Shasta
Also known as Cor, Prince Cor
A boy raised in Calormen who escapes north with Bree and discovers that he is Cor, the lost elder prince of Archenland. His journey repeatedly intersects with Aslan’s unseen guidance.
This encyclopedia follows the whole story. Plot details from all seven chronicles may appear below.
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In the chronicles
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The Horse and His Boy28 cited passages⌄
- Chapter I · paragraph 2
… and with him there lived a boy who called him Father. The boy's name was Shasta. On most days Arsheesh went out in his boat to fish in the morning, and in the afternoon he harnessed his donke…
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Shasta was not at all interested in anything that lay south of his home because he had once or twice been to the villa…
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It was nearly noon on the following day when Shasta was wakened by something warm and soft moving over his face. He opened his eyes and found himself staring into …
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"Oh bother breakfast. Bother everything," said Shasta. "I tell you I can't move." But the horse nuzzled at him with its nose and pawed him gently with a hoof till he…
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"But what was in the letter?" asked Shasta.
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"And what happened to the girl--the one you drugged?" asked Shasta.
Open passage → - Chapter IV · paragraph 1
At first Shasta could see nothing in the valley below him but a sea of mist with a few domes and pinnacles rising from it; but …
Open passage → - Chapter IV · paragraph 2
"Get on, Shasta," Bree kept saying.
Open passage → - Chapter V · paragraph 15
…ave flown above it far and wide in my younger days" (you may be sure that Shasta pricked up his ears at this point). "And this is certain; that if the Tisroc goes by the great oasis he can nev…
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Shasta listened more attentively still.
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 1
Shasta ran lightly along the roof on tiptoes. It felt hot to his bare feet. He was only a few seconds scrambling up th…
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When once Shasta had reached the far end of the bridge he found the crowd melting away; everyone seemed to be going either to th…
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What had really happened was this. When Aravis saw Shasta hurried away by the Narnians and found herself alone with two horses who (very wisely) wouldn't say a word, she…
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…wn Aravis found that she was in a courtyard-garden very like the one that Shasta had been taken into a few minutes earlier in another part of the city. Lasaraleen would have gone indoors at on…
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 18
… trees, cut off the moonlight. But she managed to find the same road that Shasta had found, and came just as he had done to the end of the grass and the beginning of the sand, and looked (like…
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"And here comes Shasta! Thanks be to the Lion!" said Bree.
Open passage → - Chapter X · paragraph 2
… the lower hills looked greener and fresher than anything that Aravis and Shasta, with their southern-bred eyes, had ever imagined. Spirits rose as they clattered down to the water's-meet of t…
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…es' fetlocks, the cool, stirring air and the darting dragon-flies, filled Shasta with a strange excitement.
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 1
When Shasta went through the gate he found a slope of grass and a little heather running up before him to some trees. He ha…
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… those hot, grey days when there seem to be twice as many flies as usual. Shasta's face was covered with them; he didn't even try to shake them off--he had too much else to do.
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"Was it all a dream?" wondered Shasta. But it couldn't have been a dream for there in the grass before him he saw the deep, large print of the Lion's…
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Shasta stooped and drank--a very long drink--and then dipped his face in and splashed his head. It was extremely cold,…
Open passage → - Chapter XIII · paragraph 1
…on the march, riding westward with the mountains on their left. Corin and Shasta rode right at the rear with the Giants immediately in front of them. Lucy and Edmund and Peridan were busy with…
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Shasta told Corin most of his adventures and explained that he had learned all his riding from a horse and didn't real…
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 1
…and the Horses. The Hermit, watching his pool, was able to tell them that Shasta was not killed or even seriously wounded, for he saw him get up and saw how affectionately he was greeted by Ki…
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"We must see Shasta first and say good-bye to him--and--and apologise," said Aravis.
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 3
…iven from your father's house, which cannot but be a grief to you. My son Cor has told me about your adventures together and all your valour."
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 6
Then Aravis told it. And Cor, who had very much wanted the story to be known, though he felt he couldn't tell it himself, didn't enjoy it so…
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The Silver Chair1 cited passage⌄
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