#tahamine

[amorret]

Queen Tahamine

Recently I finished reading the manga and oh, things around her got so interesting...

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It takes two months. A month for Tahamine to realize she did not suffer from her menstrual blood and blame it on her earlier pregnancy, and another to figure that she is in fact with child once more.

This is all it takes. Two months for her to mourn the only man she loved, two months to see her child ripped from her arms by her new groom once he was thorougly healed, sent to be raised as the common child of a maid. Two months she spents fearing for her son’s life, dreading Andragoras would change his mind and go back on his words, only to be met with the cold understanding she must hide another of her children.

Tahamine never laid with Andragoras. Not once, not ever since she started to be called his wife nor ever before. The only one who shared her sheet had been Osroes, Osroes the betrayed king, Osroes whose life had been stolen from the very man she is now wed to.

The one who could end her unborn child were he to ever hear of his mere existence.

What Tahamine choses to do next is as simple as the name it bears; motherhood. She sends away all her servants except for the dowry maid she brought with her from Maryam, a gift of her sister, and refuses to ever see eye to eye with Andragoras for months on ends. Pretends it is the custom from where she hails, that a husband and a wife shall not share a room for a year and her now buried youth serves as an example, for she did not lay with Osroes, Osroes who she loved and adored, so she shall not lay with his brother either. She has all her meals sent to her room, confines herself in it under the guise of bad health, and it is both a blessing and a curse that Andragoras drowns too much in his hunger for wealth and power to question her claims. That he sees her as nothing more than a conquered trophy but it does not matter, she will wield every tool she can lay her hand on and brandish it as the deadliest weapon if only it can assure the future of her children.

It is a few busy months, until she gives birth. She writes to her sister in Maryam hoping she will shelter her son, and she knows Andragoras reads them before they are sent away but his knowledge of their language is weak, he always chose to speak with battle cries rather than let the heavenly flow of her mother tongue consume him so he cannot understand it, shrugs it off as a woman’s affair once he decifers that his Queen will bitterly send her maid back to Maryam because she betrayed her and bore a child to a unknown soldier while she vowed to remain a maiden.

Andragoras doesn’t know it is false, nor does he need to. He doesn’t know the child her maid will bring to far away lands is hers and not her maid’s.

The day he is born, Tahamine names her child Arslân. Arslân the lion boy, Arslân, who bears the name of those who once were Kings of Pars. Because it his his legacy, his gods-given birthright, because he is Arslân, son of Queen Tahamine, heir of King Osroes and no one shall seize it from his grasp.

Especially not Andragoras.

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[thil4n]

Just a little sketch of Tahamine.

I don't see many fanart of her, but yeah I guess she's not very popular.

I am not especially fond of her either but the mysteries around her spice up the plot.

In the story she's said to be able to beguile any man, but it is also interesting to notice that she doesn't seem to have any effect on Guiscard for example (and we know he loves women). I also wondered how Andragoras could have stayed married with someone who hates his guts that much.

[concernedbrownbread]

Just found out about Layla, Fitna and Parizad and I am SOLD

[trevlan]

[animezodiac]

“Arslan Senki” characters as zodiac signs

Aries: Hilmes (Hermes)

Taurus: Jaswalt

Gemini: Farangis

Cancer: Elam

Leo: Gieve

Virgo: Narsus

Libra: Tahamine

Scorpio: Kishward

Sagittarius: Etoile (Ester)

Capricorn: Daryun

Aquarius: Alfreed

Pisces: Arslan

[innerchorus]

In the second part of the novel, where Arslan is already a king, I read that someone is offering him to marry Fitna, presumably at the daughter of Takhaminai and Andragore, to unite the two dynasties. Arslan was considered the son of Andragor, but then he denied it, and it turned out that it was not so. Fitna was considered the real child of Andragora. Is it possible to consider such a step as incest, if Arslan is officially and truly not the son of Andragor?

Hi anon, I’m not that familiar with the second half of the novels so I didn’t hear about a potential marriage between Arslan and Fitna. As you say, it is revealed that Arslan is not the child of Andragoras and Tahamine. Fitna is actually not the real child of Andragoras and Tahamine either. Arslan and Fitna are not blood relations therefore if they did get married it would not be incest. To add to that, it’s not even like they were raised together as siblings (a circumstance that might make some people uncomfortable if they were to form a relationship later).

[965cchikudasai]

Oh, I'm sorry! Finally came the final volume of the novel! Tanaka reveals in him, who is the daughter of Tahaminai? Is it Fitna?

NOVEL SPOILERS

There was no daughter in the first place lmao

Tahamine gave birth to a baby boy but it was stillborn.

The three ladies with the bracelets (Fitna, Leyla, Parizad) were all fake, Andragoras made up the whole story just to tie down Tahamine (i.e. so she wouldn’t commit suicide).

I’m pretty sure this isn’t the way Tanaka had planned it originally (there are inconsistencies especially in the converstation between Andragoras and the sorcerer in vol.7), but I’m relieved it wasn’t Fitna because it means that Hilmes’ relationship with her was not incest.