Tehuri

Tehuri is bound in Tiuri’s memory to the happy years of his childhood and to the beginnings of his training in service. Recalled while he is far from home, the place links his former life with the story of the knights and adventures he shares with Piak.

Identity and Early Life

Tiuri remembers Tehuri as the setting of his happy years with his parents. He describes his early place in the household through the roles he held: he was his mother’s page and his father’s squire. At thirteen, he became the squire of Fartumar, marking a further step in his upbringing among the knights.

Recalled from the Mountains

The memory returns during Tiuri and Piak’s long, cold night in the mountains. As they pass the time telling stories, Tiuri speaks of his adventures in the forest and at Mistrinaut Castle, then turns to Tehuri, Dagonaut City, and the king’s knights. He names the knights and describes their shields and coats of arms, making the remembered world of Tehuri part of the companionship the two boys build through conversation.

Narrative Significance

Tehuri appears through recollection rather than as a setting visited in these passages. Its association with Tiuri’s happy childhood stands in contrast to his present exposure and uncertainty: thinking of those years prompts him, for the first time in days, to wonder how his parents are and whether they are waiting for him in Dagonaut City or have returned to their castle. The memory gives his journey a personal measure of distance from home, while his account of Tehuri’s knights carries the identities and heraldic details of his former life into his friendship with Piak.