The damndest bastard you ever met #BuyingBhakashalさんのイラストまとめ

Father: “All the more reason to stop filling his head with useless tales and words of soft southern kingdoms! His path lies in Cimmeria leading warriors in battle!

Crom wills it!"

GF: “Then he must be taught to live an honourable life. Or you will unleash a tyrant upon Cimmeria

A tall, muscled, black-haired warrior slays a man with a huge axe and seeks left and right for his next adversary; the red-haired attackers break and flee.

A name rings out over the battlefield; the warrior turns to see a blood-splashed woman standing atop a low hill...

But, it isn’t your daddy’s “hero’s journey” either. It’s your grandfather’s pulp adventure.

It isn’t neat or tidy. It’s personal and honest and messy; it's what pulps were.

So. Without further ado, here is Conan's #DamndestOrigin.

Chapter 1: The song of my people

...that apocrypha any more momentum than it already has.

But pastiche writers have been fucking up Howard's Conan since the '60s and will very likely keep doing so. How could I possibly make it worse?

At least my shitty fanfic uses Howard’s ACTUAL themes and facts about Conan.

Crom!

I am falling in love with this raw and flavourful art from John Gallagher!

Respect.

Do you share the name, John Cyrano, or are you in fact the one responsible for these amazing images? https://t.co/kt97aclEvk

@GoAskCrom Ribic does great Conan.

Respect.

Fast forward 20 years to the very same tale where Conan 1st mentions the possibility of being a king. Howard writes “The Cimmerian might have spent years among the great cities of the world; he might have walked with the rulers of civilization...But he was no less a barbarian.

...to illustrate how barbarism is superior to civilization. The message is just writ large in those tales, on an imperial scale, by having the Aquilonian people prefer a Celtic King’s methods over the traditional, feudal, “civilized” rulers.

This brings us to the key question:

Certainly, Frost Giant’s Daughter is very fantastic, mostly taking place in a supernatural realm. But other stories written at the same time as King Conan are already more practical; God in the Bowl and Tower of the Elephant show no signs of any “Celtic” themes.

...and is, in turn, saved by priests of the god Asura. They tell of a mystic jewel that can defeat the sorcerer Xaltoltun of ancient Acheron. The jewel’s name is The Heart of Ahriman. It was removed from a hidden cavern below Tarantia and taken out of the kingdom.