Dorothy returns to the Wizard with the green potion bottle that has been kept in the family for years. He recognises the bottle as the potion that subdued Elphaba's mother Melena in some way. It is implied that the Wizard is the father of Elphaba. (Elphaba, around the age of 2 or 3, had a vision along with Turtle Heart of the Wizard arriving, but later events confirm that the Wizard Zoroaster Diggs was indeed her father.) Rumors abound through Oz about the whereabouts of Dorothy, few actually believing that she returned to Kansas. The Wizard departs the Emerald City mere hours before a Gale Force-led coup would have overthrown and killed him, and it is implied he returns to Kansas, only to later commit suicide. The book ends with political chaos reigning over most of Oz, as Munchkinland rests on the verge of civil war, and the failure to capture the Wizard has left the coup plotters without any ability to form a new government.