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- "Never doubt my love for you, or for our son. Rule our people well while I am gone, my queen. I will think of you, and Aniba, and Amenirdis and Shabako every day. If my thoughts were birds, my queen, the skies above Zerzura would be dark with them."
"It is a brave thing you do, my husband. You are a good father." - ―Taharka and Tiyy
Taharka was a Pharaoh of the mythical island of Kerma.
Biography
Like many of his ancestors, Taharka was born and raised on the island of Kerma, in a society which was the exact copy of the one that existed in ancient Egypt. After his son, Prince Aniba, became ill, Taharka left the island, searching for a cure. He took with him his magical talisman, the golden wristlet, which was one of three that would allow entrance into the Labyrinth of Zerzura.[1]
Taharka found the cure in the Caribbean, in the hands of a woman known as Tia Dalma. Although she agreed to give him the cure, she also demanded a payment. Sadly, on his way back to Kerma, his ship was attacked by the rogue pirate ship, the La Vipère, captained by Christophe-Julien de Rapièr. He was fatally wounded during the attack before the pirates boarded the ship. Jack Sparrow was on the rogue pirate ship at that time, and found the Pharaoh dying on the deck. Taharka gave the wristlet to Jack, and told him to protect his people. Immediately after he died, the wristlet was taken from Jack by Christophe.[1]
Behind the scenes
Taharka appeared in the 2011 novel The Price of Freedom by A. C. Crispin.[1]
Appearances
- The Price of Freedom (First appearance)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 The Price of Freedom
- ↑ In the Prologue of The Price of Freedom, Taharka is described as being "nearly fifty" when he left Kerma to search for a cure for his son, Prince Aniba. In a flashback in Chapter Eleven Taharka says to Jack Sparrow that he was absent from Kerma for "many months". In that moment Jack was twenty years old. The current timeline, as established in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and its tie-in materials, dates Jack's birth around 1690, which dates Taharka's birth around 1660.
- ↑ Although there is no official date of Taharka's death, the timeline established in the film series and its tie-in materials sets the main events of The Price of Freedom circa 1715, which dates Taharka's death five years earlier in the flashback scene around 1710.