-> '''Mongol General:''' Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?
-> '''Mongol:''' The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrists, and the wind in your hair.
-> '''Mongol General:''' Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?
-> '''[[TropeCodifier Conan]]:''' To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
-> '''Mongol General:''' That is good! That is good.
-->-- from ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''

->''"Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian; black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet."''
-->-- The Nemedian Chronicles, as quoted in ''Literature/ThePhoenixOnTheSword'', the very first Conan story by Creator/RobertEHoward.

->Stories of Arnulf dominate our oral history. He - it? - is rumored to hail from Scythian times, or even earlier; they say he even fought UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat. Arnulf rode with the Huns [[BeenThereShapedHistory to destroy Rome]]; Arnulf helped [[UsefulNotes/TheFallOfConstantinople the Turks sack Constantinople]]; and Arnulf was [[HistoricalRapSheet with the Mongols when they destroyed Hungary and Poland]]. We don't know why he acted as he did; a follower of his own wiles, he had few words for chronicles. Arnulf was more a force of nature than a vampire: he exemplified the barbarian's impulse to steal the fruits of civilization and move on... and they say he took revenge on promising barbarian leaders who embraced the mantle of civilization after sacking a city. He wanted to demolish civilization and [[GoodOldWays return to primitive, simple nights]], for a barbarian to surrender his strength and fatten himself with the riches of cities was the ultimate crime.
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Gangrel (Revised)''
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