Peter Pevensie

"This is going to be exciting enough without pretending."

- Peter Pevensie

Peter Pevensie (1927-1949) was a young man who traveled to Narnia, the eldest of the Pevensie children, and ruler of the Kingdom of Narnia after the White Witch's demise. As the oldest, he was responsible and caring, always wanting to do what was best for his siblings. His Narnian titles include High King Peter the Magnificent, Emperor of the Lone Islands, Lord of Cair Paravel, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Lion, as well as Sir Peter Wolf's-Bane. He died (on earth)at the age of 22.

Bombing of London and Refuge
Peter Pevensie lived in London, England until he and his siblings were evacuated to the countryside by train because of the air-raids of World War II. The children stayed at an old mansion belonging to Professor Kirke until the end of the war. The house had extensive grounds that proved to hold lots of fun, but rainy days were dreary. Deciding to explore the house, they all split up and when Lucy came back she claimed to be gone for hours. Everyone thought she was playing a game of course, but when she insisted they followed her to a wardrobe kept all by itself in a spare room upstairs. It was a perfectly ordinary wardrobe and Peter encouraged her to forget her joke.

The next day it was still raining and a game of hide and seek was begun. Moments later Edmund and Lucy came to find the others and Lucy once again insisted there was a country inside the wardrobe, and that Edmund had been in it too. Edmund said he had just been teasing her, at which Lucy rushed from the room. Peter told Edmund off for it, and expressed fears that there might be something wrong with Lucy. During the night Peter and Susan became so worried about her that they decided to go and speak to the Professor about it.

Logic
"Logic!Why don't they teach logic at these schools?"

- Digory Kirke

The Professor did not turn out to be the help that they wanted, but help of a different sort. He helped them to establish that Lucy was and always had been more truthful than Edmund and that she was not mad, you could tell by talking and looking at her. Therefore, she had to be telling the truth. Peter and Susan were stunned at this and Peter pointed out that if things were real, they were there all that time, and that Lucy had had no time to go anywhere. The Professor suggested that another world would be likely to run on it's own time, while a young girl would not likely come up with that idea on her own. So, Peter made sure that Edmund left Lucy alone about it, and the subject was not spoken of at all.

Narnia
"Rise up, Sir Peter Wolf's-Bane, Knight of Narnia."

- Aslan

The Professor's house was often toured by visitors and the housekeeper Macready led them around and told them about all the things that were in it. The Macready disliked children in the first place, but especially when she was leading visitors through the house. One day the children were caught with her and a group between them and the door, and speedily headed as far back into the house as they could. Macready seemed to be following them, until eventually the only place left to go was into the spare room where the wardrobe was. It was Edmund who urged them all inside the wardrobe to hide, but when the four of them looked up again, it was snowing. When everyone realized at once that this was the world Lucy had found before hand, Peter was the first to apologize for not believing her.

Putting on some of the coats that had been in the wardrobe they set out to explore the forest. Edmund made a comment about which direction they should be going, revealing that he had indeed been in this place before. No one spoke to him and Susan changed the subject by asking where they were going Peter decided that Lucy should lead.



They hear terrible things of the White Witch and the Witch's Secret Police, whom wished to kill them in order to prevent the Golden Age Prophecy, which had foreseen the arrival of four humans in Narnia, from being fulfilled. Consequently, the three children, after Edmund betrayed his siblings to the White Witch, had to flee from the Witch's forces with the aid of Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, a married couple of rebellious talking beasts.

Later Peter received his sword, Rhindon, and shield from Father Christmas during the journey to find Aslan, the Great Lion, and his army camping at the Stone Table. After arriving at Aslan's Camp,it came under attack by at least two wolves of the Witch's Secret Police, Aslan encouraged Peter to fend them off. In the process Peter slew the wolf captain Maugrim which resulted in Aslan knighting him Sir Peter Wolf's-Bane or Fenris-Bane.



Battle of Beruna
Peter and his Supreme General Oreius commanded the initial formations of Aslan's Army during the Battle of Beruna during which Peter personally dueled with White Witch herself until Aslan pounced on her. He was afterwards crowned by Aslan as High King Peter, with his siblings sharing the throne with him. The ancient prophecy of two Sons of Adam and two Daughters of Eve coming to sit on the four thrones of Narnia at the castle Cair Paravel had come to fruition. This marked the end of the Hundred-Year Winter and was the beginning of Narnia's Golden Age. "And to the Clear Northern Sky, I give you King Peter the Magnificent"

- Aslan

High King of Narnia
One of King Peter's few dilemmas during the Golden Age was the Ettinsmoor War, where he drove away the Giants from the North. In Narnian-year 1015, the four adult Pevensies hunted an enigmatic White Stag which led them back into the Wardrobe and their own Earth, where they became children once again, supposedly having disappeared from Narnia.

Old Narnia in Danger
After the Pevensies were pulled back into Narnia due to an emergency calling of the Narnian Prince Caspian X, Peter again served as the leader of his siblings. Although in Narnian Time it had been over a thousand years since Peter's reign as High King, he was still called this. Peter and Edmund initially met the to-be-king Caspian while saving him from an assassination attempt|left by his own Black Dwarf ally Nikabrik and the Dwarf's cronies.

Battle of Aslan's How


The Pevensie children ultimately helped Caspian defeat his usurping uncle Miraz during the Narnian Revolution and Peter formally gave authority to Caspian to rule Narnia as the succeeding king. Peter later confided to Lucy and Edmund that he was told by Aslan that he and Susan would never again return to Narnia, as they were now too old. The four children returned to their world, but never forgot Caspian.

Tutoring with the Professor
During Edmund's and Lucy's journeys aboard the Dawn Treader, it was mentioned that Peter was under the tutelage of Professor Digory Kirke in preparation for exams.

Admission into Aslan's Country
"Peter, High King of Narnia, shut the door."

- Aslan

When Peter was 22, he and all the people who had visited Narnia recieved a vision that the current ruler of Narnia, King Tirian, was a Calormene prisoner. Realising that Narnia was once again in danger, Peter gathered with all the other people who had visited Narnia (except for Susan) and planned to use magic rings to return to Narnia again. Sadly, they met in a railway station, and there was a terrible train accident that killed everyone present.

Peter was the first person to introduce himself to King Tirian when he entered Aslan's country. As the World of Narnia was destroyed in the end, Peter was the one who was asked by Aslan to close the door and seal off the dead Narnia from the real Narnia and was one of the many people admitted into Aslan's Country at the end of the world.

Movies
Peter was played by English actor William Moseley in the two Disney films, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian.

Peter Pevensie