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This awakens the last of the statues, a witch named Jadis, who, to avoid defeat in battle, had deliberately killed every living thing in Charn by speaking a " Deplorable Word.
The world of Charn was destroyed by Jadis when speaking The Deplorable Word, a form of knowledge ancient Charnian scholars feared for its destructive potential.
In the ruling family of Charn, there was knowledge of an evil spell, the Deplorable Word, which would destroy all life except the one who spoke it.
Facing defeat, Jadis spoke the Deplorable Word which annihilated all living things under the Sun apart from herself.
* C. S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew features the " Deplorable Word ," apparently a thinly-veiled criticism of nuclear warfare.
The Deplorable Word, as used in The Magician's Nephew, by author C. S. Lewis, is a magical curse which ends all life in the fictional world of Charn except that of the one who speaks it.
Lewis does not explicitly link the Deplorable Word to nuclear weapons, but he certainly makes allusions to the power of humanity to destroy itself.
In speaking the Deplorable Word, Jadis killed every living thing in her world, except herself, to force her sister from the throne.
In the world of " The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant ", the " Ritual of Desecration " plays a similar role to the Deplorable Word, destroying almost all life in The Land when it was used.
While the Deplorable Word was used without remorse by Jadis to obliterate her enemies in an act of pure evil, the Ritual of Desecration enacted out of utter desperation in hopes of ridding The Land of evil once and for all so that future generations could live out their lives in peace ; a purpose which ultimately failed.
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