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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Patricia A. McKillip]]'s [[The Riddle -Master of Hed|Riddle of Stars]] trilogy lives and breathes this trope. All the land-rulers are Fisher Kings, that's just the nature of the universe.
* In ''Being a Green Mother'', the fifth book in [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]]'' series, Gaea's fury over being deceived by the man she's in love with triggers massive earth-wide storms. Later, when she's grieving, her tears are echoed by worldwide rain.
* In John Barnes's ''[[One for the Morning Glory]]'', Overhill has been reduced to a [[Mordor|wasteland]] under the reign of the usurper Waldo. [[Rightful King Returns|Queen Calliope, returning]], is told that it has even become better since the usurper left to continue his conquests.
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* In [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Chalion|The Curse of Chalion]]'', the royal family's curse causes every decision they make, be it directing a war or political maneuverings, to have the worst possible outcome.
** More that the curse twists against their actions, increasing the likelihood of failure by mischance or enemy action. Were the worst possible outcome the only option, {{spoiler|they would never have broken the thing at all.}}
* The fairy kingdom of Lost-hope in ''[[Jonathan Strange and& Mr. Norrell]]'' by Susanna Clarke. Under the dominion of the ''Gentleman with the thistle-down hair'', an amorally cruel and capricious and extremely [[It's All About Me|narcissistic]] fairy, it is a sad and dismal place, a derelict manor on a windswept moor surrounded by a dark leafless wood, with the remains of ancient battles rotting outside. [[The Fair Folk|The fairy inhabitants]] spend their time in endless balls, they have "idled away their days in pointless pleasures and in celebrations of past cruelties". After {{spoiler|the Gentleman with the thistle-down hair is defeated and the new king approaches, Lost-hope becomes a gentler place, more ancient and primeval but also "possessed of a spirit of freshness, of innocence", and the barren winter trees start to show the first hints of fresh green.}} The Gentleman also does this to [[City of Canals|Venice]] while Strange is living there, turning into a Goth Punk city as part of a plan to drive Strange insane.
* ''[[Merry Gentry]]'' - by [[Laurell K Hamilton]]. The Courts of Faerie are only as alive and fertile as their rulers. Both Taranis (Seelie Court) and Andais (Unseelie Court) learn of their infertility, and handle it differently. Taranis, King of Illusion, pretends everything is fine, and murders, banishes or beats anyone who says otherwise, terrified of losing his throne (and life). Andais, after centuries of a dying sithen and a bloodthirsty tyrannical rule, finally gives in and goes to a human doctor, who confirms her infertility. She grudgingly agrees to give up the throne to whichever of her two descendants can make a baby first.
* [[Michael Ende]]'s ''[[The Neverending Story (novel)|The Neverending Story]]'': Phantasién (or Fantasia/Fantastica) is linked to the Childlike Empress: She is the source of all life, and without her, the world could no longer live, like a human body that had lost its heart. As an extension of this, Phantasién is subjected to The Nothing whenever the Childlike Empress needs a new name.
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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* In ''[[Nobilis]]'', a powerful PC (or least one with a lot of Realm) will affect their Chancel this way - in one of the book's Flash Fictions, a Noble being drowned causes the entire kingdom to flood.
* In ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' cosmology (''[[Planescape]]''), domains of [[Gods Need Prayer Badly|gods]] and other Powers are closely tied to their owners and have their will as one of "laws of nature". Which includes becoming stale and decrepit if the owner dies or otherwise is cut off thoroughly enough.
** In [[Ravenloft]], the various Domains were actually karmic prisons for their Darklords, which reflected their crimes. The Domains and their lords varied wildly, ranging from lands that reflected every whim of their public ruler, to realms where the Darklord was a hounded, outcast monster. Even then, all the realms were intrinsically tied to their Darklords, who could close the borders of their realm at any time.
* Daemon worlds of ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' change to reflect the whims of their masters.
* In ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'', every single [[The Fair Folk|True Fae]] is a god unto their own realm in Faerie, having control over every single aspect of their home, from whether the sky is blue to the conditions as to when a fire will or will not cook a person's food. The Changelings, human slaves abducted to act as servants, have to enter pacts with every element in order to even survive. The world changes according to what a Faerie thinks is entertaining. The True Fae are powerful outside their realms, but have nowhere near this level of control over other domains.
** To a lesser degree, there is a [[Because Destiny Says So|Fatebound Merit]] named after the [[Trope Namer]]. As long as the holder is not suffering from serious damage, all their Social Merits function at double efficiency, but they suffer serious damage whenever a member of their Court dies and unrest in their kingdom is physically painful.
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** In ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', {{spoiler|the world is all but destroyed when the Warring Triad's balance is broken, and their power is usurped by Kefka as the new source of magic. This leaves the land barren and desolate, and Kefka's rule over it keeps it the land from recovering (his razing it with the almighty [[Kill Sat|Light of Judgment]] doesn't help things, either.) However, when Kefka is destroyed and magic dissipates, life across the world blooms triumphantly.}}
** In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', {{spoiler|the future world of Ultimecia under her domination, and most especially her castle.}}
* In ''[[Wild ArmsARMs 2]]'', {{spoiler|the Encroaching Parallel Universe, Kuiper Belt, is gradually eating the entire universe, and strikes Filgaia with a phenomenon called the Stain Paradigm, which rots away the sky, the land, the water, the forces of nature, everything, as Kuiper Belt grows more powerful. Named after but very different from the real Kuiper Belt, a ring of countless Plutoid planetoids surrounding the main Solar System, some of which occasionally stray into the main Solar System like Pluto does every few centuries.}}
* In ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'', a [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]] known as a "Reality Marble" shows the inner workings of a Mage's soul by making a world that represents that Mage overlap the real world. These worlds, being shaped by the Magi's inner nature, are of the Fisher King nature. One inner world shown during the course of the game and the anime is [[Field of Blades|Unlimited Blade Works]], which belongs to Archer ( {{spoiler|and by extension, Emiya Shirou}}).
:Other Reality Marbles mentioned include that of ''[[Tsukihime]]'''s Nrvnqsr Chaos (pronounced Nero Chaos), which is always active and allows him to join his being to other creatures, giving him a body that is incapable of dying so long as at least one part of it remains alive and he can maintain magic energy to feed it. Unless you're [[One-Hit Kill|Shiki.]] Satsuki's Reality Marble represents her loss without gain (Isn't it sad? No, really, not just a meme in this case) and passively destroys any mana in a radius around her that is not contained in a living being. Reality Marbles are bizarrely specific and produce equally strange results.
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** The prequel of ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'', ''[[Fate/Zero]]'', also has Servant Rider's shared Reality Marble, "Ionioi Hetaroi", which summons the [[Badass Army]] which conquered half of the world in his lifetime.
* Alice becomes Wonderland's fisher king in ''[[American McGee's Alice]]''.
* The ''[[RunescapeRuneScape]]'' quest "Holy Grail" takes the entire storyline of the quest from the Arthurian legend, and the Holy Grail is indeed held by the Fisher King, who rules a Fisher Kingdom. It gets better when you get Sir Percival to take over.
* The mental realms from ''[[Psychonauts]]''. Obviously. This trope is taken to the point where ''everything'' in a mental world corresponds to the personality and mental state of the mind-holder, from the general layout (a obsessive-compulsive character whose psychic specialty is turning repressed emotions into firepower has a mind consisting of a large black, white, and grey cube floating in dark purple space) to the Figments (several plot points are hinted at upon close examination of the Figments in each mind) to the characters (in a paranoid schizophrenic's mind, the mailboxes ''have eyes and stalk you'').
* In ''[[God of War (series)|God Of War III]]'', killing gods changes the world for the worse: Kill Poseidon, and the seas flood the coasts. Kill Hades, and the souls of the dead escape from Tartarus. Kill Helios, and the sun is shrouded by the clouds. Kill Hermes, and swarms of insects are released. Kill Hera, and all plantlife dies. Kill Zeus, and the constant lightning storms begin.
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** There's also the fact that {{spoiler|Elyon}} is pretty much a [[Reality Warper]] and Phobos, while not as strong, is still quite a powerful [[Evil Sorcerer]]. They really ''do'' have the power to mold their kingdom to suit their aesthetic preferences.
* [[Evil Prince]] Aragon from ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' is a [[Jerkass]] whose isolated stuck-in-the-Dark-Ages (''literally'') kingdom reflects his aggressive rules. It's only when his timid sister, Princess Dora finally gets the gumption to dethrone him did the dying kingdom regale in happiness. It's expected it'll only get better from here; Dora's first act is restoring time so they can catch up to the rest.
* When Crocker and later Vicky [[Take Over the World]] in ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'', Dimmsdale becomes bleak and barren, with debris abound. Once they're off the throne, Dimmsdale becomes beautiful again (though, you could argue, [[Crap Saccharine World|no less miserable]]).
** Also extended to Timmy's dad when he got to be Mayor for a day after winning the Miss Dimmsdale pageant. Though that may have just been set up to mess with Dinkleburg.
* Chanticleer's farm from ''[[Rock-a-Doodle]]'' is always sunny and bright, but when the evil owl tricks Chanticleer into oversleeping and making the Sun rise without him, all of Chanticleer's friends make fun of him and as a result Chanticleer gives up and moves to the city, causing the Sun to set and stop rising altogether, and therefore allowing the evil owl to terrorize all of the farm animals in constant darkness. But then some kid gets turned into a <s> furry</s> cat by said evil owl...
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