Oberon, Lord of the Beasts
Oberon, called the Lord of Beasts or sometimes King Oberon, was a member of the Seelie Court worshiped as a deity of the wilderness and animals. He was at other times known as Oran, and under that name was called the Green Lord.
Description
Oberon appeared as a wingless, unusually tall and muscular male faerie. His eyes were black and wild, his hair thatched and braided and run through with brambles, and his skin was comparable in color to oak wood. He was known to wear a cloak of green leaves stitched onto brown leather.
Personality
Oberon was a stern protector and warrior, if wild and mercurial at times. He relied less on illusion and camouflage than other members of the Seelie Court, and was unafraid of physical combat.
Abilities
Oberon's avatar had a number of spell-like abilities, being able to use charm person, detect charm, detect magic, detect invisibility, detect thoughts, faerie fire, forget, goodberry, know alignment, plant growth, speak with animals, obscurement, and pass without trace (although even without magic he was nigh undetectable when in undergrowth) at will; thrice each day he could use animal summoning I, II, and III, call woodland beings, conjure animals, and creeping doom. He was immune to poison, disease, polymorph effects, and death magic, and was also highly resistant to magic in general. Nonmagical weapons could not harm him. Furthermore, no natural woodland animal, faerie creature, or sentient, nonevil plant creature could be compelled to harm him.
Oberon himself was attuned to fey forests he often roamed, able to both sense and affect every tree and stream. He was an unrivaled hunter and warrior, powerful enough that even Corellon treated him with a cautious respect there.
Possessions
King Oberon possessed a staff that could be used as a changestaff once per day, as well as a magicked longsword that could be used to cast light or continual light as willed, and sunray once a day. His longbow was no less magical, capable of turning up to 20 normal arrows into magicked ones each day. He was also known to carry arrows of slaying for orcs, bugbears, hobgoblins, and goblins, as well as another twenty arrows specially enchanted to inflict nonlethal damage, that he used when hunting stags.
Divine Realm
Like the rest of the Seelie Court, Oberon dwelled in their collective divine realm, which drifted between the planes of the Beastlands, Arborea, and Ysgard. Oberon himself often roamed the Beastlands and Arvandor while hunting. At other times, the Lord of Beasts could be found living in the Feywild, in the Arborium.
Activities
The Lord of Beasts spent much of his time away from the Seelie Court roaming the Beastlands and Arvandor, or protecting various sylvan realms from incursion or attack by rapacious monsters or humanoids. One of his favorite activities was hunting stags, but he did not kill the animals he hunted.
He was one of the archfey known in Faerûn to make pacts with warlocks.
Relationships
Oberon was the consort of Titania, the Summer Queen and the father of Damh, and presumably the father of Verenestra and the The Prince of Frost as well. However, his relationship with Queen Titania was legendarily tempestuous: at times they were the dearest of lovers, at other times rivals, and at yet other times both. He was also the father of the archfey Selephra, and the archfey Hyrsam had been "born" from music he wrought long ago.
With the rest of the Court, Oberon was allied with the Seldarine, as well as various good deities of nature and hunting.
He was, like the rest of the Seelie Court, an enemy of the goblinoid pantheon and the hag goddess Cegilune, but most particularly the Queen of Air and Darkness, whom he often urged Titania to war against.
He was also the leader of the faction of fey called the Green Fey, which was primarily composed of wilder, more nature-oriented fey such as satyrs, dryads, and treants, as well as some elves that dwelled in the Feywild. Other archfey of the Green Fey, such as Damh and Selephra, also answered to him.
History
Oberon was ancient, and was said to be the awakened spirit of a nature, possibly of some great forest. He was known to be part of the Inner Circle of the Seelie Court, and was present for their court and later flight in the realm of Ladinion.
The Green Lord was the one to craft Titania's palace of Senaliesse from living wood.
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Titania, the Summer Queen
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