History Main / LandOfFaerie

* The Faeries are ruled by a monarch, usually a queen.

* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 4th edition, or at least its TabletopGame/NentirVale setting, eladrin, elves, and drow (as well as gnomes, pixies, and nymphs) originate from the Feywild, a plane that is a bright and magical reflection of the natural world (as opposed the dark reflection, the Shadowfell plane). The Feywild is analogous to the Plane of Faerie of earlier editions. The ''Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition'' game supplement ''Player's Option: Heroes of the Feywild'', describes this plane and its inhabitants in detail. One of the first things the book says about the Feywild is that it is "sometimes called the land of Faerie." The Feywild is essentially ruled by the Archfey, a group of powerful eladrin who make up the Court of Stars. The nobles of the Feywild are Sidhe Lords. The Unseelie Fey are always trying to subvert the purposes of the Archfey.

* Rakshastan in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' 1st edition was ''almost'' named Fairyland but got a de-clicheification at the last moment. It is the domain of Fair Folk or Raksha, places where primordial chaos erodes the stability of the world and RealityIsOutToLunch. Generally not a nice place to be due to a variety of factors, starting with random mutations, through randomly inhospitable shifts of landscape and finishing with Raksha themselves, colloquially known as soul-eating cthulhu fairies.

--> -- '''Creator/JRRTolkien''', "Literature/OnFairyStories"

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* The Moors in ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' fulfill two of the requirements listed above: It is home to TheFairFolk, and ruled by a queen (Maleficent at the beginning, [[spoiler: Aurora]] at the end). It coexists alongside a human kingdom, whose king wishes to conquer it and expand his dominion, even if it means killing the (mostly) benign creatures who inhabit it.
* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' gives us the Goblin Kingdom, a surreal Otherworld inhabited by [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblins]] and fairies (both of whom show traits of TheFairFolk) and ruled over by...well...a [[MonsterLord Goblin King]] played by Music/DavidBowie.

* The Literature/LandOfOz, from Creator/LFrankBaum's books, is another of the most famous and influential examples. The rule about what happens when you eat the food in a Fairyland has been suggested by fans as the reason Dorothy must keep returning to Oz on a regular basis, ultimately moving there, permanently.
* Neverland, created by J. M. Barrie for his ''Literature/PeterPan'' stories.
* Narnia, the titular Fairyland from Creator/CSLewis's ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia''.
* The ''Literature/{{Bordertown}}'' series (aka the ''Borderlands'' series), a SharedUniverse of three novels and five anthologies of stories written by various authors and edited by Terri Windling, revolves around Bordertown which lies on the border of the Elflands and the World. The basis of the series is that Faerie has returned to the world and the area around Bordertown is a place where magic and technology only work half the time and with unpredictable outcomes.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' has the parasite universe of Fairyland ruled by the Queen of the Elves. [[YearOutsideHourInside There the flow of time has stopped while time on the Disc flies by]]. Fairyland is a bleak place caught between day and night where creatures of myth are stolen from other dimensions or even people's minds and dreams. The section ruled by the Queen is stuck in everlasting winter while the King's world is steaming hot.
* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Faerie is the region of the Nevernever (parallel magical reality encompassing pretty much [[AllMythsAreTrue every mythological location ever]]) closest to the material world. It is mostly ruled by the Summer and Winter (Seelie and Unseelie) Courts of the Sidhe, though there are also the Wyldfae (which are mentioned to be considerably more numerous than the Courts), who belong to neither Court and are occasionally organised into other polities, such as the Tywlwyth Teg and the Erlking's goblins. Summer and Winter, however, are by far the most powerful Faerie states. With a great deal of caution it can be used as a shortcut to travel between distant points in the material world, but the laws of physics and the flow of time are flexible there, and it's entirely possible to spend more (or less) time there than expected.
* ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'' has Faerie land ruled by the Queen Gloriana whose knights are humans that were SwitchedAtBirth with [[ChangelingTale Changelings]].
* ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'' featured Faerie as one of the four domains of creation (the others being Heaven, Hell, and Earth), and quite a lot of the story took place there, as several characters were repeatedly taken there for various lengths of time.
* In the ''Literature/MagicKingdomOfLandover'' series of novels, Faerie is a sort of inter-dimensional nexus between universes.

* In ''The Spearwielder's Tale'', by Creator/RASalvatore, Gary Leger travels to the land of Faerie after he is captured by a leprechaun. Faerie is [[FantasyKitchenSink home to many races]]: elves (who live in the forest of Tir na Nog), leprechauns, dwarves, gnomes, humans, dragons, etc, etc.
* In ''Literature/{{Stardust}}'', Tristran Thorn travels to Faerie by passing through a gap in the Wall in order to find a fallen star for the girl he loves. There he encounters unicorns, fairies, witches, and more. The people of Stormhold may or may not be elves.
* The third and fourth books of Literature/WickedLovely are set predominantly in Faerie, in the 'otherworld' of the High Court, where time moves at only 1/6 of the pace of Earth's and the Fae are ruled by the [[TheSpock logical and emotionless]] [[TheHighQueen Unchanging Queen]], Sorcha.

* Creator/DianeDuane puts an interesting spin on Faerie in ''Stealing the Elf-King's Roses''. Here, it is called Alfheim and an AlternateUniverse version of Earth, but not medieval at all. Actually, of all the seven known parallel universe earths, Alfheim is one of the two most technologically advanced ones next to Xaihon. It is ruled by a king, accessed by high-tech gating facilities and [[TheFairFolk no one really trusts the elves]], who are as open, transparent and welcoming of visitors as, say, North Korea. [[spoiler: Turns out, for good reason. When they allow some visitors, it eventually comes to light that they heavily employ {{Glamour}}s over whole cities (though they, in turn, have understandable reasons for their deception). Also, Alfheim is [[GeniusLoci somewhat sentient]], allows everyone, depending on their talent and lineage, to be [[RealityWarper Reality Warpers]] to varying extents (enabling the Glamour) and the king is a downright FisherKing. Plus AllMythsAreTrue applies for several of the parallel worlds, but particularily for Alfheim and Midgarth.]]

* In ''Literature/DocSidhe'', the protagonist ends up on the fair world in the course of [[spoiler:foiling his ex-girlfriend's kidnapping]].
* In Creator/RuthFrancesLong's ''Literature/TheTreacheryOfBeautifulThings'', this is where Jenny's brother went, and where she is looking for him.
* In Creator/JulieKagawa's ''Literature/TheIronFey'', most of the books are set in it.

* In the ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' book ''Foxglove Summer'', Peter gets taken into Fairyland from Hertfordshire. It has the same basic landscape, except there are no villages, the old English forests still stretch as far as the eye can see, and even the Roman road is just a slight scar on the landscape. TheFairFolk, who seemed impossibly perfect inhuman beings in the real world, seem more human and "real" on their own turf ... which only makes them more scary.
* Creator/RobertRankin's ''Raiders of the Lost Car Park'' [[MagiBabble "explains"]] that Fairyland consists of the parts of the world that exist on flat maps but not on globes, which in fact has nothing to do with Mercator's projection or anything like that, don't be silly.
* In ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'' is mentioned that there is this kingdom. In fact, the heroes visit it twice on their adventures. Also in the sequel ''Literature/TheDarkArtifices'' the heroes experience an adventure there.

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Hexenringe}}'', Xanadan is another dimension also known as Otherworld and is home to Xili and Unxili (based on Seelie and Unseelie). [[http://hexenringe.blogspot.jp/2013/12/interlude-xanadan.html This strip]] shows the first glimpse of Xanadan and the Xili.

* Fey creatures in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' are native to the First World, an alternate dimension filled with natural beauty and unpredictable laws of physics.

* A rare science fiction example of this is found in the planet Faery from ''Franchise/SentouYouseiYukikaze''. It is accessible only through a hyperspace portal that mysteriously appeared out of nowhere in Antarctica. The planet itself is a bizarre place and even has an alternate version of itself as an EldritchLocation. The inhabitants of Faery, the JAM, are completely shrouded in mystery and their motives are alien to humanity. There are times when the main character feels like being on Faery is like being in a dream.

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* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming'' has Arcadia and the Dreaming, two bizarre worlds inhabited by faerie entities and largely shut off from mortals and even from other supernaturals.

* In ''The Spearwielder's Tale'', by R. A. Salvatore, Gary Leger travels to the land of Faerie after he is captured by a leprechaun. Faerie is [[FantasyKitchenSink home to many races]]: elves (who live in the forest of Tir na Nog), leprechauns, dwarves, gnomes, humans, dragons, etc, etc.

->''Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold...The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords. In that realm a man may, perhaps, count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of a traveller who would report them. And while he is there it is dangerous for him to ask too many questions, lest the gates should be shut and the keys be lost.''

* It is named Faerie or Fairyland or it is named after one of the Otherworlds that Faerie is [[UrExample based on]], such as Alfheim ('Elfhome'), Tír na nÓg ('Land of the Young'), or Avalon.

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** The light and fluffy variant is Alfheim, which is intentionally almost unbelievably saccharine in recent comics (less so in some adaptations), and the inhabitants are pretty much defenceless against the likes of Malekith.

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* Most of the movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Faeries 1999}}'' takes place there.

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-->Don't you see yon bonnie bonnie road, that lies across the fernie brae?
-->That is the road to fair Elfland, where you and I must go this day

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* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 4th edition, or at least its TabletopGame/NentirVale setting, eladrin, elves, and drow (as well as gnomes, pixies, and nymphs) originate from the Feywild, a plane that is a bright and magical reflection of the natural world (as opposed the dark reflection, the Shadowfell plane). The Feywild is analogous to the Plane of Faerie of earlier editions.
** The ''Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition'' game supplement ''Player's Option: Heroes of the Feywild'', describes this plane and its inhabitants in detail. One of the first things the book says about the Feywild is that it is "sometimes called the land of Faerie." The Feywild is essentially ruled by the Archfey, a group of powerful eladrin who make up the Court of Stars. The nobles of the Feywild are Sidhe Lords. The Unseelie Fey are always trying to subvert the purposes of the Archfey.

** Likewise, the successor game, ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'', has Arcadia/Faerie and the Hedge, which bridges the gap between Earth and Faerie. Whereas Arcadia was somewhat pleasant in the last game, however, here it's a swirling tide of chaos where [[TheFairFolk the Gentry]] desperately try to stand out in order to avoid getting swallowed by the maelstrom. As they can't exactly make anything new, though, they often kidnap humans to serve as their proxies/slaves/agents, who are then twisted into changelings by the sheer nature of Faerie.

* TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} has the Forest of Loren - the magic-saturated woodland realm of the Asrai (Wood Elves), which follows this trope very closely. While not, strictly speaking, another dimension, time does run strangely there, and it is entirely possible for outsiders to wander in, lose themselves for centuries and crumble to dust upon leaving a day later. It is ruled by Queen Ariel and Orion, King in the Woods, who are immortal shape-shifting avatars of the elven mother goddess and her consort the hunting god. It is inhabited by ancient treemen, unicorns, great stags, dryads, forest dragons, warhawks and many other mythic beasts, as well as millions of tiny fairy-like sprites (the most aggressive of which are called Spites and go to war alongside the Wood Elves). The Wood Elves also have a habit of capturing beautiful human boy-children from surrounding lands, to keep as un-aging servants for their feasts, among other unsavoury faerie activities. Most of Loren is beautiful and unspoilt, if filled with capricious otherworldly beings and hidden dangers to outsiders, but the twisted deepwoods of the south-east are known as the Wildwood, where the trees are corrupt, the dangers are nightmarish and even the Wood Elves fear to go.

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* {{Phantasia}}'s Outerworld bathes in light, and has no ground.

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* Fairy World in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents''

* In ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen,'' it's mentioned that Faerie and England were united under [[TheFaerieQueene Queen Gloriana]]. Both sides remained close until Oliver Cromwell came to power and declared war against what the Puritans saw as "heathen abominations." Thus the land of Faerie was closed forever.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' has the parasite universe of Fairyland ruled by the Queen of the Elves. [[YearOutsideHourInside There the flow of time has stopped while time on the Disc flies by]]. Fairyland is a bleak place caught between day and night where creatures of myth are stolen from other dimensions such as minds and dreams. The section ruled by the Queen is stuck in everlasting winter while the King's world is steaming hot.

* Faerieland from ''Franchise/{{Neopets}}''. Originally, Faerieland was located high up in the clouds, but since being subjected to a ColonyDrop it's become a forest realm.

* Faërie is a "shiftrealm" (a land that moves between universes) in the ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} setting ''TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds''. It's ruled by Oberon and Titania, and resembles Western European countryside on a perfect spring afternoon. It has "trods" (faerie roads) linking it to various Earths and other magical shiftrealms.

* Faërie is a "shiftrealm" (a land that moves between universes) in ''TabletopGame/GURPSInfiniteWorlds''. It's ruled by Oberon and Titania, and resembles Western European countryside on a perfect spring afternoon. It has "trods" (faerie roads) linking it to various Earths and other magical shiftrealms.

* It is named Faerie or Fairyland or it is named after one of the Otherworlds that Faerie is [[UrExample based on]], such as Alfheim ('Elfhome') or Tír na nÓg ('Land of the Young').