Background

The Homelands are a diverse collection of worlds that were the homes to every known Fable. Each type of Fable (Germanic, Arabian, English, etc) has a unique world that houses all of the legends of that culture. There also exist magical gateways that link one world to another. When the Adversary began rising to power, he did not only set his sights upon his own home world but the panoply of worlds in existence. As he meticulously conquered each realm with his near indestructible Wooden Soldiers and the army of sorcerers at his bidding, many Fables fled from their respective worlds to the Mundane world--the equivalent of the "real world" where no one has super powers or magical abilities.

Many different types of Fables have shown up in the pages of Fables, Jack of Fables, and the various spin-offs. Below is a listing of the major and minor lands as well as important characters of events that belong to each.

Major Homelands

These places have been explicitly mentioned or shown in the pages of Fables.

• Americana-- place for American Tall Tales such as Babe the Blue Ox, Paul Bunyan, and Slue Foot Sue

*Americana is different from many of the other Homelands because it contains a multitude of smaller regions within it that encapsulate

centuries of American literature. Some of these areas include: Steamboat, Gangland, Lone Star, Antebellum, Idyll, the Colonies, the West, and the Great White North

• Baghdad-- home to the Arabian Fables such as Sinbad, Aladdin, and Genies
• The Cloud Kingdom-- from Jack and Beanstalk fame, the Cloud Kingdom is a pan-dimensional place that covers all worlds
• The Hesse-- home of Germanic Fables such as Snow White, Rose Red, and Frau Totenkinder
• The Indu-- place of British colonial Indian Fables; home to Mowgli, Bagheera, Shere Khan, and Mountbatten
• The Land of Ev-- the neighbor of Oz, shown to connect with the business office tree in Fables #101
• The Land of Oz-- home to Bufkin, Ozma,, and other Ozian characters
• Lilliput-- the home of the Lilliputians from Gulliver's Travels
• The Rus-- the Slavic Fables home world; home to Baba Yaga and her knights
• Toscane-- the Imperial Homeworld where Calabri Anagni, the Imperial city, is located. Home to Geppetto, Pinocchio, the Blue Fairy, and others.
• Ultima Thule-- the place of Norwegian Fables shown in Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love

Minor Homelands

These places either played little role in major story arcs or were assumed to exist due to the presence of certain Fables in the diaspora community.

• Albion
• Alexandria--the Egyptian Fable land where Prose Page visits
• Aquitaine

  

• Aragon
• Bilbao
• Bretagne
• Bourgogne
• Fryslan
• Gascogne
• Karnten
• Kordan-- minor land linked to Skold
• Levant--mentioned as one of the areas Prose Page visited
• Lotharin
• Septimanie
• Skold--minor land that is a link between Kordan and the Rus; Boy Blue kills a dragon here
• Thrumbly Warrens--briefly shown in Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall, home of Colonel Thunderfoot
• Tiabrut--the minor land where Mister Dark was imprisoned
• Wonderland--never shown, but many characters have shown up on the Farm or in the Golden Boughs

Magical Gateways

In the Fables universe there exist passages between different magical worlds. Many have been destroyed recently in the war with the Adversary. The only way that someone can travel between these separate worlds is by using magical gateways that link the worlds together.

When the Adversary began his bid at domination, it was through these gateways that he sent his unstoppable armies. He jealously guarded them, knowing their strategic importance. The Adversary destroyed many of the gateways in an attempt to keep them under tighter scrutiny, and, conversely, the Fables also fiercely guarded the gateways to the Mundane world to keep their enemy out of their new home.

However, the Fables, being a creative lot, have found various unconventional gateways in and out of the Homelands. Below is a short list of a few of those found:

• Witching Well--Flycatcher and a group of supposedly deceased Fables crossed the barren land of the well to find and found the Kingdom of Haven
• Tree in the business office of Fabletown--Bufkin recently found that the tree links to the Kingdom of Ev, a neighbor of Oz
• Magic Beanstalks linking to the Cloud Kingdom
• Inside of a Dragon in the land of Skold--Boy Blue took back channels when he was in the Homelands. One gateway he did not discover until after he had slain a dragon.
• The Great Train--a magical train that comes through in the "thin places" between the Mundane world and the magical world. It is the way in and out of Americana.
• Jack Frost--after giving back his mother's (the Snow Queen) wintry powers, Jack developed the natural ability to be a living gateway. Once he transports himself to a new world, he needs to let his energy stores replenish before he leaps again.