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the 5 most famous fantasy universes
There is an opinion that a person is not really free in anything except creativity, whether this is true or not is a controversial issue.
But it is difficult to argue with the fact that most people are creators.
Of course, we are not yet able to create a planet like ours, where people with free will will live, but human imagination, nevertheless, creates amazing new worlds through books and movies.
Some fictional universes are so successful and interesting that they acquire thousands of fans.
We offer you to read about five such fictional worlds.
Contents 1 1.
Star Wars 2 2.
Forgotten Kingdoms 3 3.
Arda (Arda) 4 4.
Star Trek 5 5.
A Song of Ice and Fire
1.
Star Wars
The creator is George Lucas
"Star Wars" is not just six full length films.
The world invented by Lucas is currently developing almost by itself — hundreds of books have been written about it, which describe the most distant corners of the universe, tell about all the characters we have seen in films, and about many others, about which there is not a word in the films.
Comics, video games, and cartoons have been created based on the classic "Star Wars".
The plot forming link is the Jedi Order knights who stand for the protection of high ideals, peace and order and possess the Force.
Those who succumbed to their dark beginning and switched to the Dark side of the Force were called Sith.
They are the main protagonists of the universe, and there is a constant confrontation between the two orders.
Few people know that before the events shown in the film "The Phantom Menace", the Galactic Republic enjoyed peace and order for almost 1000 years — it was a kind of golden age.
However, this 1000 years is almost nowhere described, and we can observe the development of the universe just from the events that occurred a few years before the "Ghost Threat".
After the fall of the Jedi Order, there was only one knight left — Luke Skywalker, and this is the end of the sixth film.
However, the universe continues to evolve — as a result, the Republic is reborn from the wreckage, the Jedi Order reappears on the political arena, then the war begins again, as almost half of Luke's students have gone over to the Dark Side…
In fact, "Star Wars" is a story that can be continued indefinitely, so more and more new books "based on" are being published.
The universe does not develop chaotically: the development of the story was monitored by a special council headed by Lucas, and now the Walt Disney studio will probably deal with this.
And yes, a small spoiler, if you didnot know — in one of the books, it was decided to kill Chewbacca.
2. The Forgotten Kingdoms
Creator Ed Greenwood
"Forgotten Kingdoms" is a fantasy world developed for the board role playing game "Dungeons & Dragons".
The greatest fame of the universe was brought by the novels written around the world by Robert Salvatore and the video games "Icewind Dale", "Baldur's Gate" and "Neverwinter Nights".
Most of the action takes place on Faerun — part of the largest continent of the planet Abeyr Toril.
Ed Greenwood
The world is worked out almost to the smallest detail.
Of course, you can find fault with many little things like the strange distribution of climate zones on the planet, but this is just understandable — many authors worked on the project at the same time, each of whom took a small piece of the world for himself, and only then they were "glued" together.
But that's not the point.
The planet is inhabited by many classic races — there are several varieties and factions of elves, dwarves, orcs and, of course, a huge number of human settlements.
There are also races that are completely unlike anything else, like illithids anthropomorphic octopuses that capture the minds of other intelligent beings and thus turn them into their slaves.
In addition to Fairun, there are several other parts of the world on the planet — Zakhara (an analogue of the Middle East), Kara Tur (an analogue of India and Indochina), Matstika (an analogue of the territory of American Indians like the Maya or Incas) and Evermit (the legendary land of the Elves).
Since Abeyr Toril is a big planet, and advanced technologies in the genre of classic fantasy are not too much in honor, many continents on the planet are not yet open, so there is a place for imagination to roam.
"Forgotten Kingdoms" has been stirring the minds of fans since the early 1990s, and all these years there has been constant work on the world.
An interesting fact is that only Fairun has been registered in detail by the developers so far.
It is interesting that in the" Forgotten Kingdoms " there are practically no kingdoms as such: the main administrative unit is the city state, among the most famous are Neverwinter, Baldur's Gate and Waterdeep.
The gods play a very important role in this world.
They are invented not only for the worship and enslavement of the masses, they are quite real entities that give their adepts strength, abilities and opportunities, who love to actively interfere in the affairs of mortals.
The gods are divided into "factions": trade, love, darkness, and so on everything that can be imagined.
In addition, the gods have a kind of career ladder — from a demigod, you can grow up to an Elder God, who will be worshipped by millions of worshippers from all over the world.
3. Arda (Arda)
Creator J. R. R. Tolkien
Tolkien created an original world, which served as a source of inspiration for the creation of almost all fantasy universes.
It was he who came up with the names for most of the fantasy races — orcs, elves, Hobbits — the rest of the "creators of the worlds" simply remade them in their own way.
But a master is a master — the world he invented turned out to be alive: with its own history, features, key characters and, in some way, geography.
By the way, the world invented by Tolkien is often called Middle earth, but this is incorrect: in fact, its name is Arda.
It appeared after the god Eru created amazing creatures — Ainur, who literally sang the world.
It is worth saying here that Tolkien himself has repeatedly said that the action of his novels takes place not on any other planet and not in a parallel world, but on our Earth.
According to the master, Middle earth existed on our planet in the distant past.
In addition, if you compare the map of the same Middle earth with the map of Europe, you can really notice the similarity.
The most numerous race in Middle earth are, of course, people: they inhabit most of the region.
They differ from the elves, in fact, in that they live for tens, not thousands of years, and, accordingly, their states change, and the elves remain practically unchanged for generations.
Moreover, the soul of the elves remains forever after death in Arda in a special place called the Gardens of Mandos, and the human soul leaves the world.
Magic in Tolkien's world differs from the combat magic invented later — here it is rather a creative act, rather than a series of clearly regulated actions and rules.
A creature endowed with a will can create magic — the stronger the will, the more impressive the magical deeds the hero is capable of.
However, magic is not a decisive argument — the will is needed, for example, also to resist the power of the Ring of Omnipotence.
In addition, over time, magic is leaving Arda, and it is becoming less and less.
In the free continuation of "The Lord of the Rings", written by Nick Perumov, there is almost no magic left.
Anyway, the world is famous thanks to recognizable living characters, detailed study and an unusual story.
No wonder he has so many admirers.
4. Star Trek
Creator Gene Roddenberry
"Star Trek" is a science fiction series that was released in 1966 in the United States.
It is important to remember that at that time humanity had not even made a flight to the moon, but only dreamed of space travel.
So the moment was chosen well: "Star Trek" is a saga about the first human travelers who went to explore deep space, get acquainted with the rest of the intelligent races inhabiting the galaxy and learn from them.
Gene Roddenberry
It all started with the fact that at the beginning of the XXI century, NASA made an attempt to go into space on primitive ships.
Then, in 2053, the Third World War broke out on Earth, after which humanity came to its senses for ten years.
But in 2063, the first spaceship with a warp engine (a technology that allows you to exceed the speed of light) was launched, and so humanity first got acquainted with another intelligent race — Vulcans from the planet Vulcan.
The Vulcans turned out to be much more advanced in terms of technology, so diplomatic relations were built slowly, since the Vulcans did not really want to share technologies with unpredictable people who had recently staged a massacre on their own planet.
The Earthlings managed to build their own full fledged starship the Enterprise only in 2151.
Then the United Federation of Planets was created — an alliance of different intelligent races united for joint development and space exploration.
It should be noted that there are a huge number of races in this universe, and not all of them are benevolent.
So, there are, for example, Klingons, who were previously skilled diplomats and peacemakers, but under the influence of politicians have descended to warlike barbarians and, in their opinion, now profess the philosophy of real warriors.
The history of "Star Trek" is written in detail up to the XXIV century, and every milestone in this history is marked by global upheavals — for example, bloody warriors with other races like the Zindi, whose philosophy is extremely far from human.
And, surprisingly, humanity with dignity (exactly with dignity!) it came out of any alteration.
It should be noted that the action in this saga is assigned a secondary role — it mainly tells about universal values.
Moral problems are touched upon in almost every episode: for example, the viewer is invited to think about the consequences of the complete disappearance of a biological species and the like.
In other words, the Star Trek universe teaches a fascinating lesson about how important it is for people to remain human in any situation.
5. A Song of Ice and Fire
The creator is George Martin
The prototype for this universe was a real human history: the world of "PLIP" is comparable to our European Middle Ages — there is feudal fragmentation, the lack of gunpowder, the somewhat oppressed position of ordinary people and, of course, palace intrigues.
It should be noted that there is no detailed map of the world, as well as an official name for it.
Westeros, for example — is only a separate continent about the size of South America, it is in Westeros that the vast majority of the events of the described era take place.
There is another continent where people live comparable to the peoples of our East, and almost nothing is known about the western lands.
However, Martin took the trouble to come up with a full fledged chronicle for his world.
Initially, Westeros was inhabited by mysterious Children of the Forest, who later disappeared.
Then the First People came there, who displaced the Children of the Forest, who were gradually forgotten: their memory was preserved only in legends and fairy tales.
Then they were replaced by the Andal conquerors who conquered these lands and brought with them the religion of the Seven God.
A little later, the east of the mainland was captured by the Roynars, who assimilated with the Andals and became almost a single people.
In the east, meanwhile, the Valyrian Empire gained strength, from where the Targaryens flew to Westeros on horseback on dragons.
Thanks to the dragons, they seized power, but after 300 years, the dragons degenerated, and the Targaryens went mad largely, perhaps, because of closely related marriages.
Then they were overthrown by Robert Baratheon, who later became king.
And the rest of the story is known to those who watched the series "Game of Thrones", based on Martin's novels, or read the novels themselves.
Religion and magic, which is typical for fantasy, play an important role in Martin's world.
Westeros officially professes the Seven Gods the septons (the so called local priests) from the point of view of magic can not do anything at all, and they do not have much influence on politics.
In fact, this is just a formal cult.
But there is another religion that is widespread just in the East — the cult of the fire deity R'glor, whose priests are subject to the magic of fire: they do the main miracles.
The fire god gives some of his adepts the opportunity to rise from the dead again and again or to see events of the past and future in the flame.
Fire is opposed by Others mysterious creatures that appeared from behind the Wall on the edge of the Seven Kingdoms — they represent ice.
As the novels take place, the magical forces that the inhabitants of the world have already forgotten about are gradually awakening, and it is not known how all this will end.
It remains to wait for the release of the sixth and seventh volumes.
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