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Auberon, King of the Fairies

Appearance

The King of the Fairies stands 6 feet tall, as a very elven-like impersonation of his Shakespearean self, donning a set of leather armor with golden linings, belts and gem adornments, complemented by a large, green cloak of cloth and leaves carried by no less than his subjects from whom he acquires his title.  His hair is a long golden white, and his eyes are a very clear blue, which alongside his Caucasian complexion all have a certain supernatural gleam about them.  Upon his head rests a crown of branches and amber, leaving little doubt of his position as a ruler.

Powers

As King of the Fairies, Auberon's powers are deeply intertwined with magic and nature, and that power in itself is tied to his emotions.  A foul mood may invoke storms and destruction, while a fairer mood might bring fortune and good weathers.


Personality

Auberon is a wise king.  Perhaps quick to anger, in the face of those that deliberately abuse of his code of ethics and honor, but nevertheless someone who carries with himself the weight and responsibility of his power.  He has a strong conviction that a king must stand for his people, and be its prime example, therefore having high standards for himself and other leaders, especially in matters of dealing with those under their command.

So while he may be someone with a temper and who feels strong emotions, Oberon is also a fair person, who despite his misgivings every now and then wishes to rectify them and ultimately do good and stand by his principles.

Biography

Auberon is the king of all of the fairies in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who is feuding with his wife Titania, the queen of the fairies. They are fighting over a changeling child whom Auberon wants to raise as his henchman. Titania wants to keep the child because he is the child of Titania's mortal follower who died, and she wants to raise the child for her follower. Because Auberon and Titania are powerful fairies, their arguments affect the weather. Titania describes what happens to nature when they argue, saying:

    Therefore the winds, piping to us in vains,
    As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea
    Contagious fogs; which falling in the land
    Have every pelting river made so proud
    That they have overborne their continents:
    The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain,
    The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn
    Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard;
    The fold stands empty in the drowned field,
    And crows are fatted with the murrion flock;
    The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud,
    And the quaint mazes in the wanton green
    For lack of tread are undistinguishable:
    The human mortals want their winter here;
    No night is now with hymn or carol blest:
    Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
    Pale in her anger, washes all the air,
    That rheumatic diseases do abound:
    And thorough this distemperature we see
    The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
    Far in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
    And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown
    An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
    Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the summer,
    The childing autumn, angry winter, change
    Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,
    By their increase, now knows not which is which:
    And this same progeny of evils comes
    From our debate, from our dissension;
    We are their parents and original.

Furious that Titania will not give him the child, he puts juice from a magical flower into her eyes while she is asleep. The effect of the juice is that it will cause Titania to fall in love with the first thing she sees. Titania awakens and finds herself madly in love with Bottom, a weaver who has been given a donkey's head by Puck. Meanwhile, two couples have entered the forest: lovers Hermia and Lysander are pursued by Demetrius, who also loves Hermia, and Helena, who loves Demetrius. Auberon sends Puck to put some of the juice in Demetrius's eyes to make him fall in love with Helena, after he witnesses him rejecting her and decided to help her. When Puck puts the love potion on Lysander by mistake, and then on Demetrius, Helena finds herself loved by two men, and confusion breaks out. After Puck straightens out what he has done, and Demetrius discovers that he is really in love with Helena after all, Auberon looks upon Titania and her lover, Bottom, and feels sorry for what he has done. He reverses the spell and when Titania awakes the two reunite.