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Houyi: archery deity; married to Chang'e, a moon goddess. Kua Fu: a giant who wanted to capture the sun. Kui Xing: god of examinations and an associate of the god of literature, Wen Chang. Lei Gong: god of thunder. Lung Mo: Chinese woman who became a goddess after raising five infant dragons.
Terry Brooks: The Sword of Shannara. The Sword of Leah: A sword carried by the Leah family for generations, later given the ability to cut through magic. The Sword of Shannara: A magical sword with the power to reveal the truth of any being or situation. It is forged from magic and is indestructible.
Blue Shirts Society (三民主義力行社) Yellow Sand Society (黃沙會) Flower of Light Sect (燈花教) Golden Flag Sect (金幢教) Community for the Study of the Way and its Virtue (道德学社) Great Way of Maitreya (弥勒大道) Life Healing Sect (救世教), also known by its corporate name Community of the Awakening to the Goodness ...
Laistrygon. Home to a tribe of giant cannibals that Odysseus encountered on his way back home from the Trojan War . Meropis. A gigantic island created purely as a parody of Plato 's Atlantis . Mount Olympus. "Olympos" was the name of the home of the Twelve Olympian gods of the ancient Greek world.
Wuxia ( 武俠 [ù.ɕjǎ], literally "martial arts and chivalry") is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of historical fantasy literature, its popularity has caused it to be adapted for such diverse art forms as Chinese opera, manhua, television ...
Besźel, one of the eponymous twinned city-states in China Miéville's novel The City & the City. Braavos, Pentos, and other Free Cities from the A Song of Ice and Fire book series by George R. R. Martin. Caprona, a sovereign city-state in the world of the Chronicles of Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones.
Fengdu Ghost City ( simplified Chinese: 丰都鬼城; traditional Chinese: 豐都鬼城 (traditional form of the revised name); pinyin: Fēngdū Guǐ Chéng, originally 酆都鬼城[ 1]) is a large complex of shrines, temples and monasteries dedicated to the afterlife located on the Ming mountain, [ 2] in Fengdu County, Chongqing municipality ...
Genosha: an island nation which was established as a mutant homeland in Marvel Comics. Ghalea: a small African nation whose pro-Western government is key to stability in the area, from the Mission: Impossible episode "The Money Machine". Ghudaza: Small fictional country bordering Wakanda. From the Marvel Comics.