Homelands (Fables) - Minor Lands

Minor Lands

  • Boxen - The land invented by C.S. Lewis and his brother Warren when they were children, as described in his memoir Surprised by Joy.
  • Ruby Lake
  • Oakcourt
  • Hollyfield
  • Oak Hollows - This place had the gateway that John Barleycorn and Arrow came through.
  • Skold - Minor land that is a link between Kardan and the Rus. This is where Boy Blue fought and killed a dragon.
  • Vesteri
  • Kardan - Minor land linked to Skold.
  • Karse - Possibly the Karse from Exile's Honor.
  • Skribnutch
  • Ynnes
  • Kurrewyn
  • Tiabrut - This is the world where Mr. Dark was imprisoned.
  • Levant - Prose Page spent years there during her quest for knowledge in the Homelands.
  • Alexandria - Prose Page spent a decade there studying.
  • Aldara Quoor
  • Onyx
  • Stellarholm
  • Antrigonet
  • Aragon - A mythical version of Spain and possibly Portugal. Aragon deriving from the Kingdom of Aragon.
  • Fryslân - A mythical version of combined Friesland and the Netherlands
  • Bilbao - The mythical Basque Country, Bilbao referring to its capital.
  • Bretagne - A mythcial version of Brittany.
  • Gascogne - A mythical version of Gascony.
  • Septimanie - A mythical version of Septimania.
  • Bourgogne - A mythical version of Burgundy
  • Aquitaine - A mythical version of Aquitaine that, in contrast to its mundane counterpart, covers the mainland of France.
  • Kärnten - A mythcial version of combined Slovenia, Bosnia and Croatia. Kärnten deriving from Carinthia.
  • Lotharin - A mythical version of combined Luxembourg and Belgium. Lotharin deriving from Lotharingia.
  • Scanda - The land of which Prince Lindworm is ruler of.
  • Westermark - The land that Mister Kadabra was a lord of.
  • Silene - The homeworld of Saint George.

The Homelands version of China is referred to, but not named, in Cinderella: Fables are Forever, which refers to the empire from the Chinese folktale about Meng Chiang-Nu.

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