Gemworld

Gemworld, also known as Faerie, is one of two fictional other dimensional homelands for the Faerie, as published by DC Comics. In the mainstream DC Comics universe, all members of the Faerie race relocated to a dimension called Gemworld, which debuted in Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld #1 (May 1983), and was created by Dan Mishkin, Gary Cohn and Ernie Colón.

Publication history

Gemworld debuted in Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld #1, (May 1983). Gemworld later appeared in Neil Gaiman's The Books of Magic #3 (January 1990), and in the Hunter: The Age of Magic spin-off series, where Timothy Hunter went to a wizard's academy there.

Fictional history

The dimension where the Gemworld is located was originally owned by the Lords of Chaos. However, thousands of years ago, when magic began to drop in its levels on Earth due to a change in the alignment of the stars (caused by a star going nova) the Homo magi sorceress Citrina went there and struck a deal with the Lords of Chaos so she would be allowed to create a realm there for those Homo magi and Faerie who wanted to emigrate from Earth. This deal was kept a secret from most of Gemworld's inhabitants. The Gemworld proper was at first depicted as a continent that floats in the sky, with a "Sun" that orbited around it, obviously reflecting ancient beliefs of Earth being flat, but was eventually retconned into an actual planet. It contains a variety of terrains, and it was settled by cultures from all around the world.