King Caspian I, more commonly known as Caspian the Conqueror, was the King of Telmar who went on to conquer and rule Narnia in the Narnian year of 1998. Telmar was a land inhabited by the Telmarine people, who were descendants of pirates originally from Earth. By 1998, their land had suffered a famine, which was also during the time of Narnia's Dark Age. The Narnians were in a state of anarchy without any remaining monarchs, due to the fact that their original monarchs had all mysteriously disappeared centuries earlier, leaving no heirs, resulting in their kingdom suffering social collapse and loss of prosperity.