If Rabadash successfully knocks Axartha aside and stabs Rishti, assuming other events to have gone as per "Out of Season," Achadith speaks to the assembled population of Tashbaan immediately thereafter. Except this time, after Shezan makes her speech, Rishti falls to the ground stone dead, since Rabadash and Axartha can't hold his corpse upright indefinitely.
Nobody is sure if this means Achadith supports Rabadash's coup, or whether his patricide is part of the pattern that needs to break. A little pitched battle over the issue breaks out on the temple steps, which ends when Malindra Takhun knocks Rabadash out with her husband's jeweled turban. (Shezan was busy guarding her initiates from anyone who got too close to the altar.) The watching crowd nearly turns into a riot before Malindra climbs up onto the altar beside Shezan and makes her own speech about the pattern of patricide ending with its last practitioner, aka Rabadash, and now everybody cheer for her son, Ilragesh Tisroc, may he live forever. Shezan grits her teeth and lends her support to that idea. Gradually the various guards stationed around the temple complex get the crowd under control and begin doling out bread and wine.
Then things go somewhat parallel to the first "Shezan tells someone" scenario. Rabadash and his companions are executed. Bree is added to the royal stables and takes the chance (not being anyone's prized and favorite stallion anymore, and thus not so closely watched) to escape, perhaps accompanied by a slave stableboy.
Prince Ilragesh inherits the throne, which means Malindra Takhun becomes the power behind it. She doesn't kill Axartha, but she shuts him out... and gets rid of Ahoshta, too, who she only kept around because he was temporarily in Rishti's favor. Aravis once again winds up married to one of Ilragesh's friends. If she brings Hwin with her, the Mare may meet Bree in the royal stables and join his attempted escape, but if she doesn't, Hwin lives and dies a slave in Calavar. After Axartha's death, Malindra and Shezan gradually come to terms with each other, and Shezan becomes something of an unofficial vizier. Malindra gathers a number of other women around her, which may eventually include Aravis and Lasaraleen.
Malindra ignores Narnia and Archenland since she's more interested in ensuring internal Calormene unity, and also since she knows her son isn't a fighter or military strategist and he therefore has some of the same reasons to prefer peace that Rabadash does in canon. Shasta gets sold to pirates, which seems to be his standard fate if he doesn't run away. This time, though, without Calormen and Narnia squabbling at sea, Corin is allowed on a voyage and... you guessed it... gets captured by pirates. Shasta saves Archenland by rescuing his strange lookalike, and the two boys have a long, strange adventure through the various islands in the Eastern Sea on their way back to the mainland and safety.
And then he's recognized as the long-lost prince, of course, and eventually inherits the throne. Archenland and Calormen have a much less fraught relationship for a few generations, under the influence of treaties signed by Cor and Ilragesh. Shezan is one of the authors of those treaties, and does her best to alter the theological view of Talking Beasts as demons.
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Date: 2015-01-08 03:34 am (UTC)Nobody is sure if this means Achadith supports Rabadash's coup, or whether his patricide is part of the pattern that needs to break. A little pitched battle over the issue breaks out on the temple steps, which ends when Malindra Takhun knocks Rabadash out with her husband's jeweled turban. (Shezan was busy guarding her initiates from anyone who got too close to the altar.) The watching crowd nearly turns into a riot before Malindra climbs up onto the altar beside Shezan and makes her own speech about the pattern of patricide ending with its last practitioner, aka Rabadash, and now everybody cheer for her son, Ilragesh Tisroc, may he live forever. Shezan grits her teeth and lends her support to that idea. Gradually the various guards stationed around the temple complex get the crowd under control and begin doling out bread and wine.
Then things go somewhat parallel to the first "Shezan tells someone" scenario. Rabadash and his companions are executed. Bree is added to the royal stables and takes the chance (not being anyone's prized and favorite stallion anymore, and thus not so closely watched) to escape, perhaps accompanied by a slave stableboy.
Prince Ilragesh inherits the throne, which means Malindra Takhun becomes the power behind it. She doesn't kill Axartha, but she shuts him out... and gets rid of Ahoshta, too, who she only kept around because he was temporarily in Rishti's favor. Aravis once again winds up married to one of Ilragesh's friends. If she brings Hwin with her, the Mare may meet Bree in the royal stables and join his attempted escape, but if she doesn't, Hwin lives and dies a slave in Calavar. After Axartha's death, Malindra and Shezan gradually come to terms with each other, and Shezan becomes something of an unofficial vizier. Malindra gathers a number of other women around her, which may eventually include Aravis and Lasaraleen.
Malindra ignores Narnia and Archenland since she's more interested in ensuring internal Calormene unity, and also since she knows her son isn't a fighter or military strategist and he therefore has some of the same reasons to prefer peace that Rabadash does in canon. Shasta gets sold to pirates, which seems to be his standard fate if he doesn't run away. This time, though, without Calormen and Narnia squabbling at sea, Corin is allowed on a voyage and... you guessed it... gets captured by pirates. Shasta saves Archenland by rescuing his strange lookalike, and the two boys have a long, strange adventure through the various islands in the Eastern Sea on their way back to the mainland and safety.
And then he's recognized as the long-lost prince, of course, and eventually inherits the throne. Archenland and Calormen have a much less fraught relationship for a few generations, under the influence of treaties signed by Cor and Ilragesh. Shezan is one of the authors of those treaties, and does her best to alter the theological view of Talking Beasts as demons.
And that is that!