"Narnia doesn't need us to be more than we are, it needs humanity."
— Queen Leah the Enchanting, Retribution
The Narnia-Verse Series
is a Narnia fanfiction series written by thecallofnarnia, predominantly on Wattpad and usually with a co-writer such as NaturallyNarnian or EdsGryff . The series contains numerous smaller stories that branch out into multiple Timelines, sometimes with intersection of characters and plotlines. It first began publishing on Wattpad on August 30, 2021 with My Radiant Southern Sun.
The Narnia-Verse Series contains examples of:
- Abusive Parents: David's father Matt is singlehandedly responsible for a large part of David’s Dark and Troubled Past, abusing him verbally, mentally, and emotionally. Revelation shows via flashback that this is also how David inadvertently arrives in Narnia, since Earth David tries to die by willingly standing in front of a moving car, and is transported to Narnia at the last second.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: One of the most reoccurring tropes in the series.
- The Gentle and the Cordial has Lucy and Susan become demigoddesses via Aphrodite's magic as an answer to their prayers to heal David after the Tragedy.
- Retribution has Mara become a Goddess after viciously absorbing the others’ magic.
- Remembrance has Lucy become a Goddess after merging with Aphrodite. Aphrodite Lucy alone is also responsible for a number of different tropes in the series, including ones that usually coincide with her various power-up moments, like Breast Expansion, Power Glows, and With Great Power Comes Great Hotness.
- Lilith becoming a Goddess in Revelation, also due to Aphrodite.
- Lilith and Lilliandil merge to ascend and become the deity Star-Fire more than once in Revolution Part 2: Infection alone.
- During the Battle of Shatterlight, Lilith ascends Lilliandil into Goddesshood. Later in that same battle, Lilith, Lilliandil, and Aphrodite ascend David the Incredible and make him a God.
- David and Lilliandil becoming the all-powerful Zenith in Star-Blessed II.
- Battle in the Center of the Mind: the climax of The Gentle and the Cordial takes place in David’s mind as he remembers and processes the Tragedy.
- Big Bad: Mara throughout the series. No matter what version of herself or what Timeline she’s in, she’s always at odds with some version of David, usually hellbent on either killing or exploiting him for her own twisted gain.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Aphrodite Lucy in Remembrance. Lucy and Aphrodite may share a mind, but it’s clear that Lucy isn’t always in control. This evolves into Power Perversion Potential just to underline how far Lucy, the paragon of light and kindness in the original Narnia books, has fallen thanks to Aphrodite, including having sex with David while she makes not only their daughters Aurora and Alena watch, but also magically forces her own sister Susan to watch them until she cries.
- Celebrity Paradox: Played with in Star-Blessed II where Lilliandil, in her second form resembling Lily James as Cinderella, mentions that David makes her feel like Cinderella, and that she sees him as her Prince Charming, whom she later magically makes David resemble for a Dance of Romance.
This trope is pushed much further in the following chapter, where Lilliandil mentally visits an Earth David variant in 2023 and sees him meet an adult Georgie Henley, who plays Lucy Pevensie (and whom Lilliandil mistakes for such) in both the Chronicles of Narnia films and in the Narnia-Verse. Later in that same visit, Lilliandil briefly visits that David while named Lily as Lily James. It’s unclear for now if Lily James was also at that party and Lilliandil possessed her, or if that Lily was a Lilliandil-created Earth version of herself specifically to emulate Lily James, further playing with this trope. - Character Tics: For whatever reason, David the Incredible in the Revelation Timeline tends to sniff mid-conversation.
- Chekhov's Hobby: David the Incredible throughout the Revelation Timeline. He routinely references media and things from his past, most of which help out later, and all of which at least become some sort of Exact Words or Meaningful Echo. See also I Know Mortal Kombat, Saw It in a Movie Once, and Taught by Television.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Mara to David in Retribution where the Demoness steals his magic and Originator identity while he's strapped down naked with a freshly-slashed-open stomach. Later, she creates a miniaturized black hole in his chest and forces the magically-immobilized Pevensies and Leah to watch him slowly die.
- Cool Sword: Starsong, given to David the Incredible by Lilliandil.
"An enchanted sword, forged in my stardust with a core straight from my being that resembles asteria. Every clash of this cosmic blade shall make the stars sing and galaxies weep with its resonance, and yet it possesses magic so powerful that the cosmos itself shall wrap around and shield its bearer."
— Lilliandil, Revolution Part 1: Inferno
- Dragons Versus Knights: Played straight in Revolution Part 1: Inferno with David the Incredible (along with Lilliandil and Oreius) facing off against Dovah, a dragon that Mara controlled to some degree, or Operated, from across universes.
- Extremely Short Timespan: The present-day component of The Gentle and the Cordial, including the White Stag incident, all occurs within one morning.
- A Family Affair: King David the Cordial in The Gentle and the Cordial when he has sex with Lucy while married to Susan. Granted, it’s so Lucy can perform Intimate Healing on a broken and suicidal David, but still.
- Grand Staircase Entrance: Initially subverted in Revolution Part 2: Infection when David the Incredible enters the transformed Ballroom and sees Lilliandil and her Transformation Sequence with her being at the bottom of the stairs. Then played straight immediately after when Lilliandil uses magic on David as he’s descending the stairs walking to her.
- Klingon Promotion: Arthur in Star-Crossed, who successfully kills David by slitting his throat with Autumn’s bullseye arrow. This works in almost every variant of that time, judging by David’s repeated attempts to rectify it…key word “almost,” thanks to I’ll Keep It Safe.
- Magic Wand: In Star-Blessed II, Lilliandil gives herself Rosalina's magic wand before transforming into Rosalina herself. Later, when Lilliandil discovers her ability to create Fractals, her Fractal Rosalina can be seen wielding the same, albeit a duplicate, magic wand.
- Malicious Misnaming: Multiple times throughout Revolution, David explains that he refuses to give the Big Bad Mara the basic courtesy of getting her name right, instead calling her the Operator as a deliberate in-universe Shout-Out to “Marble Hornets” and as an explanation of how her abilities work.
- Memento MacGuffin: Autumn’s bullseye arrow in several books. It’s the catalyst for the initial separation between Star-Crossed (starting the Vita Timeline) and Into the Narnia-Verse (starting a number of other Timelines).
- Narnia Time: At the end of Revelation, Goddess Lilith temporarily leaves her Narnia with David in charge to help stop Scarred Lilith in Across the Narnia-Verse. When she next returns to her David and her Narnia at the end of Revolution Part 1: Inferno, four months have passed.
- Nude Nature Dance: the opening of Remembrance has this, courtesy of Lucy organizing a Dryad bonfire ritual-to-orgy for David’s supposed benefit.
- Once More, with Clarity: The scene in Revolution Part 1: Inferno when Mara summons Dovah after she learns of David curing the Narnians is played again later in The Other Side with a much more terrifying context: Mara’s sister Mare is held captive the whole time and watched Mara kill and burn her friend Leah the Records Keeper.
- Remember the New Guy?: The very beginning of the series has David about to be crowned by Peter and Susan, with the former verbalizing his knowledge of “tough times” that he’s been through, with no context for how Peter would know, or what exactly he knows. There is no character introduction; there is no preamble; we are just shown David already in Narnia with no knowledge of how he got there (or if he even knows in the first place).
- Tagline: Every new book release tends to have at least one, but the most prominent one is Revolution’s “Adapt or Die” tagline, which later became merch on Redbubble directly from thecallofnarnia.
- Taught by Television: David the Incredible throughout Revolution. His “Marble Hornets” references help solve the arson and cure the town from Mara (temporarily).
- Telepathy: Most magical females in this series automatically mentally link up with other magic users. This is even explicitly played straight in the Demoness fight in Retribution.
- The High King:
- Peter Pevensie. High King Peter The Magnificent.
- High King David the Incredible in the Revelation Timeline.
- The Stars Are Going Out: Played literally in The Gentle and the Cordial when the stars literally go out during Lucy and Susan's dual ascension.
- Time Travel:
- The climax of Star-Crossed has David going back to his coronation as the Cordial to save Narnia from a Dark Age.
- Comes into play multiple times in the series through universe-hopping, such as in Across the Narnia-Verse when the climax has Goddess Lilith face to face with Scarred Lilith while in the bedroom of Earth David in the year 2019 after he finds out about Lilith’s Earth death.
- Top God: Chryskori, with Her being the Supreme Goddess of the Multiverse that even the Olympian Gods recognize as their superior.
- Virtual Soundtrack: Quite possibly the single most used trope in the series due to the large number of songs across the large number of books. In release order:
- My Glowing Northern Moon:
- Hans Zimmer - “What Are You Going to Do When You Are Not Saving the World?” - plays when newly crowned King David the Cordial meets the other Pevensies for the first time.
- The Gentle and the Cordial:
- Hans Zimmer & Junkie XL - “Day of the Dead” - plays in “The Finite Space In Between Infinite Love” as David questions his worth on his honeymoon, before Susan melts his worries away with her love.
- C418 - “Door” - plays in “The Infinite Beauty in Finite Reality” when Susan gives David his own specially made bow and quiver- and Edmund watches from the shadows.
- Neil Davidge - “Green and Blue” - also plays in “The Infinite Beauty in Finite Reality” when Susan and David walk the beach of the Eastern Sea and she reveals that the Narnians have started to call him David the Hopeful.
- Porter Robinson - “Wind Tempos” - plays during the poem “That Sinking Feeling”.
- Stephen Barton - “A Father’s Letter” - plays when David attempts suicide by jumping off a Cair Paravel balcony.
- Hans Zimmer - “Leaving Caladan” - plays during Lucy and Susan’s prayer to Aphrodite and their subsequent dual ascension into demigoddesses.
- Rose Betts - “Song to the Siren” - plays when Lucy performs Intimate Healing on David.
- Junkie XL - “At the Speed of Force” - plays as David both learns and confronts the Tragedy in his mind.
- Meadowlark - “May I Have This Dance” - plays before the credits as the story ends.
- Calum Scott - “You Are The Reason” - plays as the first credits song.
- Lauren Aquilina - “King” - plays as the second credits song.
- The Last Time:
- Hans Zimmer - “Into the Red” - plays when Lilith saves Autumn from being crushed by a Giant, and pairs up with David to take it down.
- Sleeping At Last - “Saturn” - plays when David reveals he doesn’t remember Lilith, before Lilith gives him a Magic Kiss that restores his memory.
- HALIENE - “Oceans & Galaxies (Acoustic)” - plays as the first credits song.
- Oh Wonder - “Don’t You Worry” - plays as the second credits song.
- Resurgence:
- Hans Zimmer - “Gom Jabbar” - plays when Leah the Enchanting hears the stars for the first time, as they beg her not to kill David before she has a series of visions of the horrors set to unfold.
- Resistance:
- Hans Zimmer & Junkie XL - “Beautiful Lie” - plays as David, Leah, and Dawn see Matt for the first time before their showdown.
- Sleeping At Last - “I’ll Keep You Safe” - plays as the story ends: David, Leah, and Dawn triumphed over Caty and Matt, and all seems well until Dawn is spoken to from an unknown voice.
- Retribution:
- Kazuma Jinnouchi - “Atonement” - plays as the story opens during Dawn’s dream of Mara beckoning her to come to the woods.
- Keigo Hoashi - “A Beautiful Song” - plays when the heroes fight the Demoness in the Cair Southern Tower.
- Neil Davidge - “Green and Blue” - plays when Lucy comforts David alone (with a bit of Marshmallow Hell) after the latter confessed to killing Arthur in Resurgence. This also works as a Meaningful Echo - marking the second time in the series it’s played during David sharing total vulnerability with one of his wives, the first being with Susan in The Gentle and the Cordial after she explains that the Narnians have started calling him David the Hopeful. Considering Lucy was responsible for the Narnians calling him Hopeful, this could be seen as David and Lucy’s theme.
- Hans Zimmer - “Goodbye My Son” - plays when David and a very pregnant Lucy enter their Ball to awe and applause.
- Junkie XL - “An Eternal Reoccurrence of Change” - plays as David gives his story-ending monologue to the crowd of gathered Narnians, assuring them of the stability of their new rule.
- I’ll Keep It Safe:
- Secession Studios - “The Untold” - plays as Lilith comes face to face with Arthur literally over David’s dead body.
- Connie Francis - “Who’s Sorry Now” - plays during the credits.
- Remembrance:
- Kazuma Jinnouchi - “Halo Canticles” - plays when Lucy and David cuddle together in “Stoked Fires” before Lucy comforts him as he slips into sadness.
- Harry Gregson-Williams - “A Narnia Lullaby” - plays when Jadis re-emerges in Narnia due to some of her Loyals, and declares Narnia will be hers again.
- Oh Wonder - “Landslide” - plays due to David mentally picking it to play for Lucy in his mind while they’re together in her created Frozen Forest.
- drkmnd & No Spirit - “Ripples” - plays as David’s pick for slow dancing with Lucy in their Frozen Forest.
- Revelation:
- Linkin Park - “The Requiem” - plays as the newly-ascended Goddess Lilith and David have sex in order to birth Autumn.
- Post Malone & Swae Lee - “Sunflower” - plays on the radio as Lilith and her friends are driving through a tree-lined road at night moments before they get into a car accident, which ends up being how Lilith got into Narnia.
- Danny Elfman - “Finale - The Kingdom” - plays as David’s chosen song before he leaves the house in order to commit suicide by willingly getting run over by a car, which ends up being how David got into Narnia.
- Regina Spektor - “The Call” - plays as Goddess Lilith says a temporary goodbye to David the Incredible before leaving on her own Aphrodite-given mission to save the multiverse- leaving David alone to run her Narnia.
- Revolution Part 1: Inferno
- Jim White & Aimee Mann - “Static on the Radio” - plays as David the Incredible wakes up and starts his day one Narnian winter morning, twenty-eight days after Lilith temporarily left him behind.
- Jack Wall - “Cordis Die” - plays during Dovah the dragon’s destructive arrival at Cair Paravel.
- Ben Folds - “Still” - plays as David sets out alone the night before his fated fight with Dovah and Mara, desperate yet dejected at any prospect of him saving Narnia.
- Jack Wall - “Hero’s Theme” - plays when David, Oreius, and Lilliandil see Dovah arrive at the Fields of Beruna and prepare to make a last stand.
- Jack Wall - “Inferno” - plays when David, Oreius, and Lilliandil fight Dovah.
- Paolo Buonvino - “Lorenzo the Magnificent” - plays when David is Knighted the Dragon-Slayer and Hero of Narnia by Oreius in front of a packed Cair Throne Room- and a beaming Lilliandil.
- Amanda Cook - “House on a Hill” - plays during the credits.
- Across the Narnia-Verse:
- Getter & nothing,nowhere. - “All Is Lost” - plays as Earth David’s chosen song to mourn Lilith after he gets a phone call from Chrissy telling him that Lilith got into a car crash and did not survive.
- Dave Porter - “Crawl Space” - plays when Scarred Lilith enters and subsequently freaks out David with her amount of, and his lack of, Narnian knowledge…and then she proceeds to extract another David’s memories and then burn his corpse.
- Klergy & Mindy Jones - “Will You Follow Me Into the Dark” - plays as the Scarred/Earth combo Lilith sits with David watching “Into the Spider-Verse” and has flashes of what Scarred Lilith saw after her car crash- which Earth Lilith was physically unconscious/dead for.
- Star-Blessed:
- ODESZA & Briana Marela - “For Us” - plays during David and Lilliandil’s wedding.
- Martin O’Donnell & Michael Salvatori - “Never Forget” - plays as David and Lilliandil are cuddling in their chambers one rainy night, before she creates a blanket for him out of stardust.
- The Other Side:
- John Murphy - “In the House, In a Heartbeat” - plays during the credits.
- Revolution Part 2: Infection
- The Civil Wars - “Dance Me to the End of Love” plays during David and Lilliandil’s Dance of Romance.
- AMIMEA - “Parting Ways” - plays as Lilith takes a breather during the Ball while David and Lilliandil are partaking in their Dance of Romance, and Lilith mourns to Oreius about missing Alia.
- Ludovico Einaudi - “Experience” - plays as “Guilty Party” opens, when alliances and Court members and loved ones alike all begin to feast together the morning after the Ball.
- Paolo Buonvino - “The Conclave Procession” - plays as Mara partially reveals her Body Horror Dark Spider form while threatening Goddess Lilith and her Narnia.
- Hans Zimmer - “Stopwatch” - plays as Lilith and David train via swordfight before the Battle of Shatterlight.
- Harold Faltermeyer - “You’re Where You Belong / Give ‘Em Hell” - plays as the Battle of Shatterlight starts- from David’s tentative nerves all the way through David, Lilith, and Lilliandil charging up their power to strike the Rebels’ base in the Ettinsmoor Mountains.
- Jack Wall - “Catch Me If You Can” - plays when David charges in to rescue a de-powered Lilliandil during the Battle of Shatterlight, giving his life in the process.
- Alice Kristiansen - “Star Song” - plays when Lilliandil is left to pick up the pieces of a hurt David and a concerned Peter after Lilith snapped at David for everything that took place in the Revelation Timeline thus far- which would be a What the Hell, Hero? if most of it wasn’t gaslighting on Lilith’s part.
- Nmesh - “Accept Heartache” - plays as Lilith, Peter, Tyon, and Alia explore the apple orchard- and Lilith reveals that she’s secretly harbored guilt for the entire duration of Revolution Part 2 for what she did with David during “The World Away From Everything”.
- Madeon - “Borealis” - plays during the credits. It also features in the previous chapter as the lullaby David sings to the newborn Star children Asteria and Madeon.
- Star-Blessed II:
- Streaming Music Studios - “Rosalina in the Observatory 3” - plays when Lilliandil transforms into Rosalina and dances with David in a Dance of Romance at the Comet Observatory.
- Hayley Westenra - “Dark Waltz” - plays when Lilliandil, reverted to her previous form after their first dance in the Comet Observatory, dances with David again.
- Kazuma Jinnouchi - “Never Forget (Midnight Version)” - plays as the now all-powerful Lilliandil tearfully declares the depth of her love for David, before the two have astral sex and become the all-powerful Zenith being that creates a perfect universe for them both.
- Madeon - “Mania” - plays during the credits.
- Lily James - “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes” - plays in the deleted scene “Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed” as Lilliandil sings it as a lullaby to soothe the sobbing David to sleep.
- My Glowing Northern Moon:
- Vocal Evolution: Lucy, namely remarked in both Retribution and again in Remembrance when she uses her Aphrodite magic to go so far as to make her own voice more beautiful.
- Volcanic Veins: Played straight in the Vita Timeline as Lilith slowly becomes Scarred Lilith.
- We Can Rule Together: Aphrodite Lucy trying to convince Dawn to turn to her side in Remembrance during the former’s Power Floats and Power Glows scene.
- Wham Line: The ending line of Retribution: ”Sanya just lost her Pevensies.”
- What the Hell, Hero?: Leah the Enchanting’s speech to David the Hopeful in Retribution, calling him out on his attitudes towards Lucy and her actions, and how they affect Susan, their daughter Dawn, and herself- even all of Narnia.
