Narnian ChroniclesA local companion
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Telmarines

Also known as Telmarine, Telmar

Humans descended from pirates who reached the Narnian world through a passage from Earth. They conquer Narnia, suppress its old inhabitants, and establish the dynasty into which Caspian is born.

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In the chronicles

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The Horse and His Boy1 cited passage⌄
  1. Chapter XIII · paragraph 20…ild beasts stirred in the great Western forests between Lantern Waste and Telmar. And all this day he had hardly left his pool, even to eat or drink, for he knew that great events were on foot…Open passage →
Prince Caspian15 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter III · paragraph 52…the Dwarf, scratching his head. "But he's really a New Narnian himself, a Telmarine, if you follow me."Open passage →
  2. Chapter IV · paragraph 26… nation into the country. You are not native Narnians at all. You are all Telmarines--that is, you all came from the Land of Telmar, far beyond the Western Mountains. That is why Caspian the First…Open passage →
  3. Chapter IV · paragraph 27…sked Caspian one day, "who lived in Narnia before we all came here out of Telmar?"Open passage →
  4. Chapter V · paragraph 18…d Protector. But then your royal mother died, the good Queen and the only Telmarine who was ever kind to me. And then, one by one, all the great lords, who had known your father, died or disappea…Open passage →
  5. Chapter V · paragraph 39…dly to Man crowded into his mind. He remembered that he was, after all, a Telmarine, one of the race who cut down trees wherever they could and were at war with all wild things; and though he him…Open passage →
  6. Chapter VI · paragraph 12…lieve in anyone or anything," said Nikabrik, "that'll batter these cursed Telmarine barbarians to pieces or drive them out of Narnia. Anyone or anything, Aslan or the White Witch, do you understa…Open passage →
  7. Chapter VI · paragraph 27…s if ever they will stir again? And that is a great loss to our side. The Telmarines are horribly afraid of the woods, and once the Trees moved in anger, our enemies would go mad with fright and b…Open passage →
  8. Chapter VII · paragraph 33…ures, I think we must fly east and down the river to the great woods. The Telmarines hate that region. They have always been afraid of the sea and of something that may come over the sea. That is …Open passage →
  9. Chapter XII · paragraph 24… "But in this hole we may talk plainly. You know--and he knows--that this Telmarine boy will be king of nowhere and nobody in a week unless we can help him out of the trap in which he sits."Open passage →
  10. Chapter XIII · paragraph 14…is lawful King under us in Narnia both by our gift and by the laws of the Telmarines, and your Lordship twice guilty of treachery both in withholding the dominion of Narnia from the said Caspian a…Open passage →
  11. Chapter XIII · paragraph 38…ing was considering it. When they saw them thus at close quarters the two Telmarine lords thought all three of them very alarming.Open passage →
  12. Chapter XIV · paragraph 1… a hind hoof occasionally on the turf, looked much more imposing than the Telmarine baron who faced him on the left. Peter had just shaken hands with Edmund and the Doctor, and was now walking do…Open passage →
  13. Chapter XIV · paragraph 8…ight and weight. "Miraz! Miraz! The King! The King!" came the roar of the Telmarines. Caspian and Edmund grew white with sickening anxiety.Open passage →
  14. Chapter XV · paragraph 1At the sight of Aslan the cheeks of the Telmarine soldiers became the colour of cold gravy, their knees knocked together, and many fell on their faces. They had …Open passage →
  15. Chapter XV · paragraph 21After this the Telmarine soldiers, firmly but without taunts or blows, were taken across the ford and all put under lock and key in the …Open passage →
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader4 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter II · paragraph 9…d the King. "It couldn't be better. There's no trouble at all now between Telmarines, Dwarfs, Talking Beasts, Fauns and the rest. And we gave those troublesome giants on the frontier such a good b…Open passage →
  2. Chapter X · paragraph 20…t it turned from tournaments to real wars, and all Narnia and Archenland, Telmar and Calormen, Galma and Terebinthia, were laid waste with the fury of the kings and dukes and great lords who f…Open passage →
  3. Chapter XII · paragraph 63…rom ... but I won't talk of that. And now let me know who you are. I am a Telmarine of Narnia, and when I was worth anything men called me the Lord Rhoop."Open passage →
  4. Chapter XIII · paragraph 59… a very masterful man, leaped up and said, 'No, by heaven. We are men and Telmarines, not brutes. What should we do but seek, adventure after adventure? We have not long to live in any event. Let …Open passage →
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CharacterCaspian X

The Telmarine heir who restores the Old Narnians and becomes Caspian the Navigator.

→CharacterMiraz

Caspian’s uncle, usurper of the Telmarine throne, and ruler over a Narnia hostile to its older inhabitants.

→CultureOld Narnia

The living memory and surviving community of Narnia’s Talking Beasts, Dwarfs, Fauns, Dryads, and other ancient peoples during Telmarine rule.

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