Rabadash

Rabadash appears as the eldest son of the Tisroc of Calormen in the novel The Horse and His Boy. He originates as a proud, hot‑headed nobleman whose unsuccessful courtship of Queen Susan of Narnia and consequent wounded pride lead him to organize a military campaign into Archenland. His origin is literary rather than folkloric: a human political heir whose story intersects with a supra‑human moral actor (Aslan) who judges and transforms him.

No sustained physical description is given for Rabadash in his ordinary human form in the sources provided. The text explicitly reports a physically altering event: Aslan transforms him into a donkey as punitive humiliation. The donkey form is the sole documented non‑human appearance.

As a human prince Rabadash commands military forces, organizes and leads an invasion, and exercises political ambition and aggression. He displays prideful, cruel, bullying, impatient, and hot‑headed behavior. He possesses no innate supernatural powers in the provided materials; his only supernatural condition arises from Aslan's punitive transformation and the conditional restoration tied to public penance.