Hither Came Conan...

[Keer]

After all this time I had no idea there were any Conan fans here...

Thew your sinews and guard your seraglio! Thank Crom for this, my fellow Hyborian Heathens!!!

http://www.conan.com/f_rednails.shtml

Quick fix appetizer fa y'alls....

Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars: Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyberborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the earth under his sandaled feet.

I never get tired of reading that. Just one of the rawest preludes in all of fantasy.

[Skorixor]

I have over 20 conan books that i've read from way back...

many many comics...was a HUGE fan of conan

[Oeree]

If you think that is good news, check out this. An M-Rated ORPG... Age of Conan. http://www.ageofconan.com/

[Keer]

If you think that is good news, check out this. An M-Rated ORPG... Age of Conan. http://www.ageofconan.com/

See, they are wrong...Just wrong to do this to me.

[xyryn]

Read a bunch of the Conan stories when I was younger...pre-12. My favorite memory of those stories was where Conan was walking out of some stygian darkness with his arm around the waist of a beautiful vampire so she wouldn't do something bad...as if that was some kind of threat, hahahaha.

Now if he had had his hand around her neck, I could have believed that.

Saw the movies too. Didn't like the first one where Swartzenegger was too muscle bound to be the lithe, quick, dangerous Conan. Maybe if they looked to the Olympic ring gymnasts......?

That game looks intriguing. I like barbarians, they have such beautiful stuff to wear.