I’m i the only one that feels like the Wizard is pretty darn incredible despite being a fraud?
Like, he found himself in this strange magical works by accident in an air ballon and thanks to magic tricks he learned form the circus he was able to pretend to be a powerful Wizard and take control of a part of this strange land and he oversaw the construction of the Emerald City in the original book and all the machinery and puppetry and other inventions he’s created to maintain this Wizard is also pretty darn incredible.
He is pretty much a renaissance man.