History
Tamera was the daughter of Commander Metrius. After her mother's death, she was brought along by her father to the Venarium fortress in Cimmeria.[2]
She became the lover of Gaeric, a young Gunderman of the Aquilonian garrison,[1] who was always hanging around her.
Conan came to fancy Tamera during his visits to Venarium.
During the Battle of Venarium and its aftermaths, after having slain Metrius,[2] Conan followed Tamera, battling with Gaeric into Dagon's Cave, but finally let them go while protecting them from the People of the Dark.
A similar confrontation occurred in the Modern Age, with Jim O'Brien who intended to murder Richard Brent and take Eleanor Rand for himself, but instead sacrificed his life to save them from the People of the Dark (after himself reliving the events following the sack of Venarium through the eyes of Conan).[1]Notes
- Tamera was originally created by Robert E. Howard as a Briton woman in his Cthulhu Mythos story "People of the Dark" (Strange Tales; June, 1932), which involved "Conan the reaver", a Gael raider battling Britons. The story was freely adapted in Savage Sword of Conan #6 (June, 1975), written by Roy Thomas and penciled by Alex Nino. The adaption set the story in the immediate following of the Battle of Venarium.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Savage Sword of Conan #6 ; People of the Dark
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Conan the Adventurer #1 ; Barbarians at the Gate!
- ↑ Conan the Barbarian #250 ; Chaos Beneath Kuthchemes