Arsheesh

Arsheesh was a Calormene fisherman who lived by the sea in east-central Calormen during the Golden Age of Narnia. Though he never married, he took in and raised a boy called Shasta.

Biography
Arsheesh's early history is unknown, but he was born in Calormen, and was a fisherman for all of his known life. He lived in a cottage on the seashore. One night in NY 1000, Arsheesh, unable to sleep, went outside and found in the shallows a small boat carrying a soldier who had just died of starvation, and an infant boy. Although Arsheesh was not a compassionate man, he saw the child as an opportunity for free labor. He named the boy Shasta, took him in, and raised him for most of his childhood.

In 1014, a traveling Tarkaan named Anradin demanded hospitality from Arsheesh. The fisherman sent Shasta out of the cottage for the night. After dinner, Anradin offered to buy Shasta—whom he could see by the boy's skin color was not Arsheesh's natural son—as a slave. The two haggled over a price for several hours, and then went to bed. Shasta, however, had overheard their conversation, and ran away with Anradin's horse later that night.

Nothing else is know of him or what became of him after Shasta left.

Character
Arsheesh was an average Calormene peasant, poor and largely uneducated, but with a shrewd eye for profit. He often quoted the maxims and proverbs of "the poets," as did many Calormenes of all social classes.

Appearances

 * The Horse and His Boy