The Jewel Riders in the Icy Wastes
In Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders, several otherworldly places outside of both Avalon and the Wild Magic are also visited through the series, especially in the show's second season. Some of them are then revisited in the final episode, "The One Jewel". Each of them has also its version in the Avalon: Web of Magic book series.
Faeryland[]
King Odeon's tree castle in Gardenia
Faeryland (Féerie in French) is a realm featured in the episode "The Faery Princess": "This land of the little pixie faeries is a serene and magical place, an enchanted garden world filled with soft, verdant hills, abundant fruit, and lots of gardens. The sky is pink, the grass is blue. Faery architecture is based on plants, trees, and flowers. Faery knolls (faery houses) are everywhere, built into plants, trees, rosebushes, and so forth. The Faery Castle is built inside a tree."
Faeryland is an otherworldly garden kingdom ruled by King Odeon. It has its own magic and architecture that is very unlike that of the humans. When the Jewel Riders visit Faeryland, they discover how different is their magic that requires an adjustment period.
As the story begins, it is only accessible from Avalon through the secret passage of the magic Rainbow Bridge, hidden somewhere in the Burning Desert that covers the western edge of Avalon. A thousand years ago, Merlin had agreed to Odeon to keep it separate from Avalon and a secret to the humans, and so it was not on any of the maps in possession of Queen Anya when the land was invaded by her evil twin sister Lady Kale through a newly created Wild Magic portal. However, the Jewel Riders manage to find a way to Faeryland just in time to save it from Kale's plan to rule it as the faery queen, driving her away before she could master its strange magic and use it for evil. After King Odeon is rescued from Kale and Faeryland is made safe again by the Jewel Riders, he agrees to reopen the Rainbow Bridge. The king of the fairies and the arrived Anya then sign a treaty uniting their realms in peace under human protection.
In a scene cut from the episode, the Jewel Riders restored the Rainbow Bridge after the battle with Kale using their Enchanted Jewels.[1] Faeryland would then also briefly appear in a scene cut from "Full Circle" as one of the places where Kale would be searching for Merlin to destroy him with her anti-magic.[2]
Faeryland was inspired by Fairyland from the British folklore. In Avalon: Web of Magic, there are the Fairy Realms, described as a "magical world on the web closest to Avalon"[3] and including the Fairy Kingdom.
Gardenia[]
Gardenia an enchanted realm featured in the episode "The Wizard of Gardenia". When the Jewel Riders first land there, it described as follows: "The flower beds are shaped in magical patterns. In the distance, orchards display exotic fruit. Brick walkways meander across the landscape, linking Japanese-style rock-and-sand gardens to lily ponds with outsize pads."[4]
Gardenia is full of strange living hedge/crystal animals. The ancient wizard Mallory once lived in a massive faery-castle built out of tree. He had a giant magical hedge maze known as the Wizard's Playground, hidden from sight by a spell and further protected by a force field barrier. Mallory's gnome apprentice Chance has somehow continued to live there, still tending to the gardens.
It was inspired by the Gardens of Versailles. In Avalon: Web of Magic, there are similar topiary gardens (also coming to life in one book), a hedge maze, and sculpture gardens in Ravenswood Preserve.
Icy Wastes[]
The Icy Wastes is a realm featured in "Shadowsong" which looks a lot like the Crystal Peaks but with three moons in the sky. It is described in the script as a "frozen wasteland, an Arctic valley of ice. Three moons rise overhead emanating an eerie cast to coloring. The wind rips through the valley bringing an icy chill. on three sides of the valley are ice walls with many ledges and caves."[5]
A large "Indiana Jones styled cave with magical insignia and markings posted on runes" leads down a slide through a trap door to the Tower of Glass, another of Morgana's hidden lairs. It is a "wide and very strange room filled with strangely shaped glass tubes (like glass stalactites) filled with magic. The image of Morgana appears reflected off the glass that surrounds the interior. The reflection is in pieces, cracked as if reflected off of a broken mirror." Morgana attempted to drain and steal the magic of the girls' Enchanted Jewels to free herself from the wild magic and leave them trapped there, but Shadowsong foiled her plan.
The Tower of Glass seems to be inspired by the glass tower in which the enchantress Nimue would imprison Merlin in some versions of Arthurian legend. Its name also evokes the Isle of Glass, an otherworldly island to which Guinevere was abducted in a Welsh legend. In Avalon: Web of Magic, there are the Mountains of Glass in Aldenmor.
Jurassic World[]
This world is a "Jurassic era land filled with dinos and steaming pools of lava", accessible only through the very special Time Stone portal hidden in the Jungle. Its very dangerous Dinosaur Valley is briefly visited by the Jewel Riders in the episodes "Mystery Island" (when the evil Lady Kale gets also trapped there for a while), and then again in "The One Jewel".
Magic Lagoon[]
The Magic Lagoon is wondrous lagoon featured in the episode "The Jewel of the Sea". It is located beyond the sea border mists of Avalon and the Jewel Riders arrive there via The Jewel of Avalon.
In the work-in-progress treatment "Mermaids", it was known as the Oyster Lands: "a magical place of crystalline oysters and sea horses, where the mer-people's magic pearls originate, guarded by a dreaded sea serpent. Once every 7 years, a mer-person must brave the Oyster Lands to get more seed pearls for their own harvest lands. A thousand years ago, a wizard jewel landed here, turning everything magical and crystalline. Problem is, it also turned to crystal the egg of the sea serpent who lived here, and the poor mother has been sitting on it and fiercely defending it against all intruders all this time, not understanding why the thing doesn't hatch."[6]
The Lagoon's birds eye view was inspired of that of the Neverland from Disney's Peter Pan movie. It in turns inspired the Aldenmor's seaside kingdom of Aquatania in Avalon: Web of Magic.
Magic Veldt[]
The Magic Veldt is a realm featured in the episode "Shadowsong". It is where the Jewel Rider Tamara first met a very strange unicorn, the titular Shadowsong, who then became her special friend.
The script described it as a beautiful "great grassy field, a magical 'African' style veldt, Serengeti plains," with some forested areas that are full of strange wild plants and trees.
Vale of the Unicorns[]
The Vale of the Unicorns is the legendary unicorn kingdom ruled by Queen Sierra. It is featured in the episode "Vale of the Unicorns". The episode's draft script describes it "a magic land by the seashore. The Vale is set in the rocky crags along the empty seacoast. It is a magical, primeval setting that hasn't changed in thousands of years. In the distance, huge rocks rise up from the sea in jagged arcs and spikes." Its magic enables all unicorns and humans to communicate freely.
In the highlands, there is the enormous Cave of Trials ("the cave leads into the huge rock formations that rise up from the sea. There's a ramp of rock and shale leading up to the mouth of the cave") leading to the Magic Path: "A protected a cove just off of the ocean. Great waves break against the jutting rocks surrounding the cove. From above in the highlands, a path winds down to the cove. The floor of the cove is flat and inlaid like a game board. Large white pearl diamonds inlay across the floor of the cove forming patterns (each one big enough to hold a unicorn). On the far side of the floor stands a black marble plinth, about four feet tall." Walking the dangerous path successfully and retrieving the Unicorn Jewel determines who will become the new ruler of the unicorns. Unknown to the unicorns, the place is actually a former lair of one of the ancient wizards, which explains all the traps.
The Cave was partially inspired by the then-recent (1994) video game Doom II.[7] In Avalon: Web of Magic, the land of unicorns is called Dalriada.