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Narnia is the domain of Aslan, it's true, but he is not the only otherworldly figure that walks the land; there is Bacchus and his bride that come every year for the bacchanal, there is the river gods in every stream, and even Father Christmas every winter.

But there still older gods yet--Edmund meets a one eyed old man playing chess with a man with the head of an ibis and has to politely turn down their offer of letting him join them. Peter meets an unnerving old woman in a hut that walks on chicken legs in the north, but she was too busy bludgeoning a giant stupid enough to run afoul of her to notice the king, and frankly Peter was glad for it. Susan meets a strange woman on the side of the road, washing bloodied clothes in a stream, who looks at her and grins, saying "oh, don't worry, your majesty. These aren't the clothes of anyone you know."

Lucy encounters a strange creature as well--in the woods, late one night, she finds herself before a man so tall she almost mistook him for a giant at first. He has the hindquarters of a horse, but something tells her that he is not a real centaur any more than he is a normal man, and on his brow is a pair of massive antlers that almost look like a pair of branches. She gets the feeling that he is on the hunt and that she is in extreme danger, but then he nods to her and turns to go--whatever quarry he seeks, tonight it's not her. She watches him vanish into the trees before she can safely breathe again.