Appearing in "Marauders in Meroe"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Imhotep, the Ravager of Worlds (Main story and flashback)
- Habarata
Antagonists:
- Hak-Heru (Only in flashback)
- Imhotep's sky-hordes (Main story and flashback)
- Hak-Heru's demons (Only appearance; die)
- Meroan royal guardsmen of the king (First appearance)
- Witch-Smeller, Ageera (Mentioned)
Other Characters:
- Pathir (Only in flashback)
- The Horned Whale's crew (Mentioned)
- Queen Zanji (Mentioned)
- Diana (Mentioned)
- Queen Tananda (Mentioned)
- Lord Aahmes (Mentioned) (Dead)
Deities and Invocations:
- Crom (Invoked)
- Ishtar (Invoked)
- Macha (Invoked)
- Nemain (Invoked)
- Jullah (Invoked)
- Ajujo (Invoked)
- Mitra (Invoked)
- Ran Tegoth (Invoked)
- Lloigar (Invoked)
- Zar (Invoked)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Hyboria
- Kush
- Coasts of Kush (Mentioned)
- Zabhela (Referenced)
- Meroê
- Coasts of Kush (Mentioned)
- Kordafa (Referenced)
- Stygia (Only in flashback)
- Kheshatta, City of Magicians (Only in flashback)
- Cimmeria (Mentioned)
- Kush
- Hyboria
- Void Between the Worlds (Mentioned)
- Arallu (Invoked)
- The Pit (Invoked)
- Yith (Invoked)
Items:
Vehicles:
Events and Eras:
Synopsis for "Marauders in Meroe"
- Synopsis not yet written
Appearing in "Old Garrad's Heart"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Snowhawk Tribe (Main story and flashback)
- Old Garrad (First appearance; dies) (Main story and flashback)
- Ghost Man (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Antagonists:
- Raven Picts (Only in flashback)
- Unnamed war-chief (First appearance; dies) (Only in flashback)
- Kirhak (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- Snow-Hawk Tribe (Main story and flashback)
- Shaman (Mentioned)
- Unnamed Vanirman (Only in flashback)
- Unnamed god (Mentioned)
Deities and Invocations:
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Gods (Mentioned)
- Gods of the Cimmerians (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Soirit Land (Mentioned)
Events and Eras:
Synopsis for "Old Garrad's Heart"
Conan is off to visit Garrad, a local Cimmerian. Garrad is not part of the Snowhawk tribe, so the shaman won't help him when a tree falls on him. On his way, Conan comes across Jongalt, who tells Conan that Garrad helped Jongalt and Corum, Conan's grandfather, fend off a tribe of Raven Picts. Garrad was stabbed in the heart with a lance, but a strange Pict, the Ghost Man,who none of the Cimmerians wanted to kill for some reason, somehow saved Garrad's life with magic. Garrad has not aged a day since. Conan finds another Cimmerian, Brax, aiding Garrad, who does not expect Garrad to see morning. Garrad claims he won't die because his heart beats no matter what happens to his body. He claims that years before, he spared the Pict who saved him, and that Pict placed the heart of a god in his body, preventing him from dying. He makes Conan swear that if he ever seems to die, Conan will cut the heart out and release his spirit. Conan earns the enmity of Kirhak, a local bully, when he refuses to fetch water for him and throws him in the stream, and that night he and Brax go visit Garrad again. Kirhak follows and throws a spear that brains a fully recovered Garrad. Conan, in a fury, follows and spears Kirhak through the chest. Conan returns to cut the heart, still strongly beating, from Garrad's body and it turns into a jewel, which is reclaimed by the ancient Pict. The Pict returns the heart to his god, a giant bat-like creature, who flies away.
Notes
- "Old Garrad's Heart" is freely adapted from "Old Garfield's Heart" by Robert E. Howard.
- Synopsis by YardIHS.