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Ley lines in fiction

 * Ley Lines (Nihon Kuro Shakai) is the English literal title of Japanese director Takashi Miike's 1999 film, which does not address the phenomenon of ley lines directly, but rather uses the idea subliminally as the film's protagonists set out along their own 'ley lines', or the railways of Honshū to Tokyo. It is the final installment in a series of three films, entitled 'Black Society Trilogy'.
 * In Kim Harrison's novels (The Hollows series), magical beings such as witches, demons and elves can tap into ley lines to add a larger dose of magical energy to their spells.
 * In the Michael Scott novels The Alchemyst and The Magician, ley lines are used for magical travel.
 * In the Thomas Pynchon novel Mason & Dixon, the historical-fictional character Dixon claims to have "flown" along ley-lines in his youth, though he may well have only been putting Mason on.


 * In a number of sword and sorcery universes, ley lines are channels of subtle magical power, the intersections of which are sites of higher than usual magic energy:
 * Outlaw Star - Galactic Leyline
 * Rental Magica
 * The Last Mimzy
 * Rifts
 * Patricia Wrede & Caroline Stevermer Ley lines are a critical plot device in the 3rd book of the "Sorcery and Cecelia" series--The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After. Ley lines power the trains of England, and are used by some wicked magicians as an additional source of power.
 * the Video Game Dungeon Siege 2 refers to Ley Lines multiple times.
 * White Wolf Studio's Vampire: The Requiem Role Playing Game - Primarily used by the Covenant called Ordo Dracul, and referred by them as "Dragon Lines".
 * Eureka Seven
 * World of Warcraft There are many references to ley lines as being flows of magical energy, many quests are included to help locate the whereabouts of these lines. These all intersect at a location under "Karazhan" - the tower and home of the Last Guardian, Medvih.
 * In the Hollows (series) book series by Kim Harrison, ley lines are used by witches to bewitch objects, aid in potions and affect the world around them.
 * In The Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner, Colin heals his sister with a magical plant that only grows on The Old Straight Track.
 * White Wolf Studio's Exalted series of Role Playing Games makes heavy use of ley lines, as streams of Essence within Creation. Both mortal thaumaturges and the Exalted themselves often use them to construct Manses and Demesnes (places of power), as well as other minor and major magical effects.
 * Shadow Hearts: Covenant has ley lines serve as a very minor piece of the plot on the second disc.
 * In X-Files, Series Finale: The CSM reveals that ancient Hopi were "the orginal shadow government.", as they hid in fortresses on ley lines in northern New Mexico to save themselves.The invading Greys are damaged by some properties of the ley lines of that area, ala Roswell, NM UFO crash.
 * In Civilization II: Test of Time's fantasy scenarios, ley lines are used to transport units vast distances.
 * The Chaos code-Justin Richards. Ley lines linking historical structures around the world to the old north pole.
 * In the Birthright campaign setting for AD&D 2nd Edition, ley lines were used by wizard regents to transport raw magical energy over great distances.
 * In Asheron's Call, ley lines are underground rivers of magical energy.
 * In the Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey, ley lines are sources of magical power. This magic flows out of all living things and forms currents. These currents come together to form ley lines, like streams forming a river. The convergence of two ley lines is called a node, and only the most powerful magicians, called Adepts, can use the wild and unpredictable power of nodes.
 * In Destroy All Humans! 3, according to the "Lunarian Church of Alientology", they are "invisible rivers of mystical energy", and they want to build where the ley lines cross in order to use them to communicate interstellar distances with their minds.
 * In Magic the Gathering, in the Ravnica set, there is a cycle of 5 cards referring to leylines: Leyline of the Meek (White), Leyline of Singularity (Blue), Leyline of the Void (Black), Leyline of Lightning (Red) and Leyline of Lifeforce (Green). Each one has an ability that allows you to start the game with it in play if you have it in your starting hand.
 * In The Vampire Diaries, the town of Fell's Church is located on converging leylines, which attracts many mythical creatures.
 * In The Dresden Files, the mysterious, haunted Island which Harry Dresden names "Demonreach" is at the centre of a group of ley lines.
 * In Warehouse 13 in the episode Elements, Claudia suggests to Artie that the Lenape secret cave may be under a magnetic ley line.