Baum Character Registry · Person / intelligent being
King Kynd
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-0106
- Registry ID
- char-0106
- Canonical display name
- King Kynd
- Naming status
- Title / role identified
- Character type
- Person / intelligent being
- Participation
- Narrative / historical individual
- First matched appearance
- The Scarecrow of Oz · Ch. 10
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
xciting story!" said Trot, drawing a long breath. "But tell us, Pon, who was Gloria's father?" "Oh, he was the King before my father," replied Pon. "Father was Prime Minister for King Kynd, who was Gloria's father. She was only a baby when King Kynd fell into the Great Gulf that lies just this side of the mountains—the same mountains that separate Jinxland from the rest of the Land of Oz. It is said the Great Gulf has no bot