Enaros (Earth-616)

Enaros
Name	Enaros (see notes)
Aliases	Commander Enaros
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Black Legion, Valusian Army, Rebel Four;
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	Black
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Death	Topaz Throne, Palace of Kings, City of Wonders, Valusia
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual
Citizenship	Valusian
Occupation	Commander of the Black Legion
Base of Operations	Valusia
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Robert E. Howard, Roy Thomas, Ross Andru
First	Kull the Conqueror #1 (June, 1971)
First	Kull the Conqueror #1 (June, 1971)
Death	Kull the Destroyer #11 (August, 1973)
Death	Kull the Destroyer #11 (August, 1973)

History

Enaros was born outside of nobility. He became a soldier in the army of Valusia.

Enaros was part of the conspiracy against King Borna, along with Baron Kaanuub of Blaal (meant to become king in Borna's stead), Count Ducalon of Komahar, and the poet Ridondo. Enaros' gain, if the conspiracy was successful, was to become commander. Along with his fellow conspirators, he accompanied Kull, the commander of the Black Legion who had been misguided by Ridondo into attacking Borna (Ridondo pretended that Borna was about to dissolve the Black Legion), and was nervous as he witnessed Kull's taking of throne and being aclaimed by the Red Slayers. As Kull became king, Enaros became the commander of the Black Legion.

The conspirators turned their aim toward King Kull. Ducalon came in touch with the Thuranian shaman Melkori, and the four met with him at Cloud Peak. Using magic and wax-made replicas of the Red Slayers, Melkori sowned revolt (notably by having his fake Red Slayers murder in broad light people that opposed Kull) in Valusia. As the people were becoming dangerous, Enaros pushed Tu to chastise the Red Slayers. Fearing that Melkori was pushing it too far, Ducalon and Kaanuub attempted to stop him, in vain. Melkori was ultimately defeated by Kull.

When H'nar, regent prince of Demascar, came to Kull for aid against their enemies of Rikos, Enaros was as many pleased by H'nar's praises of Valusia. Kull designated the four conspirators as his aides and counselors. Arriving at Demascar, the Valusians were attacked by demons of Rikos. Not having been informed by H'nar of Rikos' use of black magic, Kull accepted to mount a single raid to avenge their fallen comrades. The four conspirators then offered H'nar a reward if he did the deed, but were answered only by threat. Enaros and the others later remained at Demascar while Kull and H'nar went on the "raid", in fact a plot to sacrifice Valusians to power a spell to destroy Rikos. H'nar's wizard M'ku was killed by Brule whom he had captured earlier, and the spell propagated to Demascar as well. Brule then left the palace of Demascar with the four counselors.

When Queen Veria of Zarfhaana attacked Kamula, Kull marched upon her army, with Enaros among his commanders and generals. Enaros was ignorant at first of Kaanuub's plotting, who lied to Veria about the demise of her lover Zarkus having been caused by Kull, in order to make her attack Valusia. Then, she gave Kaanuub a potion that was slipped in Kull's cups by another traitorous Black Legionnaire. Once Kull captured, Kaaanuub revealed the plot to Enaros. When Kull returned, Enaros, next to Kaanuub, slew the traitorious Black Legionnaire, to cover their tracks (though Kull knew who betrayed him).

Nevertheless, Enaros kept on conspiring against Kull, but started to resent the cowardly Kaanuub becoming king. Ducalon was contacted by "Ardyon" (Thulsa Doom) for a plot against Kull, and had his kin in the councils of Grondar lure Brule and the Red Slayers away from Kull, allowing the conspirators to strike. Enaros had also turned Black Legionnaires to their side, to accompany them in their regicide. During the attack in Kull's bedroom, they found Kull fully awake. Deemed the bravest of his foes by Kull, Enaros was the first to be slain by Kull, soon followed many Legionnaires, and Ducalon. Neverthless, Kull was ultimately defeated by "Ardyon".

Notes

• That character was created by Robert E. Howard in "By This Axe I Rule!".
  • Originally named "Gromel", his name (among other details of the story) was changed to "Enaros" by Howard's literary agent Glenn Lord when he assembled King Kull for publication in 1967, in order to avoid some of the many similarities between "By This Axe I Rule!" and the Conan story "The Phoenix on the Sword", due to the fact that the former, unmarketable, was the basis to the latter (with even entire sections being almost identical word for word). Glenn Lord used "Enaros", a variant spelling of "Enarus", one of the names in a list of Aquilonian names found in Howard's notes.
    • Glenn Lord had forgotten that in "The God in the Bowl", a Nemedian character was named "Enaro". Coincidentally, L. Sprague de Camp changed that character's name to "Enaros" in earlier plushed versions of the story.

See Also

• 6 appearance(s) of Enaros (Earth-616)
• 1 minor appearance(s) of Enaros (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) of Enaros (Earth-616)
• 1 image(s) of Enaros (Earth-616)