Pastoria
In several universes, Pastoria was a ruler of the Land of Oz predating the Wizard of Oz's regency.
The 925th Universe's version, Monarch Pastoria, ruled Oz over a century before the 2020s. Pastoria was the one who originally dreamt up the golden roads, and had not yet put the project into practice when Doctor Know-It-All, then lecturing at the Royal College of Oz, first got the idea to create Professor Wogglebug. (PROSE: Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There: Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk it Out)
Behind the scenes
In the original Oz books, where he was first mentioned in 1904's The Marvelous Land of Oz, King Pastoria was Ozma's father, and the King of Oz whose disappearance left a power vacuum for the Wizard of Oz himself to fill. He was a male character. The Jenny Over-There: The Nine-Two-Five Universe is referred to as Monarch Pastoria and never referred to with male pronouns during their brief mention in Annals of the Jen, suggesting they may have been non-binary. The original Pastoria was also never mentioned to be the originator of the Yellow Brick Road, with some sources suggesting that it was instead the Wizard who designed the road.
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| 925th Universe |
