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Charn is a fictional city appearing in the 1955 book The Magician's Nephew, the sixth book published in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, written as a prequel to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Charn, and the world of which it is the capital city, are the birthplace of Jadis, also known as the White Witch, who later seizes control of ...
The Magician's Nephew is a portal fantasy children's novel by C. S. Lewis, published in 1955 by The Bodley Head. It is the sixth published of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956). In recent editions, which sequence the books according in chronological order, it is placed as the first volume of the series.
In The Magician's Nephew, the children who are the central characters, Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, come to a lifeless world called Charn. In an ancient, ruined building they awaken a queen called Jadis. She tells them of a worldwide civil war she fought against her sister. All of Jadis's armies were defeated, having been made to fight to ...
In The Magician's Nephew, Jadis is introduced as the last Queen of Charn, a city in an entirely different world from Narnia. She was the last of a long line of kings and queens, who were good in the beginning but grew evil over many generations and conquered the entire world of Charn, ruling it as despots.
In The Magician's Nephew, the young Digory, thanks to his uncle's magical experimentation, inadvertently brings Jadis from her dying homeworld of Charn to the newly created world of Narnia; to rectify his mistake, Aslan sends him to fetch a magical apple which will protect Narnia and heal his dying mother.
Jadis originally ruled as the Empress of Charn as detailed in The Magician's Nephew. Appearing as a tall, powerful woman, Mr. Beaver describes her as a descendant of Lilith, Adam's first wife who was also a Jinn. She is seen to possess superhuman strength and later comes into possession of a magic wand that can turn living things to stone.
Polly Plummer – friend and neighbor of the Magician's Nephew (Digory Kirke). With him, discovered the Wood between the Worlds, Charn, and the world of Narnia (at the Lantern Waste). Jill Pole – friend of Narnia, adventuress who is first seen and mentioned in The Silver Chair, and is with Eustace on his return to Narnia.
This is clearly an artifact of the order in which C. S. Lewis wrote and published the stories, with the two stories above and The Magician's Nephew which also references ancient Mesopotamian civilisation in its depiction of Queen Jadis and Charn, appearing last three of the seven.