Conan the Barbarian

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Know, oh 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 /.../ 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 sandalled feet.

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? The Nemedian Chronicles, as quoted in The Phoenix on the Sword (1932), by Robert E. Howard.

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The Phoenix on the Sword - Robert E. Howard

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Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian, from the name of his homeland, Cimmeria) is a literary character created by Robert E. Howard in a series of fantasy pulp stories published in Weird Tales in the 1930s.

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Cimmeria - Character - Robert E. Howard - Fantasy - Pulp - Weird Tales - 1930s

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