The Rise of the Great and Powerful

I wasn't always a man behind a curtain. I had a name and a

life, before the Matriarch's decree stripped it all from me. Her daughter was

to be a queen of darkness, and I was simply the cost of that transition.

Banished for a throne I never wanted. I was cast into the Enchanted

Forest, a place where the trees themselves whisper of your failures and the

shadows try to pull you under. But I didn't stop. I walked through

the nightmare until the shadows began to turn into color, and the fear

turned into curiosity. I found a new land. A land that didn't know my