the world of narnia is filled with some wonderfully strange and exotic places from the ancient
ruins of giant cities to mysterious desert shrines to the marshy homes of otherworldly
creatures even an eerily beautiful monument to the origin of the world itself yes the
map of narnia is truly filled with landmarks that awaken the imagination but some of the
most wild and wonderful places in the world of narnia are quite literally off the map
far beyond the distant horizon of the great eastern ocean in fact many of these islands
remained undiscovered to narnians for thousands of years during the time of the voyage of
the dawn treader and today we're going to retrace the root of that great expedition
and examine 10 amazing locations along the way in the next episode we're going to examine
the fascinating story behind the story discussing the deeper meanings hidden within each island
in this fantastic voyage well we've got a long voyage ahead of us so let's pull up the
anchor and set sail it's time to leave the shadow lands behind and step into a world
that's more real than our own it's time to follow me into the wardrobe
you know the sea wasn't always a complete mystery to the people of narnia in the days
of high king peter and his four siblings the narnians were a seafaring people in fact it
was during this time that the greatest ship in the history of narnia set sail the great
ship known as the splendor hyaline which carried the kings and queens of narnia as far south
as the great port city of tashbon in fact in the book prince caspian lucy herself reminisced
about all the islands that pevensey's visited on this wonderful ship and we'll explore these
islands later however many generations later narnia had completely abandoned the seas due
mostly to the fact that the telemarines themselves were afraid of the waters in fact we now know
that the narnians had even forgotten how to build ships at all it wasn't until king caspian
the tenth overthrew his uncle Miraz that the narnians began to rediscover the sea caspian's
mentor dr cornelius had secretly taught him in his childhood many of the skills that he
would need to become an ocean fair including navigation and the art of shipbuilding by
the time he was king caspian began to build his own ships and the best ship he had built
by far was the legendary dawn treader and so with the well-trained crew including captain
dreiner his first mate rents and the brave knight repeat chief caspian was ready to fulfill
his oath to aslin that he would sail east for a year and a day to discover the fate
of the seven lost lords of narnia
so the dawn trader departed from the island of cair paravel which of course hadn't always
been an island the plan was to visit first the known islands in the region specifically
four separate island groups that had all been visited by the pevensies years ago and each
was specifically mentioned by lucy in the book prince caspian these islands were all
located in the large bay known as the bite of calormen a bite is a bend in a coastline
that forms a large bay now the bite itself was massive stretching all the way from the
northeast corner of the wildlands of the north to the southeastern tip of the calormen peninsula
what later the east beyond these islands was totally unknown to the narnians in fact it
was even unknown to the islanders of the bite
now the first waypoint for the dawn treader and the first stop on our tour is the island
of galma which is the island nearest tanaria gama was actually an independent dukedom which
presumably kept their distance during the reign of marazz but they were apparently very
surprised and pleased with the arrival of king caspian so much so that they organized
a jousting tournament in his honor and tried to marry him off to the daughter of the duke
at which point caspian promptly set sail for the next island on our tour terebenthia terebinthia
was a southern island whose closest continental neighbors were archenland calormen now the
dawn charter couldn't land in terabinthia because of an outbreak of disease and unfortunately
they also encountered pirates after rounding the cave it's been speculated that in the
absence of a narnian navy pirates thrived and flourished in this part of the sea the
next stop is an archipelago off the coast of ettensmoor to the northernmost islands
in the bite of calormen known as the seven isles and decades later caspian would return
here in search of another great lord the greatest in fact aslan himself and indeed he would
find him there the two major islands in this chain are mughal and brin which is home to
the great port city of redhaven interestingly enough the mysterious hermit of the southern
march who met shasta and bree in the horse and his boy possessed a magical pool which
allowed him to see all the way to red haven and observe what ships were coming and going
from that great port
the next stop on our journey takes us on a long southerly route all the way to those
distant islands aptly named the lone islands now these islands were located at the edge
of the bite of calormen and the beginning of the great eastern ocean what lay beyond
these islands no one knew not even the lone islanders themselves about halfway along this
leg of the trip is when edmund lucy and eustace were pulled from the sea and joined the crew
of the dawn treader the lone island's archipelago consisted of three islands philimath avara
and dorn which was also the home of the main settlement of narrow haven now most people
don't actually know that the lone islands have a long and rich history in narnia so
rich in fact that an entire video could be made just about the lone islands however the
basic rundown is that the lone islands had been under narnian rule for over 2 000 years
since narnia near 302 when the narnian king gale conquered a dragon that had been terrorizing
the islanders now a quick side note here i believe that if caspian and the rest of the
crew had known their history it would have given them a clue as to what was waiting for
them in those distant waters ahead in any case to show their gratitude for conquering
the dragon the people of the lone islands made king gale their emperor the first emperor
of narnia in fact and the narnian rule continued in one form of government or another until
presumably the end of narnia in fact jadis herself during her tyrannical reign of narnia
had dubbed herself her imperial majesty jadis queen of narnia chatelaine of caraparavel
and empress of the lone islands now the lone islands were mostly neglected by the empire
during the reign of Miraz and during that time of neglect the island castle fell into
disrepair calories began to expand their influence in the area and worst of all the practice
of slave trading began to take root eventually becoming a major aspect of the lone island's
economy thankfully caspian reclaimed the land and banished the practice of slave trading
it's also here that he discovered the first of the lost lords lord byrne whom he set in
place as the first duke of the islands after removing governor Gumpas from his station
well now it's time to continue eastward into the great unknown of the eastern ocean so
for the remainder of our tour we'll be traveling quite literally off the map the first stop
and the first island discovered by the dawn traders crew was dragon island dragon island
was a wild and mountainous probably volcanic island which was described as treacherous
and inhospitable of course it was given its name because of its terrible secret a huge
cache of forbidden treasure that would cause anyone who took it to be turned into a dragon
which is exactly what the stubborn and foolish eustis tragically discovered it was also the
eternal resting place of the second lost lord lord octageon who may or may not have also
been the first dragon that eustace encountered and who eventually died oh and whose dragon
carcass eustace eventually ate gross i know now one final note about this island it's
the first time that aslan appears on an island during the dawn treaders journey at which
point in a rather painful and gruesome manner he transforms eustis from a dragon back into
a human now moving farther east from dragon island the next island to be explored is deathwater
island now if you've never read the books and have only seen the walden media film version
of the voyage of the dawn treader you might be confused right now because in the movie
dragon island and death water island were actually one and the same of course we all
know filmmakers don't let a little thing like cannon get in the way of a good or maybe not
so good movie do they now this distinction is actually an important one to the larger
theme in the book and that's something we'll dive into in greater detail in the next episode
but for now back to the tour deathwater island was given its name of course because of the
mountain lake which possessed astonishing magical waters where anything that came into
contact with the water was turned to pure solid gold of course this would have deadly
consequences for anyone who fell even partially into the water and that actually was the fate
of the third lost lord lord restomar who was discovered on the island in the form of a
solid gold and naked corpse interestingly enough there were two streams which converged
near the island harbor and one of those streams flowed directly from the magical lake that
means that the water from this stream had the potential to also contain the deadly death
water curse if the dawn trader crew hadn't altered course at the last minute it's quite
possible that they could have sailed directly into death water stream turning the dawn treader
into solid gold sinking the ship and killing all of those aboard thankfully the crew avoided
this fate and eventually sailed on to the next stop on our tour a strange island now
known as the land of the duffers now this island is the home of a group of one-legged
dwarves known as the duffers and their master a fallen star named Coriakin the duffers maintained
the island for corykin including his great garden which contained shrubs and bushes that
were pruned into fantastically strange shapes the island also contained a great mansion
which held a library and in the center of the library was a great and powerful book
of magic spells now interestingly enough we learned from aslan himself that there are
many other islands in the sea that also serve as home for falling stars one of which we'll
meet later but there are likely many many more out there that still remain undiscovered
now as we continue on from this island i have to warn you the next leg may be the most treacherous
for the dawn treader they continued eastward for nearly two weeks seeing no signs of land
on the 13th day they could make out just on the horizon what looked like a black mountain
but when they closed in they realized they were seeing something almost otherworldly
it was even hard to describe but it was something like a place of pure darkness where even though
the open ocean was filled with daylight on a bright sunny day the light inside seemed
to be swallowed up into a land so dark it was even hard to make out its form this was
of course what's now known as the dark island and it's seemingly the most supernatural of
all the islands for this is an island where your dreams come true i mean they literally
manifest into reality the problem is it's not just the good dreams that are made real
it's the nightmares too caspian and his crew learned about all of this when they rescued
the fourth lost lord lord rupe who had been trapped there himself for many many years
now what makes it even worse is that once you're caught in this darkness it may be impossible
to ever escape caspian and his crew were so completely disoriented in the dark that they
were totally unable to sail away in fact they were only able to escape with the help of
aslin himself as lucy called out a desperate prayer and aslan responded by sending a great
shining albatross to lead them out of the darkness once they were at a safe distance
they turned around to discover that aslan had destroyed the deadly island causing it
to disappear without a trace
well we're now nearing the end of the journey and the final island we encounter is known
as the island of the star appropriately named because it is the home of ramundu the retired
star and his daughter who was presumably half human herself strangely enough narnian history
did not record her name although she would later become caspian's wife the mother to
prince rillian and one of the most beloved queens in the history of narnia tragically
she would also be killed by the evil green witch who also remained unnamed but later
became known as the lady of the green curdle the island of the star was a small island
comprised of gentle rolling hills and the most notable structure was an open court surrounded
by columns containing a huge table when the crew of the dawn treader discovered it the
table was prepared with an unbelievable feast and seated amongst the huge amounts of food
for the remaining three lords all fast asleep under an enchanted spell with an unusual stone
knife laying on the table beside them now it turns out this was no ordinary table and
that was no ordinary knife in fact this was no ordinary island first it was the site chosen
by aslan to safeguard one of the most sacred relics in all of narnian history that stone
knife that was the knife used by jadis to kill Aslan over a thousand years earlier and
the table the table was actually none other than aslan's table not to be confused with
the famous stone table here's how reminded's daughter explained it it is said here by his
bidding said the girl for those who come so far some call this island the world's end
for though you can sail further this is the beginning of the end now this is important
to note that while technically there was more to see as the dawn traders sailed ever eastward
this was the final stop before the great passage to aslan's country which we'll save for another
episode because today we've reached the beginning of the end well that's all the time we have
for today but our tour of the eastern ocean isn't over yet tune in next time as we explore
the deeper meanings behind each of these islands and don't forget to subscribe so you won't
miss out on the next incredible episode i look forward to seeing you next time as we
take another journey into the wardrobe