#nonestica

Obviously, Dorothy didn't wear the exact same dress for her entire stay in Oz. She was there for roughly two months!

Nonestica is often the name given to the continent where Oz is located. A map first appeared in the 8th book, Tik-Tok of Oz. Many of the surrounding countries are from some of Baum's other non-Oz books. For instance, the forest of Burzee on the lower left is from The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus.

Now, this is a low resolution image, but if you're very clever, you may not have needed to read the compass rose to notice that east and west are reversed. Even people who have only ever seen the 1939 movie know the witch of the EAST enslaved the Munchkins and the witch of the WEST enslaved the Winkies.

Dick Martin and James Hoff later came up with an expanded version of the map that "corrected" the directions:

A lot of people like this one and I'm not an exception, but it wouldn't hurt to make the surrounding areas a little bigger.

Now, Robert A. Heinlein (yes, that Robert A. Heinlein) once proposed that the compass in the first map is flipped because Oz is on planet with a retrograde rotation. I love that explanation. It's canon to Yellow Brick Ramble.

So, I based the planet of Nonestica on all three of these interpretations with some tweaks of my own. I included a few other continents. One of them is called Tazara. I doubt all the lands on this planet are magical, as Oz is a special land. I did a little math and I'm guessing Oz is roughly 4 times the size of Kansas?

The planet of Earth, on the other hand, is one most of you are familiar with.

God knows why, because I do not. 🤷🏻‍♀️

The thing is- do you know how many canonical books there are about Oz, its surroundings and its inhabitants??

Tons. There are tons of them.

I’m kind of excited for The Brides of Maracoor to come out but I’m also a little skeptical to see if its necessary, especially since it’s a trilogy. I know some people complained about the way Out of Oz was left so open ended so maybe this will fix that in a way.

I’m also wondering if the island of Maracoor is in some way a part of the Nonestica/Imagination continent and islands that’s been used in LFB’s universe as well as other works. For his own map Maguire renamed Phunnyland to Fliaan and Quok to Quox. At the end of Out of Oz (spoilers) Rain flies past the Deadly Desert and past Ev and apparently other locations until she reaches the sea (if you’re familiar with the map of Oz outside of the ones from Maguire’s book and musical, you’ll know the outside of the Oz continent is HUGE) Then again, Maracoor can just be a land Maguire made up. Just from the cover and the plot of the story, I’m getting some Greek mythology vibes as well (specifically Lesbos Island hell yeah) 

In my opinion after doing some research on Oz lore, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Maguire is getting some of his root inspiration from Coregos Island, which is an island featured in LFB’s Rinkitink in Oz:

(for context, Coregos and Regos are joint islands whose rulers attack and conquer another island called Pinagree. This is Maguire after all so he’s going to add more complexity to these situations)

Obviously there are huge differences between what Maguire has and Rinkitink in Oz. I’m up for discussion but keep in mind I’m just speculating and my theories are just my ideas and I’ll probably be proven wrong once October comes so don’t take this post too seriously lol 

I also wrote this at one in the morning so I’m all over the place like this image lmao x,D