Charn (Nation)

Charn was the name of the now dead world and the capital city, of which Jadis was empress. The world was a cold, silent world where nothing lived because of Jadis.

She had destroyed all living things in Charn with the Deplorable Word in order to defeat her sister in a war for the throne. The lifesize images of Charn's royalty, which Digory and Polly encountered in the great hall of the palace of Charn, showed the degeneration of the Kings and Queens from generation to generation, culminating in Jadis herself.

The last years of Charn's nation were ones of great cruelty, slavery, human sacrifice, and endless warfare.

In the end, the pool of Charn in the Wood Between the Worlds had dried up; according to Aslan, "That world ended, as if it had never begun".

He added that Sons Of Adam and Daughters of Eve should take that as a warning, which is clearly intended as a warning to the children that their world, too, may be destroyed through unchecked despotism and weapons of mass destruction.