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The Reign of Caspian X

Peter Pevensie, the High King, and his siblings were recalled to Narnia 1288 Narnian years after their departure, in the Narnian year 2303. Narnia was then ruled by the Telmarine King Miraz, who had murdered his brother and usurped the throne, and who planned to murder the true heir, his nephew Prince Caspian. Caspian had learned of Old Narnia and its creatures, and had become sympathetic to their plight. The four Pevensies helped Caspian defeat Miraz at the second Battle of Beruna, and Caspian recovered the throne and so the Telmarine Age of Narnia and began its Age of Exploration.

Lucy and Edmund came to Narnia once again three years later with their cousin Eustace in the year 2306, and sailed with Caspian aboard the ship Dawn Treader. Caspian undertook this journey to find the Seven Great Lords of Narnia who had been banished by Miraz to the far Eastern Seas beyond the Lone Islands. Caspian restored Narnian control over the Lone Islands (which had lapsed under Telmarine rule) and explored the unknown eastern islands to the very edge of the world. The explorers had many adventures, including fighting a sea serpent, encountering a wizard and his invisible subjects, and Eustace being turned briefly into a dragon.

Caspian married the daughter of a star named Ramandu. After the birth of their son Rilian, the Queen was killed by a witch in the form of a serpent, and Rilian, by then a young man, disappeared while searching for her. Eustace was drawn back to Narnia in the year 2356 along with a school friend, Jill Pole, to find that the passage of time had left Caspian an old man. As Caspian embarked on one final voyage in search of Rilian, the children, with Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, began their own search. This took them to the Wild Lands of the North, inhabited by giants, and to the underworld, where they found Rilian and the Lady of the Green Kirtle, who had bewitched him. They freed Rilian, who in turn killed the witch. They returned to Narnia to find Caspian dying as he returned from his voyage which ended the Age of Exploration and began Narnia's Later Ages.