Ahoshta

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Ahoshta is a fictional character in the novel The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis. He is a Calormene Tarkaan (lord) who rose to the power of Grand Vizier.

Of "base birth," Ahoshta managed to climb the social ladder of Calormen (not an easy task) through (according to Aravis) trickery and evil tidings. He is apparently appointed to being a Tarkaan and, being very close to the Tisroc (Calormene king) he manages to become Grand Vizier after the death of the previous advisor. In the book he is seen with the Tisroc in a meeting, where he is portrayed as groveling and sycophantic, bowing completely prostate before the king and accepting kicks in the rump by the uppity Prince Rabadash.

Ahoshta was engaged to the Tarkheena Aravis in the manner of arranged marriage, an event which she claims was part of a plot by her wicked stepmother to get rid of her husband's child. Aravis, however, hated Ahoshta, for several reasons: his low birth, his apelike face, and his plotting and trickery. In addition he is about sixty, while she was much younger (never explicitly stated, she cannot be more than a teenager, if not younger). As a result she flees from Calormen for Narnia, along with Hwin, her mare who is actually a Talking Horse. After she and her friend Lasaraleen see him before the Tisroc the latter tries to point out to Aravis her fiance's importance, but she finds him even less appealing, openly criticizing him for going along with the Tisroc's evil plans and groveling like a slave.