In a pique of anger, Titania dissolved her Royal Faerie Court and tossed her husband Oberon in chains. Fearful of becoming the object of Titania's generally indiscriminate fits of anger, fully a quarter of Elfame's population in the lands ruled by Titania fled into the outside world, a place few had ever ventured before - even to avoid the royal authorities. Titania has since regained her composure (although, perhaps not completely, as Oberon is still entertaining the royal cockroaches in the royal dungeons), but the pixies who have left their homes in the glades of the Olde Countrie have now made new homes in a world ages apart - a world of cfredit cards, fast food, microwave ovens, pet cats, and video recorders - and they aren't going back