Appearing in "The Road to Empire"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Aquilonian Army
- Prince Conn
- Pallantides
- Prospero
- Quintus
- Hagan
- Rufio
- Princess Radegund / "Moira"
- Deryck
- Queen Zenobia
- Publius
- Aesir
- Hasting (First appearance)
- Arn (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- King Tarascus II of Nemedia
- Nemedian Army
- Queen Leora of Ophir
- King Xantaus of Argos
- Crassus (Main story and flashback)
- Amazons
- Unnamed master of Crassus (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Memnob
- Queen Zenobia (Only in flashback)
- Prince Taurus (Main story and flashback)
- "Prince Taurus" (changeling) (Only in flashback)
- Rolf (Mentioned)
Deities and Invocations:
Races and Species:
- Horses
- Horses
- Dolphins (Only in flashback)
- Stygian Swamp Adders (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth
- Hyboria
- Aquilonia (Main story and flashback)
- Tarantia (Only in flashback)
- Royal Palace (Only in flashback)
- Tarantia (Only in flashback)
- Nemedia
- Road of Kings
- Argos (Mentioned)
- Ophir (Mentioned)
- Zingara
- Stygia (Main story and flashback)
- Khemi (Main story and flashback)
- Temple of Set (Main story and flashback)
- Khemi (Main story and flashback)
- Aesgaard/Asgard (Mentioned)
- Kush (Mentioned)
- Aquilonia (Main story and flashback)
- Hyboria
Events and Eras:
Synopsis for "The Road to Empire"
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
Conan carries the war to Nemedia! But any victory he wins may be permanently destroyed because the traitor Crassus has Conan's son, Taurus!
Notes
The story is introduced by an extract from a letter from Robert E. Howard to P. Schuyler Miller.