History[]
Wisdom (or Kingdom of Wisdom, written as Old City of Wisdom on the map) is an unseen city in the novel. It was the first known kingdom to me made on the map. The story, told by Faintly Macabre the Not-So-Wicked Which, is that it was once the Land of Null, a barren wasteland whose only sign of life (besides the unpalatable vegetation) were the Demons of Ignorance themselves. Then, one day, a prince appeared sailed across the Sea of Knowledge. The demons were angry at his claim to the land, and fought against him, but were no match for him, and so he built his city there. They attacked it time and time again (when the Old King set out every spring to battle), but their efforts only worked to expand the kingdom's borders, until only The Mountains of Ignorance remained to them, which is where they stood, waiting to pounce on anyone foolish enough to stray near. Then, when he got too old to reign, he made his sons, King Azaz and The Mathemagician, the king. They got jealous of each others, fighting over which is more important - words or numbers. They banished their stepsisters, Rhyme and Reason, when they tried to solve the problem the right way.
The King of Wisdom
In the Story[]
Then, since Rhyme and Reason were banished, Wisdom withered away, and the brothers built their own kingdoms, Dictionopolis and Digitopolis. There were still some people who chose to live in the old city of Wisdom, rather than moving to either Dictionopolis or Digitopolis.
Wisdom on the map, southwest to Conclusions and east to Forest of Sight