Woaaaaahhhh this prompt looks dope. I, uh, have a couple of questions regarding scope/specifics in case I start messing up things this early in the week:

=You say "fantasy," but some of your examples--such as Inception, and especially The Matrix--are probably more in different genres. Are we supposed to stay in the realm of high fantasy (things like wizards and dragons, ala Lord of the Rings, A Song of Ice and Fire, Harry Potter, and the things you mentioned in the first paragraph of the prompt), or are we supposed to err more on the side of "blow my mind"? I can see that going a lot of different ways.
=What are the specific rules of "no humans allowed"--can they be mentioned in the story and never appear, or is this completely a universe where humans simply don't exist? What exactly defines a human, anyway? The Elves in LoTR, for example, are almost-human in appearance, and the Dwarves are basically smaller/violent humans, and the Hobbits are little humans who have furry feet and enjoy eating and smoking, but would you consider those to be human?

hi sorry I have loads of questions because this prompt is amazeballs