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This is my realm, earth-child-- a place of heart's ease and delight-- and you will flaunt your coarse mortal ways here nevermore. 
- — Queen Titania src
Titania is the Queen of The Fair Lands, wife of King Auberon. She is the mother of Tim Hunter, conceived with Tamlin the Falconer. Tim, though still a boy when we first meet him, is destined to be Earth's greatest mage.
History
Origins
Titania was a poor human girl living around the Middle Ages in England named Rosemary, who went to the woods to find kindling. There she was found by Queen Dymphna of Seelie Court, who took her into The Fair Lands and made the girl her protege. She was taught magic and unknowingly was part of the schemes of Amadan which resulted in the death of Queen Dymphna, and her own ascent as Queen of Faerie, as wife of Obrey. Years later, Obrey died in battle, against his nephew, Auberon, and they both decided to marry to unite the Fair Lands. That pleased her, as she did not wanted to come back to live a poor life as a human. As a Queen again by necessity, she felt melancholic, and went back to the waking world, where she found her old house destroyed by time. Tamlin found her crying, and she fell in love with the human. Both returned to Faerie, where he served the Seelie Court, while having secrets encounters with the Queen.[2]
Around 1500 to early 1900
Titania attended with Auberon and all the Seelie court to a play made by Shakespeare, invited by Lord Morpheus. There she convinced Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, to come back to the Fair Lands with them to serve the Seelie court.[3] Years later, she played a small role assisting Mad Hettie into protecting the Great Seal of United States, for a price.[4]
Around 1980
Titania became pregnant, but she could not discern if the baby was from Tamlin, or from Auberon. Tamlin offered her to escape, but instead of leaving Faerie, she preferred to stay as a Queen. When the boy was born a perfect human child, she charged Amadan, and Bridey the Brownie to make the boy disappear.[5] She did had a son with Auberon at some time, Taik, but she gave it to the Lords of Hell to pay a tithe.
Present day
She met with his son again years later, when Doctor Occult brought the boy to the Fair Lands while teaching him about magic. She recognized him, but told him nothing.
While the Fair Lands were withering by actions of the Manticore, Titania once again encounters her son, who was brought to help the Fair Land by his father, Tamlin. The Manticore was a strong enemy and mortally wounded the boy. Tamlin traded places with Tim, and for this, Titania hated her son.
When Dream was in possession of the key to Hell, Titania sent Cluracan and Nuala as envoys of the Fair Lands to negotiate for it. She gave Nuala to Dream as a token of good faith, until, advised by Cluracan of the menace that befell Lord Shaper, she asked for Nuala back.[6] When Dream died, Titania assisted at the wake.
Auberon lost his soul in the walking world, tricked by Gwendolyn, and feeling his absence she traveled along with Amadan to earth. Once Auberon recovered his soul, he heard that Tim was Titania's son, but he discarded this as false, as the boy had not fairy blood on him. Titania and Amadan knew better, but kept silent.
Rites of Passage
Titania's kingdom later received a visit from Molly O'Reilly, her son's ex-girlfriend. Molly wasn't impressed by the fairies or their customs. To survive in this foreign land, Molly started building a tree house all by herself and started cultivating an orchard to feed herself. The fairies of the Seelie court, such as Yarrow, where astounded, as they had never seen someone work before. They were all too used to using magic to do their shores, so a little bit of work was a concept which was strange for them and they kept visiting her and even began to help Molly, leaving Titania unattended. This enraged Titania, who cursed the girl to set fire to everything that she touched. This lead to a war with Molly which left the Fair Lands in ashes.[7] As if this wasn't enough, the Leveler was announced to come, at the same time that the Lords of Hell came to reclaim Taik, the son of Titania and Auberon whom they had given to Hell as a tithe. Wanting to avoid war with Hell, she used this information to scare the Lords of Hell, protecting the kingdom in her armor, at the head of her army. She could not, though, confront the Leveler, because when she stopped the Lords of Hell, all of Faerie became mist, and losing its shape until someone from the Fair Lands could wish strongly enough to save it. Titania confronted her past, when she was an innocent child, but her distance was too much to create a bridge to commune with her counterpart, and lost her chance to save Faerie. Yarrow did, though, after learning from the example set by Molly against Titania, she wished enough to protect the Fair Lands, and Faerie were saved. Titania repented on her curse, and gave Molly an enchanted satchel and the ability to levitate, so she could go back to the walking world.
Sholas
Barbatos, after escaped the fantasy world where he was left, fell into the Fair Lands, where he schemed his revenge on Tim and Molly. To achieve his goals he used Sholas on a frog, who he called Ibbit, and used him as a channel for the stone's magic to control fairie. Auberon, who was worried by the dissapearance of fairies, went searching for the nature of this, and found Barbatos. He was then made a slave, as other fairies, and forced to bring water, or became a doll for Barbatos to sell in the walking world. Titania, noticing the lack of servants in her court, went searching for Auberon and the missing faeries. She fell as well, as no fairy magic is strong enough against Sholas. Briar Rose plotted, with Barbatos, to add the kings to their revenge, but the arrival of Molly to the Fair Lands with Yarrow stopped their plans. Titania killed the body of Briar Rose, whose soul was forced to wander until it could find another body. Sholas, freed of the influence of Ibbit and Barbatos, choose Molly as the protector of the Fair Lands, and lifted her curses.[8] Titania then noticed that the Seelie court was at their weakest, without the stone in her hands.
Beacadh
With Sholas on human hands, the race for finding the other stone containing the other half of the essence of the Fay started. Titania's spies discovered that King Finvarra of the Unseelie court also wanted the stone, so she tasked Cluracan to search for Nuala, as her investigation pointed her as the last owner of the stone. After all the legwork was done, Titania offered to the current owner of the stone, Maddy, a boon for it, but the Thessalian witch argued about the validity of her claim. Maddy finally returned the stone to Nuala, and she broke the stone to recover all of her magic. Also, with this action, half the essence of the fay returned to the Fair Lands. Titania promised repercussions for this action, but the only thing that she could do was tp forbid Nuala to return to the Fair Lands. After this, Titania returned to rule her kingdom. She talked with Tim a couple of years later to tell him his real name.[9]
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Magic: As Queen of the Seelie court, Titania has an array of the strongest magics in all the faerie land. She trusts her magic to do most of her bidding, and she believes herself to be unmatched, which gives her an arrogant air around everyone else.
- Glamour: As a fairy, Titania uses a 'glamour' to change her appearence, and keep herself young and beautiful. She takes it as the height of disrespect to be in her presence without wearing a glamour.
- Curses: Titania's magic allows her to curse other creatures, as she did with Molly O'Reilly. For example, when Molly O'Reilly grew food on her orchard within the Fair Lands, the resultant fruit would be fairy food, and by eating it, she would thus be cursed.
- Boons: Titania can also use her magic in benevolent ways. As all with fairys, she can give beneficial effects to another person's life with magic. Sometimes this is done cryptically, and at other times she states clearly what the effects will be.[10]
- Dimensional Travel: Titania can use her magic to move freely between most of the different realms.
- Teleportation
- Eldritch Blast
- Immortality: Titania's life has spanned hundreds of years. The progression of age appears not to have affected her.
Abilities
- Political Science
- Diplomacy
- Leadership
- Intimidation
- Deception
- Law: As Queen of The Fair Lands, she is well versed on the laws of the lands, as well as those of many other lands, and uses them with cunning to reach her goals.
Weaknesses
- Arrogance: Titania has been Queen for a long span of time and this has made her a very arrogant person, used to being served, and one who treats others with disregard, unconcerned about potential damage that she may be causing them.
- Ancient Rules: As with all of the inhabitants of mystic realms, Queen Titania is bound to a complex set of rules and customs that limit her actions.
Paraphernalia
Equipment
- Torque Necklace: Most fairies have an item that allows them to channel their magic. The torque necklace from Titania belonged to the previous Queen, Dymphna.
Notes
- This character is an adaptation of Titania, a character from the play A Midsummer Night's Dream written play William Shakespeare performed in 1596. More information can be found in the Wikipedia.org article Titania.
Related
- 49 Appearances of Titania (New Earth)
- 5 Images featuring Titania (New Earth)
- 7 Quotations by or about Titania (New Earth)
- Character Gallery: Titania (New Earth)
Footnotes