I argue that even though fictional entities are prototypically narrative entities, they still are concrete cultural artifacts. Fictional characters are not objects, but narrative functions within a story that are always immanent in a material representation. I explain how fictional entities are concrete cultural artefacts, appealing to the fact that human culture is primarily a material culture. Fictional entities are materially available in the ecological niche that a community inhabits; they are shared, manipulated, and reproduced as material objects. These material representations may be internalized by individuals in the form of modal concepts: they fundamentally are material props for human cognitive skills, which include narrative practices. This is the framework within which narratives develop as a collective emergence of a human community. Fictional entities are publicly crafted cultural artefacts in that they fundamentally lean on public representations that eventually can achieve a canonical status. I end by developing further on a specific kind of fictional entities, scientific models, specifying the cognitive role played by these fictional entities into our communities in so far as they are public representations.