Witch World

Witch World is an early and influential Heroic Fantasy setting, created by Andre Norton.

In the first volume, written in 1963, Simon Tregarth travels from America to Estcarp, on the Witch World, using the Seige Perilous, which sends people to the world that best fits them. There he discovers magic powers, and plays a leading role in a war against high-tech invaders from a third world.

After one sequel, the focus moved to Simon's children, who crossed the eastern mountains to the land from where the Witch Species had come, and many old powers slept for good or ill.

Norton also wrote books set on the continent across the sea, with little overt connection with the early volumes beyond the setting. Many of the later books were written in collaboration with fans of the original.

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Tropes from Witch World

• Arranged Marriage
• Balance Between Good and Evil
• Changing of the Guard: The switch from Simon to his children.
• Curse
• Derelict Graveyard
• Dreaming of Times Gone By
• Due to the Dead
• Fire-Forged Friends
• Gender Restricted Ability
• Home, Sweet Home
• Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe : Invoked in the Jargoon Pard to explain how he can be his uncle's heir when his uncle has a son.
• Needle in a Stack of Needles
• No One Gets Left Behind
• People of Hair Color
• Rip Van Winkle
• Second Love
• "Shut Up" Kiss
• Talking in Your Dreams
• Virgin Power: The Witches of Estcarp thought magic worked this way. They were wrong.
• The Wild Hunt
• Witch Species: The Old Race
• World Sundering: Twice, once in the backstory, to create the eastern mountain barrier of Estcarp, once in the third volume, to create a southern mountain barrier.