Miraz

As presented in Prince Caspian and summarized in secondary sources, Miraz is a Telmarine who seized the Narnian throne by killing his brother, Caspian IX. He allowed his nephew (the rightful heir, Prince Caspian) to live until his wife bore him a legitimate son, after which Miraz moved to eliminate the heir and consolidate his rule. He represents a ruling human lineage (the Telmarines) that displaced Narnia's pre-Telmarine order generations earlier.

Canonical textual sources provided here give limited physical description. Film and television adaptations have depicted Miraz visually (Robert Lang in the 1989 BBC adaptation; Sergio Castellitto in the 2008 film), and critics have described adaptation portrayals (e.g., 'square-shouldered and decisive', 'malignant grandeur'), but the primary texts summarized do not offer a detailed, consistent portrait of his physical features.

Miraz possesses no supernatural powers in the sources; his 'abilities' are political and military. He rules through oppression, cruelty, and fear, levies heavy taxes, enacts harsh laws, bans the teaching of Narnia's pre-Telmarine history, and pursues policies intended to desacralize nature and remove enchantment from Narnian life. Narratively, his vulnerabilities are likewise political and martial: he is challenged and defeated in single combat by Peter Pevensie and ultimately killed by his own advisors.