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Titania

Titania is the Queen of the Faeries of Etheria. She is a faerie noble of the high court of Etheria.

Wife of Oberon, mother of Edgar. She is a niece of the Three Fates, and sister of Malicia and the Weaver of Dreams.

Background[]

Little is known about Titania when she was a child, and when she first married Oberon, and they began ruling over Etheria.

Titania as a being immortal has ruled over the alternate universe known as the Realm of Eldritch (Faerieland: Eldritch and the kingdom of Etheria) for aeons. Not long after the birth of her son Edgar, the child was kidnapped by the evil faerie Lolotte. Oberon and Titania searched the world for their baby, but finally they had to give up and turn their attentions back to their kingdom. They thought their only son was dead. They did not realize that their son has been taken to an alternate dimension (World of Daventry).

William Shakespeare once wrote about Titania in one his plays, Rosella once read a line from the book;

You spotted snakes with double tongue,
Thorny hedge-hogs, be not seen;
Newts, and blind-worms, do no wrong;
Come not near our fairy queen.[1]

Titles[]

  • Queen of the Faeries
  • Queen of Faerie
  • Queen of Etheria

Notes[]

The Magic Statuette is believed to have belonged to Titania when she was a child.[2]

Behind the scenes[]

The fact that the Weaver of Dreams is Titania's brother is mentioned by the Weaver of Dreams in KQ7.

Titania is a character in William Shakespeare's 1595-96 play A Midsummer Night's Dream . In the play, she is the queen of the fairies. In traditional folklore, the fairy queen has no name. Shakespeare took the name "Titania" from Ovid's Metamorphoses, where it is an appellation given to the daughters of Titans. Titania is an epithet of the Roman goddess Diana. Diana was regularly portrayed as the ruler of the fairy kingdom in demonological literature, such as King James VI of Scotland's Daemonologie, which says that she belongs to "the fourth kind of spirits, which by the Gentiles [non-Jews] was called Diana and her wandering court, and amongst us is called Fairy (as I told you) or our good neighbours".

Titania (unofficial)[]

Titania appears in the fan games, see Titania (unofficial).

References[]

  1. KQ4, from A Midsummer Night's Dream
  2. It is not really hiss. The statuette is a relic of the realm. Some say it once belonged to Titania, Queen of the Faeries, when she was just a child. No one knows to whom it rightly belongs."
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