And in Baum's final book, Ozma herself explains that she was in fact a member of the Fairy Queen Lurline's band when Lurline enchanted Oz and turned it into a fairyland. In The Magic of Oz, Glinda tells Dorothy that no one knows how old Ozma really is. Later in the series, Baum revealed that Ozma is actually a fairy, descending from 'a long line of fairy queens' as per The Scarecrow of Oz. In her initial appearances, she was portrayed as no more than a human princess, born shortly before the Wizard's arrival in Oz. By that point in time, Baum had also established that the inhabitants of Oz ceased to age, suggesting that Ozma would always appear to be a beautiful young girl.īaum was not inclined to worry about strict continuity in his series, however, and so there were discrepancies in the origins and very nature of Ozma.

Frank Baum indicated that Ozma has the appearance of a fourteen-year-old, and is therefore older than Dorothy Gale. In some of his last Oz books, namely The Tin Woodman of Oz and Glinda of Oz, L. In The Marvelous Land of Oz, Glinda the Good Sorceress discovered what had happened and forced Mombi to turn Tip back into Ozma ever since then, the Princess has possessed the Throne of Oz (although many realms within Oz remained unaware of her authority). During this time, Tip had managed to create Jack Pumpkinhead who was brought to life by Mombi's Powder of Life. Thus, Ozma spent her entire childhood with Mombi in the form of the boy Tip, and had no memory of ever having been a girl. Mombi transformed Ozma into a boy and called him 'Tip' (short for Tippetarius) in order to prevent the rightful ruler of Oz from ascending to the throne. When she was an infant, Ozma, the baby daughter of the former King Pastoria of Oz, was given to the witch Mombi of the North by the Wizard of Oz.

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