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* AfterActionPatchUp: Valerius and Ivga. Both the info-dumping and the UST reasons.
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* AfterActionPatchUp: AfterActionPatchup: Much of how Salome took over is told by Valerius to Ivga while she tends his wounds, though they are unusually severe for this trope.
-->Her soft, nimble fingers were again at work, gently cleansing andIvga. Both closing the info-dumping gaping edges of his raw wounds.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Salome rejected the study of [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow things man wasn't meant to know]] for using BlackMagic for power.
--->''"He said I was but an earthly sprite, knowing naught of the deeper gulfs of cosmic sorcery. Well, this world contains all I desire--power, andthe UST reasons.pomp, and glittering pageantry, handsome men and soft women for my paramours and my slaves."''
-->Her soft, nimble fingers were again at work, gently cleansing and
* AmbitionIsEvil: Salome rejected the study of [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow things man wasn't meant to know]] for using BlackMagic for power.
--->''"He said I was but an earthly sprite, knowing naught of the deeper gulfs of cosmic sorcery. Well, this world contains all I desire--power, and
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: "Taramis was still beautiful, in spite of her rags and the imprisonment and abuse of seven weary months."
* BigBad: [[EvilSorcerer Salome]], a witch who [[TheUsurper usurps]] the throne of Khauran by imprisoning and [[FakeKing impersonating]] her sister [[TheHighQueen Taramis]] with the aid of the mercenary leader [[TheSociopath Constantius the Falcon]].
* BlindedByTheLight: Salome uses light to blind Tamaris's rescuers.
* BringNewsBack: Once Ivga has told Valerius which way Salome took Taramis, he sends her off to tell the news that the true queen has been found.
* CainAndAbel: Salome is out to utterly break her sister Taramis.
* CainAndAbel: Salome is out to utterly break her sister Taramis.
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* CrucifiedHeroShot: Conan's crucifixion (including nails), which inspired a similar scene in the first Conan movie.
* CrystalBall: Salome scorns using it for study, but does use it for communication, sending a crystal ball with the army she's sent to crush Conan. The man at the other end lives long enough to deliver exposition on how they've been LuredIntoATrap before [[DeathByTransceiver someone cuts him down]].
* CrystalBall: Salome scorns using it for study, but does use it for communication, sending a crystal ball with the army she's sent to crush Conan. The man at the other end lives long enough to deliver exposition on how they've been LuredIntoATrap before [[DeathByTransceiver someone cuts him down]].
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* CostumePorn: Salome goes in for this.
-->Salome was clad in the barbaric splendor of a woman of Shushan. Jewels glittered in the torchlight on her gilded sandals, on her gold breast-plates and the slender chains that held them in place. Gold anklets clashed as she moved, jeweled bracelets weighted her bare arms. Her tall coiffure was that of a Shemitish woman, and jade pendants hung from gold hoops in her ears, flashing and sparkling with each impatient movement of her haughty head. A gem-crusted girdle supported a silk shirt so transparent that it was in the nature of a cynical mockery of convention.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: Conan's crucifixion (including nails), which inspired a similar scene in [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 the first Conanmovie.
movie]].
* CrystalBall: Salome scorns using it for study, but does use it for communication, sending a crystal ball with the army she's sent to crush Conan. The man at the other end lives long enough to deliver exposition on how they've been LuredIntoATrap before [[DeathByTransceiver someone cuts him down]].
-->Salome was clad in the barbaric splendor of a woman of Shushan. Jewels glittered in the torchlight on her gilded sandals, on her gold breast-plates and the slender chains that held them in place. Gold anklets clashed as she moved, jeweled bracelets weighted her bare arms. Her tall coiffure was that of a Shemitish woman, and jade pendants hung from gold hoops in her ears, flashing and sparkling with each impatient movement of her haughty head. A gem-crusted girdle supported a silk shirt so transparent that it was in the nature of a cynical mockery of convention.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: Conan's crucifixion (including nails), which inspired a similar scene in [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 the first Conan
* CrystalBall: Salome scorns using it for study, but does use it for communication, sending a crystal ball with the army she's sent to crush Conan.
* DealWithTheDevil: The {{curse}} stems from one of these.
-->They tell how the first queen of our line had traffic with a fiend of darkness and bore him a daughter who lives in foul legendry to this day. And thereafter in each century a girl baby was born into the Askhaurian dynasty, with a scarlet half-moon between her breasts, that signified her destiny.
* DeathByTransceiver: Done with a CrystalBall. The man at the other end lives long enough to deliver exposition on how they've been LuredIntoATrap before someone cuts him down.
-->They tell how the first queen of our line had traffic with a fiend of darkness and bore him a daughter who lives in foul legendry to this day. And thereafter in each century a girl baby was born into the Askhaurian dynasty, with a scarlet half-moon between her breasts, that signified her destiny.
* DeathByTransceiver: Done with a CrystalBall. The man at the other end lives long enough to deliver exposition on how they've been LuredIntoATrap before someone cuts him down.
* DecapitationPresentation: Salome brings the head of Krallides.
* DemonicPossession: This is one explanation offered to explain why Taramis (actually her EvilTwin Salome) is suddenly TheCaligula.
* DeusExitMachina: Cona is captured by Salome's henchmen, and crucified outside the city gates; an Arabianesque fellow who happens to wander by takes Conan down. Conan joins his little bandit gang and spends a good deal of the story pillaging and doing things outside of the city-state of Khauran where most of the story transpires, leaving the young guard to be the hero of his own story.
* DistinguishingMark: The witch can be identified by her birthmark.
* DeusExitMachina: Cona is captured by Salome's henchmen, and crucified outside the city gates; an Arabianesque fellow who happens to wander by takes Conan down. Conan joins his little bandit gang and spends a good deal of the story pillaging and doing things outside of the city-state of Khauran where most of the story transpires, leaving the young guard to be the hero of his own story.
* DistinguishingMark: The witch can be identified by her birthmark.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Valerius declares this, though in actuality he goes for LaResistance.
-->''"Oh, Ishtar, why was I not slain? Better die than live to see our queen turn traitor and harlot!"''
* FeatheredFiend: Conan is crucified, but Constantius carefully explains that the vultures will kill him first.
-->''"Oh, Ishtar, why was I not slain? Better die than live to see our queen turn traitor and harlot!"''
* FeatheredFiend: Conan is crucified, but Constantius carefully explains that the vultures will kill him first.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Tamaris at first does not recognize her rescuers.
* GoodHairEvilHair: Constantius has a Fu Manchu mustache, and makes up for not being Asian by twirling it.
* GoodHairEvilHair: Constantius has a Fu Manchu mustache, and makes up for not being Asian by twirling it.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Constantius has Conan crucified early on in the story. When the tables turn and Khauran is freed from Salome's control with the help of Conan's forces, Conan's vengeance upon Constantius involves crucifying him just as he did to him -- but unlike Conan, Constantius is nowhere near as enduring of the pain of crucifixion.
* HomeSweetHome: Conan's InHarmsWay attitude is explicitly contrasted to Valerius, whose SmoochOfVictory is welcomed with the "gratitude of a weary fighter who has attained rest at last through tribulation and storm".
* HomeSweetHome: Conan's InHarmsWay attitude is explicitly contrasted to Valerius, whose SmoochOfVictory is welcomed with the "gratitude of a weary fighter who has attained rest at last through tribulation and storm".
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Constantius, before imprisoning Taramis on the orders of her EvilTwin Salome, requests that he takes "a little -- ah -- amusement first." Cue the ScreamDiscretionShot.
* IntimateMarks: Crescent birthmarks are considered signs of witchcraft, and one of these is the major feature distinguishing Queen Taramis from her evil twin Salome. Said birthmark is right on her chest.
* KeepTheReward: Conan turns down an offered reward of a position in the queen's court because he must lead the mercenaries to raid other lands; that was the price of their service.
* IntimateMarks: Crescent birthmarks are considered signs of witchcraft, and one of these is the major feature distinguishing Queen Taramis from her evil twin Salome. Said birthmark is right on her chest.
* KeepTheReward: Conan turns down an offered reward of a position in the queen's court because he must lead the mercenaries to raid other lands; that was the price of their service.
* KingIncognito: Salome throws the head of a murdered man to a deaf beggar and casually discusses the true queen's imprisonment. Not only is Valerius not a beggar but a leader of LaResistance, he's [[ObfuscatingDisability not deaf]].
* LaResistance: Taramis' subjects are baffled by the [[FakeKing Fake Queen]], but struggle, and when one of them penetrates the secret, they are immediately out to rescue her.
* LastStand: This is the fate of the palace guard.
-->The guards were fully armed and drawn up in a square, but there were only five hundred of them. They took a heavy toll before they were cut down, but there could be only one conclusion to such a battle.
* LastStand: This is the fate of the palace guard.
-->The guards were fully armed and drawn up in a square, but there were only five hundred of them. They took a heavy toll before they were cut down, but there could be only one conclusion to such a battle.
* MadeOfIron: Salome survives exposure as a baby.
--->''"But the life in me was stronger than the life in common folk, for it partakes of the essence of the forces that seethe in the black gulfs beyond mortal ken."''
** Conan himself not only survives being crucified, but after his cross is chopped down (with him still nailed to it) he helps pull the nails out and rides 10 miles ''before'' his injuries are treated.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The man who raised Salome intended this trope, but decided she wasn't good enough for a front man.
-->''"He would have made me queen of the world and ruled the nations through me, he said, but I was only a harlot of darkness."''
--->''"But the life in me was stronger than the life in common folk, for it partakes of the essence of the forces that seethe in the black gulfs beyond mortal ken."''
** Conan himself not only survives being crucified, but after his cross is chopped down (with him still nailed to it) he helps pull the nails out and rides 10 miles ''before'' his injuries are treated.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The man who raised Salome intended this trope, but decided she wasn't good enough for a front man.
-->''"He would have made me queen of the world and ruled the nations through me, he said, but I was only a harlot of darkness."''
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* MeaningfulName: All witch women from the cursed bloodline are given the name Salome, and it's implied that a future Salome is the same one that caused the death of John The Baptist (sure enough, this Salome also likes presenting people with severed heads).
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* MeaningfulName: All witch women from the cursed bloodline are given the name Salome, and it's implied that a future Salome is the same one that caused the death of John The the Baptist (sure enough, this Salome also likes presenting people with severed heads).heads).
* MeaningfulRename: Salome reminds Constantius to call her Taramis since she is going for FakeKing.
* TheMedic: Ivga both treats Valerius's wounds and calms him.
* MosesInTheBulrushes: Salome is an evil version; since exposure failed to kill her, she returned to [[TheUsurper usurp]] her sister's throne, use ColdBloodedTorture on that sister, and institute a ReligionOfEvil with HumanSacrifice.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Valerius, despite Tamaris' sudden transformation into TheCaligula, is deeply troubled by the thought of revolt.
-->''"We hardly knew what we were fighting for, but it was against Constantius and his devils -- not against Taramis, I swear it! Constantius shouted to cut the traitors down. We were not traitors!"''
* ObfuscatingDisability: Salome tosses the head of a murdered man to a deaf beggar -- who proves to be Valerius, who heard that the true queen is prisoner there.
* OldRetainer: Salome tells Tamarais that Krallides, her faithful councillor, had been caught and killed. ColdBloodedTorture had ceased to affect her, but this brings her to tears again.
* MeaningfulRename: Salome reminds Constantius to call her Taramis since she is going for FakeKing.
* TheMedic: Ivga both treats Valerius's wounds and calms him.
* MosesInTheBulrushes: Salome is an evil version; since exposure failed to kill her, she returned to [[TheUsurper usurp]] her sister's throne, use ColdBloodedTorture on that sister, and institute a ReligionOfEvil with HumanSacrifice.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Valerius, despite Tamaris' sudden transformation into TheCaligula, is deeply troubled by the thought of revolt.
-->''"We hardly knew what we were fighting for, but it was against Constantius and his devils -- not against Taramis, I swear it! Constantius shouted to cut the traitors down. We were not traitors!"''
* ObfuscatingDisability: Salome tosses the head of a murdered man to a deaf beggar -- who proves to be Valerius, who heard that the true queen is prisoner there.
* OldRetainer: Salome tells Tamarais that Krallides, her faithful councillor, had been caught and killed. ColdBloodedTorture had ceased to affect her, but this brings her to tears again.
* ParentalAbandonment: Salome survives abandonment, only to be rejected by the man who raised her for being not sufficiently interested in ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The mercenary leader Constantius rapes the kind and benevolent Queen Taramis. This scene is used to establish just how depraved and sociopathic Constantius (and by extension, Salome, the title witch) is.
-->'''Salome:''' Enough of this farce; let us on to the next act in the comedy. Listen, dear sister: it was I who sent Constantius here. When I decided to take the throne of Khauran, I cast about for a man to aid me, and chose the Falcon, because of his utter lack of all characteristics men call good.
-->'''Salome:''' Enough of this farce; let us on to the next act in the comedy. Listen, dear sister: it was I who sent Constantius here. When I decided to take the throne of Khauran, I cast about for a man to aid me, and chose the Falcon, because of his utter lack of all characteristics men call good.
* ReligionOfEvil: Salome institutes one, tearing down the icons of Ishtar in the temple and replacing them with horrible figurines of long-dead evil gods.
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* ReligionOfEvil: Salome institutes one, tearing down the icons of Ishtar in the temple and replacing them with horrible figurines of long-dead evil gods.
* SecretLegacy: Salome learned that she was born to the royal family and her sister was queen.
-->''"He had told me who I was, of the curse and my heritage. I have returned to take that to which I have as much right as you. Now it is mine by right of possession."''
-->''"He had told me who I was, of the curse and my heritage. I have returned to take that to which I have as much right as you. Now it is mine by right of possession."''
* ShutUpKiss: While a wounded soldier is babbling feverishly to his girlfriend:
-->The trembling girl crooned soothingly to him, as to a wounded child, and closed his panting lips with her own cool sweet mouth.
* SlasherSmile: Constantius does this while watching a guard be slaughtered and while crucifying Conan.
* SmoochOfVictory: After the victory, Ivga seeks out Valerius for this.
-->As Valerius started to follow Taramis across the square towards the palace, through a lane opened by the wildly cheering multitude, he felt a soft hand slipped timidly into his sinewy forgers and turned to receive the slender body of Ivga in his arms. He crushed her to him and drank her kisses with the gratitude of a weary fighter who has attained rest at last through tribulation and storm.
* TalkingToTheDead: Valerius tells Krallides's head that his death was not in vain -- now Valerius knows that the true queen is alive and a prisoner.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Constantius also goes by "the Falcon". He doesn't insist on the "the", though.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Salome was turned out by the magician who raised her for not being sufficiently interested in this for its own sake.
-->''"[[EvilSorcerer He]] drove me from him at last, saying that I was but a common witch in spite of his teachings, and not fit to command the mighty sorcery he would have taught me. He would have made me queen of the world and [[TheManBehindTheMan ruled the nations through me]], he said, but I was only a harlot of darkness. But what of it? I could never endure to seclude myself in a [[GoldMakesEverythingShiny golden]] tower, and spend the long hours staring into [[CrystalBall a crystal globe]], mumbling over incantations written on [[EyeOfNewt serpent's skin]] in the [[ThePowerOfBlood blood]] of [[VirginPower virgins]], poring over [[TomeOfEldritchLore musty volumes in forgotten languages]].\\
"He said I was but an earthly sprite, knowing naught of the deeper gulfs of cosmic sorcery. Well, this world contains [[AmbitionIsEvil all I desire]]--power, and pomp, and glittering pageantry, handsome men and soft women for [[SexSlave my paramours and my slaves]]."''
* TomeOfEldritchLore: Salome did not mind when the magician who raised her drove her off, because "I could never endure to seclude myself in a golden tower, and spend the long hours staring into a crystal globe, mumbling over incantations written on serpent's skin in the blood of virgins, poring over musty volumes in forgotten languages."
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Between Valerius and LaResistance, Conan, and Salome.
-->The trembling girl crooned soothingly to him, as to a wounded child, and closed his panting lips with her own cool sweet mouth.
* SlasherSmile: Constantius does this while watching a guard be slaughtered and while crucifying Conan.
* SmoochOfVictory: After the victory, Ivga seeks out Valerius for this.
-->As Valerius started to follow Taramis across the square towards the palace, through a lane opened by the wildly cheering multitude, he felt a soft hand slipped timidly into his sinewy forgers and turned to receive the slender body of Ivga in his arms. He crushed her to him and drank her kisses with the gratitude of a weary fighter who has attained rest at last through tribulation and storm.
* TalkingToTheDead: Valerius tells Krallides's head that his death was not in vain -- now Valerius knows that the true queen is alive and a prisoner.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Constantius also goes by "the Falcon". He doesn't insist on the "the", though.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: Salome was turned out by the magician who raised her for not being sufficiently interested in this for its own sake.
-->''"[[EvilSorcerer He]] drove me from him at last, saying that I was but a common witch in spite of his teachings, and not fit to command the mighty sorcery he would have taught me. He would have made me queen of the world and [[TheManBehindTheMan ruled the nations through me]], he said, but I was only a harlot of darkness. But what of it? I could never endure to seclude myself in a [[GoldMakesEverythingShiny golden]] tower, and spend the long hours staring into [[CrystalBall a crystal globe]], mumbling over incantations written on [[EyeOfNewt serpent's skin]] in the [[ThePowerOfBlood blood]] of [[VirginPower virgins]], poring over [[TomeOfEldritchLore musty volumes in forgotten languages]].\\
"He said I was but an earthly sprite, knowing naught of the deeper gulfs of cosmic sorcery. Well, this world contains [[AmbitionIsEvil all I desire]]--power, and pomp, and glittering pageantry, handsome men and soft women for [[SexSlave my paramours and my slaves]]."''
* TomeOfEldritchLore: Salome did not mind when the magician who raised her drove her off, because "I could never endure to seclude myself in a golden tower, and spend the long hours staring into a crystal globe, mumbling over incantations written on serpent's skin in the blood of virgins, poring over musty volumes in forgotten languages."
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Between Valerius and LaResistance, Conan, and Salome.
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-->"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.
-->"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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-->"Not if there were three thousand desperate Hyborian horsemen fighting in a solid wedge such as I could teach them," answered Conan.
-->"AndConan.\\
"And where would you secure three thousand Hyborians?" asked Olgerd with vast sarcasm. "Will you conjure them out of theair?"
-->[[spoiler: "Iair?"\\
[[spoiler:"I ''have'' them,"]] answered the Cimmerian imperturbably.[[spoiler: "Three [[spoiler:"Three thousand men of Khauran camp at the oasis of Akrel awaiting my orders."]]
-->"''What?''""]]\\
"''What?''" Olgerd glared like a startled wolf.
-->"And
"And where would you secure three thousand Hyborians?" asked Olgerd with vast sarcasm. "Will you conjure them out of the
-->[[spoiler: "I
[[spoiler:"I ''have'' them,"]] answered the Cimmerian imperturbably.
-->"''What?''"
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* LetsGetDangerous: Valerius spends most of the story lamenting the fall of the kingdom and posing as a deaf beggar to get the information he needs. Then comes the final chapter where he cuts Salome's goon to pieces and run her trhough with her sword to asunder her heart.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Conan doesn't seriously harm women in Howard's stories and focuses more on Constantius. Valerius however impales Salome through the heart the moment he has the chance.
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* CasualCrucifixion: The most famous scene in this story (which also inspired the scene in the 1982 film) sees Conan crucified in the desert, nailed to a cross by his hands and feet. When the desert nomads find him after he's already been hanging for hours in the hot sun the nomad chief, declaring "[[StrengthEqualsWorthiness If he's worthy to ride with me he'll survive]]," has his men chop the cross down like a tree. Then after Conan somehow survives the fall and they've pulled the nails out, they immediately make him get on a horse and ride the ten miles back to their camp. Conan next appears in the story seven months later, fully recovered with no permanent injuries, just a few scars.
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* CasualCrucifixion: The most famous scene in this story (which also inspired the scene in the 1982 film) sees Conan crucified in the desert, nailed to a cross by his hands and feet. When the desert nomads find him after he's already been hanging for hours in the hot sun the nomad chief, declaring "[[StrengthEqualsWorthiness If he's worthy to ride with me he'll survive]]," has his men chop the cross down like a tree. Then after Conan somehow survives the fall and they've pulled the nails out, out (the one on his hands as Conan snatches the pincer and takes care of those on his feet himself), they immediately make him get on a horse and ride the ten miles back to their camp. Conan next appears in the story seven months later, fully recovered with no permanent injuries, just a few scars.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Used freely on Taramis. After seven months Taramis believes there's nothing more Salome can do to harm her, so Salome moves on to ''psychological'' torture.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Used freely on Taramis. After seven months months, Taramis believes there's nothing more Salome can do to harm her, so Salome moves on to ''psychological'' torture.
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* HotWitch: Salome, as lovely as her beautiful twin sister, but utterly evil.
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* HotWitch: Salome, Salome is as lovely as her beautiful twin sister, but utterly evil.
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* RedRightHand: The birthmark which identifies Salome as a witch, a red crescent moon on her chest.
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* RedRightHand: The birthmark which identifies Salome as a witch, witch is a red crescent moon on her chest.
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* SexSlave: One of the many terrible things Salome inflicts on her subjects.
* UngratefulBastard: Olgerd rescues Conan from a lingering death on the cross, only for Conan to [[AsskickingLeadsToAuthority wrest the support of his followers away from him]]. Conan spares his life however, and points out that Olgerd only rescued him in the first place because he knew Conan would be useful.
* UngratefulBastard: Olgerd rescues Conan from a lingering death on the cross, only for Conan to [[AsskickingLeadsToAuthority wrest the support of his followers away from him]]. Conan spares his life however, and points out that Olgerd only rescued him in the first place because he knew Conan would be useful.
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* SexSlave: One of the many terrible things Salome inflicts on her subjects.
subjects is sexual slavery.
* UngratefulBastard: Olgerd rescues Conan from a lingering death on the cross, only for Conan to[[AsskickingLeadsToAuthority [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership wrest the support of his followers away from him]]. Conan spares his life however, and points out that Olgerd only rescued him in the first place because he knew Conan would be useful.
* UngratefulBastard: Olgerd rescues Conan from a lingering death on the cross, only for Conan to
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* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Taramis is beloved by her people for her justice, wisdom, mercy, and purity.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Salome, on the other hand, is utterly hated for brutalizing and despoiling her subjects, turning her court into the most debauched and depraved place in the world.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Salome, on the other hand, is utterly hated for brutalizing and despoiling her subjects, turning her court into the most debauched and depraved place in the world.
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* UngratefulBastard: Olgerd rescues Conan from a lingering death on the cross, only for Conan to [[AssKickingEqualsAuthority wrest the support of his followers away from him]]. Conan spares his life however, and points out that Olgerd only rescued him in the first place because he knew Conan would be useful.
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* UngratefulBastard: Olgerd rescues Conan from a lingering death on the cross, only for Conan to [[AssKickingEqualsAuthority [[AsskickingLeadsToAuthority wrest the support of his followers away from him]]. Conan spares his life however, and points out that Olgerd only rescued him in the first place because he knew Conan would be useful.useful.
* UniversallyBelovedLeader: Taramis is beloved by her people for her justice, wisdom, mercy, and purity.
* UniversallyBelovedLeader: Taramis is beloved by her people for her justice, wisdom, mercy, and purity.
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* CasualCrucifixion: The most famous scene in this story (which also inspired the scene in the 1982 film) sees Conan crucified in the desert, nailed to a cross by his hands and feet. When the desert nomads find him after he's already been hanging for hours in the hot sun the nomad chief, declaring "[[StrengthEqualsWorthiness If he's worthy to ride with me he'll survive]]," has his men chop the cross down like a tree. Then after Conan somehow survives the fall and they've pulled the nails out, they immediately make him get on a horse and ride the ten miles back to their camp. Conan next appears in the story seven months later, fully recovered with no permanent injuries, just a few scars.
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