List of fictional airborne castles
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The idea of cities floating in gas giants was popularized by the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back, in which a gas mine floats in the atmosphere of the planet Bespin. Another notable example is the antigravity-supported City of Stratos, in the Star Trek episode The Cloud Minders. In Stargate Atlantis the title city floats on an ocean (although it is actually a fully functional interstellar spaceship). The main setting in Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy is a giant dome shaped city that is a spaceship. In the Beast Wars of the Transformers universe, the Vok build an observational flying land structure on which are a garden and a number of buildings. In Larry Niven's Ringworld series, floating cities are all that remain of the ancient inhabitants of the Ringworld.
Below is a list of fictional airborne castles.
- Howl's castle in Howl's Moving Castle and sequel Castle in the Air (by Diana Wynne Jones)
- The Steam Castle (aka., Steam Tower) in Steamboy
- The giant's castle in the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, later incorporated into the comic book series Fables
- The castle on a cloud from the imagination of Cosette from the musical Les Misérables
- Cloud Club in Another Day, Another Dungeon by Greg Costikyan
- Morrolan's castle "Castle Black" in Steven Brust's books about Vlad Taltos
- Laputa in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
- The titular castle, also named Laputa, in tribute to the above, in the 1986 animated film Castle in the Sky.
- The Darigan Citadel in Meridell in the Neopets world.
- Bowser's Castle is capable of turning into a floating castle in many of the Mario Bros games, including Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
- The Castle in the Air in The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- The Flying Castle in Ringworld by Larry Niven
- The Flying Fortress/Sky Castle in Final Fantasy
- Zenethia castle in the Dragon Quest series
- Helliwood in Now and Then, Here and There
- The upside down castle above the dueling platform in Revolutionary Girl Utena
- Ultimecia's castle in Final Fantasy VIII.
- The Flying Castle of Dreams, a popular message board founded by Lord Teisel.
- The Flying Citadel used by the Dragonarmies in the Dragonlance novels
- In the 1998 PC game Unreal, the natives, known as Nali, have a floating settlement above the planet Gryphon called "Na Pali Haven" complete with a river, farms, and a town center.
- The air castle, known as Air Castle, which once floated above the planet Parma of the Phantasy Star series.
- The floating kingdom of Zeal in Chrono Trigger
- The Sky Palace, found in the Act Raiser games.
- The abandoned flying castle which crashed in the mountains in With A Single Spell by Lawrence Watt-Evans.
- The Castle in the Clouds in the Sky, found in the Kingdom of Loathing.
- The Sky Sanctuary in Sonic & Knuckles.
- The Castle That Never Was in Kingdom Hearts II.
- Roper Klacks's castle in The Longest Journey
- Neameeto-The Castle of Deranged Gods in Shadow Hearts
- Idar Flamme in Shadow Hearts: Covenant
- The castle on a floating rock in The Castle in the Pyrenees, a 1959 painting by René Magritte
- The city of Airlandis in the 1996 tv program, Dragon Flyz.
- A flying brothel and a flying windmill on a chunk of land in the music video of Feel Good Inc by Gorrilaz.
[edit] Not Quite
- Mt. Olympus, home of the Greek Gods. It is a palace that is high above the clouds, so it is sort of a floating castle, but reference is made to "the topmost peak of many-ridged Olympus", so it's not exactly a floating castle. Also, Zeus claims that he had the earth and sea form the pinnacle of Olympus, so it's not exactly clear what it is.
- Cloud-cuckoo-land (Nephelokykkygia) from Aristophanes' The Birds
- Wyrmberg - an upside down mountain held up by high levels of magic on Discworld, from The Colour of Magic.
- A Krimzon Guard Bot (KGB) War Factory Rotates above Haven City in the Playstation 2 game Jak 3.
[edit] Music
- Castles in the Sky by Ian Van Dahl
- Spanish Castles in Space by The Orb
