The Inexorable, the Irresistible

Independent RP blog for Tash from The Chronicles of Narnia Sideblog of treacheroussonofadam Sidebar image from {ϟ}

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+lastoftheoldones

[lastoftheoldones]

Will watched the display, unfazed. The smell from the bird creature was near overwhelming, a mixture of incense and tired flesh, and the voice echoing around the chamber seemed to have a weight of its own. Yet he was not afraid, merely curious.

"I met someone like you once," he began conversationally. "It was a creature that lived in a lake. It was loud and it had a very frightening appearance. It didn’t smell all that pleasant either." A faint smile danced on his lips at the memory, but there was no merriment in his voice. "But beyond all that, there was nothing to be afraid of."

"I wonder, O Tash, if you are the same?"

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Tash's fury mounted with every word the boy spoke. He told himself it was because he was being disrespectful, not because he was dangerously close to the truth: that a thousand thousand years ago Tash had chosen darkness, yet darkness is so easily driven out by light.

"Tash wonders if thou art truly foolish enough to test him," he snarled, none of his misgivings showing on his vulture's features.

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+lastoftheoldones

[lastoftheoldones]

"I defer to the Light and the Law that was written by the High Magic," Will declared, his young voice echoing strangely around the chamber.

Watching the creature curiously for a moment, Will’s eyes were twin chasms of inexplicable age, weary and knowledgable, trying to understand. A growing presence of the Dark came from the bird-like being before him, enough to make Will hunch his shoulders slightly as if shaking off a pesky insect. But he returned the look evenly. “And you? Who do you defer to?”

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The monster uttered a squawking snarl of fury and enlarged himself, becoming more translucent as he grew and his manifestation was spread thinner. Mangy hackles rose along his head and his presence thundered out the lie he had repeated so often that he had come to believe it himself.

"Tash is almighty; all men and beasts beneath the sun tremble at his name. He defers to none."

[inspiirai]

[tashtheinexorable]

{ outofcalormen }

[omniaxsolusa]

I’m the 

    m   o   n   s   t   e   r 

you read about when you were just

             {a kid}

[pankajsakina]

“Orange Lights, White Stone”, Udaipur, India

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                                                                               Ｉ   have   ໓one

                                       ＴＥＲＲＩＢＬＥ

                                                   {    ｔｈｉｎｇｓ    }

               andＩ ԋave  

                                                 αвѕσℓυтєℓу    ղօ          

                                                                  ̸̲̖̳̘ͬ͑ͯ̓̇͑̅̄̉͛̔̔̇ͫ̑Ｒ̵̖̳͎̪̩͈͗ͣ̄͑͋ͤ̓̏̀͡͡ͅＥ̴̨̭̥̘̯͍̘̱͙̘̠̻͎͈͍̠͚̳ͮ̔̈́̈͡Ｇ̨̡̬̳̜͇̹̫̞͈̄̐ͦ̋̏͐̎͆̐̓́ͣ̄̍ͭ́̅̄́̚Ｒ̨̤͉̙͖͍̺̣̙̫̣̇ͣ̽̿ͩͬ͋́͟Ｅ̱͔̱͎̠̺̣̃ͥͭ̌̎̑ͨ̀͞Ｔ̵̱̝̹ͬ̐ͤ̒̍ͯ̑̾͒ͮ̉̿̂̈́͢͠͝Ｓ̡̏̑̊̆҉̩͕͉̟̩͓͕̥͇̠̘̤͖̙̦̟̙̙̭̕

[tashtheinexorable]

+lastoftheoldones

[lastoftheoldones]

"Wishing never got anyone very far. And I do not give deference to the Lion. Not for the Time being, anyway." Will glanced around the chamber, trying to discern where he was and how to get from there. "Humility is knowing one’s place, and I already know where I fit in," he added idly. "So in a way, I’m not neglecting the virtue of humility."

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Tension that Tash hadn’t noticed building was released when the boy denied association with Aslan. While he would never admit to fearing Him, the fact remained that the Lion’s name held more power than Tash did in his entire being, and having an immortal agent of Aslan here in his own temple could only have boded ill.

The monster’s head craned forward to inspect the boy more closely. "Dost thou defer to anything, child?"

[outside-the-wardrobe-blog]

Calormen

Earth: Gwalior Fort, Gwalior, India

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+lucythelioness

[lucythelioness-deactivated20140]

➵ Was she? Lucy knew deep in her heart that Aslan was the true ruler of Narnia; the ruler over everything that was good and right and fair. If there was light, then there must be dark also. Tash certainly appeared real, and he radiated darkness, if that was possible.

”I think so, yes. But you’re very different than Aslan.”

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She thought so? Tash clacked his beak in irritation. He would have to manifest more often if someone could look him in the face and still barely believe in him.

"An infant born today could tell that Tash and the cat-god are very different. Is this the extent of the wisdom of the barbarian kings and queens?"

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+lastoftheoldones

[lastoftheoldones]

"I come bearing no ill will." He answers coolly, eyes narrowed, his voice sounding much too old to come out of his mouth. "Your domain is your own, O Tash, and you may keep it as you like. But you know your power is not near enough to ‘smite’ me." He smiles glacially, faint note of prideful challenge in his voice.

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The corners of Tash’s beak twisted into a weak grimace and he spread his top set of arms in a mock bow of apology.

"To cause thee enough suffering to wish it had, then. Thou holdest not to the cat-god’s ideas of humility, child."

[treacheroussonofadam]

{ edmun } Racism (or lack thereof) in The Chronicles of Narnia

[ignore me I’m just tagging people who expressed interest  thecreaminhiscoffee sireninthefire ]

[So C.S. Lewis gets a lot of accusations of being prejudiced because of Calormen and all it resembles—or, rather, because people are fond of being edgy and alarmist and slapping extreme labels on popular things for the shock value. Narnia’s a good target because ooh, wow, did you know that really famous thing written by a really famous Christian guy is actually horribly racist?

I call BS. Calormen is NOT a mockery of Middle Eastern culture; it is a Biblical parallel like literally everything else in the Narnia books ever, so sit the frickity frack down for a Sunday school lesson from Edmun.]

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[outside-the-wardrobe-blog]

Castle of Tashbaan, Calormen

Earth: Peacock Room at Castello S, Italy

[the-tarnished-tarkheena-blog]

Tashbaan

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+lucythelioness

[lucythelioness-deactivated20140]

➵     "I…." Only after she convinced her hands not to shake did she continue. "I wanted to see if you were real."

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Of course. His own people used his name like an empty oath; why should a foreigner believe in him?

Tash's hackles rose a little, peeling away from the grease and dried blood that plastered his feathers against his skin. "And art thou convinced?"

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+lastoftheoldones

"Speak, O child immortal, and say thou comest not to challenge the dominion of Tash the inexorable, the irrestible; else the bolt of Tash smite thee where thou stand'st."

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{ out of calormen }