| Narniaunder Telmarine Monarchy | |
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| The Chronicles of Narnia location | |
 Flag of Narniaunder Telmarine monarchy | |
_alternate.svg) Coat of arms of Narniaunder Telmarine monarchyBased on illustration byPauline Baynes | |
| Created by | C. S. Lewis |
| Genre | Children's fantasy |
| In-universe information | |
| Type | Monarchy |
| Races | Telmarines (Talking animals,Dwarfs,Giants,Fauns,Centaurs,Nymphs, etc. wereoutlaws and claimed by the monarchy not to exist) |
| Locations | Miraz's Castle (capital),Cair Paravel (former capital) |
| Characters | Miraz, Prunaprismia, Lord Glozelle, Lord Sopespian |
| Language(s) | English |
TheTelmarines are a people in thefictional world ofNarnia created by theBritish authorC. S. Lewis for his seriesThe Chronicles of Narnia. Hailing from Telmar, the Telmarines are prominent in the bookPrince Caspian, the second book published in the series (but numbered volume 4 in recent editions ordered chronologically). The Telmarines werepirates inEarth before entering the Narnian world through a magical cave.[1]
No scene from the books takes place there, but Telmar is said to be "far beyond the Western Mountains."[2] According to thetimeline drawn up by Lewis,Calormen extended west into Telmar some three centuries after the world was first created. However, after only two years, the Calormenes in Telmar behaved so wickedly thatAslan turned them into dumb beasts, and the area became effectively unpopulated. Pirates from our world arrived in Telmar over a century later, through a rare gateway between the worlds.Prince Caspian describes how the descendants of these pirates, the Telmarines, invaded Narnia many generations later, leaving Telmar behind and suppressing Narnia's native inhabitants.[3] This led eventually to the events related inPrince Caspian.[1][4]
Telmarine leaders of Narnia inPrince Caspian are King Miraz (brother of the late Caspian IX), Queen Prunaprismia, Lord Glozelle, and Lord Sopespian. In thefilm version ofPrince Caspian, the principal Telmarine characters are portrayed by Spanish, Latin American, and Italian actors.
The high-ranking Telmarines are shown to be corrupt, scheming individuals. Miraz had his own brother killed in order to claim the throne. Sopespian and Glozelle plot together to kill Miraz and blame it on the Narnians in order to declare all-out war on them. This plan succeeds, although the Telmarine army is defeated in the subsequent battle, ending some 300 years of oppression (according to the timeline).
This is the family tree of Telmarine monarchs of Narnia.
| Caspian I (the Conqueror) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| six generations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Caspian VIII | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ramandu | Caspian IX | Miraz | Prunaprismia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ramandu's Daughter | Caspian X | unnamed son | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rilian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| five generations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Erlian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tirian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It was your Highness's ancestor, Caspian the First, who first conqueredNarnia and made it his Kingdom. It was he that brought all your nation into the country. You are not Narnians at all. You are all Telmarines – that is, you all came from the Land of Telmar, far beyond the Western Mountains.
