# Ozma of Oz — Character guide

> Key figures in Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

- [Dorothy Gale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ozma_of_oz_se/characters/dorothy_gale.md): Dorothy Gale is the child every Oz book is written toward — the one readers beg Mr. Baum to bring back — and here she washes up in Ev with nothing but her wits, a dinner-pail, and a talking hen. Her plain Kansas practica
- [Ozma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ozma_of_oz_se/characters/ozma.md): Ozma rules Oz with a child's grace and an adult's resolve, greeting queens as an equal and promoting privates on a whim. Her defining trait is that she cannot be talked out of a promise: when the Nome King hides the Tin 
- [Billina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ozma_of_oz_se/characters/billina.md): Billina arrives as Dorothy's unlikely shipwreck companion and quickly becomes the party's resident skeptic, briskly puncturing everyone's dignity while quietly solving what soldiers and rulers cannot. She is practical wh
- [Tik-Tok](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ozma_of_oz_se/characters/tiktok.md): Tik-Tok is wound up to walk, think, and speak, which makes him indispensable and perpetually at risk of stopping cold with one arm frozen in the air. His literal-minded honesty — he blames Smith & Tinker for any faulty t
- [Scarecrow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ozma_of_oz_se/characters/scarecrow.md): The Scarecrow has ruled Oz and gladly stepped aside for Ozma, and he joins her mission to Ev as a loyal, slightly vain elder statesman of adventure. He is all straw and courtesy, quick to denounce a villain and quicker t
- [Tin Woodman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ozma_of_oz_se/characters/tin_woodman.md): Nick Chopper, once a flesh-and-blood man, now clanks through Oz as its kindest citizen, forever polishing his joints and fretting about his missing heart. He follows Ozma to Ev out of pure friendship, and his willingness
- [Princess Langwidere](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ozma_of_oz_se/characters/princess_langwidere.md): Langwidere does not so much rule Ev as occupy its palace, spending the treasury and receiving visitors only through a trick door in the one wing left standing. She keeps thirty interchangeable heads and a mirror-lined ro
- [Nome King](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ozma_of_oz_se/characters/nome_king.md): Seated on a ruby-studded throne in a domed cavern, the Nome King greets Ozma and Dorothy with Santa-Claus good humor, smoking a pipe and quoting nursery rhymes while insisting he bought the Queen of Ev and her ten childr
- [Hungry Tiger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ozma_of_oz_se/characters/hungry_tiger.md): Introduced by the Cowardly Lion as a new friend, the Hungry Tiger yawns wide enough to startle anyone and explains, with real regret, that he was born hungry and will die hungry rather than commit a cruel deed. He consid
- [Cowardly Lion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ozma_of_oz_se/characters/cowardly_lion.md): Reunited with Dorothy, the Lion greets her warmly and immediately confesses that every little thing still scares him and makes his heart beat fast. He has brought along his new friend the Hungry Tiger, and the two beasts
- [Uncle Henry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ozma_of_oz_se/characters/uncle_henry.md): Dorothy's uncle who is shipwrecked with her and later rescued.
- [Prince Evring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ozma_of_oz_se/characters/prince_evring.md): A young prince of Ev who is turned into an ornament by the Nome King.
- [Wheelers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ozma_of_oz_se/characters/wheelers.md): Strange creatures with wheels instead of hands and feet who serve the Nome King.
- [Queen of Ev](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ozma_of_oz_se/characters/queen_of_ev.md): The former queen of Ev who was turned into an ornament by the Nome King.

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