Nockmaar



Nockmaar was an oppressed Daikini kingdom ruled by the corrupt Queen Bavmorda with an iron fist and one of many locations in the 1988 fantasy movie WIllow. It also appeared as an location in the 1988 videogame adaption Willow, the film's novelization Willow: A Novel, and Shadow Star of the Chronicles of the Shadow War book trilogy.

Bavmorda herself established this land as her own kingdom during the so-called "Time of Whispers" that all began when Bavmorda, then queen consort of Tir Asleen, ruled in place of her husband, King Tanthalos IX, whom she had bewitched into total obedience. The years that followed her marriage brought many crimes against the population, from secret trials and public executions to ruinous taxation and unceasing war. Curfews were imposed, legal torture became a common sight, and the Queen's death squads walked the countryside. In the orchards and lakes of Tir Asleen, monsters began to appear. After the birth of their daughter Sorsha, Bavmorda ended up freezing the king in crystal along with the rest of Tir Asleen. She then moved her base of operations Nockmaar with all the resources of her late husband's kingdom where she built her volcanic fortress known as the Nockmaar Castle at the heart of the land's namesake valley, where she continued her reign of terror as this wilderness becomes her own war machine and her own empire.

The Time of Whispers came to an end with Queen Bavmorda's death during the Battle of Nockmaar when the novice wizard named WIllow Ufgood intervene and rescued.