Talk:Floating island (fiction)

Title

Propose that the name be pluralised, as a book exists called "Floating Island". Also, the article is about Islands, not an Island. Archolman 01:28, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

• I agree with that notion. While some fiction concepts, like Floating city (science fiction), are still singular in title, most I've seen here on Wikipedia are pluralized. I also take issue with the fact that the article claims that a water-based floating island is the default type and that a "flying island" is more of a subset. From what I counted, more examples of the concept are sky-based islands than water-based island. I think the exact definitions need to be retooled as well as more synonyms (such as sky" islands") added to make it easier to find the page. SeiADP (talk) 23:51, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

The article is about the concept of a floating island as presented in fiction, whether alone or in groups, so singular is quite appropriate. IMHO, of course. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 00:02, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Before I had said "most I've seen here on Wikipedia are pluralized". I was basing that off of Template:Science fiction, but I hadn't noticed that, while pluralized in the template listing, many of the pluralized titles' articles were in fact singular in their titles (meaning there was a discrepancy in the Template title and the actual article title). In light of that, I really have no opinion either way now on whether this article's title should be changed. The rest of what I said though I still feel is important. SeiADP (talk) 23:13, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

video games

The list of video games with floating islands just keeps growing and growing, turning into a trivia pit. There seemed no obvious examples that had to be kept (e.g., the first video game wth a floating island? the "definitive" video game floating island?) so I just removed it. Here's s how it was in case folks want to resurrect it, or cherry-pick it:

• Stratosphere: Conquest of the Skies is based around combat between mobile floating islands.
• The entire world of Skies of Arcadia is a series of islands in the sky, with the ground being a sea of fog and mud.
• The world of Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean as well as its prequel Baten Kaitos Origins consists of floating islands in the sky that were displaced after a War of the Gods polluted the Earth.
• A large floating island named Angel Island makes frequent appearances in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and is home to the Master Emerald and Knuckles the Echidna.
• A level in Tomb Raider II is named Floating Islands.
• Cave Story is set in a giant floating island, visible in the end credits.
• Floating continents are present in Final Fantasy III and Final Fantasy VI.
• The city of Anemos in the Golden Sun series is a floating island that stays in the air by use of magic.
• The Kingdom of Zeal in Chrono Trigger is a nation made of floating continents.
• Vane and Neo-Vane in Lunar: Silver Star Story and Lunar: Eternal Blue are floating cities.
• In Breath of Fire II, one of the endings includes "Township" being able to fly.
• In The Granstream Saga there are many floating islands.
• In the World of Warcraft expansion pack Wrath of the Lich King, the mage-governed city of Dalaran levitates over the region of Northrend.
• Minecraft has naturally generated floating islands.
• Terraria also has naturally generated floating islands.
• Maplestory has some floating islands.
• Flyff Has floating islands in some maps.
• In Kings Quest VII Valanice travels to The Cloud Kingdom - Etheria.
• Almost every Myst-game has a floating island.
• In The Journey To The Centre Of The Earth there is a floating garden.
• In Combat of Giants Dragons, the wind area of the game features floating islands in the sky. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.33.108.187 (talk) 16:32, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
• Various example of floating islands in the sky can be found in The Legend of Zelda series. Examples include City in the Sky in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Palace of the Winds in The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap, and the continent of Skyloft in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
• Stratos is a region in Drakan: The Ancients' Gates that consists of floating landmasses.
• In The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, part of the game takes place in a region with floating islands.

- DavidWBrooks (talk) 11:22, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

I can identify four games from that list that are both notable and, rather than just feature, are essentially based around the floating island concept. Those are the Baten Kaitos games, Skies of Arcadia, and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. The Sonic and Chrono Trigger islands (Angel Island and Zeal) are both fairly recognizable, but neither games focuses heavily on their inclusion and are probably best left out. I think I'll put the four mentioned examples in the article soon. -SeiADP (talk) 08:35, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Here are more listings of games that people have added since that really don't centrally feature the concept:

• In Final Fantasy III, much of the game takes place on a floating continent before the discovery of a sunken world below it.
• In Secret of Mana, the climax of the game takes place on a fortress located on a floating island.
• In Chrono Trigger, the player characters travel to an ancient time period where an advanced civilization on a floating island once existed.
• In the Sonic the Hedgehog series, Angel Island (where Knuckles the Echidna safeguards the Master Emerald) was formerly called the Floating Island.
• The Ys series, particularly Ys I & II; Ys I revolves around the search for the lost ancient civilization of Ys, which is discovered to be a floating island in Ys II.
• In Cave Story and subsequent remakes, the hero is on a floating island held in the air by a being known as the "Core". Upon the Core's destruction, the island falls to Earth. In a secret ending, you face a magician named Ballos. Upon his defeat, the island stops falling out of the sky.
• Minecraft's "End" dimension is a large floating mass of white rock suspended over a black void. Floating islands also rarely generate near mountains.
• "Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future"'s level "Hanging waters" features not only suspended Islands but floating tubes of water as well.
• "Ecco: The Tides of Time" features floating waterways, as well as floating landmasses.
• "Dragon Hunters", two games: the videogame for PC and the platformer for Nintendo DS.

- SeiADP (talk) 16:59, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

• The Kingdom of Zeal from Chrono Trigger, consists of four islands that flow above the continent and seas.

- SeiADP (talk) 02:33, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

• In the Antiquity Era of Chrono Trigger The Kingdom of Zeal is composed of four islands.
• Eador: Masters of the Broken World is a game that is about conquering floating islands.

- SeiADP (talk) 20:55, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Project Nomads is entirely set on floating islands. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.62.125.222 (talk) 05:06, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Animorphs - Ket and the Ketrans

In K. A. Applegate's Animorphs series, one companion book, The Ellimist Chronicles, deals with the origin story for the main plot conflict of the series. In this Chronicle, the Ellimist is revealed to be from a race called Ketrans, who live on the planet of Ket. However, they do not live on the surface, which is an environmental wasteland, but rather on floating islands made of crystal. The Ketrans propel these islands via their wings.

Not sure where this would fit, but it's definitely a floating island.

A mess of lists

This article has continued to be nothing but a messy bunch of lists. Floating island is such a widespread concept that it's in a gazillion places.

I suggest we create List of floating islands in fiction and shove most of this article there.

What think you? - DavidWBrooks (talk) 20:21, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

The silence is deafening. I will probably proceed soon unless somebody objects. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 16:45, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

OK, done - DavidWBrooks (talk) 01:32, 23 April 2016 (UTC)