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THE WICKED YEARS

A Note to Readers

Our story so far:

Wicked begins with the birth of a green-skinned child, Elphaba Thropp—later known as the Wicked Witch of the West—and portrays her unlikely college friendship with Galinda Upland and her roelaar The arriviste Wizard of Oz consolidates his power in the Eovernance of the Wicked Witch of the East, Nessarose Thropp, Munchkinland secedes from Loyal Oz The novel closes with the Matter of Dorothy, when Elphaba is thirty-eight and her son, Liir Thropp, is fourteen

Son of a Witch tells the story of Liir’s life, revealed in flashbacks, while Elphaba’s brother Shell strengthens his position in the Eainst Munchkinland Orphaned at fourteen, without guidance or patronage, Liir stuoes AWOL, eventually heading a protest against his uncle Shell, now the Emperor of Oz Son of a Witch concludes with the arrival of a child—a green-skinned daughter—born to Liir and Candle, a Quadling Liir is about twenty-four

A Lion A Men refers to the Cowardly Lion, known as Brrr His story is told alternately with that of the ancient oracle, Yackle Brrr muses on his part in the Matter of Dorothy, his rise and fall in society, and his plea-bargaining with E for the mysterious oracle Yackle, he locates the lost Griain At novel’s end, a skir Munchkinlanders and the Enite into full-scale civil war Caught in the crosshairs, Brrr escapes with the troupe that accoon

Out of Oz begins a fewMen

Charting the Wicked Years Chronologically

“Oh, as to time, well, no one in Oz ticks off tocks very systematically” Each dot or upstroke represents a year … more or less

WICKED

OUT OF OZ

The story begins six months after the end of A LION AMONG MEN

Liir is about 30; Rain is 7 or 8, give or take

Maps

THE CITY OF SHIZ, GILLIKIN

THE EMERALD CITY

Significant Families of Oz

Key

= e (~) romance sans wedlock

THE HOUSE OF OZMA