History
In The Horse and His Boy, which is set fourteen Narnian years after the main events of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, during the reign of High King Peter and his siblings (and one year before the end of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), Archenland is allied with Narnia, and is inhabited by humans. Narnia by contrast is at that time populated almost entirely by talking animals. King Lune had twin sons, Cor and Corin, but Cor was kidnapped and did not return till years later. Prince Rabadash of Calormen unsuccessfully attempts to conquer this land as the prelude to kidnapping Queen Susan and a planned invasion of Narnia, but this failed due to Cor warning King Lune.
It is said in The Magician's Nephew that the second son of King Frank, the first king of Narnia, became the first king of Archenland; Aslan himself had decreed Archenland's existence to Frank before he took the throne. However, in Lewis's Narnian timeline, King Col of Archenland is said to be the son of King Frank V of Narnia, and he settles Archenland 180 years after Narnia's creation. Unlike Narnia, Archenland keeps its line of rulers unbroken at least as late as the time of The Horse and His Boy, and the main character of The Horse and His Boy, Shasta, is of this line. Archenland still exists at the time of The Last Battle.
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