Editing List of The Sandman characters (section)

==Fair Folk==
The following are inhabitants of [[Faerie (DC Comics)|Faerie]]:

===Cluracan===
The '''Cluracan''' is a [[courtier]] of the Queen of Faerie and the brother to [[#Nuala|Nuala]], the Dream King's fairy servant. An amoral, merry, capricious, homosexual rogue, Cluracan features in ''[[The Sandman: Season of Mists|Season of Mists]]'', ''[[The Sandman: Worlds' End|Worlds' End]]'', ''[[The Sandman: The Kindly Ones|The Kindly Ones]]'', and ''[[The Sandman: The Wake|The Wake]]''. He is strongly reminiscent of the "[[trickster]]" archetype also associated with [[#Loki|Loki]]. Following the events of ''[[The Sandman: The Kindly Ones|The Kindly Ones]]'', Cluracan offends his queen so badly that she sends him to the court of Llinor, where tradition demands that he marry a lady of the royal house; whereupon Cluracan's [[archenemy|nemesis]]&nbsp;– identical to him in every way except his sexual orientation&nbsp;– takes Cluracan's place.<ref>{{Citation| last=Hogan| first=Peter | title=The Dreaming #16: "Ice" | date=September 1997| publisher=Vertigo/DC Comics}}</ref>

The Cluracan is named after a drunken [[leprechaun]] of [[Irish mythology]], the [[Cluricaun]].

In the podcast, Cluracan is voiced by [[Aidan Turner]].

===Nuala===
'''Nuala''' is a [[Fairy|faerie]] given to Dream at the end of ''[[The Sandman: Season of Mists|Season of Mists]]'' who takes on the housekeeping duties of the Dreaming only stopping when her brother [[#Cluracan|Cluracan]] takes her back to Faerie in ''[[The Sandman: The Kindly Ones|The Kindly Ones]]''. When she leaves, Dream grants her permission to summon him at need. When she asks to become his paramour, he refuses.

She subsequently appears in the ''Sandman'' spinoff series ''[[The Dreaming (comics)|The Dreaming]]''.

In the podcast, Nuala is voiced by [[Niamh Walsh]].

===Auberon===
'''Auberon''' is a character in the comic book series ''[[The Sandman (comic book)|The Sandman]]'' and ''[[The Books of Magic]]''. He is seen for the first time in [[The Sandman: Dream Country#A Midsummer Night's Dream|''Sandman'' #19]] as Auberon of Dom-Daniel where he and Titania accompanied Dream in seeing the production of ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''.

Auberon appears again in several issues of ''[[The Books of Magic]]'' and in the ''[[The Books of Faerie|Books of Faerie]]'' miniseries.

The character was inspired by [[Oberon]] of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.

In the podcast, Auberon is voiced by [[Toby Longworth]].

===Titania===
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'''Titania''' is a character in [[Neil Gaiman]]'s comic book series ''[[The Sandman (comic book)|The Sandman]]''.

Titania is the queen of the [[Fairy|fay]]; she first appears in [[The Sandman: Dream Country#A Midsummer Night's Dream|issue #19]]. The character was inspired by [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] [[Titania (Fairy Queen)]] in the play ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''. There is implication that she in the past was a lover of Dream's, although this is never confirmed. Auberon and Titania accompanied Dream in seeing the production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' where Titania was accompanied by her court of boggarts, elves, fairies, goblins, nixies, and trolls.

Titania is also a major character in the comic book ''[[The Books of Magic]]'', of which the first four issues were written by Gaiman, and its spin-off series ''[[The Books of Faerie]]''. In the latter series, it is revealed that she was a human girl who crossed over into the fay realm and was then adopted by the previous queen of the fay, and received her faerie powers from a circlet seized by her from that queen. Despite this power, it was revealed that she is [[literacy|illiterate]], and so regularly uses Dream's library because its special properties allow its users to read books in any language, including those they cannot speak. There are suggestions that she may be the mother of the series' protagonist, [[Timothy Hunter]].<ref name="No51">{{Citation| last=Gross| first=Peter| title=The Books of Magic: A Thousand Worlds of Tim | issue=51 | date=August 1998| publisher=DC Comics}}</ref>

In the podcast, Titania is voiced by Felicity Duncan.

===Puck===
'''Puck''' is a brown-furred [[trickster]] and [[hobgoblin]], who appears several times in ''[[The Sandman (comic book)|The Sandman]]''.

In ''The Kindly Ones'', Puck aids the Norse God Loki in kidnapping [[Daniel Hall (comics)|Daniel]], playing a small role in the death of Dream and Daniel's subsequent assuming of the title by assisting Loki in capturing Daniel.

Puck later appeared in an issue of ''[[The Books of Magic]]'', hiding as a gangster called Mr. Robbins in [[Brighton]] whose true nature is discovered—but not exposed—by [[Timothy Hunter]].<ref name="No63">{{Citation| last=Hogan| first=Peter| title=The Books of Magic: The Good Fella | issue=63 | date=August 1999| publisher=DC Comics}}</ref> The character was inspired by [[Puck (Shakespeare)|Puck]] of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''.