Homelands (Fables) - Places

Places

• Keep at the End of the World - From East of the Sun and West of the Moon, this was the setting for The Last Castle, where the last Fable refugees escaped from to the Mundy world.

• The Black Forest - Located in the Hesse and former home to Bigby Wolf, Frau Totenkinder and a whole array of malign spirits, ogres and bogeymen. It is not known whether the Forest itself was taken over by the Empire, because the Hessians themselves do not dare to enter it. The rest of the Hesse, on the contrary, was indeed conquered. In Peter and Max: A Fables Novel, it is revealed that the Adversary's troops did enter the Black Forests on numerous occasions (to try to hunt The Big Bad Wolf, as well as to travel to Hamelin).

• Camelot - Appears in flashbacks in the story arc The Good Prince. According to the ghost of Sir Lancelot, the legend of Camelot and its fabled King Arthur set the standard of "true chivalry" for all of christendom and its legend touched much of the pagan worlds beyond. Lancelot's betrayal would eventually lead to Camelot's downfall.

• The Kingdom of Haven - The home of Flycatcher, they were shown being taken in 1001 Nights of Snowfall. Recently, he has returned there with his new army of ghosts and has set it up as a place of refuge for anyone wishing to escape the Adversary's control. He has become a consistent thorn in the Adversary's side, having defeated much of the Adversary's forces, including turning all of the Empire's wooden soldiers into a new enchanted grove, taking out the Empire's best fighters.

• The Lands of Beauty and the Beast - These are assumed taken because Beast refers to their lands as "forever lost in the Homelands", in the Legends in Exile story arc.

• The Lands of Old King Cole - These were shown being taken in 1001 Nights of Snowfall.

• The Lands of King Noble - From the Reynard stories, these were shown as captured in 1001 Nights of Snowfall. Reynard helped most of the animals escape the invading forces.

• Nottingham - Directly mentioned as being captured in The Last Castle, it was Robin Hood's home.

• Colchester - Humpty Dumpty from Jack of Fables was a cannon for the Homelands version of the Siege of Colchester.

• Toad Hall - From Wind in the Willows, it is directly mentioned as being taken in 1001 Nights of Snowfall. Badger, Toad and Mole all escaped, and many assume Stinky the Badger on the Farm is in fact the same character as Mr. Badger.

• Atlantis - The underwater kingdom of mermaids was shown being conquered in 1001 Nights of Snowfall. The only known survivor is Mersey Dotes, now turned into a mermaid.

• Red City - Mentioned by the Snow Queen. Red City Plague originates from this City. Red City Plague might possibly allude to Edgar Allan Poe's Masque of the Red Death.

• Bald Mountain - From Modest Mussorgsky's play. Directly mentioned in Jack of Fables. It is home to Chernobog, one of the Devils Jack made a deal with to prolong his life.

• Rome - The Fabled version of the capital of Italy. Incitatus was a member of its senate.

• The lands of the "civilized apes" - Appear in flashbacks in the Jack of Fables story Jack 'n' Apes. These lands were conquered by the Adversary's forces.

• The Hundred Acre Wood - In the Jack of Fables story Jack 'n' Apes, a character looking remarkably similar to Winnie the Pooh (but drawn slightly differently, as Winnie the Pooh is currently under copyright) can be seen in flashbacks from the Homelands, barbecuing marshmallows with the sock monkey Saunders in what appears to be the Hundred Acre Wood. They were described as living in "blissful simplicity". Interestingly, in the works of author A. A. Milne, Sanders is the name of the person who resided at Pooh's home prior to Pooh making it his house, and Winnie the Pooh and several other characters from the books were based on the stuffed toys of Milne's son. Saunders and his friends were driven from their homes when the Adversary invaded, and Saunders ended up in Africa in the mundane world, along with the rest of the "civilized apes" that Jack Horner claims to have met. Winnie the Pooh and Piglet apparently made it to the Farm. Both make an obscure appearance in Fables: In part five of the Animal Farm story arc, when the foiled revolution threatens to flare up again, Pooh and Piglet appears in two panels, from a distance when Boy Blue tells everyone to move back, and then from behind in the following panel.

• Prospero's Island - The Island which is the setting of William Shakespeare's the Tempest. It is located in the Homelands version of the Mediterranean Sea. Prospero and Sycorax are members of Fabletown's 13th Floor of magicians and spellcasters.

• The Great Wiggly River - The river in the fable of The Scorpion and the Frog. Mentioned by Ollikandar Strikeswift, brother of the scorpion in the story, during Mr. Brump the Goblin's trial.

• Harvest Town - The town where "the Janky Man" was boxed away.

• Sarukan - "Jack Frost Two" was involved in an incident there while working as a hero-for hire.

• The Shifting Worlds - Jack Frost Two spent time there while working as a hero-for hire.

• The Winterlace Floating Worlds - Jack Frost Two was involved in an incident there, which ended in a fiasco.

• Balthador's Gate - Jack Frost Two was involved in an incident there while working as a hero-for hire.

• Planet Seventy-Two - Home of the "march wyrm".

• Kansas - Referred to in Cinderella: Fables Are Forever. The former home of Dorothy Gale Kansas is presumably located in Americana, the Fable version of America.

• The Great Wall - Referred to in Cinderella: Fables Are Forever.

• The Homeland of the North - The North Wind's own realm of elemental ice and wind. Not many people can get there, as few know where it is or are able to survive the journey.

• Avon Valley - Referred to in the story In Those Days.

• Seppantyre - The city that Briar Rose is from, located in a "bright and beautiful" land.

• The Twilight Lands - Inhabited by the fairy godmothers from the tale of Sleeping Beauty, as well as Hadeon the Destroyer, the evil fairy, who ruled the realm's darkest corners.

• The Silver Pool - Where a knight, if he is noble and chaste, can be healed of any injury.

• Kreese - Inhabited by a six-headed lion.

• The Deep Night Hollow - Where every nightmare is caged and tamed.

• The Forest of Ghosts - Holds the key to unlock the "seven secrets of the Silent Mountain".

• The Silent Mountain - The mountain of the "seven secrets".

• The Forest of Dire Blight - The place where Hadeon the Destroyer dwelled.

• Morencaire - Referred to in the Fairest story arc Wide Awake.

• The Edge of the World - From the archaic model of the Flat Earth. Rapunzel once sailed off the Edge of the World, and washed up on the shores of the Hidden Kingdom.

• The Labyrinth - From the tale of the Minotaur. During Rapunzel's quest for her lost daughters, she entered the labyrinth and slew the Minotaur.

• The Floating Cities of Dabb - Bufkin liberated the slaves there during his many adventures.