One was a youth, dressed only in a fawn-skin, with vine-leaves wreathed in his curly hair. His face would have been almost too pretty for a boy's, if it had not looked so extremely wild. You felt, as Edmund said when he saw him a few days later, "There's a chap who might do anything—absolutely anything." He seemed to have a great many names—Bromios, Bassareus, and the Ram were three of them. ―Prince Caspian, Chapter XI
Bacchus was a minor god woken by Aslan, and the leader of the Romp reclaiming Narnia from the Telmarines. He is also known as Bromios, Bassareus, and the Ram, and has several followers including Silenus and the Maenads. Bacchus is the God of Wine from Roman mythology, also known as Dionysus in Greek mythology.
History[]
When the War of Liberation started, Bacchus arrived outside Aslan's How after Aslan roared to wake the sleeping trees. Upon confirming with Aslan that it was a Romp, Bacchus and his Maenads began cavorting across Narnia. Along the way, they came across the imprisoned River God, chained by the Beruna Bridge, whom Aslan freed by destroying the bridge. They destroyed a Telmarine school for girls, welcoming a Telmarine schoolgirl named Gwendolen to join the Maenads.
Appearance[]
Bacchus is described in the book as a youth dressed only in fawn-skin, with vine leaves in his curly hair and a face "almost too pretty for a boy's." He is described as having a wild expression.