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Appearing in "Beyond the Black River"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Savage Sword of Conan #26

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Balthus (First appearance)
  • Governor Valannus (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Picts
    • Unnamed Pict (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)
    • Zogar Sag (First appearance)
  • Sabretooth cat (First appearance)
  • Ghost Snake (First appearance; dies)
  • Ape (First appearance; dies)

Other Characters:

  • Cimmerians (Mentioned)
  • Gundermen (Mentioned)
  • Balthus' uncle (Mentioned)
  • Bossonians (Mentioned)
  • Mitra (Invoked)
  • Tiberias (First appearance; dies)
  • Swamp Demon (Mentioned)
  • Soractus (Mentioned)
  • Crom (Invoked)
  • Gallus (First appearance)
  • G'Chambi (Mentioned)

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  • Lunas (Mentioned)

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Synopsis for "Beyond the Black River"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Savage Sword of Conan #26
  • Synopsis not yet written

Appearing in "Legions of the Dead"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Savage Sword of Conan #39

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Aesir's party (Main story and flashback)
    • Njal (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
    • Old Gorm (Main story and flashback)
    • Rann Njalsdatter (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Hyperboreans of Haloga (First appearance)
  • Legions of the Dead (First appearance)
    • Egil the Huntsman (First appearance; dies) (Formerly part of Njal's party) (Main story and flashback)

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Synopsis for "Legions of the Dead"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Savage Sword of Conan #39
Conan joins a group of Aesir and goes hunting with Njal, their chieftan. Upon returning, the tribe goes after a group of scouts sent to a nearby fortress to see what happened to them. The scouts are being tortured to death by the Witchmen of the fortress. Njal returns to camp to decide what to do next, but Conan sneaks away and steals inside the fortress to find Njal's kidnapped daughter. He breaks her out and returns to the tribe, pausing only to light the fortress on fire. The Hyperboreans follow the tribe as it retreats and the Aesir discover to their horror their pursuers are the zombies of their comrades and charred remains of Hyperboreans. The undead slaughter the living, but Conan manages to unseat Vammatar and steal her horse, taking Rann with him, but the zombies pull him to the ground, only sparing his life when Vammatar commands he be taken as a slave. Rann, however, escapes.

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