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Oberon
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Rupert Everett as Oberon in the 1999 film
Characters Adapted from Other Works
Nationality: Faerie
Spouse: Titania
Occupation: King of Faerie
Appearing in:


"A Late Symmer Night's Battle"
by Laura Frankos

Fantasy pastiche
Type of Appearance: Contemporary references

Oberon is the king of the fairies in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. One of the central conflicts of the play begins when he and his wife Queen Titania are engaged in a quarrel over which of them should have custody of a changeling boy whom Titania abducted from India to be part of Faerie. Oberon's servant Robin Goodfellow casts a spell which causes Titania to fall in love with a common human weaver whose head has been transformed into that of a donkey. At the end, Oberon seems to have won custody of the changeling.

Oberon in "A Late Symmer Night's Battle"

During the reign of Oberon and Titania, the human infant Ghosh was adopted into the fairy world. Following this accomplishment, and the humorous misadventure surrounding it, the fairy army fought a strange three-way conflict with kobolds and reremice.

Oberon and Titania divided command of the fairy army between them, with Oberon having authority over the male soldiers and Titania over the females.

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