Questions tagged [conan]
For questions about the "Conan" franchise featuring Conan the Barbarian a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard, who lives in the Hyborian Age, a long forgotten past of our own world.
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Two Scenes From A Conan The Barbarian Story?
I believe these two scenes are from a Conan story, although I'm not sure — it's been sixty years since I read it. The first scene is early in the story. Conan is with a woman who betrays him somehow. ...
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Where is Sogoria and/or Isseni located in The Hyborian Age?
I'm currently reading the "Queen Sonja" series of comics (by Dynamite, running from 2010–2012), which depicts Sonja's time on the throne of Sogoria. She rules from the capital city, which is ...
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Did Robert E. Howard seriously think that Barbarism is the superior and most natural state of humanity?
I've read Conan stories for the first time a long while ago, and one of the things that struck me was the focus in writing on showcasing how great and ultimately succesful barbarism is and how meek ...
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Why did Howard never use the name "Amra" in any of the stories of Conan's time as a pirate?
It is well known in Hyborian lore that Conan the Cimmerian went by the name "Amra" [the lion] when he was a pirate. From 1959 to 1982, there was a magazine named Amra—which grew from a ...
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Conan story with a wizard's wall of fire
I'm pretty sure at some point in the past I read a Conan story (could be from Howard or a later author) which features a scene something like the following: Conan leads an army against an opposing ...
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Fantasy movie where the protagonist gets a broken sword and forge welds it
The film is not modern (1970-1990), similar to Conan the Destroyer, or maybe a remake. Or a TV series. I was young so I don't remember.
The film contained a scene where the protagonist gets a broken ...
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Which Howard Book features Derketo?
I was playing Conan Exiles on the weekend, then on Wednesday Conan Adventures in an Age undreamt of with the core book and Conan the Thief only. In either, there is mentioning of Derketo as a Stygian, ...
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Did Robert E. Howard write anything other than Conan the Barbarian that’s not a collection of short stories?
I’ve been reading Kull: Exile of Atlantis and Conan the Barbarian. I love them, but I am wondering if there’s a larger non-short story book by Robert E. Howard?
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Which Conan book involves his son Conn being seduced by a woman?
Which Conan the Barbarian book involves his son Conn being seduced by a girl?
There might be another aspect of the story that involves a priest or a druid.
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Is there a Howard-canon map of Conan's world?
In 1936 "The Hyborian Age: Conan's World", Howard laid out a somewhat detailed "canon" history of Conan's world, pre- and post-cataclysm.
This included verbal description of the world maps and where ...
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A Conan the Barbarian story about a city in which everyone is constantly high with some kind of lotus
I am looking for a Conan story in which he arrives at a seemingly deserted town (with the occasional girl in distress, of course). They take a look around, something is chasing them throughout the ...
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Conan comic from the perspective of a winged demon amongst temple ruins in the desert, reflecting on its wretched existence, which Conan slays
I have been searching for a particular Conan comic story for a very long time. I do not recall which series it is hence the difficulty.
The story is from the perspective of a winged demon amongst ...
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Why do all Conan the Barbarian movies and TV adaptations stray so much from any of the original stories?
According to Wikipedia, three Conan movies have been made in the past: Conan the Barbarian (1982), Conan the Destroyer (1984) and Conan the Barbarian (2011). On TV, there was the animated series (and ...
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Was the unfinished Drums of Tombalku rewritten as Xuthal of the Dusk by Robert E. Howard?
Robert E. Howard left many stories unfinished or unpublished. After his death, Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp finished many incomplete stories, and they also reworked stories that featured other ...
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Is Thog Tsathoggua?
In "The Slithering Shadow," Conan fights Thog, the monster-god of the city of Xuthal. Both the thing's name and description are suggestive of Clark Ashton Smith's creation Tsathoggua.
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