Pastoria
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Pastoria is a fictional character mentioned in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum and his successors. According to The Marvelous Land of Oz, Pastoria was the king of the Land of Oz before being removed by an evil witch named Mombi and superseded by the Wizard of Oz. Eventually Pastoria's daughter Ozma came to the throne of the Emerald City.
Baum's creation
Baum actually created the character of Pastoria for a 1903 stage musical freely adapted from his book. At the start of that play, Pastoria has been banished from Oz and is working as a street car conductor in America. By the second act, Pastoria is restored to his Emerald City throne. Nothing of the stage character but his name made it into Baum's books.Other writers
Baum's successors added more detail to the character of Pastoria. In The Magical Mimics in Oz (1946), Jack Snow wrote that Pastoria had adopted Ozma as a baby fairy; this explains why the series contains no mention of her mother. In The Lost King of Oz (1925), Ruth Plumly Thompson built her plot around a quest for Pastoria in his enchanted form; at the end of the book he returns to the Emerald City, but is happy to let Ozma keep ruling. Thereafter he plays little role in the series.References
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