shasta then discovers who he really is: prince cor of archenland, elder son of king lune, corin's twin brother, and heir apparent to the throne. when he was a baby, a prophecy predicted that he would save archenland from a great evil, leading the enemies of archenland to kidnap him. when his father pursued their ship, the kidnappers put the baby prince on a rowboat with a knight. this was the boat in which arsheesh found him. the knight had died, but aslan guided the boat to shore so that cor could survive.