Lantern Waste

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The Duchy of Lantern Waste was a heavily-wooded northwestern territory of the Kingdom of Narnia where many adventures of Earth-native humans began in the world of Narnia. It was the location of the wardrobe portal that linked Earth and Narnia as well as the community of Beaversdam. Lantern Waste got its name from a prominent lamp post in the area whose light never extinguished and which existed in Narnia since the world's creation. Lantern Waste became incorporated as a Narnian duchy as early as the reign of Frank I. The lantern itself was created at the beginning of Narnia when Jadis threw a piece of a lamp post (from London) at Aslan. It fell onto the new Narnian soil and eventually grew into a lamp post as a tree would grow from a sapling. Its light never goes out as the lamp post has become semi-organic.