Anradin

Book portrayal

Anradin is one of the Calormene nobles in The Horse and His Boy and one of the first people to show how exposed Shasta’s life really is. He comes to Arsheesh’s hut, notices the boy, and offers to buy him, which pushes the early danger of the story into plain view.

Later, he remains part of the military and aristocratic world tied to Rabadash’s campaign against Archenland. That gives his page more shape than a passing background name. Anradin helps connect the personal threat facing Shasta to the larger political threat moving north.

Lewis does not spend long on him, but that brief use is enough. Anradin belongs to the proud, well-armed Calormene class that treats power and possession as ordinary rights.