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An elderly narrator ŢĖŁŀŞ the story of Maleficent, a very strong and powerful faerie living in the Moors, a magical realm bordering a human kingdom. As a young girl, she falls in love with a peasant boy named after Stefan, but mutual affection for His Maleficent is overshadowed by His ambition to Become King. They grow as older, Stefan stops seeing Maleficent. After defeats Maleficent the current king in battle when he attempts to invade the Moors, he offers to whoever kills her name as His successor. Stefan overhears this, goes to see Maleficent and deceives her into thinking that he has come to warn her of the king's plot. He drugs her and attempts to kill her but can not bring himself to do so. Instead, he burns off her wings with iron, a lethal substance to faeries, and presents Them to the king as proof of her death. Maleficent rescues a raven named Diaval to serve as her informant and he reports to her that Stefan has been crowned king. The realization that Stefan betrayed her to gain the throne devastates Maleficent and in Retaliation, she declares herself queen of the Moors, forming a dark oppressive kingdom with one Diaval as her companion and confidant.
Some time later, Maleficent Diaval informs that King Stefan is hosting a christening for His newborn daughter, Aurora. Bent on revenge, and Uninvited arrives Maleficent curses the newborn princess: on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel, Which will cause her to fall into a death-like sleep. After Stefan is forced by Maleficent to beg for His daughter, she offers a caveat: the curse can be broken by true love's kiss. Terrified of Maleficent's Vengeance, Stefan sends Aurora to live with three pixies until the day after her sixteenth birthday, while he destroys and burns all the spinning wheels in the kingdom and Them hides in the deepest dungeon in the castle. He sends out His armies to find and kill Maleficent, but she surrounds her kingdom with an impenetrable shield of thorns.
Despite her initial dislike for Princess Aurora, Maleficent begins to care about the girl when the neglectful pixies fail to do so. After a brief meeting with the young Aurora, Maleficent watches over her from afar. When Aurora is 15, she sees Maleficent for the first time since then and calls her her "faerie godmother", as she recalled being watched over by her all her life. Realizing she has grown fond of the princess, Maleficent attempts to revoke the curse, but can not as she herself had declared that "no power on Earth can change it". Aurora later falls in love with Prince Philip. On the day before Aurora's 16th birthday, Maleficent, hoping to Avoid the Curse, allows the girl to live in the moors, far away from any spindles. The Pixies, however, inadvertently tell Aurora of her parentage and of Maleficent's true identity, and a furious Aurora runs away to her father.
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