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Saint Titania is a principle figure in Fairie religion. She is the attributed author to many of their holy texts. She has a connection to the goddess Danu, whose shrines are often mistaken for Titania's. 

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In the 3rd century of the Burgish calendar's Old Era, the belief system of the faeries was founded by a central evangelist and prophet named Nimia. Nimia was the born out of a treaty between the Dominion of Anoun and the nation of Tirnambeo. The Dominion of Anoun which was traditionally ruled by a queen was instead passed to the only remaining male heir Hadeon who became Anoun's regent. Hadeon after being coronated was eager to prove himself as a ruler and attacked Tirnambeo in a brief but bloody conflict. It came to an end when the Tirnambean monarch surrendered her younger sister in a marriage with Hadeon, producing.

After Nimia’s birth, Hadeon sent his wife and daughter to the frigid and secluded Isle of Lorn where they were kept little better than prisoners. Due to Hadeon's unpopularity, the pair were used as insurance against an uprising, under the promise that the matriarchal rule would resume once Nimia came of age. But as Princess Nimia grew, so did her restlessness. On her 13th birthday, shortly after a blackblood infection claimed her mother’s life, the princess ran away, disguising herself as a commoner and changing her name to Titania.

For years, she traveled along the Sacred Road, a constellation of holy sites stretching the length of the continent. She would remain for a time at each one, living humbly with the Mima, studying the local stories and traditions, and serving the needy — of which there were many. It was a factional and tumultuous time in Tirnanese history, but it was perhaps the only sort of time from which a figure such as she could emerge. Though many miracles would come to be attributed to Titania, none were as impactful as her writings. During her travels, she composed a lyrical meditation called The Garden Cantos, in which she detailed her lifelong pilgrimage, lovingly recounting the lore of each region as she searched for the threads that connected them. The resulting text stands as the most elegant expression of the rich and ancient variety of faerish beliefs, pulling them together as a single body of thought. It wasn’t that Titania changed the Old Ways. Rather, that she found a commonality that had always been there, a way of seeing the world that resonated across the continent. And in her way, she did what her father could not: she unified Tirnanoc. Not politically, but spiritually.[1]

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