The Underland was a place uknown to the Narnians until the rescue of Prince Rilian. The Underland was made up of many different areas. These areas could be accessed by many different routes from the sunlit world, but few every returned if they traveled down these roads. One area in the Underworld is a place where many different types of creatures slept. They all seemed "dragonish or bat-like". These creatures were all said to have traveled down into the Underland from Overland and are said to "awake at the end of the world".Another area is a cave where Father Time sleeps. He fills up almost all of the cathedral-sized cave. There he will stay until he "awakes at the end of the world".
Next there is what seems to be the biggest of the caves of the "Shallow Lands", as the gnomes call them. This is where the great Sunless Sea is located. Its waters are dark and calm and they lap up against the Pale Beaches that are located on its north side. At the south end of this sea is the City. This is where the gnomes under the reign of the Queen of the Underland reside. Here is where they do her work and where she reigns from the Dark Castle. This city looks like a port city with its docks and all the gnomes are always hard at work under the spell of the Queen. At the far south of this cave is where the Queen started the diggings for the secret route to Narnia. This route wound up to the south of the Marshes in Narnia. After the destruction of the City and the path to Bism closed, the water level from the Sunless Sea rose greatly. After lowering its levels a little more, Narnians often came down to this place through the path that the Queen of Underland built to sail around in ships.
Bism is the land where the gnomes were originally from. This is where there are rivers of fire and living gems and precious stones that you can drink. In these fire rivers there are fire-salamanders that are so white-hot that you can't look at them.
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