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36: 380:. Since he is shown in a flashback early in the story when the owls tell Eustace and Jill his story, he appears wearing a silver mask when the children encounter him underground, in order to conceal his identity from the viewer. His excuse for wearing the mask is that the Green Lady told him he was enchanted to look hideous and must hide his "ugly" face with a mask. After he regains his sanity, he takes off the mask to reveal his identity. 246: 1087: 326:. The children recognise this as the sign: they had promised to obey the request of one who asks in Aslan's name, so they reluctantly release him. After destroying the chair with his sword, he then reveals that he is Prince Rilian, and informs them of how the Lady kept him prisoner underground, enchanted by day and returning to sanity only at night. He hacks the silver chair to pieces with his sword. 1097: 417: 317:
and her silent companion, a knight in black armour. Eventually they find their way underground to the Shallow Lands ruled by the Lady of the Green Kirtle, where they meet the black knight again. He tells the three that he suffers from nightly psychotic episodes and therefore must be bound every night
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The Lady returns and attempts to bewitch the four companions. When this fails, she transforms into a green serpent, and Rilian realizes that he has been enslaved all these years by his mother's murderer. They kill the serpent and return to Narnia, where Rilian meets his father just before the old
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was bitten and killed by a green serpent, Rilian revisited the area of his mother's death many times to track down and kill the serpent, but eventually he vanished and no trace of him was ever found. Since then, many others also went missing while searching for him.
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Once the knight is tied to the enchanted chair, however, he regains his memory and sanity. He orders the companions to untie him and makes increasingly violent threats. Eventually he begs them to release him
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Lewis never mentions the name of Rilian's wife or that of his child or children, although he clearly married and had at least one child, as King Tirian is the great-grandson of Rilian's own great-grandson.
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Eustace and Jill meet Puddleglum, a marsh-wiggle, and the three seek Rilian to the north in the land of giants. Along the way they encounter the
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to a silver chair. If he is released, he warns, he will kill everyone within sight, and turn into a deadly green serpent.
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The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis (audio course), Lecture 10: Journeys of Faith-The Chronicles of Narnia II
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The World According to Narnia: Christian Meaning in C. S. Lewis's Beloved Chronicles
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Rogers, Jonathon (2005), ""You Must Use the Map": Signs and Scripture in
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the star. Rilian appears in two of the seven books,
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Prince Rilian
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introducing
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Narnia

Richard Henders
1990 BBC miniseries
Human
Caspian X
Ramandu's daughter
relations of Caspian
Narnian
C. S. Lewis
Chronicles of Narnia
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King Caspian
Ramandu
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle

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Eustace Scrubb
Jill Pole
The Silver Chair
his mother
Cair Paravel
Lady of the Green Kirtle

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