Narnian ChroniclesA local companion
Character

Caspian X

Also known as Prince Caspian, King Caspian, Caspian, Caspian the Navigator

The Telmarine heir who restores the Old Narnians and becomes Caspian the Navigator. His reign reconnects Narnia with the eastern seas, and his line continues through Rilian.

This encyclopedia follows the whole story. Plot details from all seven chronicles may appear below.

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Primary sources

In the chronicles

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Prince Caspian25 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter III · paragraph 46…wn way. But I hardly know where to begin. First of all I'm a messenger of King Caspian's."Open passage →
  2. Chapter III · paragraph 48"Caspian the Tenth, King of Narnia, and long may he reign!" answered the Dwarf. "That is to say, he ought to be King of …Open passage →
  3. Chapter IV · paragraph 1Prince Caspian lived in a great castle in the centre of Narnia with his uncle, Miraz, the King of Narnia, and his aunt, who ha…Open passage →
  4. Chapter IV · paragraph 4"I don't know, Uncle," said Caspian.Open passage →
  5. Chapter V · paragraph 1After this, Caspian and his Tutor had many more secret conversations on the top of the Great Tower, and at each conversation Caspia…Open passage →
  6. Chapter V · paragraph 3…was in early summertime. And one night, while all this fuss was going on, Caspian was unexpectedly wakened by Doctor Cornelius after he had been only a few hours in bed.Open passage →
  7. Chapter VI · paragraph 1Now began the happiest times that Caspian had ever known. On a fine summer morning when the dew lay on the grass he set off with the Badger and the two D…Open passage →
  8. Chapter VI · paragraph 3…er had said, that a son of Adam ought to be King of Narnia and all kissed Caspian--very wet, snuffly kisses they were--and offered him some honey. Caspian did not really want honey, without bre…Open passage →
  9. Chapter VII · paragraph 1…here they had met the Fauns was, of course, Dancing Lawn itself, and here Caspian and his friends remained till the night of the Great Council. To sleep under the stars, to drink nothing but we…Open passage →
  10. Chapter VII · paragraph 2…umpet, some Owls, the Old Raven of Ravenscaur. Last of all (and this took Caspian's breath away), with the Centaurs came a small but genuine Giant, Wimbleweather of Deadman's Hill, carrying on …Open passage →
  11. Chapter VIII · paragraph 12…ile," said the Dwarf, "what are we to do? I suppose I'd better go back to King Caspian and tell him no help has come."Open passage →
  12. Chapter VIII · paragraph 52"It's quite clear what we have to do. We must join King Caspian at once."Open passage →
  13. Chapter IX · paragraph 1…ts fell. Up till now the children had only been thinking of how to get to Caspian. Now they wondered what they would do when they found him, and how a handful of Dwarfs and woodland creatures c…Open passage →
  14. Chapter IX · paragraph 19…at the Stone Table (Aslan's How, I mean) by eight or nine o'clock. I hope King Caspian will give us a good breakfast!"Open passage →
  15. Chapter X · paragraph 2… drink. No one was talking any more about breakfast, or even dinner, with Caspian.Open passage →
  16. Chapter X · paragraph 5…that side, they would have only a smooth slope and a fairly short walk to Caspian's headquarters.Open passage →
  17. Chapter XI · paragraph 8…ur party splits up, I'll go with the High King. That's my duty to him and King Caspian. But, if you ask my private opinion, I'm a plain dwarf who doesn't think there's much chance of finding a road …Open passage →
  18. Chapter XII · paragraph 21"Oh, stop it, both of you," said King Caspian. "I want to know what it is that Nikabrik keeps on hinting we should do. But before that, I want to know who th…Open passage →
  19. Chapter XII · paragraph 29…s in the presence of these two that you wish to disclose your plan?" said Caspian.Open passage →
  20. Chapter XIII · paragraph 1…shed their meal, "Aslan and the girls (that's Queen Susan and Queen Lucy, Caspian) are somewhere close. We don't know when he will act. In his time, no doubt, not ours. In the meantime he would…Open passage →
  21. Chapter XIII · paragraph 2"I'm afraid not, High King," said Caspian. He was liking Peter very much, but was rather tongue-tied. It was much stranger for him to meet the great King…Open passage →
  22. Chapter XIV · paragraph 8…ght. "Miraz! Miraz! The King! The King!" came the roar of the Telmarines. Caspian and Edmund grew white with sickening anxiety.Open passage →
  23. Chapter XIV · paragraph 10"Hullo!" said Caspian. "What's happening now?"Open passage →
  24. Chapter XV · paragraph 1…u will have a pretty good picture of their behaviour. Then Peter, leading Caspian, forced his way through the crowd of animals.Open passage →
  25. Chapter XV · paragraph 2"This is Caspian, Sir," he said. And Caspian knelt and kissed the Lion's paw.Open passage →
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader30 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter I · paragraph 31"Ca--Ca--Caspian!" gasped Lucy as soon as she had breath enough. For Caspian it was; Caspian, the boy king of Narnia whom they h…Open passage →
  2. Chapter I · paragraph 32"But who is your friend?" said Caspian almost at once, turning to Eustace with his cheerful smile. But Eustace was crying much harder than any boy of …Open passage →
  3. Chapter II · paragraph 1"Ah, there you are, Lucy," said Caspian. "We were just waiting for you. This is my captain, the Lord Drinian."Open passage →
  4. Chapter II · paragraph 5"Meanwhile," said Caspian, "we want to talk."Open passage →
  5. Chapter III · paragraph 2…r and raced forward. As she went she was joined by Edmund, and they found Caspian, Drinian and Reepicheep already on the forecastle. It was a coldish morning, the sky very pale and the sea very…Open passage →
  6. Chapter III · paragraph 4"I've never understood why they belong to Narnia," said Caspian. "Did Peter the High King conquer them?"Open passage →
  7. Chapter IV · paragraph 1…orning the Lord Bern called his guests early and after breakfast he asked Caspian to order every man he had into full armour. "And above all," he added, "let everything be as trim and scoured a…Open passage →
  8. Chapter IV · paragraph 2When they reached the jetty at Narrowhaven, Caspian found a considerable crowd assembled to meet them. "This is what I sent word about last night," said Bern. "The…Open passage →
  9. Chapter V · paragraph 1…ssembled to see her departure. There had been cheers, and tears too, when Caspian made his last speech to the Lone Islanders and parted from the Duke and his family, but as the ship, her purple…Open passage →
  10. Chapter V · paragraph 8…nough even if one was with decent people instead of fiends in human form. Caspian and Edmund are simply brutal to me. The night we lost our mast (there's only a stump left now), though I was no…Open passage →
  11. Chapter VI · paragraph 1…rned laden with a pair of wild goats which were now roasting over a fire. Caspian had ordered a cask of wine ashore, strong wine of Archenland which had to be mixed with water before you drank …Open passage →
  12. Chapter VI · paragraph 14… him. They shouted, "Eustace! Eustace! Coo-ee!" till they were hoarse and Caspian blew his horn.Open passage →
  13. Chapter VII · paragraph 2"Look at the device on the gold," said Caspian.Open passage →
  14. Chapter VII · paragraph 4"Seen it!" said Caspian. "Why, of course you have. It is the sign of a great Narnian house. This is the Lord Octesian's arm-ring."Open passage →
  15. Chapter VIII · paragraph 2"Pirates' work," said Caspian.Open passage →
  16. Chapter VIII · paragraph 12"Hang it!" said Caspian. "The whole thing is moving this way."Open passage →
  17. Chapter IX · paragraph 17…ivy. Everything was so still that Eustace said, "I think it's empty," but Caspian silently pointed to the column of smoke which rose from one chimney.Open passage →
  18. Chapter IX · paragraph 19"There's some magic at work here," said Caspian.Open passage →
  19. Chapter XI · paragraph 7…e he sits in the castle of Cair Paravel counting the days till his master Caspian comes home. I will tell him all your story, Lucy. Do not look so sad. We shall meet soon again."Open passage →
  20. Chapter XI · paragraph 68…ened which made them even more satisfied with their one-legged condition. Caspian and all the Narnians went back as soon as possible to the shore to give their news to Rhince and the others on …Open passage →
  21. Chapter XII · paragraph 4Caspian shouted to the boatswain to keep her back, and all except the rowers rushed forward and gazed from the bows. Bu…Open passage →
  22. Chapter XII · paragraph 5"Do we go into this?" asked Caspian at length.Open passage →
  23. Chapter XIII · paragraph 2…urple kind of smell", which Edmund said (and Rhince thought) was rot, but Caspian said, "I know what you mean."Open passage →
  24. Chapter XIII · paragraph 4Two men were left to guard the boat and Caspian led the others inland, but not far because it was too late for exploring and the light would soon go. But there…Open passage →
  25. Chapter XIV · paragraph 7"Sir," said Caspian, "will you tell us how to undo the enchantment which holds these three Narnian Lords asleep."Open passage →
  26. Chapter XIV · paragraph 12"And are we near the World's End now, Sir?" asked Caspian. "Have you any knowledge of the seas and lands farther east than this?"Open passage →
  27. Chapter XV · paragraph 41"Perhaps your Majesty would like to taste it first," said Drinian to Caspian.Open passage →
  28. Chapter XV · paragraph 45"It--it's like light more than anything else," said Caspian.Open passage →
  29. Chapter XVI · paragraph 4"My Lord," said Caspian to Drinian one day, "what do you see ahead?"Open passage →
  30. Chapter XVI · paragraph 6"That is what I see too," said Caspian, "and I cannot imagine what it is."Open passage →
The Silver Chair13 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter III · paragraph 32"Caspian the Tenth," said the Owl. And Jill wondered why Scrubb had suddenly pulled up short in his walk and turned an e…Open passage →
  2. Chapter III · paragraph 68"I can't bear it," said Scrubb. "Seeing the King--Caspian--a doddering old man like that. It's--it's frightful."Open passage →
  3. Chapter IV · paragraph 27…e all you chaps--owls, I mean," said Scrubb, "I suppose you all know that King Caspian the Tenth, in his young days, sailed to the eastern end of the world. Well, I was with him on that journey: wit…Open passage →
  4. Chapter IV · paragraph 31…kin is a traitor? I used to hear a lot about him in the old days, at sea. Caspian--the King, I mean--trusted him absolutely."Open passage →
  5. Chapter V · paragraph 4…ng back to him a strength he had won when he sailed the Eastern Seas with King Caspian.Open passage →
  6. Chapter V · paragraph 66…m. Scrubb (who had learned some shooting when he sailed to the East under Caspian) had Puddleglum's second-best bow, and Puddleglum had his best one; though he said that what with winds, and da…Open passage →
  7. Chapter VI · paragraph 18…ied Eustace for being able to shoot; he had learned it on his voyage with King Caspian. As there were countless streams on the moor, they were never short of water. Jill thought that when, in books,…Open passage →
  8. Chapter XI · paragraph 56…y well believe that I know Narnia, for I am Rilian, Prince of Narnia, and Caspian the great King is my father."Open passage →
  9. Chapter XII · paragraph 6…iny. And second: I am the King's son of Narnia, Rilian, the only child of Caspian, Tenth of that name, whom some call Caspian the Seafarer. Therefore, Madam, it is my purpose, as it is also my …Open passage →
  10. Chapter XIV · paragraph 22…iment House. For all his adventures, and the days when he had sailed with King Caspian, were coming back to him.Open passage →
  11. Chapter XV · paragraph 35…hanting. There were some old ones who could just remember how his father, King Caspian, had looked when he was a young man, and saw the likeness. But I think they would have known him anyway. Pale t…Open passage →
  12. Chapter XVI · paragraph 29…ce more assembled on the green between the castle and the quay to welcome King Caspian home again. Rilian, who had changed his black clothes and was now dressed in a scarlet cloak over silver mail, …Open passage →
  13. Chapter XVI · paragraph 31…et him down. The Prince knelt beside him and embraced him. They could see King Caspian raising his hand to bless his son. And everyone cheered, but it was a half-hearted cheer, for they all felt tha…Open passage →
The Last Battle3 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter IV · paragraph 32… to himself. Then he went further back and thought about Rilian's father, Caspian the Seafarer, whose wicked uncle King Miraz had tried to murder him, and how Caspian fled away into the woods a…Open passage →
  2. Chapter XVI · paragraph 25… the great Battle of Beruna and afterwards sailed to the World's end with King Caspian the Seafarer. But before he had had much time to think of this, he felt two strong arms thrown about him and fe…Open passage →
  3. Chapter XVI · paragraph 30… Disenchanted, and his mother, the Star's daughter, and his great father, Caspian himself. And close beside him were the Lord Drinian and the Lord Berne and Trumpkin the Dwarf and Trufflehunter…Open passage →
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CharacterMiraz

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

→ObjectDawn Treader

Caspian X’s single-masted ship, built for the voyage to find his father’s seven lost friends.

→CharacterRilian

The only son of Caspian X, enchanted and taken into Underland after the death of his mother.

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