Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5679696-20161205034133/@comment-5106672-20161206173612

This gets me wonder: FTL and the LWM seem to be fairly “normal” and similar, except for FTL having native magic while in the LWM it must be imported (for the most part, at least), and functionally being in different ages (feudal, pre-modern age for FTL, modern industrial age for the LWM). FTL in particular seems to have a time continuum akin to our own, with a succession of different eras (the time Merlin was a slave had more of a Roman Empire feel than present-day FTL, and we've seen ruins in different styles than the current age such as Medusa's lair).

Conversely, most of the other realms we've seen seem to have something odd and, occasionally, very specific. Wonderland has just weird physics laws, the Land Without Colour is in greyscale, Neverland runs on belief… but the others, such as Victorian England, 19th Century France, 1920s England, work in a weird, very specific way, namely being stuck in a specific place and timeframe with their inhabitants apparently oblivious of the bizarre time flow (as pointed out to Cruella by Isaac). Even their names have very strong connotations in space and time.

Could it be tha these reality-defying realms started out as Wish Realms shaped to suit the specific wishes of certain individuals, and then grew into their own worlds? (Like for instance, someone from the LWM got marooned in FTL like Violet's father did, then wished to go back to their own time and country, and the wish was granted in that twisted way).