alternate history, are presented as distorted versions or dialects of modern English or other natural language, while others are independently designed conlangs.

Fantasy films are films with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures, or exotic fantasy worlds.

They both went against the contemporary styles and created their own worlds of fantasy.

High fantasy or epic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that is set in invented or parallel worlds.

High fantasy worlds may be more or less closely based on real world milieux, or on legends such as the Arthurian Cycle.

Additionally, Roger Zelazny's fantasy series, The Chronicles of Amber, features a labyrinth, called " the Pattern ", which grants those who walk it the power to move between parallel worlds.

It is also revealed that the destruction wrought by the Ancients ' wars with the Kreegan is the reason why the worlds of Might & Magic exist as medieval fantasy settings despite once being seeded with futuristic technology-the worlds have been ' cut off ' from the Ancients and descended into barbarism.

" Examples of fantasy supernaturalism include magic ( spells, harm to opponents ), magical places ( Narnia, Oz, Middle Earth, Hogwarts ), supernatural creatures ( witches, vampires, orcs, trolls ), supernatural transportation ( flying broomsticks, ruby slippers, windows between worlds ), and shapeshifting ( beast into man, man into wolf or bear, lion into sheep ).

These novels — including The Wood Beyond the World and The Well at the World's End — have been credited as important milestones in the history of fantasy fiction, because, while other writers wrote of foreign lands, or of dream worlds, or the future ( as Morris did in News from Nowhere ), Morris's works were the first to be set in an entirely invented fantasy world.

* In literature, science fiction, fantasy ( with well-developed fictional worlds, rich in detail ), alternative history fiction gained unprecedented popularity.

Some science fiction and fantasy books also show a clear picaresque influence, transported to a variety of invented worlds — for example, The Dying Earth series of Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat series, James H. Schmitz's The Witches of Karres and L. Sprague de Camp's Novarian series.

It also has elements of the intricate fantasy worlds of Jack Vance.

Adventure stories that stick to a single, well-described planet are sometimes called planetary romances ; some of these planets are not very realistic and are effectively fantasy worlds.

Some invented planets have physically impossible shapes, and may be regarded as fantasy worlds:

Examples of paracosms include Gondal, Angria, and Gaaldine, the fantasy kingdoms created and written about in childhood by Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Brontë, and their brother Branwell, and maintained well into adulthood.

Battles are fought between warcasters from rival kingdoms, the large steam-powered warjacks that the warcasters control, and troops consisting of humans and fantasy races.

In his fantasy setting of the Hyborian Age, Howard created imaginary kingdoms to which he gave names from a variety of mythological and historical sources.

The setting's planet, Abeir-Toril, is home to many fantasy cultures that are inspired by real world's ( i. e. the continent of Faerun containing analogues of European, African and Middle-Eastern cultures, Kara-Tur as a stand-in for the Far East, or Maztica as a fictional representation of pre-columbian MesoAmerica ), as well as regions and kingdoms populated by non-human races.

Other fantasy and adventure elements, derived from the romances, were gradually added: giants, magic, and monsters increasingly appear among the foes along with Muslims.

His Swamp Thing stories took a similar approach to Moore's, combining horror-fantasy, ecological concerns, and an encyclopedic knowledge of DC Comics fantasy characters ; however, he gradually turned his attention from the DC Universe to history and mythology, using time travel to introduce his hero to a variety of legendary figures.

When CBC was denied a new licensing agreement with MLBAM ( they had acquired the rights from the baseball players ' association ) for its fantasy baseball game, CBC filed suit.

In addition to Jung's theory of the complexes, his theory of the individuation process forms conceptions of a phylogenetically acquired unconscious filled with mythic type images, a non-sexual libido, the general types of introversion and extroversion, the compensatory and prospective functions of dreams, and the synthetic and constructive approaches to fantasy formation and utilization.

After Rick Cook introduced a computer programmer into a high fantasy world, his wizardry series steadily acquired more interactions between this world and ours.

The company enjoyed a sudden jump in status when it acquired the license to produce an official fantasy RPG based upon J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth, which would come to be known as MERP (" Middle-earth Role Playing ").

In 1984, First acquired all the titles of the short-lived publisher Capital Comics, including Mike Baron's action / superhero / fantasy / comedy series Badger, and Baron and Steve Rude's space-superhero series Nexus.

In December 1998 the Orion Publishing Group acquired Cassell & Co and turned Gollancz into its science fiction / fantasy imprint.

In 1998, Gollancz was acquired by Orion Publishing Group and turned into science fiction and fantasy imprint, Gollancz Science Fiction.

In 2009, Wizard World acquired the Big Apple Convention, New York City's longest-running comic book, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and pop culture convention.

Solaris Books, founded in Spring 2007 as an imprint of BL Publishing, focussing on original works of science fiction and fantasy, was acquired in September 2009 by Rebellion Developments for an undisclosed sum.

Some typical characteristics of high fantasy include fantastical elements such as elves, fairies, dwarves, dragons, demons, magic or sorcery, wizards or magicians, constructed languages, quests, coming-of-age themes, and multi-volume narratives.

* A tongue-in-cheek French adventure comic series, Lanfeust of Troy, has also come up with a few characteristics similar to some from the World of Xanth, such as: humans possessing a single magical talents ranging from benign to powerful, jungle medieval / fantasy land with weird and extensive fauna, a young villager with an unknown-yet-powerful talent bound to become the hero, an arch-enemy wanting to conquer and rule the world, a quest for the source of magic ending up in the discovery of a fabulous creature, hero's love interest shifting from a beautiful and vain girl to a more complete type of women, humorous play on words on many names and titles, and so on.

The player races are drawn from the ranks of fantasy races and have characteristics that reflect the abilities of those races.

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His characterization is also unusually in-depth for fantasy, and is often enriched by his ear for unusual accents and his apparently endless ability to give each character his or her own characteristics of speech.

The fictional Underdark's physical characteristics are based heavily upon conditions in real-world caverns deep underground, but there are differences, owing to its existence in a fantasy setting.

Nikki Gamble defines three characteristics of high fantasy as:

A class of fantasies set in contemporary times and blending some characteristics of fantasies of manners with the subgenre urban fantasy has been dubbed, tongue-even-further-in-cheek, elfpunk.

The Godhead of Christ was denied, He would have been begotten by Joseph ; every one would be a little bit god and christ ; the concept of sin was a fantasy, for both good and evil were godly characteristics ; every one should do what he thought was good and much more of those ' wonderful ' things.