In ancient Greek mythology, dryads were the nymphs (minor nature gods and goddesses) believed to inhabit and animate trees. Because Prince Caspian operates in the realm of fantasy, it imagines the dryads as much more dynamic than in Greek mythology; Narnian dryads live in the trees and can assume their tree- or human-like forms at will.
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Dryad Term Timeline in Prince Caspian
The timeline below shows where the term Dryad appears in Prince Caspian. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 4: The Dwarf Tells of Prince Caspian
...be king; he would rather live in the Old Days, when naiads (water spirits) and dryads (tree spirits) filled the forest and streams, when Peter and Susan and Edmund and Lucy...
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...properly a kingdom of humans, but the realm of Aslan and a home for naiads, dryads, fauns, satyrs, giants, centaurs, talking beasts, and gods. When the Telmarines invaded, they killed the...
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Chapter 5: Caspian’s Adventure in the Mountains
...dark forest, a storm breaks. Prince Caspian worries about animosity from the trees because the dryads initially resisted the Telmarines. If any still exist, they have no way of knowing that...
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Chapter 6: The People that Lived in Hiding
...the Telmarine humans came to Narnia and began to clear the forests, the naiads and dryads sank into a deep sleep. No one has been able to wake them. But if...
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Trumpkin doesn’t believe in the dryads and naiads, and he jokes that they shouldn’t stop at waters and trees but look...
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Chapter 11: The Lion Roars
...in fear and mothers clutch their babies. Every living animal stirs, and the nymphs and dryads wake up. In the northern mountains, the giants pause. Then Lucy and Susan see a...
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Chapter 14: How All Were Very Busy
...up before it came to this, and Trufflehunter agrees—but then points out the thousands of dryads and silvans whom Aslan awakened and who surge toward the challenge field. In the center...
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