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A number of Other Worlds outside of Titan have hosted some of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and associated publications.

Book Locations[]

The following table is an overview of all locations used for Fighting Fantasy (note that it excludes Warlock magazine locations because each magazine potentially had more than one location - Warlock Magazine locations are dealt with later in this article):

Fighting Fantasy Locations
Location Series Total
Main Series Wizard (Series 1) Wizards (series 2) Scholastic Sorcery! Advanced Fighting Fantasy Fighting Fantasy Novels Zagor Chronicles The Role-Playing Game Books Fantasy Questbooks Two Player Gamebooks Adventures of Goldhawk Other Books
Titan 47 3 4 5 3 1 2 1 2 4 1 73
Space 7 - - - - - - - - - - 7
Earth 3 - - - - - - - - - - 3
Orb 1 - - - - - - - - - - 1
Amarillia 1 - - - - 3 - 1 - - - 5
Total 59 3 4 5 3 4 2 2 2 4 1 89

Notes[]

  1. Warlock magazine issues are not factored into the above numbers, because within any single issue many different locations may be used.
  2. Clash of the Princes is counted as two books.
  3. The location of Clash of the Princes, Gundobad, is deemed to be within Titan.
  4. Karazan, the location of the Adventures of Goldhawk series, is deemed to be somewhere within Titan and according to some sources it used to be in the past approximately where Mauristatia is now.[1]


Space[]

"Space" is used here to mean outerspace and therefore this is obviously a vast region. However, because each book is unrelated to the other or to any other series, it serves as a useful generic term to classify the books. There are six books set in Space, and unsurprisingly they are all more science-fiction than fantasy. Arguably there is an seventh book. The definite six are:

The seventh book is:

  • Spectral Stalkers - although this book starts and ends in the Neuberg area of Khul, it also takes places in the Spheres of the Multiverse and is sometimes referred to as a Space-based book.

Earth[]

Interestingly, Earth qualifies as an "Other World" in the context of Titannica, because the focus of Titannica is Titan. Four books have been set on Earth, two of which are set in some undefined point in the future:

The World beyond the Portal of Evil[]

As part of the Portal of Evil it is possible crossing through the underground Portal of Evil into a parallel world (Beyond the Portal of Evil) where the sky has a different colour and the creatures living there are very different, often giant and unnatural to the eyes of people from Allansia.[2]

Orb[]

Main article: Orb

Orb is a world created by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson. The only Fighting Fantasy gamebook set there is:

This was written in 1984, and although no more Fighting Fantasy books were set there Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson went on to set their The Way of the Tiger gamebook series in Orb, of which there were six books.

Amarillia[]

Main article: Amarillia

The world of Amarillia first came to light in the 1987 PuzzleQuest Book, Casket of Souls. In this book there was no indication that it was at all related to Titan. However, in 1993 in The Zagor Chronicles and Legend of Zagor, Ian Livingstone firmly established the two worlds are within the same fantasy universe. The books set in Amarillia are:

The Flat Lands[]

Main article: The Flat Lands

The world of the Flat Lands first appeared in the mini adventure The Floating City in Warlock in 1986. Since then two other mini adventures have also been set there:

World of the Magehunter[]

Main article: World of the Magehunter

The World of the Magehunter is the home of the titular hero and his great enemy, the mage Mencius. It appeared in the book Magehunter (book).[3]

Locations Whose Location Within Titan is Disputed[]

Main article: Karazan
Main article: Gundobad

Mini Adventure Locations[]

See Also[]

References[]

  1. "A History of Mauristatia" by Otto Öviszódi in The Warlock Returns Issue 2, (pg. 24).
  2. Portal of Evil - ???
  3. Magehunter - 341
  4. Location only identified in The Fighting Fantasy 10th Anniversary Yearbook version of the adventure.
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