Caspian

Aliases: King Caspian the Tenth, King of Narnia, Emperor of the Lone Islands, Lord of Cair Paravel, Caspian X.
Alignment: Good
Date of Birth: 2290, Narnia time
Date of Death: 2356, Narnia Time
Parents: King Caspian the Ninth
Race: Telmarine
Biography: The true heir to Narnia and sworn enemy of his evil uncle Miraz who usurped the throne, Caspian asks the Narnians to help him restore justice to the kingdom. “‘Caspian’ is a coming-of-age and, to some degree, a loss-of-innocence story,” Adamson says, “with Caspian starting out quite naïve, then craving revenge and finally letting go of the vengeance.”

Caspian was raised until he was thirteen years old as the nephew (“adopted son”) and heir to King Miraz of Narnia. By this time, talking animals apparently did not exist in Narnia, having been driven into hiding by Caspian’s ancestors, the Telmarines. In fact, the talking beasts were thought of as nothing more than myth. Caspian was fascinated by these stories, but the nurse who told him these stories was dismissed by his uncle.

His next teacher, Doctor Cornelius, in reality has human and dwarfish blood. He teaches Caspian the sciences and history that his uncle wants as well as the stories of Narnia’s true past. He also discovers that Miraz had killed his father Caspian IX in order to take the throne for himself. Eventually, Miraz’s wife gave birth to a son, and Caspian has to flee for his life, taking with him Susan’s magic horn, which Doctor Cornelius gives him; this horn will bring help to the person who blows it. He eventually meets the creatures that he once thought were myth; most of them agree to accept him as their king. When Miraz attacked this group, Caspian blew the horn, and summoned the old kings and queens back to Narnia. With Aslan’s help, they defeated Miraz in what Lewis called the War of Deliverance, and restore old Narnia with Caspian becoming King Caspian X in 2303. During Prince Caspian it says that the Narnians awarded Caspian and let him become their king. By this Caspian X could be seen as the first Narnian king since the Golden Age.

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