History
Pirate[]
Presumably during the Pre-Cataclysmic Age (see notes), Lahrentz sailed in the pirate crew of Captain Ehestes Rhan sailed as a pirate, plundering ships at least along the Nespian trade route.
After plundering and sinking the Valishka, a merchant ship from Auuroghan sailing with large riches (composted of beautiful Valishkian jewels) on the Nespian trade route, on August 2nd, Rhan intended to use his fortune to retire.
Though, on August 5, the crew, rendered greedy, demanded to keep on plundering the ships of the Nespian trade routes. As Rhan refused, the crew mutinied and clapped him in irons, accusing him of sorcery over it, as they had found a few occult tomes in his cabin (though Rhan denied any dabbling in black magic). On August 12th, Rhan was marooned on an isle west of Grebuhl, left there with his books (which they mockingly tossed on the beach) and the treasure (which they buried), until the crew would return from their thirst of plunder.[1]
The Children of Rhan[]
The crew, now led by Captain Lahrentz, returned on May 6th to the isle (christened (that Zahrahn by Rhan). They found Rhan's skeleton, his log, the buried treasure, but also a group of Children of Rhan, the unholy spawn of Rhan and of the were-god. The Children or Rhan, under the form of white-haired girls, that they took in, intending to sell them as slaves for an enormous profit. They loaded the ship with provisions and left the isle by May 10th. The Children of Rhan soon grew up to womanhood, were married to the crew, slaughtered them, and shipwrecked three hundred miles afar, on the coast which would become a valley in Vanaheim.
During the Hyborian Age, circa 10,000 BC, Conan the Cimmerian would be confronted to the Children of Rhan as well.[1]Attributes
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Notes
- The era of those events are never detailed in names or dates, but it is safe to assume that they are set in the Pre-Cataclysmic Age (100,000 BC-18,000 BC), before the Great Cataclysm which would be the cause of the geological changes mentioned (the ocean in a valley of Vanaheim, the isle of Zahrahn in the ravines of Pictish Wilderness, which is attested as being fully formed after the Lesser Cataclysm, circa 17,500 BC). The other possibilities could that those geological changes occurred during the Lesser Cataclysm, or even -more unlikely- afterwards).
- Lahrentz invoked the name of Mitra in his log, but Mitra isn't supposed to be worshiped until circa 13,000 BC, when he is sent by his father on Earth. It is unknown whether or not is an error from the writer, or if it is supposed to indicate either an earlier worship of Mitra and/or a more recent setting to Lahrentz's misadventures.
- Lahrentz wrote in Thelic, a language similar to Ancient Atlantean, presumably (details here) known by Conan's grandmother, and known to be used in the Atlantean outpost of Pangea in Modern Age's Savage Land. It is possible that Lahrentz was originated from either Atlantis and/or Pangea. Another possibility could be the Thurian colony of Atlanteans nearby Elder Cimmeria (which intermarried together, forming the basis of the Hyborian Age Cimmerians).
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Savage Sword of Conan #64 ; The Children of Rhan