Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4010415-20190821235946/@comment-14909251-20190825171021

73.Anon.52 wrote: There is far more to the wicked witches story than coming from the West, tbh I don't even think that is part of her story at all, it's just the Dominion she gains, and She's east of Vacuo and far closer to the north if that was a particular direction associated with her.

also, the flying monkey's are new, not part of classic Salem's stable, she's got more in connection with the Salem witch trials, which with your assumption makes her not the WWotW either because according to you she can't have multiple. I didn't say she can't, but the only exception to having more than one allusion is Klein, presumably because having seven separate characters based on the Dwarves of Snow White's story would be way too much work. They are also only distinct characters in the Disney film and having seven characters alluding in that sense is way too derivative. Given Salem has lived a really long time and is very different from who she was before, it is at least possible she has more than one allusion. However, I really don't see the Rapunzel connection outside of being in a tower.

Pretty sure naming her Salem is supposed to get at her being a witch and is not meant to be an allusion to anything more than that at all. Her being a witch and Oz's nemesis plays into her being the Wicked Witch of the West. Also, fussing over direction is silly. The continent where she resides is pretty much definitely agreed to be the Black Dragon continent on the western side of the map. She is thus literally a Wicked Witch of the West. All the Flying Monkeys do is clinch it. Weird to me that anyone, at this point, would really try to argue that she does not allude to that character.