Gifts for fantasy fans: magic, dragons and more

At the court of Eternia, Prince Adam was long seen as the slightly idle son of the king, the one who ducks out of every bit of trouble with a smile...

Some heroes need a backstory in three volumes. And then there is He-Man, whose profile fits comfortably on a beer mat: muscles, a big shiny sword, ...

A Quidditch match can drag on, in the wizarding world for days if it has to. Goals, Bludgers, reckless dives through the air: nothing is settled wh...

Quidditch is played on flying brooms: seven players per team, four balls and remarkably little concern for intact bones. As a first year, Harry sli...

Badges on a lapel are a quiet language: a small piece of metal that says where someone belongs without a single word. Clubs and guilds have worked ...

Long before anybody in the wizarding world thought of typing a message, there were owls. The most famous of them is Hedwig: the white snowy owl Har...

One sip, a few genuinely unpleasant minutes, and you are stuck inside somebody else: Polyjuice Potion is one of the trickiest brews in the wizardin...

In Dungeons & Dragons the books are something like the holy scriptures of the gaming table. The Player's Handbook says what your character can ...

Long before text messages existed, Dungeons & Dragons already had the Sending Stones. The pebbles always turn up in pairs, and whoever touches ...

When Frodo leaves Lothlórien, Galadriel presses a small glass vial into his hand. Caught inside it is the light of Eärendil's star, gathered from t...

Frodo does not wear the One Ring on his finger but on a plain chain around his neck, and for good reason. On the finger it turns you invisible and ...

More than a thousand pages, six books and an appendix full of family trees and calendars: reading The Lord of the Rings keeps you on the road for q...

There is that one moment in Cyrodiil nobody ever forgets: the sky turns red, the ground tears open, and out of the rock grows a burning gate with a...

Who actually decided that a princess has to wait in a tower for rescue? Not this one. She put on her adventurer hat, grabbed a whip, and stuffed a ...

The Fellowship set out to save Middle-earth – and the Hobbits of the Shire proved that the smallest are often the greatest. Frodo, Sam, Bilbo, Merr...

Anyone who has ever crept down a gloomy dungeon corridor knows the shiver: something translucent shimmers ahead of you, almost invisible, and befor...

Every dungeon crawler knows the moment: at last the supposed treasure chest stands before you, but the instant you reach out for it, a tooth-lined ...

In the very first episode of The Witcher, the paths of Geralt and Princess Renfri cross in Blaviken. Their nighttime encounter ends tragically, and...

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." Anyone who knows this line also knows that, right afterwards, an unassuming piece of parchment reveals ...

Deep beneath the bathrooms of Hogwarts lies a secret that can only be opened with Parseltongue. Anyone who has ever watched the round stone door wi...

Right in his first year at Hogwarts, Neville Longbottom receives a special gift from his grandmother: a Remembrall, a milky glass ball that turns r...

Deep in the fire of Mount Doom, where the air shimmers with heat, the Dark Lord once forged his most dangerous weapon. One Ring to rule them all, c...

Somewhere in a winding alley of London, between talking paintings and flying broomsticks, there is a very special shop. Since 382 BC, the finest wa...