![]() ![]() His General opposes the plan, because Oz is protected by an impassable desert, and Ozma possesses too much magic for even the 50,000 well-trained Nome soldiers to overcome. Therefore, he’s resolved to surprise attack the Emerald City, pillage it, enslave all the inhabitants of the Land of Oz, and retrieve his Magic Belt. ![]() Roquat the Red, the tyrannical, childish Nome King, is in a bad mood, nursing a grudge against Princess Ozma the ruler of Oz and Dorothy the girl of Kansas, because in the third novel, Ozma of Oz (1907), they freed the royal family of Ev whom Roquat had enslaved AND took from him the source of his magic power, his Magic Belt. Frank Baum’s sixth Oz book, The Emerald City of Oz (1910), begins comically and suspensefully. “I will not fight-even to save my kingdom.” ![]()
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