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== Anime & Manga ==

* Edolas from the Anima arc of [[Fairy Tail]] was an Earthlike land with an assortment of floating islands, including the one carrying the Eksheeds' homeland of Exteria, and another that the King used to store the Magnolia [[Power Crystal|La'cryma]].

* The Mu world of ''[[RahXephon]]'' is not quite a [[World in the Sky]]: there's one landmass. However, that piece of land quickly got overcrowded, so the Mu built gigantic flying cities that allowed the vast majority of them to live anywhere over the vast ocean.

* The Mu world of ''[[RahXephon]]'' is not quite a World in the Sky: there's one landmass. However, that piece of land quickly got overcrowded, so the Mu built gigantic flying cities that allowed the vast majority of them to live anywhere over the vast ocean.

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* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' has an entire planet of floating islands, some about the size of a pebble, others entire cities. Of course, these Islands are floating in orbit around a black hole, so yeah...

* Multiple floating islands provide the name of the [[Tabletop Games]] ''[[Skyrealms of Jorune]]''.

* The ''[[Ravenloft]]'' game setting consists of chunks of ~~landscape -- the~~ Core, Clusters, and ~~Islands -- adrift~~ in a directionless zone of supernatural Mists. Each piece of landscape has its own gravity and own climate, and ''appears'' to have its own sky and horizons, but travel too far, dig too deep, or fly too high and you'll still wind up at the Misty Border.

* The ''[[Ravenloft]]'' game setting consists of chunks of landscape—the Core, Clusters, and Islands—adrift in a directionless zone of supernatural Mists. Each piece of landscape has its own gravity and own climate, and ''appears'' to have its own sky and horizons, but travel too far, dig too deep, or fly too high and you'll still wind up at the Misty Border.

** One of the domains, Aerie, is actually a [[Floating Continent]] of the conventional sort as well.

* ''[[Planescape]]'' : the outer plane of Ysgard consists of continents floating atop immense rivers of earth flowing forever through an endless skyscape.

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* A twist in ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl|Pokémon Platinum]]'': the Distortion World consists of floating islands, not all of which share the same gravitational orientation. At one point you get to Surf ''vertically'' between two islands.

* Both the ''[[Rage Of Mages]]'' and ''[[Spellforce]]'' series use the "long ago there was a cataclysm that shattered the world into floating islands, but some great mage or other managed to prevent it from falling apart completely." Oddly enough, in both series this property of the world is more backstory than anything, as the locations look pretty much like you'd expect a typical fantasy world to look (forests, deserts, snow wastes, ''active volcanoes'') and the characters are almost never confronted with "world's edge."

** In ''[[Spellforce]]'', at least, it's little more than a [[Hand Wave]] for why the game world is composed of a number of completely disparate maps that can only be reached via ~~portals -- the~~ technical reason being that it uses [[Real Time Strategy]] style maps coupled with [[Role Playing Game]] style backtracking, and this is what it ends up looking like.

** In ''[[Spellforce]]'', at least, it's little more than a [[Hand Wave]] for why the game world is composed of a number of completely disparate maps that can only be reached via portals—the technical reason being that it uses [[Real Time Strategy]] style maps coupled with [[Role Playing Game]] style backtracking, and this is what it ends up looking like.

* The MMORTS ''Time of Defiance'' is built around this trope.

* The [[PS 1]] game ''[[Tail Concerto]]'' takes place on an archipelago of floating islands, surrounded by an impenetrable air reef (or "Airleaf", as the game misromanizes it, but then again, Atlus translations weren't ''always'' well-researched back then... if anything, they used to be [[Macekre~~|Macekres~~]]).

* The [[PS 1]] game ''[[Tail Concerto]]'' takes place on an archipelago of floating islands, surrounded by an impenetrable air reef (or "Airleaf", as the game misromanizes it, but then again, Atlus translations weren't ''always'' well-researched back then... if anything, they used to be [[Macekre]]s).

* ''[[Solatorobo]]'' takes place in the same universe as Tail Concerto, and also reveals that the floating islands {{spoiler|are actually the remenants of a [[After the End|Post-Apocalyptic Earth]]}}

* In ''[[Hoshigami Ruining Blue Earth]]'', the entire known world is a floating continent. And every time someone uses magic, it saps a little of the energy of the elemental spirits holding the continent up.