overworld

The celestial world.

The Chippewa believe that there are four "layers," or storeys, of the world above, and four of the world below. This is probably only a reflection in the overworld and the nether world of the fourfold structure of the cosmos, since four is everywhere the Indian's sacred number.

The hours that followed this amazing resurrection (Steven could think of it as nothing less) were as painful in another way as had been the hours that preceded it; for now it was Radford’s reason that seemed in danger, if not already gone beyond recall, left behind in that underworld or overworld from which his spirit had emerged to reclaim the body that science had pronounced dead. The situation had changed with amazing suddenness, and the girl, now in full possession of herself once more, found that the lover for whom she had wrestled with death, seemed not to remember her, had indeed no memory of anything or person in his immediate surroundings. There was an anxious cloudiness in his eyes which still seemed focused on some supersensible experience, so tremendous that it held for him a reality which life lacked. Such broken sentences as he uttered were strange as this look in his eyes. He seemed at first to see and hear very indistinctly, murmuring that everything was “in fragments, in parts”.

The community of law-abiding citizens.

An overarching map or region connecting various disparate towns, dungeons, or stages, usually represented on it by icons.

The portion of a game that is set above ground, as opposed to underground caves etc.

The overworld theme for the original Super Mario Bros. remains one of the most recognizable video game tunes to date.

The entirety of the world where the player can walk around, as opposed to separate game sections for battles, puzzles, etc.