Lucy looking at the Sea People over the Dawn Treader's keel.
There were two types of Sea-People: Narnian Merpeople (who resided in the Bight of Calormen), and the Eastern Sea People, who resided near the eastern end of the world.
Sea Horse
Biography[]
The Eastern Sea People lived in the region known as the Last Sea, near the border of the Silver Sea, where they were first seen by the crew of the Dawn Treader during its famous voyage.
Lucy was the first to see them, and was curious about them. She called Edmund over to look at them, but when Drinian saw them talking about them, he told them to come away. He warned them that they were dangerous, claiming that the females made men fall in love with them, or in love with the under-sea kingdom itself, and made them jump overboard. The Sea People appeared to be angered by the passage of the Dawn Treader. Edmund said that the Sea People looked fierce, and that they would have attacked the Dawn Treader if they could have.
Lucy guessed that the ones she saw were lords or nobles, because of their appearance. One of them was definitely a king, as he couldn't be mistaken for anything else, who looked proudly and fiercely at Lucy, shaking his spear at her, with his knights doing the same.
They had appeared to be a hunting party, using a fierce little fish to hunt others, like how the nobles in Narnia hunted with hawks.
Description[]
The Sea People at first looked like ordinary people, not like Merpeople, yet they lived underwater. They had legs, but traveled under the water on giant sea-horses, wearing coronets of some kind, chains of pearls, but no other clothes. Their bodies were the color of old ivory, and their hair was dark purple.
Fears[]
Apparently, the Sea People were afraid of three beasts of the sea:
- The Kraken
- The Squid
- The Sea Serpent