Charn (Nation)

The dead country of which Jadis is empress. Even it's Sun is dying, and a dull reddish light hangs over it's blackish blue sky. It is a cold, silent world where nothing lives. Even the name of the city has a sinister sound. Jadis destroyed all living things in Charn with the Deplorable Word in an attempt to usurp her sister's power. The frozen figures of Charn's royalty that Digory and Polly encounter in the great hall show the degeneration of the Kings and Queens from dynasty to dynasty, culminating in Jadis herself. The last years of Charn were ones of great cruelty-slavery, human sacrifice, and endless warfare. The pool of Charn in the Wood Between The World ha dried up; according to Aslan, "That world ended, as if it had never begun". He adds that Sons Of Adam and Daughters of Eve should take that as a warning, and it is clearly intended as a warning to the children that their world, too, may be destroyed through unchecked despotism and if weapons of mass destruction.