Arsheesh

Arsheesh was a Calormene father figure for the boy Shasta in The Horse and His Boy. During the time when Arsheesh was a fisherman who lived by the sea in a small hut in the empire of Calormen. He never married because of his poverty. One night, he couldn't sleep and went down to the shore, where he found a small boat with a dead man and a baby boy inside; the man had apparently starved himself to feed the child, and had died within sight of land. Arsheesh took the child and named him Shasta. Arsheesh was not a nice parent to Shasta, making him do most of the work in the house and beating him whenever he was angry. One day, when a Tarkaan was staying at Arsheesh's house, the nobleman, who could tell that Shasta is not Arsheesh's son (as Arsheesh was a Calormene, while Shasta was clearly a Northerner), offered to buy the boy as a slave. Arsheesh started to bargain with him, which was the last Shasta heard of him. Shasta, who was listening in on the two adults, had by this point not known that Arsheesh was not his father, but felt a bit relieved, as he knew that he didn't love Arsheesh the way a son should love his father. When the Tarkaan's horse, Bree — actually a Talking beast from Narnia — told Shasta that the Tarkaan would be a very cruel master, the two agreed to escape together to Narnia.

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