How To Draw The White Witch From Narnia

"I was the Queen. They were all my people. What else were they in that location for merely to do my will?"

―Jadis on the people of Charn (Affiliate 5) ^[src]

Queen Jadis was the sole surviving resident and the cocky-alleged final Queen of Charn. She was an extremely powerful sorceress, and was in one case the well-nigh infamous ruler of Narnia.

Originally from the World of Charn, she was accidentally brought to the World of Narnia on the day of its creation. Although she was banished to the North past the Great Panthera leo, Aslan, she returned 900 Narnian-years later, and usurped the throne from the original royal family of Narnia.

As a curse upon her Narnian subjects, she began the Long Wintertime, magically forcing Narnia into a hundred-year state of frozen snow and ice, which lasted all through her reign, thus earning her the title, the "White Witch".

Her tyranny somewhen evoked the Narnians into a triumphant uprising known as the Winter Revolution.

Contents

• one Biography
  • ane.1 Charn
  • 1.2 Journey to Globe
  • 1.3 Early Narnia
  • ane.4 The Hundred Twelvemonth Wintertime
  • one.5 Wintertime Rebellion
  • 1.6 State of war of Deliverance
• 2 Correct to Rule
• iii Characteristics
  • iii.1 Physical Appearance
  • three.2 Attire
  • 3.3 Powers and Abilities
  • 3.four Personality
• 4 Weapons
• 5 Age
• 6 Behind the Scenes
  • half-dozen.ane Deaths
  • vi.2 Resurrection Theories
• 7 Adaptations
  • vii.1 Advent
• viii Gallery
• ix Citations

Biography

Charn

Jadis' Ancestors, the Regal family of Charn.

Jadis was born into the royal family of the globe of Charn, who were said to exist part-Jinn and role-Giant. Very trivial is known about her babyhood or early developed life. It was known, however, that she had practiced witchcraft in her own world, and delved into nighttime magic, far across what was considered proper. She discovered a magic spell that her ancestors had hidden long earlier, strong enough to destroy all living things except the caster. This was known as the Lamentable Discussion, and was Jadis' greatest weapon.

As a member of the royal family unit, she became engaged in a global political struggle with her own sis, as the two fought to go Queen of their worldwide empire. At the get-go of this war, in that location was a clear agreement fabricated between the two that prohibited the use of magic, though, co-ordinate to Jadis herself, her sis broke this hope. The final battle of the conflict lasted three days, during which Jadis' forces were slaughtered completely by those of her sis until Jadis stood lone within her palace. Equally her sister climbed the palace terrace toward her, Jadis, rather than give up, suddenly spoke the Sorry Discussion. Charn instantly became a desolate world where all living organisms perished instantly. By default, Jadis became queen.

With no living creatures left to rule over, Jadis placed a spell upon herself that would preserve her sitting statuesquely abreast the images of her ancestors in her palace's Hall of Images. She did this on the off chance that someday someone might come from another world, as the spell would concluding until the occasion when someone rang the small bong located in the Hall.

Jadis awakened.

In this land she remained for unknown centuries (simply peradventure a thousand years), until the bell was struck past 2 human being children who had accidentally arrived in her world.

"And the forcefulness of those spells was that I should sleep among them, like an image myself, and need neither food nor fire, though it were a yard years, till one came and struck the bell and awoke me."

―Jadis (Chapter 5) ^[src]

Upon being awoken, she demanded the proper name of the wizard who had sent for her. The boy who had woken her, Digory Kirke, told her that Andrew Ketterley, his uncle, was a wizard from World. She too demonstrated her magical power by crumbling an immense and bulletproof blackness door.

Digory and his companion, Polly Plummer, were then forced to have Jadis back with them to their own world, by a combination of physical force and Jadis's charm to manipulate others, which she used to dispense Digory.

Journey to Earth

On their journey, they had to travel through the Wood between the Worlds. There, Jadis seemed to of a sudden become weaker, as she had difficulty breathing the air, and strangely appeared much uglier and fifty-fifty paler. The iii passed on again, and all landed in Earth back at the house of Digory's uncle in England (in the Earth-yr 1900). Jadis seemed revitalised, and, upon meeting Andrew, realised that he was simply a very small magician, and his abilities nothing compared to hers.

Jadis in London.

Andrew succumbed to her wishes in fright, and acted every bit her slave. Jadis began plotting her takeover of Earth, only to discover that much of her magic would not work there when she attempted unsuccessfully to cast a spell over Digory's Aunt Letty. Nonetheless, she began causing mayhem past mere forcefulness and intimidation, causing Letitia Ketterley, in confusion, to contact the local constabulary.

Jadis, meanwhile, had attacked several people, robbed a jewelery store, and announced her intentions of globe domination to the people of London, causing tumult. She had also stolen a cab and cabhorse, which she mounted after crashing the cab, using information technology equally a chariot.

As the police closed in, Jadis had pulled an iron bar off of a lamppost and began striking out with it. The fight went on for several minutes until young Digory and Polly, by use of Andrew's magic rings, managed to drag her back into the Wood Between the Worlds. In the process, they inadvertently dragged the cabhorse, the cabdriver, and Uncle Andrew with them.

By another accident, all half-dozen were removed from the Wood and carried, not back into Charn, but into nonetheless some other new world; the unborn world of Narnia.

Early Narnia

This new world was completely dark when they arrived, but then a vocalisation began to sing, and light appeared along with the Great Panthera leo, Aslan, mark the beginning of Narnian-twelvemonth 1. The panthera leo'southward vocal created life all around them, including grass, trees and flowers growing abruptly from the footing. Jadis, understanding and disturbed by the sight of the dawning of life on a new planet, approached Aslan and hurled the lantern piece at him, though he seemed unaffected as it struck him. The bar landed in the ground, and thus grew into a fresh new lamp-post every bit if it were a blossoming new tree. Jadis, unable to manipulate the situation any longer, and realising she had arrived in a world that did not yet comprise evil, fled, leaving her companions behind in the new world.

Jadis eating the Apple.

Jadis was indeed the commencement evil to enter Narnia, and her corruption would impact it for ages to come. Soon later, she learned that Aslan intended to establish a powerful tree in Narnia that would keep her out of the land, and that Digory was the one chosen to plant the tree. An intrigued Jadis fabricated her own way to the garden containing the tree.

Once there, she plucked and greedily ate a silvery apple tree of the Tree of Youth, thereby acquiring inexhaustible strength and even becoming immortal.

Upon Digory's arrival, she tried to persuade him to non plant the tree that would pb to her banishment; first past encouraging him to eat the fruit himself, telling him that it would grant him everlasting youth and life, and they could control Narnia together. Second, to give the fruit to his dying mother instead, assuring him that it would cure her of her illness.

Digory was able to resist both temptations, and fifty-fifty rebuffed her angrily. Subsequently his refusal, Jadis mocked him and immediately set out toward the north, far from Narnia and the Tree of Protection.

Evidently, Aslan had always intended for Jadis to eat from the Tree, as without eating the fruit her banishment would not accept worked. Because she had stolen the fruit for herself, instead of being given information technology, she gained immortality, only at a high toll. Cursed for her theft, she would at present never know peace or happiness, only misery, and because she was at present immortal, that meant that her misery would never finish. And it was only later on eating the fruit that its presence became a horror to her, repelling her and keeping her away for centuries to come up.

For 900 years, Jadis lived in the Wild Lands of the North, biding her time and gathering her forces for a not bad set on on Narnia. During this fourth dimension, her witchcraft powers grew consistently stronger, and she even created a new magic wand, which would give her the power to turn anyone into rock. Jadis is known to have worked at other magical spells and inventions during this fourth dimension as well.

Eventually the Tree of Protection died, and when it did Jadis at last returned to the Kingdom of Narnia, and in the yr of 900 she conquered the land and named herself The Queen of Narnia and Empress of the Solitary Islands. She immediately put her centuries of magical study to work, fabricating a perpetual climate of snow and water ice throughout the Kingdom, which non only oppressed the Narnian citizens, but also ensured that no more silver apple trees could be grown.

The Hundred Year Winter

Her Royal Majesty, Jadis, Queen of Narnia.

During the one hundred years of Jadis'due south reign, the seasons of leap, summertime and fall were extinct during this Long Winter.

She as well famously banned the celebration of Christmas, her magic fifty-fifty able to keep Begetter Christmas out of the land.

Jadis became known among the Narnians as the White Witch, and quickly secured absolute control over the nation, establishing the showtime Narnian Secret Police, and edifice herself a palace.

She abolished any judicial system, simply punishing all of her political enemies by turning them into rock, and decorating their statuesque figures in her palace courtyard.

The Witch also banned any humans from Narnia. This was washed in retaliation to the Golden Age Prophecy, which stated that she would anytime be overthrown past ii Sons of Adam and 2 Daughters of Eve.

Jadis giving Edmund her food.

In the twelvemonth one thousand, Jadis came upon a young homo in Narnia. After inviting him to sit with her, she learned that he was, indeed, one of the children foretold in the prophecy, though he did not yet know it. His name was Edmund Pevensie, and he was the 3rd of four children from the earth of Earth. He also informed her that his sister, Lucy, had previously visited Narnia.

Jadis too learned that one of her ain spies, a Faun called Tumnus, had been harboring the human daughter. By using her witchcraft, she had created some delicious and addictive nutrient to give to Edmund, and, by exploiting his weaknesses, she was able to persuade him to come see her again, and bring with him all of his siblings, so that she could dispose of all of them.

Soon later, Tumnus was arrested by the secret police and turned into stone for his treachery against the Witch.

Jadis and Edmund.

Edmund and his siblings returned to Narnia, but in one case immature Lucy and her elder siblings, Peter and Susan, discovered that Tumnus was gone, they became very cautious, and instead of going with Edmund to meet Jadis, they stopped with a Beaver couple to discuss Tumnus' fate. Edmund then left them to get see Jadis and tell her that he had brought his siblings.

With all her potential victims in place, Jadis took Edmund prisoner and moved to arrest the other three humans. The Beavers, however, had warned them and fled.

At this aforementioned time, word began to travel that Aslan, the Great Panthera leo, had returned to Narnia, signaling the stop of Jadis' days. The ecstatic Narnians, mostly comprising of talking beasts, inspired by the return of their lord and the leadership of the Pevensies, rose into rebellion in the Winter Revolution.

Winter Rebellion

Jadis makes plans.

The War began in the Bound of the year g. Jadis' powers weakened with the return of Aslan and of the jump. Growing desperate, she chose to cut her losses and execute Edmund herself, thus preventing the fateful prophecy from coming completely truthful. She was interrupted, however, when Narnian soldiers stormed her encampment, which had followed her own soldiers from their retreat at the Battle of Aslan's Army camp. Jadis and her personal dwarf escaped by magic, but Aslan's forces still made off with Edmund.

Jadis immediately switched tack to prepare for battle. Having already summoned all her soldiers, she launched a twofold programme; on the one mitt, to prepare for an all-out military conflict, and on the other, to negotiate to weaken her enemies before the war. She had i powerful weapon that could be used to the second terminate; her legal claim over Edmund Pevensie's life, as per the law of The Deep Magic that stated she was entitled to kill any traitor, which included Edmund.

Jadis in Aslan's Camp.

Jadis traveled to Aslan's military camp to present her merits and retake Edmund. Aslan, acknowledging her right, chose to negotiate with her. Unbeknownst to anyone in his ain forces, Aslan chose to offer his own life in return. Jadis accepted, and a battle date was set for the post-obit morning.

That dark, Jadis and her armies took possession of the high ground at the Stone Table, where she was to sacrifice Aslan.

Aslan appeared, every bit planned, and afterwards allowing her forces to humiliate and torture him, Jadis spoke a few words to him in private, reminding him that without his power, the four new kings and queens would never survive. Subsequently stabbing him in the heart, she and her armies left to render to camp and arm up.

The post-obit morn, Jadis engaged in combat against the newly made Prince Peter in the First Battle of Beruna. Her wand fabricated her almost invincible, though the Narnians fought well confronting her. At the height of the conflict, the boy Edmund, now a prince, smashed through several of her guards and destroyed the wand, gravely wounding himself in the process. Shortly thereafter, Jadis engaged in a direct gainsay with Peter himself. In the midst of their climactic duel, Aslan arrived with reinforcements, having come back to life past his own magic.

Upon arriving, Aslan leapt on Jadis and killed her, finally ending the White Witch'southward tyranny in one case and for all.

State of war of Deliverance

Jadis'due south nigh return during the Narnian Revolution.

Hundreds of years later, in the Narnian year of 2303 (during the Narnian Revolution), a Hag and a Werewolf, together with the assistance of a Black Dwarf named Nikabrik, attempted to coerce Prince Caspian, Doctor Cornelius and the Annoy Trufflehunter to resurrect the White Witch. They claimed that witches can never really dice, and that they can always be brought back through a dark ritual, via something chosen the Blue Fire.

Fortunately, the ritual was interrupted before it could fifty-fifty begin, thanks to the intervention of King Peter, Male monarch Edmund and the Carmine Dwarf Trumpkin. In that location was a brief but encarmine battle, during which the Hag, the Werewolf and Nikabrik were all killed, thereby preventing any take chances of Jadis's return.

Correct to Rule

The White Witch made ii faux claims that, if true, would have given her authority to rule over Narnia. The first claim was that she was human being.

At the beginning of Narnia, Aslan gave "Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve" rule over all the beasts (not-talking or talking) and magical creatures of Narnia (even though they tin and practice reproduce with humans, Narnian dwarfs are non considered to be human; they are referred to as "Sons of Earth"). Although the White Witch appears human being (despite her unnatural peel color and higher up average tiptop), she is of a race that is apparently descended from Adam'southward showtime wife, Lilith, and was apparently role-Jinn and office-giant.

Her 2d claim was that she was a retainer of the Emperor-Over-the-Ocean and ruled by his and Aslan'due south blessing. Because she was the first to rebel in Narnia, by the workings of the Deep Magic, she was given ownership and the right to impale all traitors and all those who willingly would follow her. She was in essence the Emperor'south hangman, and carried out her executions on the Rock Tabular array. In this manner she could correspond a Satanic figure, much more then in fact than Narnia's other Satanic figure, Tash.

Characteristics

Physical Appearance

Jadis was seven feet tall and extremely beautiful,^[1] with naturally white skin^[ane] that turned "deathly white, white as salt" ^[ii] after eating an apple tree from the Tree of Youth, and evidently remained this shade (Edmund later likened information technology to "snow or paper or icing-sugar"). Her lips were red,^[3] and while seated on her chair in the Hall of Images, at that place was an utterly breathtaking await of "fierceness and pride" ^[4] on her face up, and when he showtime encountered her in Narnia, Edmund also thought her beautiful, but "proud and common cold and stern" as well.

Attire

Judging by an illustration of her and the descriptions in The Magician'south Nephew, every bit the Queen of Charn, Jadis wore an ornate crown and elaborate robes that left her arms bare, and she went barefoot.^[v] As the White Witch, she wore a gold crown and layers of white fur that covered her up to the throat.^[3]

Powers and Abilities

As a member of the royal family of Charn, Jadis had an inborn talent in magic, and was extraordinarily skilled in using it to defy the laws of nature, equally well as to manipulate reality as she desired. As revealed by her in The Magician'south Nephew, she had gone to terrible lengths to master the darkest secrets of magic, and possessed greater powers than her sister always had. After eating an apple from the Tree of Youth, her magical strength and longevity were enhanced to a goddess-like level, and Aslan himself as well confirmed that, during the time where he banished her to the North, she had grown consistently stronger in dark magic. When she resurfaced as the White Witch, her powers were such that they held Narnia in a constant winter, until Aslan returned a century later to end her tyranny.

Examples of magical powers Jadis possessed were: -

• Spell Casting: Jadis had the power to cast spells through incantations and hand gestures - in the Palace of Charn, she reduced a pair of immense, heavy, and attached doors to dust without even touching them.^[i] Examples of other abilities she was able to access through this ability were:
  • Sleep Inducement: Jadis had the ability to crusade other beings and even herself to fall asleep - afterward her pyrrhic victory confronting her sister, she caused herself to sleep amongst her ancestors' images in the Hall of Images.
  • Condition Preservation: Jadis had the ability to go along beings - including herself - in a certain condition, ensuring that they stay in a certain state, regardless of any and all external forces - in her state of slumber, she needed neither food nor potable, and her age, her physicality, and her powers would be sustained for an indefinite corporeality of fourth dimension.^[ane]
• The Deplorable Word: Jadis' most terrifying ability was her knowledge of the Deplorable Word which, if spoken with the proper ceremonies, had the power to destroy all living things in the globe it was spoken in - except the person who spoke it. Fortunately, the Discussion - like the rest of Charn magic - was useless in other worlds, so she was never able to apply information technology again.^[1]
• Telepathy: In The Magician'southward Nephew, Jadis revealed that she had the ability to read minds or, as she put it, her eyes could "meet through walls and into the minds of men".
• Immortality: Due to her eating an apple from the Tree of Youth,

  

  Jadis during her near resurrection.

  Jadis acquired true immortality as well every bit eternal youth. Hence, she would never grow old or die of natural causes. As revealed by a Hag in Prince Caspian, even if Jadis' concrete form was destroyed, her essence would still ultimately survive because of this immortality, and therefore she could ever be resurrected by a night ritual. Equally shown in the 2008 film, Jadis' followers were able to somewhat resurrect her class through her ain wand'south magic. However, they were unable to bring her back completely, equally for her to be able to return fully into the living world, she needed a drop of Adam'due south blood.
• Cryokinesis: As the White Witch, Jadis had the ability to create, shape, and dispense cold and ice, having absolute control and seemingly divine authorization over the elements of ice, snow, and frost. She also did non seem to endure any adverse reactions to such temperatures. Another ability she derived from this province was:
  • Eternal Wintertime Inducement: Jadis had the ability to invoke an eternal winter - through her potent cryokinetic powers, she kept Narnia bound in constant wintertime for a century, and bound only came when Aslan returned to the land to stop her one time and for all.
• Holiday Manipulation: Jadis had the ability to manipulate all aspects of holidays - during the century that she ruled Narnia, she non only banned Christmas, simply also successfully barred Male parent Christmas from entering the land.
• Illusion Manipulation: In The Panthera leo, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Jadis was revealed to have the ability to create, shape, and manipulate illusions, causing targets to perceive things differently from what they truly were - she caused Edmund'south rescue party to perceive her every bit a boulder and her dwarf equally a stump.
• Petrification: Through her wand, Jadis had the ability to transform matter and objects, including living beings, into stone, which served as one of her main means of offense and defense - the courtyard, stairs, and hall of her castle were full of statues (people whom she had turned into stone). As well, during the final battle, Lucy saw that "there were statues dotted all over the battlefield", and Peter later confirmed that Jadis had been turning their troops into rock "right and left", and it would have been worse if Edmund had not destroyed her wand.
• Nutrient Generation: Through a copper canteen, Jadis had the ability to generate whatever kind of food, manifesting them anywhere she desired - during her and Edmund's first encounter, she showtime conjured a hot beverage for him that "warmed him right down to his toes", and upon his asking, a box of the most delicious Turkish Delight he had always eaten. Another ability she derived from this province was:
  • Addiction Inducement: Through the food she conjured, Jadis could induce desires into others, to the signal where they could not get plenty of information technology - due to the enchantment on the Turkish Delight she fed him with, Edmund became utterly addicted to it, and could not end thinking about it. In fact, his magically-induced addiction to her Turkish Delight was one of the main reasons why he initially betrayed his siblings.

Jadis also possessed a number of other abilities which may or may not have been straight related to her magical powers:

• Supernatural Dazzler: Jadis is supernaturally cute, and knew how to effectively utilize her beauty as a weapon to touch or charm her targets. As evidenced past Digory, Andrew, and Edmund, even afterwards discovering how truly evil she was, the impact of Jadis' beauty was nonetheless hypnotic, dramatic, and even unforgettable - in their respective dotages, both Andrew and Digory reflected that she was the most beautiful woman they had ever known. Too, in the 2005 Disney motion picture, Jadis was shown to all the same possess the power to charm others even in her weakened state, luring Caspian into wanting to give her some of his claret, and later she tried to do the same to Peter.
• Superhuman Strength: Jadis possessed tremendous physical strength far beyond that of a normal human being being. As it was a natural trait amidst her species instead of a magical ability, she was able to retain her superhuman strength no matter what world she was in.  In The Magician'south Nephew, she was revealed to be capable of lifting people cleanly off the ground as if they were no heavier than dolls and throw them across great distances, wrenching cross-bars off lamp-posts, and delivering powerful blows and kicks during physical fights. According to Aslan, due to her eating an apple from the Tree of Youth, Jadis' physical strength had been enhanced to an inexhaustible level, which was subsequently proven in the 2005 Disney film - Jadis was shown to exist and so physically strong that she could carry a broadsword in each of her hands, and deliver phenomenally powerful blows with each blade, despite broadswords existence extremely heavy and meant for 2-handed wielding.
• Superhuman Hearing (possibly): Though information technology was never specifically confirmed, information technology was still likely that Jadis' ears were enhanced to hear with amazing clarity, altitude, and fifty-fifty frequencies outside the normal range.  In The Magician's Nephew, she was revealed to accept "very good ears" that enabled her to clearly hear whispers even from a altitude.

Jadis in battle

• Pocketknife-Fighting/Swordsmanship: Having fought wars in Charn as Queen, Jadis was a formidable warrior whose skills had been honed by centuries worth of combat experience.  In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Jadis fought against Peter with her rock knife, wielding it then proficiently and intensely that, to Lucy, her stone knife flashed similar three knives. Also, in the 2005 Disney picture, her skills were displayed much more prominently - she was shown to have impeccable mastery in dual-blade swordsmanship, simultaneously using her wand (equally an improvised sword) and a broadsword, and wielding both with such skill that she effortlessly defeated every unmarried opponent she faced on the battlefield. Even after Edmund destroyed her wand, Jadis was shown to be equally capable in wielding only a single sword - she effortlessly overpowered and gave him an-almost lethal blow, and and then took his sword along with her own to toy with Peter in an impressive display of swordsmanship that was not meant to truly kill, but to evidence off how her own superior skills could dominate him. When Aslan entered the battle, Jadis speedily disarmed Peter and tried to deliver him a fatal blow, and was simply prevented from killing him by Aslan's timely interference.
• Laws of the Deep Magic (limited): Despite being an usurper from Charn and not a born Narnian, Jadis was still knowledgeable in the Laws of the Deep Magic that governed all of Narnia, though it was later revealed by Aslan's resurrection and explanations that her knowledge was incomplete. An ability she derived from this province was:
  • Ownership Inducement: As she was the showtime to rebel in Narnia, and therefore in essence the Emperor's hangman, Jadis had the ability to induce buying onto all traitors and those who willingly followed her, making them her lawful property, and she had every correct to impale them. If her rights under the Deep Magic were forcefully denied, all of Narnia would be overturned and perish in burn and h2o. Hence, Aslan offered himself in Edmund's place when Jadis tried to exercise this right, for non fifty-fifty he could piece of work against the Deep Magic.
• Superhuman Reflexes: Jadis possessed reaction speeds beyond meridian human limits - during the last boxing, she fought against Peter so intensely that her rock knife flashed like 3 knives. Also, in the 2005 Disney moving-picture show, when Edmund destroyed her wand, she was very quick to recover from the horror of its devastation, and overpowered and stabbed him in retaliation.

Personality

"...This is what happens to things, and to people, who stand in my way."

"...what would be wrong for yous or for any of the common people is not incorrect in a bully Queen such as I...Nosotros must be freed from all rules..."

White Witch in the animated movie, with the voice of Beth Porter.

Jadis was the ultimate personification of pure evil in the Narnian universe, a satanic temptress responsible for bringing evil into Narnia. As revealed in The Wizard's Nephew, from the very first when she was Queen of Charn, Jadis was already a ruthless and hubristic sociopath who firmly believed herself to be above all rules of conduct - she had no regrets or remorse over how she wiped out her own unabridged species through the Sorry Word, and believed that Andrew had sent Digory and Polly to bring her to him for "love of her beauty", and that she would have their globe (Earth) "at her anxiety" within a twelvemonth through her beauty and magic.

Jadis was as well incapable of viewing anyone else every bit her equal, and saw others simply as either tools to be used or obstacles to be demolished, as evidenced by her treatment of Andrew one time she realised that he was not a true magician like she was. Though she usually carried herself with the regality of the haughtiest Queen, Jadis was not above resorting to sheer brute forcefulness to go her mode, equally demonstrated by her physically assaulting Letitia and the subsequent binge she acquired in London. Her near defining trait, notwithstanding, was that she was a true megalomaniac - Jadis had an incomparable obsession with power, and was driven past an clamorous desire to conquer and subjugate anybody and everything she came into contact with. For case, she paid "a terrible cost" to learn the Deplorable Give-and-take, and despite her initial unease when she get-go entered Earth and, later, Narnia, she was quick to regain her balance and expressed her desires of world domination. Jadis was also prone to violent mood swings - calm and calculating one moment, and furious the next.

While Jadis is probably the one character in the unabridged series with no redeeming traits whatsoever, her abrupt intellect, steely backbone, iron will, and magical aptitude were still remarkable. For example, through the innate changes she felt afterwards she ate an Apple of Youth, she accurately deduced that she would never grow old or die. The fact that, throughout the centuries where the Tree of Protection barred her from Narnia, she even so managed to strop her powers, create a new magic wand, and fifty-fifty gather an army was besides a definite attestation to her intellect and her formidable magical skills. Besides this, despite her sensation of the Golden Historic period Prophecy, and being initially disturbed by the Pevensies' and, later, Aslan's inflow in Narnia, Jadis was not overly concerned, for she reasoned that the prophecy would be unfulfilled with Edmund under her control, and she had an advantage against Aslan through the Police force of the Deep Magic. Information technology must also be noted that, while she initially wanted to do something against Edmund (probably turn him into stone or even kill him) during their first meeting, she very quickly changed her listen, and put on a sweetness charming act that enabled her to put him under her command through enchanted Turkish Please, which testifies to her being an skilful manipulator.

Last but non least, despite her initial understandable fear of Aslan (which was to the extent where she threatened whoever dared to utter his name in her presence with instant death), Jadis had no qualms with raising her voice at him when she claimed her rights over Edmund's blood through the Deep Magic. Also, while her individual conversation with Aslan ended with her being frightened into fleeing for her life by his roar, she later gleefully had him humiliated, tortured, and fifty-fifty shaved before killing him. In fact, earlier she struck the final blow, she observed to him her perfect confidence of victory despite the fact that his expiry had not nullified the Gold Age Prophecy, and her direct participation in the battle clearly conveyed her courage and will.

Weapons

Barbara Kellerman as Jadis in The King of beasts, the Witch & the Wardrobe BBC, 1988.

Jadis' primary weapon was her wand, which was capable of turning living creatures (with the possible exception of Aslan) into stone. It may accept too helped her perform other types of magic, such as disguising herself and her dwarf from Aslan'due south scouting party.^[6]

She also possessed a Stone Knife, which she used to execute Aslan at the Stone Table,^[7] and later to duel with Peter at the First Boxing of Beruna.^[8]

The Witch's wand

In the Disney picture show, Jadis is also shown to exist a formidable sword fighter, simultaneously wielding two swords in boxing with deadly proficiency.

In The Magician'southward Nephew, she temporarily uses an iron bar that she snapped off a London lamp-post as a weapon, clubbing police force officers over the head and hitting Aslan squarely between the eyes (though the latter had no visible impact).

Historic period

Information technology is not known exactly how long Jadis lived, and the few indicators of her lifespan are far from conclusive:

• She mentioned to Diggory and Polly that the sun in the Globe of Charn had been enormous and red for hundreds of thousands of years,^[1] but information technology's unclear if she actually lived through those years or was just told of them by older generations. It is of import to note, that from her point of view, the sun has always been common cold and red.
• After she ate the apple of life, Aslan said that she at present possessed "endless days",^[9] indicating that she could non die of one-time historic period.
• The Tree of Protection kept her out of Narnia for well-nigh 900 years. When it died, she was able to unleash the Hundred Year Winter on Narnia.
• Even her death at the First Battle of Beruna is somewhat inconclusive, and the hag brought past Nikabrik to Caspian'due south council claimed that a witch could never truly die.

Behind the Scenes

• The Witch is based on four characters in fiction: Satan from John Milton'south Paradise Lost, Ayesha from She by H. Rider Haggard, The Snowfall Queen from Hans Christian Andersen'south fantasy story of the same proper noun, and the Queen of Babylon from The Story of the Amulet past Nesbit. The mythological character of Lilith was also an inspiration for her grapheme, and Jadis is said to exist descended from her in the stories.
• Jadis' name presumably originates from the Turkish word "cadı", meaning "witch". /c/ is pronounced /j/, and also, /southward/ existence silent is a popular phenomenon which might have been the mode the writer fabricated the name fit better in the fiction. The proper name, coincidentally or not, is also equivalent to a word in the French language signifying "a long fourth dimension ago".
• The scene, when Jadis arrived on Earth in The Wizard'due south Nephew, and the havoc she acquired there, was inspired past a like scene in another volume, The Story of The Amulet, written by Eastward. Nesbit in 1906, where an ancient Babylonian queen came to London in the early 20th century and acquired mayhem.

Deaths

The way that the Witch dies has been dissimilar in each accommodation of The Panthera leo, the Witch and the Wardrobe: -

• In the book; the but details given are that Aslan "flung himself upon the Witch", and that they "rolled over together just with the Witch underneath". When she is next mentioned, we acquire she is dead. (C. S. Lewis presumably did this intentionally, so as non to make the story too violent, and left the Witch'south expiry upwards to the reader's imagination.)

• In the blithe moving-picture show; Aslan leaps off the border of a high cliff and lands right on top of the Witch, crushing her completely beneath him, thus destroying her.

• In the BBC TV show; Aslan kills the Witch with his roar, which is and so loud that it deafens her and shakes the ground, causing her to lose her balance and fall off a cliff to her expiry.

• In the Disney film; Aslan pounces on the Witch and pins her downward, and then proceeds to completely devour her. (Presumably, he did this because it was the but way to ensure she would die, seeing as she was immortal.)
• Information technology is most certain that she entered Tash'southward Country upon her death.

Resurrection Theories

• During the events of the Disney version of the Prince Caspian pic; Nikabrik, despairing of the Telmarine occupation, brought in a Hag and a werewolf who offered a style to revive the White Witch, by using her wand within Aslan's How. However, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Trumpkin arrived just in time to stop them. Jadis materialised as though entrapped behind a wall of ice, and tempted Caspian to gratuitous her, who was then pushed away by Peter, only for her to begin to charm him likewise, but the wall of ice was and then shattered from behind by Edmund, making the Witch disappear instantly.
• In the original literary version, Nikabrik also prepares to resurrect the Witch, just he and his two allies are slain before they can fifty-fifty brainstorm the ritual.
• There is some other theory that the Witch subsequently reappears in The Silver Chair every bit the Lady of the Green Kirtle, who is effectively merely a resurrected form of Jadis. Later in the book, she transformed into a behemothic dark-green serpent, just was killed by Rilian, thus dying for certain. There is little evidence to support this theory, all the same, which was mostly the consequence that the White Witch and the Dark-green Witch were played by the aforementioned actress in the BBC adaptations, and that some versions of the series take graphic symbol descriptions at the start, which say Jadis appears in both The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, as well every bit in the Silver Chair.

• Ane of the owls, with whom Jill and Eustace consulted, claimed the Dark-green Witch was perhaps "i of the aforementioned coiffure" to which Jadis belonged. This could not be possible if they were one and the same. Yet, the owl could not take known that for sure; he said "we think", namely it was just a speculation.

Adaptations

Jadis appears to be more calm in the Disney film than described in the book. Particularly when she addressed Aslan at his campsite, as he appeared to be more emotional/angry than she was. In fact, his part and Jadis' seemed to accept been completely reversed. In the volume; Jadis was the angry one, while he seemed almost constantly at-home. Just in the film, she seemed the calm ane while he seemed angry at her words: -

"Have you forgotten the Deep Magic?"
"Let us say I have forgotten it. Tell united states of america of this Deep Magic."
"Tell y'all?" said the Witch, her vocalism growing all of a sudden shriller. "Tell you what is written on the very Tabular array of Stone which stands beside usa?"

―Jadis and Aslan speaking in the book (Chapter xiii).^[src]

"Take you forgotten the laws upon which Narnia was built?"
"Exercise not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written."
"Then you'll retrieve well that every traitor belongs to me. His blood is my holding."

―Jadis and Aslan speaking in the film.^[src]

She is as well a warrior and tin can fight with martial-like skills.

In the Prince Caspian film, Jadis' spirit actually appears when Nikabrik and his allies initiate the ritual to bring her back from the dead. In The Voyage of the Dawn Trader, the magic of the Night Island causes a phantom of Jadis to appear to Edmund.

Appearance

Jadis's main dress.

In the films made by Disney/Walden Media, Jadis' pilus was ashy blond; extra Tilda Swinton and director Andrew Adamson wanted to move away from the stereotypical look of an evil "witch" and conceived Jadis as being more of a Germanic figure or white supremacist. It is likewise notable that Jadis' pilus color was never actually specified in the books, and that the books' illustrations simply chose to portray her with dark hair.

Clothes in camp.

Over the course of The King of beasts, the Witch and the Wardrobe, her apparel subtly change to reverberate the circumstances of the scene in which she appears. She originally starts out wearing a glittering blue-white gown with a white fur cloak when she commencement meets Edmund. She wears the same dress when she is at her army's army camp, merely instead of the white fur she is wearing a badger fur stole. In improver, she wears an updo.

Jadis sacrificial dress.

At the cede of Aslan, she is wearing a black-gray wearing apparel that has a black-feathered cloak with a vulture's head, which sits at her right shoulder. Additionally, she wears a ponytail.

Jadis in battle.

At the boxing-scene; she is wearing a sleeveless battle-dress with a skirt fabricated of chainmail, and a cuirass of armor that is about corset-like and made of dark grayness leather. She also wears Aslan's mane at her neck, which she does as a tactic to instill fear and grief in the opposing army, and a gilt plate headdress in her hair.

The headdress is angular with multiple spikes, and seems to be shaped like a stylized animal skull or perhaps antlers, with "fangs" hanging down over her forehead. Several multi-pronged arms extend from the pinnacle of the caput down the sides and catch up the hair to the sides of the face up. Otherwise her pilus is worn free, streaming out from underneath the crown.

Jadis besides manifestly wears a crown, except in the battle when it is replaced by the golden headdress, but unlike in the books it is fabricated of ice/crystal. It starts off long and pointy at the beginning of the pic, looking as though the spikes are protruding from her head, but as time passes information technology gradually shrinks until finally it is almost gone. The reason for this, as told in the DVD commentary, is considering the shrinking of the crown symbolises Jadis's weakening power.

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Citations

1. ↑ ^{one.0 1.1 1.ii 1.iii 1.4 1.5} MN V
2. ↑ MN 13
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4. ↑ MN IV
5. ↑ MN VI
6. ↑ LWW Thirteen
7. ↑ LWW 14
8. ↑ LWW 16
9. ↑ MN XIV

Jadis

	Imperial House of Charn
Preceded by	Empress of Charn	Succeeded by
Jadis' younger sis	?–?	none

Jadis

	Narnia
Preceded by	Queen of Narnia	Succeeded by
unknown, eventually Swanwhite I	900–1000	Pevensie Siblings

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