 The earlier drafts of the screenplay contained more background  information on the characters Madmartigan and Sorsha. Madmartigan  was originally a knight of the kingdom of Galladorn (the kingdom  that General Kael mentions having destroyed to Queen Bavmorda) and  that the character Airk was the only real friend he had, but  Madmartigans recklessness got him into trouble, as did his love  affair with an Eastern beauty that tainted the family name.  Madmartigan had a chance to regain his honor in battle, but he  ruined the chance by deserting; this explained some of the bitter  antagonism between Madmartigan and Airk. Sorsha was originally the  daughter of the king of Tir Asleen, who was a good man (he is in  fact the regal old man seen at the end after the fall of Bavmorda  and Tir Asleen is restored, and can be briefly seen in stone), which  suggested that Sorsha had the capability to be good; during the  battle at Tir Asleen between Bavmordas troops, Madmartigan, and the  monster, Sorsha encountered her father and he struggled through the  stone to ask her for help, which prompted Sorsha to switch alliances  from her evil mother to the good side. All of this was lost in the  final film but does appear in the novelization.