Underland
Also known as the Underworld
The underground realm ruled by the Lady of the Green Kirtle. Its enchanted population prepares to invade the Overland until Rilian is freed.
This encyclopedia follows the whole story. Plot details from all seven chronicles may appear below.
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In the chronicles
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The Silver Chair12 cited passages⌄
- Chapter X · paragraph 2
"I am the Warden of the Marches of Underland, and with me stand a hundred Earthmen in arms," came the reply. "Tell me quickly who you are and what is your e…
Open passage → - Chapter X · paragraph 40
"Many sink down to the Underworld."
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 37
…word. My sword! Once I am free I shall take such revenge on Earthmen that Underland will talk of it for a thousand years!"
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 44
…asked it in his name? Could it be a mere accident? Or how if the Queen of the Underworld knew all about the signs and had made the Knight learn this name simply in order to entrap them? But then, supp…
Open passage → - Chapter XII · paragraph 1
…had expected or wished to see: the Lady of the Green Kirtle, the Queen of Underland. She stood dead still in the doorway, and they could see her eyes moving as she took in the whole situation--th…
Open passage → - Chapter XIII · paragraph 1
… down and had a little refreshment, and discussed plans for escaping from the Underworld.
Open passage → - Chapter XIII · paragraph 8
…iced was a great red glow. Its reflection made a red patch on the roof of the Underworld thousands of feet above them, so that they could see a rocky ceiling which had perhaps been hidden in darkness …
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 14
… heard him shouted it on to others, so that in a few minutes the whole of Underland was ringing with shouts and cheers, and gnomes by hundreds and thousands, leaping, turning cart-wheels, standin…
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 42
…hen they looked back they could see the water spreading. All the hills of Underland were now islands, and it was only on those islands that the lamps remained. Every moment some distant light van…
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 28
…tly phosphorescence and filled with goodness-knows-what evil creatures of the Underworld. So that when he had persuaded Puddleglum to give him a back, and drawn his sword, and poked out his head, he h…
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 31
… and with kind, merry faces all round them, one couldn't quite believe in Underland.
Open passage → - Chapter XVI · paragraph 1
…herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld. But when she noticed that she was lying on a bed of heather with a furry mantle over her, and saw a cheery fir…
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