TAHAMINE / TAHAMENAY   Name: Tahamine / / Tahamenay Occupation: Queen of Pars Age: Second half of her thirties Country of origin: Badafushan Duchy / (now annexed by Pars) Hair Color: Aqua Eye Color: Blue Known relatives: No blood relatives, for others see the Pars Royal Family History First appearance: Heroic Legend of Arislan / OVA1 Voice actor: (Japanese) Yanaga Kazuko (English) Pamela Merrick who also does the voice of Farangis   Tahamine, as a young woman, was promised to the prime minister of the small duchy of Badafushan, south-east of Pars, but, as the then King of Pars Godaruzesu the second visited the duchy, he fell in love with her at first sight. Upon hearing that, the prime minister commited suicide, and Pars invaded the duchy, annnexing it. After the untimely death of the King, some thinking it was suicide, others believing in murder, the two brothers, the new King Osuroeru and his younger brother Andragoras, started to fight for her. Osuroesu being married at the time, polygamy seems to be an accepted custom in Pars, at least in the Royal Family. But the King died, of a natural illness, and Andragoras, who had inherited the throne after the death of the Queen Mother and her child, Prince Hirumes, heir to the Throne, married Tahamine. Tahamine, along with her husband Andragoras the third, only had one child. The Queen's body was heavily taxed because of the difficult delivery and she became unable to bear any more children. In order to defend her position as the one who will become Queen Mother of the Pars royal Family, the crown princess which had been born to them, crown princess incapable of inheriting the throne itself (which was reserved for men), was switched with a newborn boy, child of a small Pars knight and his wife. This boy was Arslan. Queen Tahamine is well known throughout the land for her 'bewitching beauty' but those closer to the Royal family speak of her beautiful features as cold and unfeeling. She resents deeply the fact that Arslan is not her own son, and that she has to pretend to keep her place in the Royal family, heirless wifes often being divorced for the sake of continuing the Royal lineage. She took no interest in him as he grew up either, leaving him to himself, with servants as his only companions. She event went as far as to treat him with utmost coldness and disdain, lost in thoughts of her own child, and in her own grief. During the fall of the Royal capital city of Ekubatahna, in 320, after the lost battle of Atorobatene, she sent a foil, a chambermaid dressed in her clothes, to escape through the catacombs with the protection of Guibu, a travelling minstrel she had rewarded for his courrage in aiding a Pars General. The subterfuge was found out, and the Lusitanian entered the city, finding her still in the Royal Castle. Once Ekubatahna had fallen in the hands of the Lusitanian invaders, she was forced to stay in her castle as in a prison, while the Lusitanian King, Inokentis the eighth, tried to entice her, who became a widow at the end of OVA1, to marry him, and thus access the throne of Pars. At that time, Tahamine became more and more fascinated with people of authority in the Kingdom, all of them being Lusitanians at the time, which made her known by the people as 'the woman whose evil ways will lead us to ruin' but truthfully she was only a sad woman, obsessed with thoughts of her lost daughter, who shut her heart to everything else.