Charn
Also known as world of Charn
A dying world whose ruined capital is discovered by Digory and Polly. Jadis’s account and the Deplorable Word reveal how the world was emptied.
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In the chronicles
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The Magician's Nephew12 cited passages⌄
- Chapter V · paragraph 22
…ell on that which no eyes will ever see again," said the Queen. "Such was Charn, that great city, the city of the King of Kings, the wonder of the world, perhaps of all worlds. Does your uncl…
Open passage → - Chapter V · paragraph 24
…t now. But I have stood here when the whole air was full of the noises of Charn; the trampling of feet, the creaking of wheels, the cracking of the whips and the groaning of slaves, the thund…
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 14
…d, with ordinary things around her, she fairly took one's breath away. In Charn she had been alarming enough: in London, she was terrifying. For one thing, they had not realised till now how …
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 22
…e studied his face just as she had studied Digory's face in the palace of Charn. He blinked and licked his lips nervously all the time. At last she let him go; so suddenly that he reeled back…
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 7
…e same horrible-sounding words that had lately turned the palace-gates of Charn to dust. But nothing happened except that Aunt Letty, thinking that those horrible words were meant to be Engli…
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 16
…she tried to "blast" Aunt Letty, but he had seen her "blast" the gates at Charn: so he knew her terrible powers and did not know that she had lost any of them by coming into our world. And he…
Open passage → - Chapter VIII · paragraph 7
…ed your world. Not one stone of your city will be left. I will make it as Charn, as Felinda, as Sorlois, as Bramandin."
Open passage → - Chapter VIII · paragraph 22
"Perhaps this is Charn," said Digory. "Only we've got back in the middle of the night."
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 44
… because he sent Polly first, and then we met the Witch in a place called Charn and she just held on to us when----"
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 76
…lence he did you in the hall of images in the desolate palace of accursed Charn?"
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 36
…d have done so by making Narnia into another strong and cruel empire like Charn, not the kindly land I mean it to be. And the Witch tempted you to do another thing, my son, did she not?"
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 4
…d into it you came to the world where a dying sun shone over the ruins of Charn. There is no pool now. That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.…
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