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Conan the Adventurer
The character, Conan, was created by Robert E. Howard, a writer living in Cross Plains, Texas, in the 1930s.
Conan
is born and raised in the country
of Cimmeria. He has many adventures, slays many
foes, makes a few enemies along the way. But,
eventually, he claims the throne of King of
Aquilonia. Later, an evil priest named Orastes
conspires with some foes of Conan to raise, from the
dead, the 3000 year-old sorcerer, Xaltotun, and with
his help overthrow Conan. It is during this
adventure, penned in the greatest sword-and-sorcery
novel I have ever read, The Hour of the Dragon
(a.k.a. Conan the Conqueror) that Conan meets
Zenobia, a slave girl who frees him and later
becomes his Queen when he re-takes the
crown.His courage being his greatest asset and his
great physical strength his second, Conan's third
defense against the world lay in his choice of
weapons.
When reading the Conan saga, many images of
Conan will come to mind but many readers agree that
no artist has captured Conan better than the
legendary Frank Frazetta. Frazetta's Conan is a
hugely-muscled,
dark, brooding warrior who lives his fullest in
conflict! In a battle with Conan, one ends up
vanquished, living and perhaps a friend of Conan or
one gets to explore the " undiscovered country
from whose bourn no traveller returns
"! As Thutothmes
sa ys, in The
Hour of the Dragon, " Death is the portion of madmen
."
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