The Dark Crystal included some nods to a movement.
 Its story is set hundreds of years before the events of The Dark Crystal, after the Great Conjunction which saw the splitting of the urSkeks into the Mystics and the Skeksis, but before the Great Extermination of the Gelflings
== In other media ==A book entitled The World of The Dark Crystal, written and illustrated by Brian Froud, was released at the same time as the film

