Narnian ChroniclesA local companion
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Miraz

Also known as King Miraz, Lord Miraz

Caspian’s uncle, usurper of the Telmarine throne, and ruler over a Narnia hostile to its older inhabitants. He is drawn into single combat with Peter at Aslan’s How.

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In the chronicles

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Prince Caspian21 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter IV · paragraph 1…e Caspian lived in a great castle in the centre of Narnia with his uncle, Miraz, the King of Narnia, and his aunt, who had red hair and was called Queen Prunaprismia. His father and mother we…Open passage →
  2. Chapter IV · paragraph 5"Don't know, eh?" said Miraz. "Why, I should like to know what more anyone could wish for!"Open passage →
  3. Chapter V · paragraph 1… noble and heroical art," said the Doctor) he was taught nothing, because King Miraz disapproved of ships and the sea.Open passage →
  4. Chapter V · paragraph 2…a was an unhappy country. The taxes were high and the laws were stern and Miraz was a cruel man.Open passage →
  5. Chapter VI · paragraph 6…sly at Caspian, but in the end the eldest of them said, "If he is against Miraz, we'll have him for King." And the next oldest said, "Shall we go farther up for you, up to the crags? There's …Open passage →
  6. Chapter VI · paragraph 13…ehunter. "You do not know what you are saying. She was a worse enemy than Miraz and all his race."Open passage →
  7. Chapter VII · paragraph 3…Mice said that councils and feasts could both wait, and proposed storming Miraz in his own castle that very night. Pattertwig and the other Squirrels said they could talk and eat at the same …Open passage →
  8. Chapter VII · paragraph 18…ow. We must all fly from this place at once. You are already betrayed and Miraz is on the move. Before mid-day to-morrow you will be surrounded."Open passage →
  9. Chapter VIII · paragraph 6…rmy, but by a pompous old fool who has charge of a little castle which is Miraz's last stronghold towards the coast. I needn't tell you they got no true tale out of me, but I was a Dwarf and …Open passage →
  10. Chapter IX · paragraph 51…again--even supposing we could--we might as well give the whole thing up. Miraz will have finished with Caspian before we get there at that rate."Open passage →
  11. Chapter X · paragraph 19…hey're not searching the wood. Only sentries, I expect. But it means that Miraz has an outpost down there. Bottles and battledores! though, it was a near thing."Open passage →
  12. Chapter X · paragraph 30…felt quite hopeful now about finding King Caspian to-morrow and defeating Miraz in a few days. It may not have been sensible of them to feel like this, but they did.Open passage →
  13. Chapter XI · paragraph 54…with it. It rose up from that hill and floated across all Narnia. Down in Miraz's camp men woke, stared palely in one another's faces, and grasped their weapons. Down below that in the Great …Open passage →
  14. Chapter XII · paragraph 11…y the Horn was not blown at sunrise that morning. Have you forgotten that Miraz fell upon us almost before Trumpkin had gone, and we were fighting for our lives for the space of three hours a…Open passage →
  15. Chapter XII · paragraph 36"You can go on saying that till Miraz has fed us all to his dogs. As I was saying, we have tried one link in the chain of old legends, and it has don…Open passage →
  16. Chapter XIII · paragraph 1…hat we can on our own. You say, Caspian, we are not strong enough to meet Miraz in pitched battle."Open passage →
  17. Chapter XIII · paragraph 12… and Lord of Cair Paravel, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Lion, to Miraz, Son of Caspian the Eighth, sometime Lord Protector of Narnia and now styling himself King of Narnia, Greeting.…Open passage →
  18. Chapter XIV · paragraph 1…f the creatures at the wood's edge looking across at the gleaming line of Miraz's army which was about two arrow-shots away. In between, a square space of level grass had been staked for the …Open passage →
  19. Chapter XIV · paragraph 6…the enemy try any treachery. But it won't help the High King very much if Miraz proves handier with his sword."Open passage →
  20. Chapter XV · paragraph 26… But most of the older men, especially those who had been important under Miraz, were sulky and had no wish to live in a country where they could not rule the roast. "Live here with a lot of …Open passage →
  21. Chapter XV · paragraph 27…s had made good use of the royal wardrobes in what had been the castle of Miraz and was now the castle of Caspian, and what with silk and cloth of gold, with snowy linen glancing through slas…Open passage →
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader5 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter II · paragraph 13…ong story. Perhaps you remember that when I was a child my usurping uncle Miraz got rid of seven friends of my father's (who might have taken my part) by sending them off to explore the unkno…Open passage →
  2. Chapter II · paragraph 51…gation had died out in the reigns of Caspian's ancestors. When his uncle, Miraz the usurper, had sent the seven lords to sea, they had had to buy a Galmian ship and man it with hired Galmian …Open passage →
  3. Chapter III · paragraph 68…ses who you are. You are one of those seven lords of Narnia whom my Uncle Miraz sent to sea and whom I have come out to look for--Argoz, Bern, Octesian, Restimar, Mavramorn, or--or--I have fo…Open passage →
  4. Chapter XIII · paragraph 59…d, 'No, let us re-embark and sail for Narnia and the west; it may be that Miraz is dead.' But the third, who was a very masterful man, leaped up and said, 'No, by heaven. We are men and Telma…Open passage →
  5. Chapter XVI · paragraph 31"Can't?" said Caspian sharply, looking for a moment not unlike his uncle Miraz.Open passage →
The Last Battle2 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter IV · paragraph 32…d 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 and lived among the Dwarfs. But that story to…Open passage →
  2. Chapter IX · paragraph 34… revived. After all, something very like that had happened in the time of King Miraz!Open passage →
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CharacterCaspian X

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

→CharacterPeter Pevensie

The eldest Pevensie sibling and High King during the Golden Age.

→CharacterGlozelle

A Telmarine lord under Miraz.

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