If Shezan overcomes her moral qualms and tells someone about the escape plot, the results depend slightly on who she confides in: Axartha, her fellow priestesses of Achadith, or her fellow Tolkheeras and Tolkaars.
If she tells Axartha, the information gets passed to the Tisroc, and from there to the other Tolkaars and Tolkheeras, plus a dozen carefully chosen guards... but not to Rabadash. Marigold gets chained down to the altar instead of held by a single person, and winds up dead without a much more direct divine intervention. The Eagle likewise ends up dead, killed by the waiting guards. I don't think Aslan would interfere in such conditions, and while it's possible for Achadith to possess Shezan, she doesn't need a favor from Aslan that badly. Calormen therefore has no need to save face with Narnia, and is likely to start some sort of proxy war and/or trade embargo shortly thereafter.
Because Rabadash doesn't pick up on the increased wariness of the guards and abort his plot, he gets spotted by more people than just Axartha. The incident can't be hushed up, and he's killed for attempted regicide and patricide. Axartha barely gets out of the subsequent mess alive -- Malindra Takhun accuses him of aiding Rabadash -- but he and his granddaughter did foil the Narnians' plot, which tips the balance in his favor. He loses a lot of influence, though.
Ilgamuth is killed as a co-conspirator in Rabadash's plot. So are all the prince's sworn companions. Anradin therefore can't visit Arsheesh a few months later and Shasta has no impetus to escape. Bree is confiscated along with Anradin's other possessions and added to the royal stables. (He may take the chance to escape on his own, since he's now so close to Archenland.) Ahoshta rises in status a little faster than he otherwise would, and accepts a different marriage offer before Aravis's stepmother talks Kidrash Tarkaan into arranging engagements. Aravis thus ends up betrothed to a fairly innocuous friend of Prince Ilragesh. She goes through with the marriage, not very happily, but without any grand disruptive gestures.
Shasta does still have to save Archenland, as per the prophecy, but that doesn't happen until several years later, after Arsheesh sells him to some pirates. By that point, the bad blood between Calormen and the north has escalated to full-fledged naval warfare, and his ship intervenes in a crucial naval battle. He is not recognized as Corin's twin and winds up as a pirate captain instead, until he dies fairly young: hanged, in the Seven Isles. Corin inherits Archenland.
And things continue to shake out a little differently thereafter, since Calormen's focus was on the north rather than on internal unification and then southern conquests. Kutu isn't defeated and doesn't break into three remnant kingdoms, etc. I doubt much of this directly affects Narnia, though it may alter some minor details of the Telmarines' eventual invasion and conquest, since I'm sure Telmar itself was affected by Calormen's northern forays.
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Date: 2015-01-07 05:02 am (UTC)If Shezan overcomes her moral qualms and tells someone about the escape plot, the results depend slightly on who she confides in: Axartha, her fellow priestesses of Achadith, or her fellow Tolkheeras and Tolkaars.
If she tells Axartha, the information gets passed to the Tisroc, and from there to the other Tolkaars and Tolkheeras, plus a dozen carefully chosen guards... but not to Rabadash. Marigold gets chained down to the altar instead of held by a single person, and winds up dead without a much more direct divine intervention. The Eagle likewise ends up dead, killed by the waiting guards. I don't think Aslan would interfere in such conditions, and while it's possible for Achadith to possess Shezan, she doesn't need a favor from Aslan that badly. Calormen therefore has no need to save face with Narnia, and is likely to start some sort of proxy war and/or trade embargo shortly thereafter.
Because Rabadash doesn't pick up on the increased wariness of the guards and abort his plot, he gets spotted by more people than just Axartha. The incident can't be hushed up, and he's killed for attempted regicide and patricide. Axartha barely gets out of the subsequent mess alive -- Malindra Takhun accuses him of aiding Rabadash -- but he and his granddaughter did foil the Narnians' plot, which tips the balance in his favor. He loses a lot of influence, though.
Ilgamuth is killed as a co-conspirator in Rabadash's plot. So are all the prince's sworn companions. Anradin therefore can't visit Arsheesh a few months later and Shasta has no impetus to escape. Bree is confiscated along with Anradin's other possessions and added to the royal stables. (He may take the chance to escape on his own, since he's now so close to Archenland.) Ahoshta rises in status a little faster than he otherwise would, and accepts a different marriage offer before Aravis's stepmother talks Kidrash Tarkaan into arranging engagements. Aravis thus ends up betrothed to a fairly innocuous friend of Prince Ilragesh. She goes through with the marriage, not very happily, but without any grand disruptive gestures.
Shasta does still have to save Archenland, as per the prophecy, but that doesn't happen until several years later, after Arsheesh sells him to some pirates. By that point, the bad blood between Calormen and the north has escalated to full-fledged naval warfare, and his ship intervenes in a crucial naval battle. He is not recognized as Corin's twin and winds up as a pirate captain instead, until he dies fairly young: hanged, in the Seven Isles. Corin inherits Archenland.
And things continue to shake out a little differently thereafter, since Calormen's focus was on the north rather than on internal unification and then southern conquests. Kutu isn't defeated and doesn't break into three remnant kingdoms, etc. I doubt much of this directly affects Narnia, though it may alter some minor details of the Telmarines' eventual invasion and conquest, since I'm sure Telmar itself was affected by Calormen's northern forays.
(I will answer the other options tomorrow.)