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Generally considered one of the weaker Conan stories, mainly for it's lack of ShowDontTell and underdeveloped characters, as well as a significant lack of poetic storytelling which Creator/RobertEHoward had become known for (he had just finished writing his first novel, Literature/TheHourOfTheDragon, and rushed out ''A Witch Shall Be Born'' quick [[MoneyDearBoy to pay his bills]]).
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bills]]). Still, it's not without it's merits.
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Conan, the captain of her guard, is crucified by Constantius and rescued by wandering bandits. Meanwhile, Valerius, another soldier, hid despite his injuries, and in due course discovered the truth of why the queen had suddenly taken to the depths of evil. When Conan attacks, Valerius leads a rescue party and brings out the queen. In desperation, Salome unleashes a monster upon the city, but Conan and his forces vanquish it and kill Salome. Constantius is then [[KarmicDeath crucified]] by Conan as the story ends.
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Conan, the captain of her guard, is crucified by Constantius and rescued by wandering bandits. Meanwhile, Valerius, another soldier, hid despite his injuries, and in due course discovered the truth of why the queen had suddenly taken to the depths of evil. When Conan Conan, after taking control of the bandits, stages an attacks, Valerius leads a rescue party and brings out the queen. In desperation, Salome unleashes a monster upon the city, but Conan and his forces vanquish it and kill Salome. Constantius is then [[KarmicDeath crucified]] by Conan as the story ends.
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Conan, the captain of her guard, is crucified by Constantius and rescued by wandering bandits. Meanwhile, Valerius, another soldier, hid despite his injuries, and in due course discovered the truth of why the queen had suddenly taken to the depths of evil. When Conan attacks, Valerius leads a rescue party and brings out the queen.
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Conan, the captain of her guard, is crucified by Constantius and rescued by wandering bandits. Meanwhile, Valerius, another soldier, hid despite his injuries, and in due course discovered the truth of why the queen had suddenly taken to the depths of evil. When Conan attacks, Valerius leads a rescue party and brings out the queen.
queen. In desperation, Salome unleashes a monster upon the city, but Conan and his forces vanquish it and kill Salome. Constantius is then [[KarmicDeath crucified]] by Conan as the story ends.
The crucifixion scene was later used as inspiration for a similar scene in [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 the film]].
The crucifixion scene was later used as inspiration for a similar scene in [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 the film]].
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* {{Reincarnation}}: Salome will be born again thousands of years later, have the same name, and cause the beheading of John The Baptist.
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* HumanoidAbomination: The Witches of Khauran; they are born from some ancient curse that bedevils the royal family, marked by a red crescent-moon shape on their chests. [[OneGenderRace Always female]], they have an instinctive knack for foul sorcery and dark rites, compounded by a total lack of empathy and intense hedonistic urges. This is why the royal family kills the the Witches at birth, for if one were to live, she would be compelled to usurp control of Khauran and would subsequently ruin it in pursuit of her own endless desires for selfish indulgence and perverse pleasures.
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"[[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Witch_Shall_Be_Born A Witch Shall Be Born]]" is a ConanTheBarbarian Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian story written by Creator/RobertEHoward. First published in December, 1934.
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** [[spoiler: That rejection becomes Valerius's StartOfDarkness]].
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* WhamLine: Conan wants to lead the Zuagir to liberate Khauran from Constantius. Olgerd argues that Constantius's mercenaries are too strong for them to defeat.
-->"Not if there were three thousand desperate Hyborian horsemen fighting in a solid wedge such as I could teach them," answered Conan.
-->"And where would you secure three thousand Hyborians?" asked Olgerd with vast sarcasm. "Will you conjure them out of the air?"
-->[[spoiler: "I ''have'' them,"]] answered the Cimmerian imperturbably. [[spoiler: "Three thousand men of Khauran camp at the oasis of Akrel awaiting my orders."]]
-->"''What?''" Olgerd glared like a startled wolf.
-->"Not if there were three thousand desperate Hyborian horsemen fighting in a solid wedge such as I could teach them," answered Conan.
-->"And where would you secure three thousand Hyborians?" asked Olgerd with vast sarcasm. "Will you conjure them out of the air?"
-->[[spoiler: "I ''have'' them,"]] answered the Cimmerian imperturbably. [[spoiler: "Three thousand men of Khauran camp at the oasis of Akrel awaiting my orders."]]
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* [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful Bitch]]: {{Ungrateful B|astard}}itch: Valerius, who's nowhere as strong nor experienced as Conan risks his life several times and manages to rescue his beloved queen Taramis and kill Salome. Taramis doesn't even ''look'' at him when everything's over and has eyes only for Conan.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Conan and his men arrives just in time to save Valerius and Taramis from the toad-like monster summoned by Salome.
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* EldritchAbomination: Salome summoned a toad-like demon from the netherworld, to whom she feeds prisoners. Upon her death, it frees himself from his room and tries to eat Taramis and Valerius, but is killed by a shower of arrows from Conan's soldiers.
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-->''"You know how to reach the dungeons from the palace, Constantius?" said the witch-girl. "Good. Take this spitfire and lock her into the strongest cell. The jailers are all sound in drugged sleep. I saw to that. Send a man to cut their throats before they can awaken. None must ever know what has occurred tonight. Thenceforward I am Taramis, and Taramis is a nameless prisoner in an unknown dungeon."''
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"[[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Witch_Shall_Be_Born A Witch Shall Be Born]]" is a ConanTheBarbarian story written by RobertEHoward. First published in December, 1934.
Queen Taramis is woken in the middle of the night by a woman looking just like her, who reveals that she is Salome, Taramis's twin, and the born witch who stems from the curse on the royal family. She has let in an unscrupulous mercenary captain Constantius, and with his aid, seized the city and exiled Taramis to the dungeon.
Queen Taramis is woken in the middle of the night by a woman looking just like her, who reveals that she is Salome, Taramis's twin, and the born witch who stems from the curse on the royal family. She has let in an unscrupulous mercenary captain Constantius, and with his aid, seized the city and exiled Taramis to the dungeon.
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"[[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Witch_Shall_Be_Born A Witch Shall Be Born]]" is a ConanTheBarbarian story written by RobertEHoward. Creator/RobertEHoward. First published in December, 1934.
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Queen Taramis is woken in the middle of the night by a woman looking just like her, who reveals that she is Salome, Taramis's twin, and the born witch who stems from the curse on the royal family. She has let in an unscrupulous mercenary captain Constantius, and with his aid, seized the city and exiled Taramis to thedungeon.
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Queen Taramis is woken in the middle of the night by a woman looking just like her, who reveals that she is Salome, Taramis's twin, and the born witch who stems from the curse on the royal family. She has let in an unscrupulous mercenary captain Constantius, and with his aid, seized the city and exiled Taramis to the
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Queen Tamaris is woken in the middle of the night by a woman looking just like her, who reveals that she is Salome, Tamaris's twin, and the born witch who stems from the curse on the royal family. She has let in an unscrupulous mercenary captain Constantius, and with his aid, seized the city and exiled Tamaris to the dungeon.
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Queen Tamaris Taramis is woken in the middle of the night by a woman looking just like her, who reveals that she is Salome, Tamaris's Taramis's twin, and the born witch who stems from the curse on the royal family. She has let in an unscrupulous mercenary captain Constantius, and with his aid, seized the city and exiled Tamaris Taramis to the dungeon.
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Conan, the captain of her guard, is crucified by Constantius and rescued by wandering bandits. Meanwhile, Valerius, another soldier, hid despite his injuries, and in due course discovered the truth of why the queen had suddenly taken to the depths of evil. When Conan attacks, Valerius leads a rescue party and brings out the queen.
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* AfterActionPatchUp: Valerius and Ivga. Both the info-dumping and the UST reasons
* BrainFever: Valerius during the After Action Patchup, to give him an excuse to babble.
* TheCaligula: Salome
* ColdBloodedTorture: Used freely on Tamaris
* {{Curse}}: Why the witch is born
* CrystalBall: Salome scorns using it for study, but does communicate with it.
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: What Salome creats
* DistressedDamsel: Tamaris
* DistressedDude: Conan is crucified
* EvilLaugh: Tamaris
* EvilSorcerer: Salome
* EyeOfNewt: Salome doesn't like magic as such, and scorns gathering such things when she can just go for power.
* TheHighQueen: Tamaris
* HotWitch: Salome
* HumanSacrifice: Part of the Religion of evil
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown
* KlingonPromotion
* RescueArc: Valerius's plan as soon as he learns she is prisoner
* ReligionOfEvil: Tamaris institutes it
* RightfulKingReturns
* SexSlave: One thing Salome wants
* TheUsurper: Salome
* VillainOpeningScene: With Salome's seizure of her sister
* WitchSpecies: Salome was born a witch
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* AfterActionPatchUp: Valerius and Ivga. Both the info-dumping and the UST reasons
* BrainFever: Valerius during the After Action Patchup, to give him an excuse to babble.
* TheCaligula: Salome
* ColdBloodedTorture: Used freely on Tamaris
* {{Curse}}: Why the witch is born
* CrystalBall: Salome scorns using it for study, but does communicate with it.
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: What Salome creats
* DistressedDamsel: Tamaris
* DistressedDude: Conan is crucified
* EvilLaugh: Tamaris
* EvilSorcerer: Salome
* EyeOfNewt: Salome doesn't like magic as such, and scorns gathering such things when she can just go for power.
* TheHighQueen: Tamaris
* HotWitch: Salome
* HumanSacrifice: Part of the Religion of evil
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown
* KlingonPromotion
* RescueArc: Valerius's plan as soon as he learns she is prisoner
* ReligionOfEvil: Tamaris institutes it
* RightfulKingReturns
* SexSlave: One thing Salome wants
* TheUsurper: Salome
* VillainOpeningScene: With Salome's seizure of her sister
* WitchSpecies: Salome was born a witch
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