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The Vertigo Comics realm of Faerie is an amalgam of the mythological realms of Álfheimr, Otherworld, the Fortunate Isles, Tír na nÓg and Avalon. This mix is heavily influenced by Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is home to the faeries and other mythical races, ruled over by the Seelie Court and King Auberon and Queen Titania.
Aurora ambushes Dresden and takes him prisoner, aided by Elaine and by the Winter Knight, who she has suborned. Aurora intends to ritually sacrifice Lily on the Stone Table, transferring the power of the mantle to the Winter Sidhe and breaking the unending cycle of struggle between the Faerie Courts.
A trickster faerie deascribed in the novel as resembling the musician Prince with the ability to shapechange into a dog. He is never named in the book, although at one point in the novel he temporarily adopts the name Robin Goode, Robin Goodfellow being an alternative name for Puck , a character from William Shakespeare ’s A Midsummer Night's ...
Fairyland may be referred to simply as Fairy or Faerie, though that usage is an archaism.It is often the land ruled by the "Queen of Fairy", and thus anything from fairyland is also sometimes described as being from the "Court of the Queen of Elfame" or from the Seelie court in Scottish folklore.
The Books of Faerie was initially published as a spin-off when the ongoing The Books of Magic series written by John Ney Rieber proved to be popular with readers. Editor Stuart Moore approached writer Bronwyn Carlton to script the first three issue series: Carlton wrote a series which brought back some of the ambiguity around whether Timothy Hunter was Queen Titania's son that Reiber had ...
Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing said China is willing to work with other countries to safeguard security and share achievements in the field of artificial intelligence to build "a community ...
Mist (0-3) vs. Rose (0-2) preview. Stewart had 27 points and 11 rebounds, Rickea Jackson added 24 points, but the Mist fell 74-69 to the Phantom on Friday night to fall to 0-3.
Seelie is a term for fairies in Scottish folklore, appearing in the form of seely wights or The Seelie Court. The Northern and Middle English word seely (also seily , seelie , sealy ), and the Scots form seilie , mean "happy", "lucky" or "blessed."