Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-29195016-20160805003445/@comment-4821842-20170524021320

DracoWombat wrote: Baum initially went with the "East and West are wicked, North and South are good" mentality, but, when faced with writing a sequel that established the existence of Princess Ozma of Oz, he had to create Mombi, the Wicked Witch of the North, as a plot device, and then completely eschewed the "cardinal morality" system entirely.

Technically Mombi was not the Witch of the north, she didn't rule the north she was just a sorceress who lived in the north