Wonderland, ruled by Queen Genevieve Heart, is still recovering from a bloody civil war between 'White' and 'Black' Imagination which ended twelve years prior to the beginning of the story. Females are the dominant sex in Wonderland, as the ruling families are matriarchies.

the Wonderland Queen is a member of the Heart family, and the parliament is composed of reigning members of the Spades, Clubs, and Diamonds). The government is a Queendom with an advising Parliament dominated by a playing card hierarchy, with the Heart family at the top of the proverbial stack (i.e. Wonderland features a class system similar to that seen in England during the 1600s, though on a far more minimalist scale. The story then begins many years earlier, on Alyss' seventh birthday, in the Wonderland of Alyss' memory, which is ruled by imagination and is the source of all imagination for all other worlds. Alyss is shocked by the book's contents and refuses to speak to Dodgson ever again. The book's prologue tells of Reverend Charles Dodgson showing Alice Liddell (who claims her name to be spelled 'Alyss') the manuscript for Alice's Adventures Underground. Template:Citation needed The theme of this book is loss of innocence. Carroll's novel is said to have been inspired by the images, ideas, and names related by Alice to the author, whom she had requested to make a book of her personal history. The premise of the book is that Lewis Carroll's novel Alice in Wonderland was fiction, but that the character Alice is real, as, indeed, is the world of Wonderland. The Looking Glass Wars is thus supposedly a faithful recording of this story.

He later went to a playing card collector who claimed to have the cards missing from the deck and told him the story of the Looking Glass Wars. The images on these cards resembled Wonderland characters, while the cards themselves seemed to be illuminated by an unusual glow. In interviews and in the warning at the beginning of the book, Beddor claims he wrote the book after seeing an incomplete deck of cards as part of a display of ancient playing cards at the British Museum.

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