Baum Character Registry · Person / intelligent being
King Dox
Also called: King Renard · King Renard IV
A canonical individual in the Baum-only Character Census. Appearance evidence is chronological and text-grounded.
Title / role identifiedNarrative / historical individual
Registry
Character record
- Knowledge ID
- CHAR-0097
- Registry ID
- char-0097
- Canonical display name
- King Dox
- Naming status
- Title / role identified
- Character type
- Person / intelligent being
- Participation
- Narrative / historical individual
- First matched appearance
- The Road to Oz · Ch. 3
Oz Knowledge Base
First-class Knowledge entity
This Character Registry record is a canonical first-class Knowledge entity.
- Claims
- 0
- Relationships
- 0
- Historical Atlas events
- 0
Appearance Profile
Text-grounded appearance
Appearance is tracked only where Baum supplies textual evidence; absence of description is not filled from illustration traditions.
Appearance Timeline
Appearance states
No enriched appearance state yet. The registry deliberately records “not yet extracted” rather than inferring hair, eyes, clothing, size, or materials.
Baum evidence
First matched textual evidence
friends." "Why, so we are!" remarked the captain in tones of astonishment. "I thought at first we were enemies, but it seems you are friends instead. You must come with me to see King Dox." "Who's he?" asked Button-Bright, with earnest eyes. "King Dox of Foxville; the great and wise sovereign who rules over our community." "What's sov'rin, and what's c'u'nity?" inquired Button-Bright. "Don't ask so many questions, littl