Gender: Female
First Appearance: (as Anastasia Renard) "Walkabout" (as Titania) "Ill Met By Moonlight"
Other Appearances: "The Gathering" Parts I & II, "For It May Come True"
Queen of Avalon and wife of Oberon. It was her divorce from Oberon, because of her previous contempt for mortals, that caused him to scatter his various children from the island of Avalon among the Earth to learn humility. She is cryptic in her manner and is highly manipulative of others, although it is usually done for a good cause.
Titania herself decided to learn about science and technology, posing as a human named Anastasia. She eventually fell for a budding technocrat, Halcyon Renard, and married him. However, after a time, she grew bored with him and left, but not before a daughter, Janine or "Fox", was born. Mother and daughter kept in touch and worked on joint projects on occasion. One in particular was in the development of nanotechnology in Australia- a collective known as the Matrix- which went out of control and threatened to envelop the world. This threat was stopped only with the aid of Goliath, Elisa, Angela, and Bronx, who were sent by Avalon to meet this threat.
Titania returned the favor when she provided vital clues to how to defeat Oberon when he returned to reclaim Avalon and expel the trespassing human and gargoyle population.
During the Gathering, Titania talked Oberon into attempting to abduct
the child of the Xanatoses in order to nurture his mystic potential. It
was revealed that Titania manipulated this to create a situation with one
of two outcomes. Either she could raise the child in the magic-nurturing
environment of Avalon, or create such a high-stress situation with Oberon's
assault that it would bring Fox's underdeveloped mystical power to the
surface, thus showing that Alexander could be adequately
trained in the
mortal realm. The latter proved to be the case, and Titania left Alexander
in the care of the Xanatoses and the tutelage of Puck,
promising to check in from time to time.
In the Goliath Chronicles, when Goliath had doubts about the importance of his battles, Titania sent him into a dream-world where he was human and married to Elisa. However, Xanatos was still evil, and the clan was on the run from every authority in the city. Titania did this to show him how important he really was to the world, and how he must never give up- for, if he did, her daughter and granddaughter could also be endangered.
Titania is still free to do as she pleases, within the very loose limits of her position as Avalon's queen.
Titania possesses the typical abilities and vulnerabilities of fay,
including a nearly unlimited capacity to create spell-like effects,
shapeshift, teleport, and levitate, but being vulnerable to iron. It
can be argued that Titania's ability to manipulate others psychologically
to her ends, especially Oberon, combined with these usual fay powers makes
her the most powerful of the Fair Folk.