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{{quote|"''There are no children called Colin and Susan from our world who [[Trapped in Another World|fall into it]] to become the main characters.''"
|'''[[Terry Pratchett]],''' praising ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''}}
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This world might be built from standard components, but there is deliberate [[World Building]] going on.
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As one of the most common fantasy settings, some form of [[Functional Magic]] is typically present, but this isn't required: constructed worlds exist that have little or no magic. Most [[High Fantasy]] takes place in constructed worlds, as well as a great deal of [[Low Fantasy]] and [[Heroic Fantasy]].
See also [[Paracosm]]. Compare [[A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away]], which is used more in [[Sci Fi Counterpart|science fiction]] but usually has the same effect. Contrast [[Magical Land]], where the focus is on visitors to the setting. [[Earth All Along]] is a subversion of this trope.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* Daikurikku in ''[[Simoun]]''. In fact, figuring out its bizarre laws (and the meaning behind [[Gratuitous Foreign Language|pseudo-Latin]] terms) is among the (many) fun points of the series.
* The unnamed world of Eiichiro Oda's ''[[One Piece]]'' has very distinct [http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Atlas geography] and weather completely different from our Earth. And the [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] mythology and the [[Schizo-Tech]], like the [[Reinventing the Telephone|telecommunication]] [[Organic Technology|snails]] ...
* Similar to ''[[One Piece]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' takes place an an Earth-like world that clearly has nothing to do with earth.
* The setting of ''[[
* One of the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' canons is this. [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|The other]] is not.
* ''[[Naruto]]'' is set in an unnamed world on an unnamed continent (or maybe subcontinent), but is clearly fictional and a lot of [[World Building]] is done early on (for instance, we learn about the politics and geography of the world hundreds of chapters before it really becomes relevant). Being a series about [[Ninja]], it has a lot of Japanese influences.
* ''[[Windaria]]'', at least in Streamline's English release, is completely unexplained.
* ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'', and its
* ''[[Amon Saga]]''.
* ''[[Digimon X Evolution]]''
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Estarcion from ''[[Cerebus the Aardvark]]''
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[J. R. R.
▲* [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s [[The Lord of the Rings|Middle-earth]] is the [[Trope Codifier]] of this trope. His own term for this type of setting was '''Secondary World'''. [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], since Middle Earth, also known as [[Norse Mythology|Midgard]], is, in fact, [[Word of God|our earth]] - only set in the far-gone mythical past of gods and monsters - specifically as a far, far prequel to all Anglo-Saxon myths.
* The setting of ''The Wood Beyond the World''. [[William Morris]] is usually credited as the [[Trope Maker|creator of the modern "invented world" fantasy]] (departing from the tradition of setting fantasy stories in Arthurian Briton, fairyland or Arabian Nights-esque Arabia). Tolkien read the novel as a child, and it was a major influence on his work.
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' has no physical connection to our own. However its basic nature is based on several old theories about how our world works, such as it being flat, and being orbited by the sun, and being on the back of a giant turtle. Its cities, nations and sometimes individual people are often clear analogies to those from earth's past and present.
** In the ''[[
* Tarra in ''[[Arcia Chronicles]]''.
* Kertiana in ''[[Reflections of Eterna]]'' by the same author.
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* The continent of Westeros and the rest of the surrounding world from [[George R. R. Martin]]'s ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' series.
* [[Greg Egan]]'s ''Orthogonal'' series (starting with ''The Clockwork Rocket''). Not only does it have no connection to our world, it doesn't even use the same laws of physics.
* [[Brandon Sanderson]]'s adult fantasy all takes place in the same [[The Verse|verse]] called the Cosmere, [[Word of God]] has officially stated that Earth does not exist in the Cosmere.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
▲* Every ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' campaign setting ever (except for Masque of the Red Death).
* ''A lot'' of role-playing games. Listing them all here would break the article's back.
* All of ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'''s planes are original; none of them are based on Earth, and it's generally considered canon that our universe is not part of the ''Magic'' multiverse.
== [[Toys]] ==
* The ''[[Bionicle]]'' universe had no connection whatsoever to ours, despite inter-dimensional travel being possible there. Multiple alternate universes and pocket dimensions exist, but none resembling ours. The creators have avoided having live-action adaptations of the series for fear that this segregation from the real world would be compromised in order to make way for a [[Human-Focused Adaptation]].
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Twin Worlds of ''[[The Longest Journey]]'' are somewhat of a gray area. On one hand, its starts off as your regular run-of-the-mill [[Cyberpunk]] dystopia. On the other hand, we soon learn, that what we perceived as "Earth" is actually a world called "Stark" and it has a twin world named Arcadia that does not follow the laws of science but instead is governed by chaotic magic. What's more, these two worlds are, in fact, Earth... or, at least, they were Earth twelve thousand years ago. Therefore, there is a connection called "Balance" between them which has its own eerie rules...
* Strangereal, the original ''[[Ace Combat]]'' setting, is a completely independent world, despite being heavily based on modern-day Earth.
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* ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' is set in a very well-constructed world called Nirn, though the games are set primarily on a single continent called Tamriel.
* ''[[Shining Force]]'' has its own fictional map.
* ''[[
* ''[[Arcanum]]'': The eponymous Arcanum.
* ''[[Diablo]]'': Sanctuary.
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* ''[[Dark Souls]]'': Lordran.
== [[Web Comics
* [[Overside]], the setting of ''[[Rice Boy]]'', ''[[Order of Tales]]'', and ''[[Vattu]]''.
* [[Archipelago]] {{spoiler|though it might just be in the future.}}
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Neopets]]'' takes place in a world called Neopia. It has [[Bubbly Clouds]]; a [[Ominous Floating Castle|floating]] [[Mordor]]; Two [[Medieval European Fantasy|medieval worlds]]; [[Gang Plank Galleon|a pirate]] [[Port Town|island]]; a [[Palmtree Panic|tropical island]] with [[Mayincatec]] [[Temple of Doom|ruins]] in the [[Jungle Japes|jungle]]; [[Ancient Grome]]; [[Wutai]]; an [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World|icy]] [[Death Mountain|mountain]]; A [[Big Boo's Haunt|haunted]] [[The Lost Woods|forest]] with a [[Circus of Fear]] and [[
▲* [[Neopets]] takes place in a world called Neopia. It has [[Bubbly Clouds]]; a [[Ominous Floating Castle|floating]] [[Mordor]]; Two [[Medieval European Fantasy|medieval worlds]]; [[Gang Plank Galleon|a pirate]] [[Port Town|island]]; a [[Palmtree Panic|tropical island]] with [[Mayincatec]] [[Temple of Doom|ruins]] in the [[Jungle Japes|jungle]]; [[Ancient Grome]]; [[Wutai]]; an [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World|icy]] [[Death Mountain|mountain]]; A [[Big Boo's Haunt|haunted]] [[The Lost Woods|forest]] with a [[Circus of Fear]] and [[Uberwald]]; A [[Steampunk]] [[Eternal Engine|city]]/[[Lethal Lava Land]]; An [[Build Like an Egyptian|Egyptian]] [[Shifting Sand Land|desert]]; an [[Under the Sea|underwater city]] that rose from the ashes of [[Underwater Ruins]]; [[Prehistoria]]; A [[Tomorrowland|space station]]; a [[Space Zone|moon]]; and a <s> [[Level Ate|world made of jelly]]</s> [[Running Gag|that's just silly]]. [[Schizo-Tech]] doesn't begin to cover it.
* ''[[Guts and Sass]]: An Anti-Epic'' draws inspiration from various low-tech Earth cultures, but has a distinct set of original semi-domesticated pastoralist, feudal agriculturalist, [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Warrior Race]], [[Proud Merchant Race|merchant-trader]], and hunter-gatherer cultures. It also features original landmasses and ocean currents, as well as an alternate tidal catalyst (the planet has no visible moon).
* ''[[RWBY]]'': The world of Remnant, with its oversized, shattered moon, its unfamiliar continents, [[Mana]] in mineral form, and active [[Physical God]]s in its ancient past, is clearly no version of Earth.
* ''[[Dofus]]'' and ''[[Wakfu]]'' take place in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20220119212725/https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/krosmoz/images/5/5f/Monde.png/revision/latest?cb=20200807051720&path-prefix=fr World of Twelve], a planet located on its own solar system, in a universe called the Krosmoz. On this planet, there is the continent of Amakna, and also a few islands scattered throughout, like Pandala, where the [[Pandaing to the Audience|followers of Pandawa]] live, and a small island where the alchemist Otomai lives. In the timeline of Wakfu, the world suffered a terrible flood, with half of it being submerged, in an event known as "Ogrest's Chaos". After this, the continent was no more, and the four cities of Amakna became separate islands.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. While it certainly has elements of various Asian and First Nation cultures, its certainly a very separate fantasy world.
* [[Epileptic Trees]] about it being Earth [[After the End]] notwithstanding, Equestria from ''[[My Little Pony:
* In
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