Enchanted Dominion

**The Enchanted Dominion** is the home world of Princess Aurora, Prince Phillip, King Hubert, King Stefan, Queen Leah, The Lackey, Maleficent and her Goblins, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. This world is considered by some who participated in The Universal Crusades to be a twin to the Castle of Dreams, since both nearly take place during the same era in time.

## Locations

There are a number of notable locations in this world.

### The Castle

**King Stefan's Castle** (sometimes referred to as **Sleeping Beauty's Castle**), is the residence of King Stefan's family and his people. It is also the place where the kingdom was celebrating Princess Aurora's birth, when Maleficent, the Dark Fairy of the Forbidden Mountain, suddenly bursts in and blamed King Stefan and his people for not inviting her to the infant princess's christening. The kingdom was also the target of a sleeping spell by the Three Good Fairies, so that the townspeople would only awake when the spell placed on Princess Aurora was broken by true love's kiss.

#### Places of Interest

* **Ballroom**: Where the King and Queen's thrones are located and the famous room where Aurora and Prince Phillip first met and participated in a lovely dance.
* **The Highest Tower**: The room where the princess is laid to sleep upon a bed after she pricks her finger on the magical Spinning Wheel that Maleficent conjured.
* **Princess Aurora's 2nd Bedroom**: This is where Aurora is hypnotized by Maleficent.
* **Dining Room**: Where King Stefan holds banquets, and when King Hubert and him drink wine.
* **Hallways**: Large areas in the castle that lead to various rooms.
* **Garden** (**Backyard**): Where all flowers are grown.
* **Bridge**: A bridge leading to the castle gates. Prince Phillip also battles Maleficent here.
* **Library**: The reading room. King Stefan also signs bills in there.
* **Courtyard**: Holds the gardens
* **Tower**: One tower which has a magical passage behind a fireplace in Aurora's Bedroom. It's where Aurora pricks her finger on Maleficent's Spinning Wheel.

### The Forbidden Mountain

The **Forbidden Mountain** is a dangerous mountain region where Maleficent's Castle is located. It serves as the home to the evil fairy Maleficent.

#### Background

The Forbidden Mountain is a range of mountains with a ruined castle at its peak that serves as Maleficent's home. The surrounding sky is generally pale green in color and the entire area has a dark atmosphere. The Forbidden Mountain is thought to be one of the gloomiest and darkest places to live.

In addition to the foreboding surroundings, various additional deterrents like eerie quietness, menacing statues, crumbling and decaying architecture, guards patrolling, and the power of Maleficent herself would deter any would-be intruder. This made the Good Fairies doubly fearful and cautious when sneaking in to rescue Prince Philip.

#### Appearance

Maleficent lived in an eerie castle within the Forbidden Mountain throughout her life, ruling over her own subjects, harnessing her dark magic, and scheming against King Stefan and his daughter Aurora.

When her goblin soldiers reported back to her about Princess Aurora (only they were searching for a baby) with no such luck, she became frustrated and zapped them with lightning before ordering them to leave her in her throne room. She and her pet Diablo take matters into their own hands and send him to find Aurora and complete her dreaded curse of permanent sleep upon the unsuspecting princess on her 16th birthday.

The mountain is also the place where Maleficent kidnapped Prince Phillip and locked him in her dungeon, in order to prevent him from rescuing Princess Aurora and breaking the spell. The Three Good Fairies however, manage to sneak inside the castle and rescue him. They give him the Sword of Truth and the Shield of Virtue as he will encounter many dangers ahead.

When Maleficent finds out that Prince Phillip has escaped, she does everything she can to prevent him from reaching King Stefan's Castle.

### The Cottage

**Aurora's Cottage** (also known as **Woodcutter's Cottage**) is a small cottage in the forest where Princess Aurora was raised in order to be protected from Maleficent in the 1959 film, *Sleeping Beauty*.

Outside the cottage is a **forest** where where Prince Phillip and Princess Aurora meet for the first time.

#### Appearance

Nothing is known about the cottage, except that it once belonged to an unnamed woodcutter who left it for unknown reasons. After it was abandoned, the three Good Fairies occupied it as a hiding place for Princess Aurora to keep her safe from Maleficient's curse.

When the cottage is first seen, Aurora (under the name of Briar Rose) is seen singing happily while cleaning her window sill. When her "aunts," Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, want to plan a surprise sixteenth birthday party for her, they send her away to get some berries, and while in the woods, she encounters the handsome Prince Phillip.

Meanwhile, the fairies are preparing the birthday cake and the dress without magic in order for Maleficent not to find them. However, it doesn't go so well as they hoped, so they decide to use magic very carefully. In the process, Flora and Merryweather fight over which color the dress should be (Merryweather wants it to be blue while Flora wants it to be pink), causing the attention of Maleficent's raven, Diablo, who's in search of Aurora, find their hideout. When Aurora returns, the fairies wish her happy birthday and finally tell her of her true status as a princess. They also tell her that she won't be able to be with the stranger she met in the forest since she's betrothed to Prince Phillip (ironically, the stranger she met in the forest, is in fact Prince Phillip). Aurora is shocked of the information that was kept hidden from her for sixteen years, cannot believe she won't be able to see the handsome man she met.

Angry and upset, she runs into her room and cries on her bed, leaving the fairies guilty for sharing the news to her. The last time the cottage appears is when Prince Phillip is on his way to meet the girl he met in the woods (not realizing that it's Princess Aurora). When he goes inside, he's captured by Maleficent and her goons, as Diablo informed Maleficent of Aurora's hideout. When the fairies arrive at the cottage, they are shocked to find Prince Phillip's hat left on the floor. Realizing he has been taken to the Forbidden Mountain, scared but determined, they go to the Forbidden Mountain to rescue him, for he's now the only one who can save Aurora with True Love's Kiss.