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Dorothy Gale

A resourceful Kansas farm girl who has already visited the Land of Oz once via cyclone. While sailing with her Uncle Henry to Australia, a storm washes her overboard inside a chicken coop, stranding her in the Land of Ev. She refuses to give up her own head to Princess Langwidere, guesses correctly to free Prince Evring from enchantment, and later carries Ozma's magic belt back to the Emerald City.

Billina

A yellow hen swept overboard in the same storm as Dorothy, who discovers mid-ocean that she can suddenly talk. Practical and a bit vain, she lays an egg every morning regardless of circumstance, eats live bugs and ants (to Dorothy's disgust), and ultimately uses an egg to terrify the Nome King, since eggs are poison to Nomes. She also wins a chicken-yard fight against a rooster and guesses the Queen of Ev's true form correctly.

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A copper machine man manufactured by Smith & Tinker, found locked in a rocky cave in the Land of Ev after being purchased and mistreated by King Evoldo. He runs on three separate windup mechanisms (for thinking, speaking, and acting) and must be wound with a key or he freezes mid-motion. Fiercely loyal once rescued, he fights off a mob of Wheelers by grabbing their leader and shaking him, and later volunteers to face the Nome King's transformation trial before Dorothy.

Ozma of Oz

The rightful child ruler of the Land of Oz, restored to her true form and throne after being stolen as a baby by a witch and transformed into a boy. She leads a grand procession—including the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, Cowardly Lion, Hungry Tiger, and twenty-seven officers of the Army of Oz—across the desert on a magic carpet to free the royal family of Ev. She confronts the Nome King directly, is transformed into an ornament for guessing wrong, and is eventually freed and restored along with the others.

The Scarecrow

A living, thinking straw man and former King of Oz, now traveling as one of Ozma's closest companions. He rides a magical living Sawhorse, reads signs and makes plans for the group, and stays behind at the Nome King's palace while others attempt the guessing game, offering encouragement throughout.

The Tin Woodman

A man named Nick Chopper who was gradually replaced, limb by limb, with tin after a cursed axe caused repeated accidents, until he became entirely mechanical while remaining alive and thinking. He commands the Army of Oz as its highest-ranking officer and insists on being the first to attempt Ozma's rescue from the Nome King's enchantment after she fails.

The Cowardly Lion

The King of Beasts who rules a great forest in Oz, self-professedly afraid of everything despite acting bravely when it counts—such as leaping past the Iron Giant's swinging hammer to safety. He joined Ozma's rescue expedition after hearing of the journey to Ev, bringing along his friend the Hungry Tiger.

The Hungry Tiger

A tiger companion of the Cowardly Lion possessed of an enormous, insatiable appetite that he says doesn't fit his body; his conscience prevents him from ever eating the fat babies he craves. He carries Dorothy safely across the gap when leaping past the Iron Giant's hammer.

Princess Langwidere

The vain ruler of the Land of Ev, niece of King Evoldo, who owns thirty interchangeable heads (numbered and kept in a mirrored cabinet) that she swaps daily for variety, identified always by a ruby key on her wrist. She tries to force Dorothy to trade heads with her and imprisons her in a tower when she refuses, but is confronted and overruled by Ozma.

The Nome King (Roquat of the Rocks)

The fat, pipe-smoking, cave-dwelling ruler of the Underground World and its Nomes, who commands vast hoards of gold, silver, and gems hidden within the rocks. He bought the Queen of Ev and her ten children from King Evoldo in exchange for a 'long life' and transformed them into household ornaments in his magnificent underground palace, offering any rescuer eleven (later more) guesses to identify them or be transformed themselves. He is ultimately undone when Billina's egg-laying terrifies him, since eggs are lethal poison to Nomes.

King Evoldo

The cruel former King of Ev who used to beat his servants and eventually sold his wife and ten children to the Nome King in exchange for a promised long life; he then drowned himself by jumping into the sea, which the Nome King insists fulfilled the bargain since he technically received the long life before destroying it.

Queen of Ev and her Ten Children

The wife and ten children (five boys, five girls) of King Evoldo, sold to the Nome King and transformed by his magic into household ornaments scattered throughout his palace. Rescuing them is the central goal of Ozma's expedition; the youngest, Prince Evring, is the first successfully freed when Dorothy guesses correctly.

Uncle Henry

Dorothy's ailing farmer uncle, worn down by hard work on the Kansas farm, who is traveling with Dorothy to Australia to visit relatives and rest when the storm sweeps her overboard.

Land of Ev

A fertile fairy country directly across a great desert from the Land of Oz, reachable only by magical means. It has no ruling royal family since the king drowned himself and the queen's family was sold away, leaving Princess Langwidere and roaming bands of Wheelers as the closest thing to authority; it features lunch-box and dinner-pail trees bearing the royal stamped 'E'.

Land of Oz

A wonderful fairy country separated from the Land of Ev only by a broad, deadly desert that no ordinary traveler can cross safely. It is ruled by Ozma from the Emerald City and is home to talking animals, living constructed beings, and long-standing friends of Dorothy from her earlier adventures.

The Nome King's Underground Palace

A splendor of polished, tinted marble halls, velvet carpets, and silken draperies lit by a mysterious rosy glow with no visible source, entered through a rock wall that opens and seals shut on the Nome King's command. Countless enchanted ornaments—actually transformed people—decorate its rooms, and it is reached via a throne room deep within a mountain guarded by an unbeatable Nome army and a giant iron hammer-wielding automaton blocking the mountain pass.

Army of Oz

Ozma's personal military force accompanying her to Ev, comprising twenty-six officers (eight generals, six colonels, seven majors, five captains) and a single private, reflecting the Tin Woodman's belief that officers are more dignified and reliable than common soldiers. Most of them are too frightened to leap past the Iron Giant's hammer and must be dealt with separately.

Dinner-Pail and Lunch-Box Trees

Two enchanted trees in the Land of Ev that grow food directly: one bears square paper lunch-boxes in clusters with a 'Lunch' label, the other bears dinner pails stamped with the royal 'E' of Ev, both fruiting and blossoming year-round. They technically belong to the absent royal family, though Wheelers have taken to harvesting them without permission.

Princess Langwidere's Ruby Key

A beautiful ruby key worn on a chain around Langwidere's left wrist, the only reliable way her subjects can recognize her since she changes her face (and entire head) daily from a cabinet of thirty interchangeable heads.

Ozma's Magic Belt

A powerful magical belt taken from the Nome King after his defeat, capable of transformation and other great magic; Dorothy carries it back to the Emerald City at the story's end as a prize of the successful rescue.

Magic Carpet

An enchanted carpet that unrolls itself in front of Ozma's procession to let them cross the desert and other obstacles safely, then rolls itself up and vanishes once no longer needed; it only protects against dangers from the ground, not from above.

The Iron Giant's Hammer

A hundred-foot cast-iron automaton that stands astride the only narrow mountain path into the Nome Kingdom, perpetually swinging an immense mallet bigger than a barrel to pound the ground and block passage; travelers must time death-defying leaps between its swings to get past.

The Guessing Game of the Nome King

The Nome King's cruel game for would-be rescuers: each visitor may enter his ornament-filled palace and make a set number of guesses (starting at eleven, increasing with each new victim) to identify which household object is really the transformed Queen of Ev or one of her children. Guessing wrong transforms the guesser into a new ornament to add to his collection; guessing right frees the true prisoner and the guesser both.

Wheelers

A gaudy, mischievous race native to the Land of Ev who have wheels instead of hands and feet (made of the same substance as fingernails) and roll swiftly on all fours. They dress in embroidered, colorful clothing and straw hats, claim the royal lunch-box and dinner-pail trees as their own despite having no real right to them, and threaten intruders with death but are more bluster than danger, easily routed by a swung dinner pail or a firm hand.

Nomes

Small, powerful, oddly-shaped underground sprites who labor at furnaces and forges for the Nome King, mining and hiding gold, silver, diamonds, rubies, and emeralds within the earth's rocks. They can blend into stone, clinging to cave walls like flies on glass, and command a vast unbeatable army; they are said to be fatally vulnerable to eggs.