History
King Mehtvezem was a king of Stygia during the Hyborian Age of Conan, and ruled from the capital city of Luxor.
He was seemingly a bad king, gambling away fortunes on dwarf fights, a sport considered gruesome and obscene by his wife, as did his former wives before her.
For those excesses, but also because he wished to diminished the power of the priesthood in the affairs of state, the priest elite wished to remove and replace him. The Stygian sorcerer Parmek Da'an schemed as well to overthrow him and usurp the Stygian throne. Kiriandra the Enchantress, a former student of Parmek, forced Conan to go and stop Parmek, and gave him a talisman protecting him from Parmek's astral form.
During a venture on the streets of Luxor, Mehtvezem was targeted by assassins sent by the priests, but was saved by Conan. Conan later invited himself in Mehtvezem's quarters and managed to get recruited into the Royal Stygian Elite Guard (after defeating the guard he was to replace).
Parmek Da'an and the priests joined forces, and Parmek Da'an presented him his trio of fighting dwarves. Infiltrated on the pretense of demonstrating his fighting dwarves (in fact a Jinn of the Thirteenth Order), he possessed the vizier to fake an assassination attempt, have the vizier removed. He then possessed Mrhtvezem's queen to pretend adultery with Conan, thus removing him as well. Parmek then presented his dwarves, who merged into a single warrior who disposed of the king's guards.
Mrhtvezem was possessed by Parmek Da'an, who used his figure to lead the royal guards to slaughter his last potential rivals, the priesthood. Freed by the Queen, Conan confronted "the King" and his Jinn. Conan defeated the Jinn and forced Parmek to retreat. Parmek was unable to possess Conan who was protected by the talisman given by Kiriandra, thus fled to his body whom Conan was stabbed. Parmek subsequently withered.[1]