Ok. This one's huge. And has pictures. It just didn't seem right to archive it without the pictures. This is our section on the major characters in Narnia, complete with all sorts of random facts that I bet you didn't know at least one (unless of course, you worked on this). Oh, and I slightly changed some of the info, because it's movie related and at the time it was accurate, but now it isn't.

Name: Aslan

Meaning: Turkish for "Lion"
 
Role: True King of Narnia, Son of the Emperor Over the Sea
 
Featured in: All seven books
 
Key events in Narnia: Aslan is present and active both at the creation and the destruction of the world in which Narnia is situated.
 
Any others? Yes,  Aslan also saves the life of Edmund Pevensie in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by sacrificing himself on the stone table.
 
Most interesting experience: Singing the world into existence.
 
Extra information:  Aslan is the key to the entire series.  His actions bring guidance, help and hope to the children, and he always appears at just the right moment.  Sometimes he shows himself in different forms, appearing both as a bird and a lamb in Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and a cat in The Horse and His Boy.  He cares deeply about all that takes place in that world, and, Lewis says, what happens in this one too.
 
Movie
 
Played by: Liam Neeson
 
BBC Series
 
Voiced by: Ronald Pickup

name: Jadis,  The White Witch.

meaning: Jadis means "Witch" in Persian

Role: Self-proclaimed Queen of Narnia,

Featured in: The Magican's Nephew and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Times in Other Worlds: Jadis originally came from another world. She also entered the World Between the Worlds, and England for a short time.

First person she met in Narnia:

Most interesting experience: climbing over the garden wall to get an apple from the tree of life.  The experience of eating it turned her skin as white as snow

Extra information: The White Witch envelops the world of Narnia in a hundred years of winter, and never Christmas.  She also used her magic powers to entice Edmund Pevensie into her control.  She hated Aslan and used Edmund to summon him to be sacrificed at the Stone Table.

Movie

Played by: Tilda Swinton.

BBC series

Played by: Barbara Kellerman

name: Peter Pevensie, also known as "King Peter the Magnificent"

meaning: "Rock".

Role: High King of Narnia, Son of Adam

Featured in: LWW, H&HB, PC, LB

Times in Narnia: Twice.  Once in the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.  Once in Prince Caspian.  He also appears through the stable door in the Last Battle.  He is mentioned in the Horse and His Boy but is not present, because he is busy fighting giants on Narnia's northern boarder.

First person he met in Narnia: Mr. Beaver

Special gift: a sword and a shield bearing the standard of a red lion

Extra information: Peter is the oldest and the leader of the four Pevensies.  He is sensible and practical, being good with a sword and at hunting, he decides to consult the old Professor about Lucy's apparent madness, but he is more inclined to believe her than Susan.  While in Narnia, he leads the others in battle against the White Witch and is the first to speak to Aslan face to face.  As High King, Peter defeated the Tisroc of Tashbaan in Calormen in battle many times over, and peace reigned between Narnia and their neighbour Arkenland.

Movie

Played by: William Moseley

BBC series

Played by: Richard Dempsey

name: Susan Pevensie

meaning: "Lily/Rose".

Role: Queen of Narnia, Daughter of Eve

Featured in: LWW, H&HB, PC, LB

Times in Narnia:  Twice. Once in the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, and once in Prince Caspian.  She also appears in the Horse and His Boy as a Queen of Narnia.  She is mentioned in the Last Battle but does not feature in it herself.

First person she met in Narnia: Mr. Beaver.

Special gift: A bow, a quiver full of arrows and a little ivory horn to blow to call for aid.

Extra information: Susan is the most down to earth of the four Pevensies and finds it hardest to believe that Narnia exists.  She and Peter consult with the Professor about Lucy's claim of visiting another world. When she is Queen, she considers marrying Prince Rabadash of Calormen. 

Movie

Played by: Anna Katherine Popplewell

BBC series

Played by: Sophie Cook

Name: Edmund Pevensie
Meaning: "Protector"
Role: King of Narnia, Son of Adam

Featured in: LWW, H&HB,PC, VDT, LB.

Times in Narnia: 4 times, twice in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, once in Prince Caspian and once in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

First person he met in Narnia: The White Witch.

Special Gift: None, Edmund was with the White Witch when the others met Father Christmas.

Extra information: Favourite sweet? Probably Turkish Delight, although he may have liked it much less after his ordeal with the White Witch. Having joined up with the wrong side, Edmund's life was purchased by Aslan's sacrifice on the Stone Table. The jury is out as to whether he or Eustace changed the most after their first times in Narnia.

Movie

Played by: Skandar Keynes

BBC series

played by: Jonathan R. Scott

name: Lucy Pevensie

meaning: "Bringer of Light"

Role: Queen of Narnia, Daughter of Eve

Featured in: LWW, H&HB, PC, VDT, LB

Times in Narnia: 5 times. three times in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, once in Prince Caspian and once in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

First person she met in Narnia:  Mr. Tumnus the Faun.

Special gift: healing cordial in a glass bottle from Father Christmas, and a dagger.

Extra information: She is the most sensitive of the four children, and often sees Aslan when the others can't.  She was the first of the four in Narnia; and of all those who entered that amazing world, Lucy was there the longest, beating Edmund by about four hours.

Movie

Played by: Georgie Henley

BBC series

Played by: Sophie Wilcox

Name: Eustace Scrubb
 
Meaning: Greek for "Fruitful"
 
Role: Son of Adam, introduces Jill Pole to Narnia
 
Featured in: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Last Battle.
 
Times in Narnia: Three, coinciding with the three books above.
 
First person he met in Narnia: Prince Caspian
 
Most interesting experience: Becoming a dragon
 
Extra information:  Eustace probably changes the most of all the people from our world who visit the land of Narnia.  He does not believe in the place until he is pulled unwillingly into it, but afterwards manages to persuade another unbeliever - Jill Pole - that it is real.  When he arrives he hates being there, but after his first adventure, he eagerly suggests returning.
 
Movie
 
Played by: unknown at this time.
 
BBC Series
 
played by: David Thwaites

name: Jill Pole

meaning: "Youthful/Sweetheart"

Role: Daughter of Eve, Rescuer of Rilian

Featured in:  SC, LB

Times in Narnia: Twice; Once in the Silver Chair and once in the Last Battle. She also visited a part of Aslan's country

First person she met in Narnia:  Aslan.

Most interesting moment:  Having to take a drink from the spring in Aslan's country while he watched.

Extra information: Jill has two adventures in Narnia with Eustace.  In the first one she ventures into a part of the land which even the Pevensies as Kings and Queens of Narnia have not seen.  She has to remember seven signs and recognise them as guides to the fulfillment of the quest.  Later, she and Eustace become the last two children from our world ever to enter Narnia.

Movie

Played by: Unknown at this time.

BBC series

Played by: Camilla Power

name: Digory Kirke
meaning: "Lost One".

Role: Discoverer of Narnia,  keeper of the Wardrobe

Featured in: MN, LWW, LB

Times in Narnia: Once.  Digory was there when it all began, and watched Aslan sing the world into being.

First person he met in Narnia:

Most interesting moment: Riding through the clouds on a winged horse..

Extra information: Digory and his neighbour Polly are tricked into traveling out of this world by Digory's mad uncle the Magician. He also features as the Old Professor who the Pevensie children visit during the Second World War.  He is rumoured to have been based on Lewis himself.

Movie

Played by: Unknown at this time. It is also not known if the Magician's Nephew will be made at this time

BBC series

Played by: Michael Aldridge

name: Caspian the Tenth, also known as "King Caspian the Seafarer"

Parents: King Caspian the Ninth and Queen Prunaprismia

Role: King of Narnia of the line of Telmarines. Named after Caspian the First who conquered Narnia.

Featured in:  PC, VDT, SC, LB

Travel in Other Worlds: Caspian briefly visits England to help Eustace and Jill with some unfinished business in The Silver Chair.  He also appears in the Last Battle, dwelling in the city at the heart of Aslan's Country.

Most interesting moment: Meeting Ramandu's Daughter at Aslan's Table, and sailing to the edge of the world.

Extra information: Caspian is a Telmarine who is expected by his uncle the King Miraz not to believe in talking beasts or Aslan.  Fortunately he has a little help in that area by his tutor a half-dwarf called Cornelius.  He meets the four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy who help in the fight against his uncle.  Once he becomes king he sets sail towards the Utter East in search of the seven Lords of Narnia banished by his uncle for believing in Aslan.  His son Rilian is the subject of the Silver Chair.

Movie

Played by: Unknown at this time.

BBC series

played by: Jean Marc Perret (Prince Caspian), Samuel West (King Caspian),  Geoffrey Russel (Old King Caspian).

(I always thought he looked like the hulk in this picture)

name: Rilian,

Parents: King Caspian the Tenth, Ramandu's Daughter.

Role: King of Narnia, of the line of the Telmarines

Featured in:  SC, LB

Times in Other Worlds: Rilian spent time enchanted in the land under the earth, which you can read about in the Silver Chair, and he appears in Aslan's Country in the Last Battle.

Most interesting moment: Yelling out Aslan's name while strapped to the silver chair.

Extra information: Rilian meets the Green Lady, a sorceress who enchants him.  At the time of Eustace and Jill's arrival in Narnia he has vanished and all attempts to search for him have failed.  He also appears as a green knight.

Movie

Played by: Unknown at this time.

BBC series

played by: Richard Henders

name: Puddleglum

race: Marshwiggle

Role: Guide to Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole

Featured in: SC, LB

Times in Other Worlds: Puddleglum enters the land of the Giants and the underground world of the Green Lady in the Silver Chair.  He is also found dwelling in the city at the heart of Aslan's Country in the Last Battle

Most interesting moment: learning that giants consider marshwiggle somewhat stringy to eat..

Extra information: Puddleglum is as his name describes, a glum and depressing character, but during his travels with Jill and Eustace he brightens up a great deal.

Movie

Played by: Unknown at this time.

BBC series

Played by: Tom Baker

Name: Shasta/Cor
 
Race: Arkenland
 
Role: King of Arkenland and Hero of the Horse and His Boy.
 
Featured in: The Horse and His Boy, also mentioned in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Last Battle
 
Most interesting moment: Hiding in the tombs of the dead outside the Calormene capital city of Tashbaan at night with only a strange black cat for company.
 
Extra information: Shasta escapes from home in the country of Calormen with a talking horse called Bree and meets the Tarkheena Aravis and her horse Hwin on the journey to Narnia.
 
Movie
 
Played by: unknown at this time.

...and all these bios were written up by amatire