Titania

**Titania** is a Seelie fae and former Queen of the Seelie Court. Her consort was Oberon.

## Personality

Titania 'enjoyed quartering' as a form of execution.

## Life

Titania was Queen of the Seelie Court prior to the Oak King becoming King. Titania told the Oak King that it is impossible to reach the bottom of the Bridge, who in turn told Gwyn ap Nudd. Her consort was Oberon, and while he is still alive as of *The Court of Five Thrones*, Titania's current status is unknown.

Zudanna states that Titania's reign was part of a golden age. Titania's Seelie Court was apparently wealthy, as the Raven Prince's Unseelie Court was on par with hers in wealth magnitude. Seelie and Unseelie intermingled more freely during Titania's reign.

Marika noted that Titania employed Readers to use against criminals.

## Relationships

### Marika

Marika appears to have respected and liked Titania, and misses her greatly.

### Oberon

Titania chose Oberon as her consort for his beauty and his power.

## Quotations

* Marika: 'Gwyn, I wish you could have seen it during Titania’s reign. Oh, what a lady she was. I find I miss her more and more. She would have loved your idea. A Coalition of Islands, of classless fae to meet in the middle.'

## Folklore/Mythology

'Titania (/tɪˈtɑːniə/) is a character in William Shakespeare's 1595–1596 play *A Midsummer Night's Dream*. In the play, she is the queen of the fairies. Due to Shakespeare's influence, later fiction has often used the name "Titania" for fairy queen characters.

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.

Shakespeare's Titania is a very proud creature and as much of a force to contend with as her husband, Oberon. She and Oberon are engaged in a marital quarrel over which of them should have the keeping of an Indian changeling boy. This quarrel is the engine that drives the mix-ups and confusion of the other characters in the play. Due to an enchantment cast by Oberon's servant Puck, Titania magically falls in love with a "rude mechanical" (a labourer), Nick Bottom the weaver, who has been given the head of a donkey by Puck, who feels it is better suited to his character. It has been argued that this incident is an inversion of the Circe story. In this case, the tables are turned on the character and rather than the sorceress turning her lovers into animals, she is made to love a donkey after Bottom has been transformed.'

## References

1. ↑ not\_poignant. “Game Theory.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 25 January 2014. https://archiveofourown.org/works/915296/chapters/2338138. Chapter 38: Underfae.
2. ↑ not\_poignant. “Game Theory.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 18 November 2013. https://archiveofourown.org/works/915296/chapters/2101316. Chapter 27: Compulsion.
3. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 20 February 2015. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/7438151. Chapter 31: Rupture.
4. ↑ not\_poignant. “Game Theory.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 5 January 2014. https://archiveofourown.org/works/915296/chapters/2257937. Chapter 35: Release.
5. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 26 December 2014. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/6404462. Chapter 23: Confrontation.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 6 February 2015. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/7205945. Chapter 29: Classless.
7. ↑ not\_poignant. “The Court of Five Thrones.” *The Fae Tales Verse. Archive of Our Own,* 14 August 2015. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1749290/chapters/10409742. Chapter 56: Islands.
8. ↑ "Titania". Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titania. Accessed 26 May 2021.