fantasy settings

Fictional magical worlds

Fantasy settings are imaginary worlds where stories unfold, typically featuring magic, mythical creatures, or supernatural elements.

The term appears most often in discussions of games, novels, and films: The campaign takes place in a medieval fantasy setting, She prefers fantasy settings to science fiction.

A setting encompasses geography, history, rules of magic, and social structures—everything that makes a fictional world coherent and distinct.

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dwarves · prophecy · castle · enchanted forests · guilds · hidden kingdom · fae · spells · merfolk · tower · goblins · dragons · enchanted sword · dreamscapes · magical creatures · artifacts · tavern scene · magic systems

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temporal grounding

fantasy settingshistorical settings

Past times and places

realistic fiction · kitchen sink realism

genre conventions

fantasy settingspost-apocalyptic settings

Fictional ruined future environments

Family

setting, fantasy, imagination, settings

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