What about the Statues...

~Lava~

~Lava~

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Our RPG about Jadis's rise to power has made me consider something. LO (the person playing Jadis) just turned a wolf to stone who had angered Jadis but was most decidedly on Jadis's side. My questions are... What about the statues of creatures who had angered Jadis but were evil? Did Aslan restore them too? Did they fight in Aslan's army? Were they healed from all the evil they did when Aslan restored them? If they were restored and not healed of their evil, what did they do with these creatures?
 
Pointing out:

1. Aslan is merciful, so I think He would have relesed the evil statues... They may have relized the Witch was evil since she turned them to stone, and Aslan was good, because He, um un-stonified them.;)

2. The Peveinses after taking power, hunted and killed any still loyal to the witch who remained in Narnia... Any evil un-stonifeid creatures would have to flee or give up to Aslan to live.
 
I am bringing this thread back up with a different set of statues in mind. I originally asked about ones that angered Jadis but were on her side. Do you think they found the little Christmas party that Edmund encountered and restored them?
 
~Lava~ said:
I am bringing this thread back up with a different set of statues in mind. I originally asked about ones that angered Jadis but were on her side. Do you think they found the little Christmas party that Edmund encountered and restored them?
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I hope so :)
 
I hope so too, but one has to wonder if they were close enough to the way to the battle to be found. Edmund would not necessarily know the way back to them.
 
From what I know about magical dictators (I googled it...), if someone is in YOUR army and they anger you enough to kill them, just do what David did to Uriah the Hittite...put them in the hottest part of the battle where they can either redeem themselves or face the music. Napoleon, who was definitely a dictator though hardly magical, had a regiment run from the battlefield when it looked like all was lost. He punished them by merely giving them an insignia...a pair of daggers on a gold braid. The fourregere was a reminder that the next time it happened, they would be killed without trial. So eventually this "suicide squad" became something of a bragging point, and people would join the regiment just to prove that they would never consider running from danger. The insignia was turned into an award for courage, and one was even awarded to General Eisenhauer for liberating Paris.
 
I have always wondered whether that spring party of little stone creatures was found and restored. I've rested on the fact that Aslan is Aslan, and at some point before he went back over the seas, he changed them back. It's not likely they would have been too much help in the battle, so I'll wager he did it sometime after the battle, but before the coronation. I'm sure he was often enough where they couldn't find him, he's not a tame lion you know, he had time to undo all the White Witch's evil and leave the Pevensies with a fresh start in their new kingdom.

As an aside, when I read the title of this thread, than began to read the original post, I thought it was referring to the Hall of Statues on Charn. That might be a worthy topic, perhaps I'll start a new thread.😊
 
There is a Bible verse about how neither angels nor principalities, neither height nor depth nor nakedness nor peril nor sword can separate us from the love of Christ. I believe that's why things like vampires, werewolves, and soul reavers that can attack supernaturally and FORCE someone to be bad or to die eternally don't exist. Ultimately let's look back on how magic was done. Remember how the fairy godmother told Cinderella she had to leave the party before midnight? The spell was only good on the day it was cast. There are other things we might assume are true until what the Bible calls "The end of the age," meaning the remaking of heaven and earth. No spell by any evil power can possibly outlast the creation it was cast in.
 
Perhaps statues of those who could accept redemption would be revived. The young Calormene in The Last Battle fell down and worshipped Aslan, and was blessed and redeemed--as was at least one of the dwarves who had shot the Narnian Talking Horses. Forgiveness would involve repentance--which involves the humility to admit that one had made a horrible mistake.
 
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