History Characters / ConanTheBarbarian

[[folder:Conan]]
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The original BarbarianHero.\\\
Conan is a wandering fighter from the distant northern land of Cimmeria. Drawn by his insatiable urge for adventure and riches, he left his homeland to take the ancient Hyborian world by storm. In his travels he would become a thief, a mercenary, a pirate, and eventually a king by his own hand.

* AbdicateTheThrone:
** [[DefiedTrope Defied]] in ''The Scarlet Citadel'', where he refuses the villains' offer to buy his kingdom from him.
** Played Straight in ''Conan of the Isles'', where he relinquishes the throne of Aquilonia who his eldest son, Conn.
* ActionDad: Conan is still a fighting man after fathering several children with Zenobia.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: According to Ascalante, he laughs at the singing of ''The Lament of the King'', which condemns Conan while singing the praises of Numedides, the [[TheCaligula cruel tyrant who preceded him]].
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl:
** In ''The People of the Black Circle'', he confronts to Black Seers of Yimsha to rescue Yasmina for their grasp, despite his previous intentions to avoid conflict with them.
** In ''The Return of Conan'', he proceeds on his quest to rescue Zenobia from Yah Chieng, even after being informed that doing so will jeopardize the world.
** Subverted in the epilogue of ''Conan of Invincible''. He declines to save Karela from slavers, citing an oath he previously swore not to help her.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: In ''Black Tears'', Conan dismisses the stories that the land of Makan-e-Mordan is haunted as superstition, despite his previous encounters with the supernatural.
* AnimalMotifs: Lions. He was infamous as Amra the Lion during his pirating days, and as King of Aquilonia, his kingdom's banner is a lion. The narration also repeatedly compares him to a wolf or a panther.
* AntagonistInMourning: In ''Shadows of the Skull'', Conan muses to himself that he will miss [[spoiler: his ArchEnemy Thoth-Amon]] following the latter's death at Conn's hands.
* AntiHero: Of the {{Unscrupulous|Hero}} variety. He's amoral, but he does have some standards -- if someone is truly his friend, Conan will repay their kindness in turn, and is loyal to a fault to his allies. He also kills mostly only those who are truly evil or attack him first. He then becomes TheGoodKing of Aquilonia, and considers all of his people part of his "tribe". Thus, hurting his people is disrespecting him, and Conan will not stand for that.
* BadWithTheBone:
** In ''Black Colossus'', he hits a hillman with a beef-bone after he attempts to desert.
** In ''Rogues in the House'', he used a beef bone against a jailer before making his getaway.
* BadassBoast:
** In ''Shadows of Zamboula'', he [[PreMortemOneLiner preceeds]] his NeckSnap of Baal-Pteor (who himself specialized in snapping necks) with the words "You fool! I think you never saw a man from the West before. Did you deem yourself strong, because you were able to twist the heads off civilized folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong. I did that, before I was a full-grown man — like this!"
** In ''The Hour of the Dragon'', he sends a threatening message to Xaltotun.
-->'''Conan''': ''To Xaltotun, grand fakir of Nemedia: Dog of Acheron, I am returning to my kingdom, and I mean to hang your hide on a bramble.''
** In ''Black Tears'', Conan tells Boghra Khan, a Turanian officer who attempted to entrap Conan, only to be captured himself, "But next time, Boghra, have a care how you set traps for wolve. Sometimes you catch a tiger"
** At the end of ''Conan the Buccaneer'' Conan (who had just rejected Princess Chabella's hand in marriage, and with it the opportunity to [[HeirInLaw inherit the throne]] of Zingara)tells Sigurd that ""Nay Sigurd, I'll win myself a throne some day, Crom willing; but 'twill most likely be at the point of a sword, not as a wedding gift."
** In ''The Witch of the Mists'', he gives one to Louhi when she questions why Thoth-Amon fears him.
-->'''Conan''': ''He fears me because he knows I am his doom. As I shall be yours, unless you take me to my son''
** In ''Conan the Valorous'', Conan responds to a Gunderman's own BadassBoast that "Gundermen die as easily as other men. I slew many at Venarium, and I was only fifteen then."
* BadassNormal: Conan is simply as strong, experienced and skilled as a mortal man can be. And yet, he finds himself fighting against magic users and abominations that are way above his level and coming out on top.
* BadassInDistress: He is captured and crucified by Constantius the Falcon, and only escapes due to the intervention of Olgerd Vladislav and his Zuagirs.
* BarbarianHero: The archetypal example and the TropeCodifier. Conan is an UnscrupulousHero, though not without his good points. He does have a code of honor, and generally repays kindness or hostility in turn. If you're nice to him and generally try to help him, Conan will watch your back until the end of days. If you're hostile to him, there's no greater opponent you could face. Even then, Conan doesn't really care for politics, machinations, or religion -- he lives as he sees fit, regardless of what anyone tells him to do.
* BattleCry: He is capable of making a Cimmerian war cry.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: In ''Jewels of Gwahlur'', he learns that his rivals are planning to use the slave girl Muriela to impersonate the goddess Yelaya in order to deceive the Keshans into giving Thutmekri the Teeith of Gwahlur and turning on Conan. Conan instead convinces Yeleya to turn on Thutmekri and his co-conspirators by telling the Keshan to give the Teeth of Gwahlur to Conan and drive Thutmekri and his allies from Keshan. This backfires when Thutmekri uses a second fake Yelaya to expose Conan and Muriela's deceit.
* BigDamnHeroes: At the climax of ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he arrives in King Ferdrugo's throne room with several allies in order to thwart Thoth-Amon's scheme to usurp the Zingaran throne form Ferdrugo.
* BringIt: When corned by Ascalante and his men, he asks them "Who dies first?"
* BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: Conan generally uses swords as his weapon of choice, he has used the battleaxe from time to time in Howard's stories, such as in the first Conan story, "The Phoenix on the Sword", which has King Conan taking one to the assassins trying to kill him in his bedchamber after breaking his sword.
* ByTheHair: He grabs Thanara's hair after realizing she tampered with his wine.
* CatchPhrase: "[[OhMyGods By Crom!]]"
* CarpetOfVirility: Howard describes him as having a hairy chest.
* ChallengingTheChief:
** In ''Iron Shadows in the Moon'', he challenges Sergius of Khrosha, a Red Brotherhood captain, for leadership of his pirate crew. He wins, but his subordinate disagree on the validity of Conan's captaincy, as he was not a member of the Red Brotherhood at that time.
** In ''The Return of Conan'', he challenges Yanak for captaincy of a Red Brotherhood crew. Conan with the fight and gains command over the crew.
* TheChampion: In ''Shadows of the Skull'', Queen Lilit calls him "the greatest champion of Mitra on earth."
* CharacterDevelopment: Grows more mature and skilled over the years. By the time he's the king, he's evolved closer to a full-blown hero.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Apart from being a member of a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy superior race of humans]], his tremendous strength is acquired through climbing the cliffs of his homeland and [[TheBlacksmith working at his father's forge]].
* TheChainsOfCommanding: In any works where he's the king, the duty of governing weighs on him heavily. In ''The Phoenix in the Sword", he laments not being able to go adventuring anymore or personally lead battles, and states that it was far easier taking Numedides' crown off his head than holding it.
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: In, ''The Witch of the Mists'', he throws a throne at Thoth-Amon, only for the Stygian wizard to vanish before it could hit him.
* ChekhovsSkill: ZigZagged. We don't see Conan developing it, but whenever it's mentioned that Cimmeria is a rugged, harsh, jagged land filled with rock walls unclimbable to anyone not born there, count on Conan's exceptional Cimmerian climbing skills being relevant to the plot. Examples include "The God In Bowl" and "The Tower Of The Elephant."
* ColdBloodedTorture: In ''The Return of Conan'', He threatens a Turanian named Ardashir with this when interrogating him.
* ConfessToALesserCrime: When being questioned the the authorities in ''The God in the Bowl'', he claims that he broke into the Temple of Kallian Publico to steal food. When that fails, he confesses to his actual crime of trying to steal a goblet, which is still less severe than the crime of murder he is incorrectly being accused of.
* CowardiceCallout: In ''Conan the Avenger'', he tells Prince Almuric that the latter's choice to flee his homeland the moment King Strabonus didn't bowl over easily enough makes him nothing but a rich coward who isn't worthy to share a tavern bench with Conan.
* CrimeOfSelfDefense: When traveling in Stygia during ''The Hour of the Dragon'', Conan slays a man-eating python that approaches kill him. Unfortunately for Conan, the Stygians consider snakes to be sacred, so the immediately try to have Conan killed for blasphemy.
* DangerousDeserter: After deserting from the Turanians, Conan becomes a recurring thorn in Turan's side as a kozak, pirate, Zuagir, and Afghuli leader.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He is seen riding a black horse in ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu''.
* DeadPersonConversation: In both ''The Phoenix on the Sword'' and ''Conan of the Isles'', He converses with the seceased Sage Epemitreus the Sage.
* DeathByWomanScorned: In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he nearly subjected to this by Queen Nzinga, who tries to have him fed to [[ManEatingPlant man-eating trees]] after he spurns her by trying to flee with Chabella.
* DeathGlare: During his time as a captain of the guard for Queen Taramis, he glares at Salome (Who was impersonating Taramis) after refusing her order to disarm and disband the queen's guard, before correctly accusing her of being an imposter.
* DefiantCaptive:
** In ''The Scarlet Citadel'': He responds to his captors' entreaties to sell his kingdom to him with insults and threats.
** In ''The Hour of the Dragon'', when he is being held as Xaltotun's prisoner, he refuses to submit to him, and even threatens to "make a brainless corpse out of [[=him=]]."
** In ''The Return of Conan'', Conan refuses to bow to Yezdigerd, challenges him to a fight, and breaks free of his restraints.
* DeathByMaterialism: Narrowly Averted in ''Conan the Valorous'', where Conan suffers from a mysterious illness by taking cursed gold from the bodies of assassins sent to kill him. However, a talisman given to him earlier by a Khitan wizard saves him from his fate, and once Conan realizes the nature of his curse, he "exchanged the unclean gold for other money."
* DemandingTheirHead: He tells Valannus to bring him him the head of [[TheUsurper Tarascus]], a Nemedian king waging war against Aquilonia.
* DespairEventHorizon: He despairs for the fate of the world and his own soul as he is being overpowered by Yah Chieng.
->''He was overwhelmed by the certainty of defeat. Darkness and evil would triumph in the world despite his best efforts. His ensorceled soul would grovel on the floors of Hell in black eternity.''
-->--''The Return of Conan''.
* {{Determinator}}: Say what you will about the man's morals; he will face most anything that you throw at him and will not give up. This is despite Conan facing down the likes of evil sorcerers and mages well-above his weight class. It's just that Conan's sheer determination and [[BadassNormal punishing strength]] make him formidable to anyone.
* DidYouActuallyBelieve: In ''Jewels of Gwahlur'', he berates Muriela for thinking her impersonation of Yelaya could fool him.
-->'''Conan''': ''Did you think you could fool me, you little idiot? A year ago I saw you in Akbitana with that swine, Zargheba, and I don't forget faces — or women's figures. I think I'll—.''
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Over the course of his life, Conan has defeated multiple beings that were demonic or [[EldritchAbomination eldritch]] in nature.
** In ''The God in the Bowl'', he decapitates the titular AnimalisticAbomination.
** In ''The Vale of Lost Women'', he kills "A devil from the Outer Dark" to save the Ophirean woman Livia from being sacrificed to it.
** In ''The Devil in Iron'', he defeats the HumanoidAbomination Khosatrel Khel.
** In ''The Slithering Shadow'', he defeats the EldritchAbomination Thog.
** In ''The Phoenix on the Sword'', he kills a demon summoned by Thoth-Amon with the broken remains of an enchanted sword.
** Averted In ''Red Moon of Zembabwei'', where he is unable to overcome [[GodOfEvil Set]], the GreaterScopeVillain of the franchise. Conan only survives because his son Conn kills Set's summoner, King Nanaunir before Set can destroy Conan.
* DoesNotLikeMagic: He is characterized this way in most adaptations, being generally distrustful of magic. It's hard to blame him for this attitude, since most MagicIsEvil in this setting and requires horrible things in the name of using it. He makes exceptions for magic weapons and working with good sorcerers like Kalanthes, but these exceptions are very rare; Conan is generally distrustful and hostile towards anyone who uses magic as a rule, especially if they're from Hyperborea.
** He's more willing to go easy in the Marvel comics, but only up to a point - he'll give a magical practitioner a chance to earn his respect, and if they do, then he'll trust them as much as he does anyone. As a result, he's successfully teamed up with Doctor Doom, Doctor Strange, the Scarlet Witch, and Magik, and gladly names the first two and the last among the most savage swords he'd ever fought beside at the end of ''ComicBook/SavageAvengers''.
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: In ''The Witch of the Mists'', Conan's son Conn expects to receive this punishment from his father after wandering out of the land Conan allowed him to him to travel through.
* TheDreaded: In ''The Return of Conan'', Conan exploits have become so well-known that several Turanias are reluctant to attack him, despite to prospect of being rewarded for his death.
* DueToTheDead: In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', Conan, after learning that Ninus had been stabbed, tells a doctor "If he dies, bury him with the full rites of Mitra."
* EnemyMine:
** In ''The People of the Black Circle'', who forms a temporary alliance with Kerim Shah of Turan in order to rescue Devi Yasmina from the Black Seers of Yimsha.
** In Marvel Comics, he allies with Thoth-Amon against Thulsa Doom.
* EtTuBrute:
** His treacherous ally King Amalrus of Ophir betrays him to the Kothians, leading to his capture at the beginning of ''The Scarlet Citadel''.
** In ''The Hour of the Dragon'', he is angered to learn Count Thespius has betrayed him.
* FamilialFoe: Conan was an enemy of both King Yildiz and his son Yezdigerd.
* FedToTheBeast: He is nearly fed to Satha bit the snake's master Tsotha-lanti.
* FingerInTheMail: In ''The Return of Conan'', Conan recounts how he received the heads of several of his Afghulis from the Turanian governor Veziz Shah.
* FlayingAlive: In ''Jewels of Gwahlur'', Thutmekri plans to have this fate inflicted on Conan.
* ForcedToWatch: In ''Red Nails'', Tascela plans to force an ensnared Conan watch as she kills Valeria. Luckily for both Conan and Valeria, Tolkemec's arrival forces Tasela to free Conan before she can carry out Valeria's death.
* FreudianExcuse: Though his frequent clashes with evil wizards don't necessarily [[DoesNotLikeMagic improve his view of magic]], the Dark Horse comics elaborate on his hatred for them. As a young man, he and his Aesir comrades went on a expedition and were enslaved by Hyperborean witch-men. [[SoleSurvivor Everyone but Conan was killed during a slave revolt]], including a slave girl that he was in love with. This traumatic experience led to Conan nurturing hate for sorcerers and vowing one day to see Hyperborea burned to the ground.
* ForegoneConclusion: Because the very first Conan story in existence portrays him as king of Aquilonia later in his life, everyone knows he is supposed to survive no matter the consequences any story that takes place beforehand.
* GalleySlave: He is forced to work on a SlaveGalley in ''The City of Skulls''.
* TheGamblingAddict: In ''Shadows of Zamboula'', he mentions to an innkeeper that he went gambling with "only a handful of silver to begin with," and ended up with barely enough to purchase of tankard of wine. However, Conan at least had the foresight to buy his room in advance.
* GeniusBruiser: The best warrior and most powerful human of his era and one of the best strategists, with the ability to speak several languages (including dead ones).
* GlorySeeker: In ''Conan of the Red Brotherhood'', Conan seeks to increase his notoriety as the pirate Amra the Lion.
* TheGoodKing: As ruler of Aquilonia. While TheChainsOfCommanding weigh on Conan's mind, he's still got the best interest of his people. Throughout the books, multiple people try to take over his kingdom or hurt his people. When this happens, Conan is quick to respond in kind with violence.
* GreenEyedMonster: In ''The Phoenix on the Swords'', he is envious that his subordinate Prospero for being able to travel to Nemedia while Conan is tied home by his kingly responsibilities.
* GraveRobbing: In ''The Thing in the Crypt'', Conan enters a tomb and takes the sword of its occupant. This ends up waking up the occupant, who attacks Conan in retaliation.
* HenpeckedHusband: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] at the the end of ''Conan the Buccaneer''. Conan decides not to to marry Princess Chabela after she tells him about [[ICanChangeMyBeloved her intention to turn him into]] "the perfect Zingaran geltleman."
* HeroicBuild: ZigZagged. He is very tall and extremely well muscled, yet how much of a hero he is is open to interpretation.
* HonorAmongThieves: In ''The God in the Bowl'', he demonstrates a refusal to betray his employer-in-crime unless they betray him first. he initally refuses to give up his employer's name after confessing to the attempted theft of a goblet. Once his employer, Aztrias Petanius, demonstrates his lack of reciprocation by saying that Conan is obviously guilty of the murder he has been accused of because he is "a vicious-looking brute" who has "villainous countenance," Conan immeditely identifies Aztrias as his employer in retaliation. Once Aztrias refuses to admit to hiring Conan, despite Demetrio offering to let both let Aztrias off the hook and arrange Conan's escape if he does so, Conan decapitates him.
* HonorBeforeReason: In ''The Hour of the Dragon'', he risks his life to save his faithful follower, Countess Albiona, from execution.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: By the time of ''The Witch of the Mists'', he is considered to be "the most dangerous man in the world" by Thoth-Amon himself.
* HostageSituation: In ''The People of the Black Circle'', he takes Devi Yasmina hostage to prevent her subordinates from executing seven of his men.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: In ''Black Tears'', his tenure as a Zuagir chief ends with his men abandoning him in a desert.
* HumanSacrifice:
** When he kills The EvilSorcerer Yah Chieng during the climax of ''The Return of Conan'', the text announces that "Conan sacrificed to Crom, god of the the black-haired Cimmerian race, for the second time in twenty-five years"
** He nearly ends up as one for Damballah in ''Red Moon of Zembabwei''. [[spoiler:However, Conn saves him at the last minute.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink:
** In ''The Scarlet Citadel'', his response to seeing an eagle with Pelias' voice carry off Tsotha-lanri's head with Tsotha's headless body chases it is ""Crom! A murrain on these wizardly feuds! Pelias has dealt well with me, but I care not if I see him no more. Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in. Damnation! What would I not give for a flagon of wine!"
** He asks for a drink at the end of ''The Return of Conan''.
** At the end of ''The Witch of the Mists'', he Prospero if he has "any more of that good red wine of the Poitanian vineyards?"
* IWarnedYou: In ''The Witch of the Mists'', he tells Louhi that "I shall be yours [[=your doom=]], unless you take me to my son." Later in the story, Conan and his son fight their way out of captivity, and Louhi is killed in the skirmish. The text [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] this after he notices her corpse.
-->Had he not warned Louhi that he would be her doom?
* ImpliedDeathThreat: When he confronts Thoth-Amon in ''Red Moon of Zembabwei'', he tells the sorcerer that this will be their last meeting.
-->'''Thoth-Amon''': ''We meet again, dog of Cimmeria.''
-->'''Conan''': ''For the last time, jackal of Stygia.''
* ImprovisedWeaponUser: In ''Rogues in the House'', he uses a stool as a projectile to kill Nabonidus with.
* ItsPersonal:
** In ''Shadows of the Moonlight'', he kills Shah Amurath as revenge for the slaughter of his fellow Free Companions.
--->'''Conan''': ''Oh, I've dreamed of such a meeting as this, while I crawled on my belly through the brambles, or lay under rocks while the ants gnawed my flesh, or crouched in the mire up to my mouth—I dreamed, but never hoped it would come to pass. Oh, gods of Hell, how I have yearned for this!''
--->'''Shah Amurath''': ''Keep back.''
--->'''Conan''': ''Ha! Shah Amurath, the great Lord of Akif! Oh, damn you, how I love the sight of you—you, who fed my comrades to the vultures, who tore them between wild horses, blinded and maimed and mutilated them all, you dog, you filthy dog!''.
** In ''Black Tears'', he seeks revenge against his former comrade Vardanes for betraying him to the Turanians.
** At the end of ''Beyond the Black River'', Conan announces his intention to kill seventeen Picts to avenge the deaths of Balthus and Slasher, ten for Balthus, and seven for Slasher respectively.
** In ''The Return of Conan'', he kills Veziz Shah, a Turanian who once executed ten of his Afghulis.
* KingInTheMountain: In the Dark Horse comics, long after his passing, its said he will return in an hour of darkness when the serpent strikes.
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon:
** The pastiches and comics depict Conan as having a long-standing adversarial relationship with the EvilSorcerer Thoth-Amon, who is a high-ranking follower of the GodOfEvil Set, to the point where Thoth-Amon often serves as the BigBad for Conan's stories, while his master Set is relegated to being a seldom-seen GreaterScopeVillain.
** In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', Conan has a feud with Black Zarono, who is one of the CoDragons for Duke Villagro, and later for Thoth-Amon. Conan and Zarono got into a tavern brawl, Their feud intensifies after Zarono stabs Conan's old aquaintence Ninus, and helps Villago's other [[CoDragons Co-Dragon]], Menkara, steal a chart Ninus was planning to sell to Conan. By contrast, Conan is indefferent to the ambitions of Duke Villagro, and Conan chooses to oppose Villagro because his chivalry will not allow him to disregard Chabela's pleas for help, and because Conan hopes to be rewarded for foiling Ferdrugo's plans. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] once Zarono begins answering to Thoth-Amon. Although Conan and Thoth-Amon do have prior history, Thoth-Amon, at this point in Conan's life, does not consider Conan to be worth hunting down, and so is willing to let Zarono deal with him.
* TheKingslayer: Since many [[EvilOverlord tyrants]] tend to be his frequent foes, that is a given. His most famous is probably Numedides, the Aquilonian king that he choked to death with his own hands and [[TheUsurper proceeded to rule his kingdom afterwards]]. He also kills Kings Strabonus and Yezdigerd.
* LastSecondChance: He offers this to Rinaldo during the climax of ''The Phoenix on the Sword''. [[spoiler:Rinaldo does not take it, forcing Conan to kill him in self defense.]]
* LibationForTheDead: He does this for Balthus and Slasher at the end of ''Beyond the Black River''.
* LightningBruiser: He is huge and heavily muscled, with strength beyond the conception of civilized men, yet he is constantly described as moving with the speed and grace of a panther. In their [[SwordFight sword fight]] from 'The Pool of the Black One', Conan kills a [[MasterSwordsman Master Swordsman]] whose skill is completely useless against his natural strength, speed, and cunning:
-->Zaporavo was the veteran of a thousand fights by sea and by land. There was no man in the world more deeply and thoroughly versed than he in the lore of swordcraft. But he had never been pitted against a blade wielded by thews bred in the wild lands beyond the borders of civilization. Against his fighting-craft was matched blinding speed and strength impossible to a civilized man. Conan’s manner of fighting was unorthodox, but instinctive and natural as that of a timber wolf. The intricacies of the sword were as useless against his primitive fury as a human boxer’s skill against the onslaughts of a panther.
* LoopholeAbuse: In ''Conan the Valorous'', Conan decides to fight King Bull, which is considered sacred, to save the life of Aelfrith. When a chief tells Conan that "it is forbidden for any man to raise weapon against the King Bull," Conan fights and slays the bull with his bare hands.
* MadeASlave:
** In his youth, he was enslaved by the Hyperboreans.
** In ''The City of Skulls'' he is enslaved by the Meruvians for a brief period of time before breaking free.
* MadeOfIron: Conan is so durable he managed to survive stuff that would have otherwise killed or crippled normal men like being crucified, having his back almost broken when cut down, and forced to endure a long ride without water or treatment for his injuries. He still got better.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: At the end of ''Red Nails'', he expresses more concern about finding something to eat than of his lacerated leg.
-->'''Conan''': ''Well, this cleans up the feud. It's been a hell of a night! Where did these people keep their food? I'm hungry.''
-->'''Valeria''': ''"You need a bandage on that leg.''
-->'''Conan''': ''I can walk on it.''
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: In ''The Witch of the Mists'', Conan initially decides to let his son Conn, who has gone missing, rough it out in the rain to teach him a lesson. He later changes his mind.
-->'''Conan''': ''Forget it, man! We'll account this part of the lad's education. If he be the stuff of kings, a slight wetting and a sleepless night will hurt him little will hurt him little and teach him a lesson.''
* ModestRoyalty: In ''The Phoenix of the Sword'', set during his reign as the King of Aquilonia, he is introduced wearing simple clothing.
-->His garments were of rich fabric, but simply made. He wore no ring or ornaments, and his square-cut black mane was confined merely by a cloth-of- silver band about his head.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: After usurping the throne of Aquilonia from Numedides, he declines to purge the survivors of his dynasty, which comes back to haunt him when one of those members, Baron Dion, conspires against him.
* NoYou: His response to Yezdigerd telling him to die is "Die yourself, jackal of Turan" [[spoiler:before beheading him.]]
* NumberTwo: In ''A Witch Shall be Born'', he spends a period of time serving as the second-in-command of the Zuagir chief Olgerd Vladislav before usurping leadership from him.
* MyGreatestFailure: In the Dark Horse comics he has a few moments that haunt him (the first being his failure to save Iasmini and the Aesir, the second being responsible for the destruction of two of his bands of mercenaries)
* ObfuscatingStupidity: In ''Shadows of Zamboula'', [[spoiler:he pretends not to realize that the woman Zabibi is actually Nefertari, the lover of Zamboula's satrap.]]
* OffTheTable: In ''People of the Black Circle'', Conan attempts to convince Yasmina to become his queen, which she rejects, also telling him "there are customs" preventing him from becoming King of Vendhya alongside her. Thirteen years later, during ''The Return of Conan'', she tries to convince Conan to become King of Vendhya alongside her, only for him to tell her he already has a kingdom to rule (Aquilonia), and is already married.
* OfferedTheCrown: At the end of ''The Road of Kings'', he is offered the crown of Zingara, but he turns it down.
* OneManArmy: More than once, Conan has single-handedly fought his way out of a courtroom when surrounded by guards and with his weapon confiscated (the escape involves reacquiring it).
* PapaWolf: After learning his son Conn has been kidnapped, he travels on a solo quest to rescue his son.
* PayEvilUntoEvil:
** Prior to the start of ''Rogues in the House'', Conan kills a priest who betrayed him and his Gunderman companion to the authorities.
** In ''Shadows of Zamboula'' he uses a NeckSnap to kill Baal-Pteor, who claimed to have snapped the necks of hundreds of human sacrifice, and even mentions having strangled women, children (including infants), and the elderly.
** At the end of ''Shadows of Zamboula'', Conan has the innkeeper Aram Baksh devoured by cannibals, whom Baksh had fed his previous guests to, and he attempted to do the same to Conan earlier in the story.
** At the end of ''A Witch Shall be Born'' Conan has Constantius the Falcon crucified, just as Constantius has Conan crucified several months earlier.
* PreMortemOneLiner:
** In ''The Scarlet Citadel'', before throwing Arpello to his death, he tells him "Take your plots to hell with you!"
** In ''The Return of Conan'', when preparing with kills Veziz Shah, he tells him "Dog, remember when you caught ten of my Afghulis when you commanded a squadron in Secunderam? And how you sent me their pickled heads in jars with wishes for a hearty repast? You time has come. Rot in Hell!"
** "Die yourself, jackal of Turan!" (to King Yezdigerd in ''The Return of Conan'')
** "At last we meet, you yellow dog! Your days of magic are numbered. The gods have doomed you, and your black powers are broken! Do you hear the shouts and clash of arms? Do you see the fires? Your swordsmen are being cut down by the prisoners from the dungeons and by the people of Paikang! Your bloody empire is crashing in ruins. To blackest Hell I send you, sur, and may you rot there forever!" (To Yah Chieng in ''The Return of Conan'')
** In ''Conan the Valorous'', he give the following angry speech to Atzel before killing him: "Damn you to Hell for a torturer of women and children! Crom curse you for a ''nithing''!. And demons gnaw your guts forever for making me kill this noble beast!"
* {{Privateer}}: In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he serves as one for Zingara.
* PuppetKing: [[DefiedTrope Defied]]. In ''The Hour of the Dragon'', Xaltotun offers to help Conan retake Aquilonia from the Nemedians if Conan agrees to serve him. Conan refuses.
* RapePillageAndBurn: [[AvertedTrope Pillage and burn? Yes. Rape? No.]] Despite his multiple short-term relationships and regular heroics with scantily-clad women, rape is absolutely out of the question. Despite his string of casual romances with different women, he is quite respectful to all of them as much as he is able to be. However, Conan is quite willing and able to burn down villages and pillage them for loot, but only if it's full of evil people or they tried to attack him first. In ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', set during Conan's reign as King of Aquilonia, he hangs any man caught engaging in these activities.
* RatedMForManly: Conan is a LightningBruiser, has a HeroicBuild, regularly saves scantily-clad women, and is generally an archetypal example of the positive aspects of masculinity -- honor, courage, power, integrity, loyalty, and determination.
* ReallyGetsAround: The number of women he's taken to his bed is comparable to that of killed enemies. Which is to say, a lot. In the Robert E. Howard stories alone, he has six confirmed conquests (Bêlit, Sancha, Valeria, Princess Yasmela, an unnamed prostitute and Zenobia - whom he later marries), eight more female companions [[DidTheyOrDidntThey where it's not clear if they slept together]], and there have been many more Conan stories and love interests in the following decades.
* RebelLeader: He was the leader of the rebellion against King Numedides.
* RenaissanceMan: He had too many jobs in just one lifetime: sellsword, bodyguard, pirate, captain of the guard, general of countless armies and eventually king of the greatest empire in the world. Not only is he a fighter without equal, he is an excellent tactician, strategist and a speaks a variety of tongues. The only skill he hasn't dominated in this setting was magic, but [[MagicIsEvil he had good reasons]].
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: He is mistakenly believed dead in ''The Hour of the Dragon'', with this belief enforced by the villains covering up his survival to make controlling Aquilonia easier.
* RevengeBeforeReason: When escaping King Tarascus' palace, Conan takes the time to make an attempt on Tarascus' life, which leads to him screaming for the guards.
* RightfulKingReturns: In both ''The Scarlet Citadel'' and ''The Hour of the Dragon'', he reclaims the throne of Aquilonia from usurpers.
* SaveTheVillain: Done for pragmatic reasons in ''Red Nails''. When he sees the villainous Olmec in a DeathTrap, his initial instincts are to either let him die or "can speed up that process by twisting my sword-point around in your ear." He ends up saving Olmec after the latter convinces Conan he needs Olmec's help to save Valeria on Tascela. However, Conan still ends of killing Olmec after he attacks Conan.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: In ''The Scarlet Citadel'', he refuses to betray his subjects by selling his kingdom.
* SelfMadeMan: He carved his own wealth with his bare hands and became king by his own hand.
* SexSlave: To Queen Nzinga in ''Conan the Buccaneer''.
* ShootTheDog: In ''Conan the Valorous'', Conan is forced to killed the King Bull to save the live of the chieftainness Aelfrith. The King Bull is considered sacred by the people of the Border Kingdom, but has been trained to attack women by Bossonians under the employ of the corrupt chief Atzel.
* ShroudedInMyth: By the time of ''The Return of Conan'', he has become this to the Turanians.
->''The saga of his daring exploits had invested him with magical powers in their eyes, until his name was spoken like that of a mythical ogre.''
-->--'''The Return of Conan'''.
* SoleSurvivor:
** In ''The Scarlet Citadel'', he is last survivor of the five thousand Aquilonians who arrived in Ophir to aid Amalrus, only to be betrayed by him.
** He is the last surviving of the kozaks defeated by Shah Amurath near the Ilbars River, shortly before the events of ''Shadows of the Moon''.
* SpitefulSpit:
** In ''The Scarlet Citadel'', he spits in the eyes of King Amalrus, who betrayed him to the Kothians and tried to force him to abdicate.
** In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #256, he spits at a vision of Kulan Gath after the latter tries to coerce him into killing Vammatar.
* TheStarscream:
** In ''The Pool of the Black One'', he murders his boss Zaporavo to make himself captain of the ''Wastrel''.
** In ''A Witch Shall be Born'', he usurps leadership of the Zuagirs from his boss, Olgerd Vladislav.
* ATasteOfTheLash: The narraration of ''The Thing in the Crypt'' mentions that Conan "had tasted the bitterness of the chains and the lash" during his enslavement to the Hyperboreans.
* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: He challenges Yezdigerd to a fight when the former is brought before the latter as a prisoner. Yezdigerd does not respond, and only gets up to fight after Conan breaks free of his restraints and clears a pathway towards him.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: In the Howard stories, Conan is often gnawing a beef bone when he has to opportunity to eat well. [[BadWithTheBone It frequently doubles as a]] preferred weapon.
* UngratefulBastard: Downplayed in ''A Witch Shall be Born'', he usurps leadership of the Zuagirs from Olgerd Vladislav, who saved him from crucifixion several months prior. However, Conan subjects Olgerd to CruelMercy by exiling instead of killing him, and Conan mentions that Olgerd had ulterior motives for helping Conan, and subjected Conan to a brutal test in order to prove Conan's worthiness to live.
* TheUsurper: A heroic example since he ends up being more popular with the Aquilonians than the tyrant he killed. However, in ''The Phoenix in the Sword'', they end up forgetting Numedides' atrocities and due to the villains' actions, Conan is viewed like a barbarian reaver that deposed the rightful king.
* VillainKiller: He has killed many evildoers over the course of his life.
** In ''Rogues in the House'', he kills Thak, a violent FrazettaMan, and Nabonidus, a corrupt priest.
** In ''Black Colossus'', he kills the EvilSorcerer Natohk,
** In ''Shadows of the Moonlight'', he kills Shah Amurath (The man who massacred Conan's kozaks and Olivia's cruel master) and the pirate captain Sergius.
** In ''Shadows of Zamboula'', he kills the EvilSorcerer Totrasmek and his henchman Baal-Pteor.
** In ''The Devil in Iron'', he kills the cruel nobleman Jehungir Agha and the HumanoidAbomination Khosatrel Khel.
** In ''The Flame Knife'', he kills Virata of Kosala and Olgerd Vladislav, the leaders of a cult bent on world domination.
** In ''Red Nails'', he kills the treacherous Prince Olmec and the EvilSorcerer Tolkemec.
** In ''Beyond the Black River'', he kills the Pictish leader Zogar Sag by killing the demon he is [[{{Synchronization}} synchronized]] with).
** In ''Conan the Liberator'', he kills King Numedides, the tyrannical ruler of Aquilonia.
** In ''The Phoenix of the Sword'', he kills Gromel, Count Volmana, and Rinaldo, three conspirators seeking to depose him.
** In ''The Scarlet Citadel'', he kills Prince Arpello, the tyrannical PuppetKing backed by his enemies, and King Strabonus, an ambitious monarch seeking to gain a foothold in Aquilonia.
** In the Marvel Universe', he kills Thulandra Thuu and [[spoiler:the resurrected Thoth-Amon.]]
* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: Conan loves the thrill and challenge of acquiring treasure or gaining a throne far more than he does the actual goal. Even when he acquires a vast treasure, he'll eventually spend it all and set off on his next adventure. When he seizes the throne of Aquilonia, he does his best to run the kingdom effectively but realizes that fighting Numedides to seize his crown was a lot more invigorating than actually having to wear it.
* WarriorPoet: Literally, as it's heavily implied that the eponymous Song of Belit was written by him. There's also ''The Road Of Kings'', split into two different chapter headers in ''The Phoenix on the Sword'', implied to be written by Conan to commemorate the assassination attempt in that story.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: In ''Black Tears'', Boghra Khan, the Turanian officer who opposes Conan at the beginning of the story was a friend of Conan's back when Conan served King Yildiz. Boghra doesn't even realize that the outlaw leader he is opposing and his old friend are the same person until he his brought before Conan. Conan allows Boghra to leave with his life, saying that is his way of repaying a gambling debt to Boghra.
* WorldsBestWarrior: It's all but outright stated that Conan is the most dangerous man of his age. Peerless as a warrior, and peerless as a king.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Though it is also not stated, he is physically stronger than any other human he encounters, even men much larger than he is. There are several monsters, however, who are far stronger than he is.
* WorthyOpponent:
** He felt this way about [[spoiler:Thak and Thoth-Amon]] following their respective deaths.
** In ''Conan the Valorous'', Conan, upon mortally wounding the Gunderman Hagen, requests his name because Conan felt their fight was so good he wanted it to be sung about at Conan's funeral pyre.
* WreckedWeapon: His sword gets broken in ''The Phoenix on the Sword''.
* YouAreTooLate: In ''Beyond the Black River'', he and his current companion Balthus arrive too late to warn an Aquilonia fort about a Pictish attack.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: He kills Aquilonia's King Numedides and seizes the throne for himself.
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!Characters from original Howard works

!!Literature/ThePhoenixOnTheSword
[[folder:Ascalante]]

Ascalante is an outlaw who conspires to assassinate Conan.
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* [[Characters/ConanTheBarbarianThoth-Amon Thoth-Amon]]
[[folder:Thoth-Amon]]
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Thoth-Amon is a Stygian wizard, Lord of the Black Ring and High Priest of Set. First introduced in ''The Phoenix on the Sword'', he is notable in that, despite being portrayed as something of an ArchEnemy to Conan, the two of them never actually meet each other in direct confrontation in the Howard stories.

* AdaptationalVillainy: He was a NobleDemon in the original books, and other incarnations of him generally follow suit. The version of him from ''Conan: Book of Thoth'', however, is heinously evil.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: In ''Red Moon of Zembabwei'', Thoth-Amon declares that he will make Tarantia, where Conan rules Aquilonia from, the seat of power for his own empire.
* AnArmAndALeg:
** In Marvel's ''Savage Sword of Conan'', his [[VillainPossessedBystander host body]], Ee-Ch'ing, loses a hand after it is bitten by Thulsa Doom.
** In Marvel's ''Conan the King'', Thoth-Amon loses his right hand to Conan.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: In ''Red Moon of Zembabwei'', Thoth-Amon tells Conan that he will kill Conn in addition to him.
* AntiVillain: In the originals; in the Dark Horse comics, [[AdaptationalVillainy he's utterly evil]].
* ArchEnemy: While he is usually treated this way to Conan in the pastiches, in the original Howard books he and Conan only indirectly cross paths. He is definitely Kalanthes' arch-enemy in the Dark Horse comics.
* TheArchmage: He is the leader of a group of sorcerers known as the Black Ring. In ''The Witch of the Mists'', Conn recognizes him as "the earth's mightiest black magician."
* AscendedExtra: As previously mentioned, in the expanded universe created in works published after Howard's death, Thoth-Amon is treated as Conan's arch-enemy due to being the greater scope villain in at least two stories: ''The Phoenix on the Sword'' and ''The God in the Bowl''. However, in the original stories, neither Howard nor Conan met face to face and the Cimmerian in both stories would have amounted to little more than collateral damage if killed.
* AssassinationAttempt: Thoth-Amon once attempted to murder his enemy Caranthes by sending a bowl containing a deadly monster. The attempt failed because the greedy and unsuspecting Kallian Publicos opened it before it had the chance to reach Caranthes, setting off the events of ''The God in the Bowl'', which ended in Conan slaying the monster before it even left the Temple of Kallian Publicos, let alone accomplish its mission of killing Caranthes.
* AssassinsAreAlwaysBetrayed: In the backstory of ''The Treasure of Tranicos'', he was hired by Valenso to assassinate one of his enemies, which he accomplished by summoning a demon. However, Valenso betrayed Thoth-Amon to his (Valenso's) king instead of repaying him.
* AstralProjection: He has this as one of his powers.
* BackFromTheDead: In the Marvel Comics version, [[spoiler:Thoth-Amon is resurrected following his death at Conn's hands.]]
* BadBoss:
** In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he is indifferent to the death his his subordinate Menkara.
** In ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', he attempts to kill Conan and his allies by summoning the Black Beast, which slaughters Thoth-Amon's own soldiers.
* TheBadGuyWins:
** [[spoiler:In ''The Treasure of Tranicos'', he succeeds in having Count Valenso killed.]]
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in ''The Phoenix of the Sword''. [[spoiler: While he succeeds in having [[EvilVersusEvil fellow villain]] Ascalante killed by a demon, his demon is unable to accomplish his second order of killing anybody in his vicinity, as Conan triumphs over the demon.]]
* BadassBoast:
** In ''The Witch of the Mists'', he gives one behalf of his ally, King Nenaunir: "And this is the great ''boccor'' or shaman, Nenaunir prophet and high priest of Damballah—as his people call Father Set—in far Zembabwei. Three million naked blacks will arise to sweep all the world below Kush with flame and blood at one world from Nenaunir."
** "I do not fight with swords alone, but with sorcery as well" (when using his magic to render Procero's sword to hot to use during ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'').
** "[[WhiteMagic White magic]] fails in the contest of strength, Cimmerian" (when Thoth-Amon and his follwers begin overpowering Diviatix's magic during ''Black Sphinx of ''').
* BeardOfEvil: He sports one in some depictions.
* BaldOfEvil, he is described in ''The Witch of the Mists'', ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', and ''Shadows in the Skull' as having a "shaven pate."
* BerserkButton: According to ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'', he does not take kindly to intruders.
* BetrayalInsurance: He inflicts Tevek Thul with the [[YourDaysAreNumbered Taper of Death]] after loaning him his RingOfPower in order to keep Thul from keeping the ring for himself after he completes his task.
* BigBad: Often promoted to this in the pastiches and the comics.
** In ''Literature/ThePhoenixOnTheSword'', he starts out as Ascalante's slave, but once he regains his Ring of Power, he [[EvilerThanThou overtakes Ascalante]] by summoning a demon to kill him and anyone in his vicinity (which includes Conan).
** In ''The Treasure of Tranicos'', he manipulates the Picts into going after Valenso, as well as sending a demon to kill Valenso.
** In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he [[BigBadDuumvirate allies himself]] with Duke Villagro into order to take over the kingdom of Zingara, [[spoiler:and betrays Villagro during the endgame by having himself declared king instead of Villagro.]]
** In ''The Witch of the Mists'': He conspires with Louhi to lure Conan into a trap by kidnapping his son, Conn.
** In ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', he was TheManBehindTheMan to Duke Pantho's military incursion of Poitain. After Conan marching into Stygia to take the fight directly to Thoth-Amon, Thoth-Amon plans to ambush Conan and his army, compromising Aquilonia's ability to pose a threat to him.
** In ''Shadows in the Skull'', He is initially DemotedToDragon by Queen Lilit, but once she is abruptly killed, Thoth-Amon takes the opportunity to wage his final battle against Conan, planning to give Conan's soul to Set and take control of the serpent-folk.
** In ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'', he is in a BigBadEnsemble with Tevek Thul and Jade, both of whom seek the titular Grim Grey God. At first, Thoth-Amon attempts to use Tevek Thul as a pawn to retrieve the Grim Grey God, even lending him his RingOfPower to help him with his goal. However, Tevek Thul is planning to betray Thoth-Amon and make himself "King of Magicians" before seeking revenge of the Khyfans for the destruction of a civilization he descended from. After being informed by Set of his folly in using Tevek Thul as a pawn, Thoth-Amon attempts to take the Grim Grey God directly.
** The Marvel Comics version of Conan features Thoth-Amon as a major recurring antagonist, being featured in adaptations of the stories ''The Phoenix on the Sword'', ''Conan the Buccaneer'', ''The Treasure of Tranicos'', the ''Conan of Aquilonia'' tetralogy, as well as several original stories.
** The Dark Horse Comics version of Conan also has Thoth-Amon as a prominent recurring villain. Unlike the Marvel version, the Dark Horse Comics don't adapt the de Camp and Carter Thoth-Amon pastiches, but they do have several original stories featuring Thoth-Amon, as well as another adaptation of the Howard story ''The Phoenix on the Sword''.
* BigBadDuumvirate:
** In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he teams up with [[AristocratsAreEvil Duke Villagro]], seemingly helping him take over Zingara in exchange for Villagro promoting the [[ReligionOfEvil worship of Set]], Thoth-Amon's patron deity, once he is in power. [[spoiler:During the climax of the story, Thoth-Amon betrays Villagro by having himself declared king instead.]]
** In ''The Witch of the Mists'', Thoth-Amon is in a Quadrumvirate with Louhi (leader of the Witcmen of Hyperborea), Pra-Eun (leader of the Scarlet Circle), and Nenaunir (ruler of Zembabwei), all of whom are influential [[EvilSorcerer Evil Sorcerers]] in their own right.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''Red Moon of Zembabwei''. He attempts to convince the Nenaunir, the SorcerousOverlord of Zembabwei to divide the world between the two of them, but Nenaunir decides that Thoth-Amon will be his lackey instead.
* BlackSpeech: In ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', he uses this to summon the Black Beast.
* {{Blackmail}}: He is on the receiving end of this in ''The Phoenix on the Sword''. Ascalante forces Thoth-Amon to do his bidding by giving information about Thoth-Amon's location to a hermit, who is to reveal his to Thoth-Amon's enemies in the event of Ascalante's death at Thoth-Amon's hands.
* BloodMagic: In ''The Phoenix on the Sword'', he uses Baron Dion's blood to summon a demon to kill Ascalante.
* BreakoutVillain: He was a generally minor character in Howard's stories who only physically appeared once, but other media pretty much turned him into Conan's ArchEnemy.
* TheCameo: He briefly appears in ''Conan the Invincible'' conversing with his subordinate Imhep-Aton.
* CaughtMonologuing: In ''Shadows of the Skull'', Thoth-Amon monologues to Conan about the history of the serpent-folk and their interaction with himself, complains about his past defeats at Conan's hands, and declares his intention to sacrifice Conan to Set. Conan finally attacks Thoth-Amon once the sorcerer begins taking about his plans after killing Conan.
* CassandraTruth: In ''The Witch of the Mists'', Thoth-Amon tries to convince his allies that Conan is too much of a threat to be taken lightly. [[spoiler:[[UnderestimatingBadassery They don't listen]] to him.]]
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he convinces Black Zarono to flee with him after their bid to overthrow King Ferdrugo of Zingara fails.
-->'''Thoth-Amon''': ''I know many things. I go; stay or follow, as you please''
-->''[shortly afterwards]''
-->'''Thoth-Amon''': "Now hasten, if you would not be shortened by a head."
* CloneByConversion: In Marvel's ''Savage Sword of Conan'', he inflicts this on a Serpent-Man he takes over.
* TheConqueror: He seeks to become this to the West of Hyboria.
* CorneredRattlesnake: By the time of his final duel with Conan in ''Shadows of the Skull'', Thoth-Amon has been pursuded by Conan to the World's Edge, deprived of allies and places to flee. He manages to put of a great fight against Conan, coming [[NearVillainVictory close to killing Conan]] before Conn's timely intervention.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: One of his abilities is to have his ''ka'' leave his body. However, the narration of ''Conan the Buccaneer'' mentions that if his ''ka'' is disembodied for too long, it will remain disembodied permanently.
* DarkIsEvil: He leads an group of [[EvilSorcerer Evil Sorcerers]] known as the Black Ring, has black eyes, uses a black sphinx as one of his bases, and sits on a black throne.
* DavidVersusGoliath: The Goliath to Diviatix's David during their wizard duel in ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu''. He is physically larger than Diviatix, [[spoiler: but Diviatix manages to triumph thanks to the power of the Heart of Ahriman.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: In the backstory of ''The Treasure of Tranicos'', he is the Devil in a deal with Valenso. He sent a fiend to kill one of Valenso's rivals, which allows Valenso to become rich and powerful, in exchange for Valenso repaying him. However, Valenso betrays Thoth-Amon instead of upholding his end of the bargain. [[spoiler:At the end of the story, Thoth-Amon has him killed in retaliation.]]
* DeceptiveDisciple: In the Dark Horse Comics, he became tricked Kharantus into taking him in as a priest of Ibis by [[KillAndReplace killing and impersonating]] his friend Amon, the person Kharantus actually invited into the temple of Ibis.
* DemotedToDragon:
** In ''Red Moon of Zembabwei'', he is reduced to being a lackey by King Nenaunir.
** In the following story, ''Shadows in the Skull'', he takes refuge with Queen Lilit of the serpent-folk following Nenaunir's defeat, and if forced to act as her subordinate.
* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', Thoth-Amon has the Cobra Crown, which could help him TakeOverTheWorld, and Duke Villagro as an ally who is willing to promote Thoth-Amon's ReligionOfEvil in Zingara in exchange for the Zingaran throne. Thoth-Amon decides to betray Villagro anyway by having himself declared King of Zingara, which leads to Villagro turning on Thoth-Amon with the aid of the Cobra Crown (which Thoth-Amon took off in order to accept the Zingaran crown). As a result his betrayal, Conan and his followers are able pull a BigDamnHeroes moment against Thoth-Amon (The narration mentions that "Had he worn the Cobra Crown, he would have known of the approach of Conan and his men before they appeared"), and the Cobra Crown is broken by the time Thoth-Amon is able to reclaim it from the now-deceased Villagro, meaning that Thoth-Amon has both lost his opportunity to expand his god Set's influence into Zingara and undermined his own prospects at world domination over kingship of one country.
* DidYouActuallyBelieve: In ''The Treasure of Tranicos'', he mocks Count Valenso of Korzetta for thinking the latter could escape him.
* TheDogBitesBack: After being MadeASlave by Ascalante and subjected to {{Blackmail}} and physical abuse, Thoth-Amon has Ascalante killed as soon as he regains his power.
* TheDragon: To Set. In ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', he is referred to as Set's "chief votary." In ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'', he is shown taking orders directly from Set himself. Following his defeat in ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', he is implied to have fallen out of Set's favor and is forced to answer to other Set-worshippers, namely King Nenaunir and Zembabwei and Queen Lilit of the serpent-folk.
* DragonRider: He rides a wyvern when fleeing Zembebwei following the death of his ally, King Nenaunir.
* TheDreaded: Everyone who knows him fears quite rightfully, not even the king of Stygia dares crossing Amon. In Dark Horse ''Conan the Avenger'', Conan freaks out upon sighting Thoth-Amon despite having a ''freakin army at his side'' and tells them to flee.
-->'''Conan''': ''Ride you bastards, like Hell itself was on your hinds. For it is!''
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: His lair beneath the Black Sphinx og Nebthu is a mazelike series of corridors, with stairs leading down to an arena.
* EnemiesEqualsGreatness: When reminiscing about his GloryDays in ''The Phoneix on the Sword'', he mentions that other magicians "hated me, but also feared me."
* EnemyMine:
** In Marvel Comics, he teams up with Conan against Thulsa Doom.
** In ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'', he briefly teams up with his enemy Caranthes to destroy the titular ArtifactOfDoom.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Impoverished, and abused by his father as a youth, he bade his beloved younger sister farewell, vowing to one day return for her. Many years and committed atrocities later as high-priest of Set, he suddenly remembered her and tasked a soldier to find her at all costs, promising himself she would want for nothing. Alas, it was revealed she had long since perished from a famine magically caused by Thoth-Amon himself. By then, Thoth-Amon's heart was so blackened that he rebuked his soldier for giving him such trivial news, wondering to himself why he even bothered sending him in the first place.
* EveryManHasHisPrice: In ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', Conan posits bribery as one of the possible methods Thoth-Amon used to manipulate Duke Pantho into sending soldiers into Poitan.
* EvilChancellor: To King Ctesphon.
* EvilFormerFriend: To Kalanthes in the Dark Horse Comics version.
* EvilIsNotAToy:
** In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', [[AristocratsAreEvil Duke Villagro]] tries to get Thoth-Amon to help him become King of Zingara. [[spoiler:After playing along with him for a while, Thoth-Amon has himself declared king instead.]]
** In ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'', the necromancer Tevek Thul seeks to convince Thoth-Amon to let him burrow his RingOfPower. Thoth-Amon agrees, but also inflicts Thul with a [[YourDaysAreNumbered deadly curse]] in order to [[BetrayalInsurance keep Thul under his control]].
* EvilLaugh: He has laughed several times across his various appearences.
** In ''The Treasure of Tranicos'', he laughs when tauning Count Valenso about his impending doom.
** In ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', he let's one out after Conan enters his hideout, where Thoth-Amon is waiting for him alongside. hundreds of his minions. Later in the same story, he gives out another one when he unleashes the Black Beast on Conan and his allies.
** In ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'', he also lets on out when making his VillainExitStageLeft.
* EvilOldFolks: Thoth-Amon is several centuries old, and after being exposed to the Heart of Ahriman, he gains the appearence of one too.
* EvilOverlord: Thoth effectively rules over Stygia, having turned the actual royal family into his [[PuppetKing puppets]], ran the nation to the ground by fighting pointless wars and terrorized those who didn't follow Set.
* EvilSorcerer: He is a violent and power-hungry sorcerer.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Thoth-Amon has a deep voice.
* EvilVersusEvil: Thoth-Amon sometimes comes into conflict with other villains.
** In ''The Phoenix of the Sword'', he summons a demon to kill Ascalante, an outlaw who enslaved Thoth-Amon and is conspiring to assassinate Conan.
** In ''The Treasure of Tranicos'', he is plotting revenge against Count Valenso of Korzetta, a Zingaran nobleman who arranged the assassination of one of enemies, with Thoth-Amon's help, no less.
** He is also opposed by a fellow Stygian priest named Thutothmes. In ''The Hour of the Dragon'', Thutothmes plots to uses the Heart of Ahriman to defeat Thoth-Amon and create his own empire.
** In ''Conan the Buccaneer'': He fights in a duel with [[AristocratsAreEvil Duke Villagro]] (who has been empowered by the Cobra Crown) after reneging on his alliance with the latter.
** In Marvel Comics, he has a feud with Thulsa Doom, a rival EvilSorcerer.
** In ''Conan the Invincible'', he entrusts his subordinate Imhep-Aton with ensuring the downfall of both [[EvilSorcerer Amanar]] (the [[BigBad main antagonist]] of the story and a traitor to Thoth-Amon's order) and [[GodOfEvil Morath-Aminee]] (Amanar's god and a rival of Set)
* TheExile:
** In the backstory of ''The Treasure of Tranicos'', he was once an exile from Stygia when Mentupherra was its king. He was able to return after Mentupherra's death.
** Also in the backstory of ''The Treasure of Transicos'', he is also forced out of Ferdugo after Valenso betrays him to his king.
* FailedASpotCheck: In ''Conan the Buccanneer'', his huaghtiness prevents him from realizing the slave in his prescence is the Princess Chabela, who his allies are trying to capture. Although the narration mentions that Thoth-Amon never saw Chabella this close before, it also mentions that he would have learned her identity if he used his magic to do so, but he was distracted by the power of the Cobra Crown.
* FalseFlagOperation: In ''The Treasure of Tranicos'', he leaves a chain with the Korzetta seal on the severed head of a Pict in order to trick them into retaliating against Count Valenso of Korzetta.
* FamilialFoe: He is the ArchEnemy of Conan, and he later becomes an enemy of Conan's son Conn as well, starting in ''The Witch of the Mists'' where he is involved in Conn's kidnapping as part of a plot against Conan. In ''The Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', Conn joins his father Conan in his hunt for Thoth-Amon, and in ''Shadows of the Skull'', [[spoiler: Conn is the one who kills Thoth-Amon.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath:
** Is believed to inflict this on people who intrude on his turf, as even desperately thirsty desert travelers will avoid the Oasis of Khajar, which is under the control of Thoth-Amon.
** He threatens to inflict this of Caranthes during their WizardDuel in ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'':
---> '''Thoth-Amon''': ''With the dark power granted me by Father Set, I shall seize the idol...and forever banish your essence into the blackest void!''
* FauxAffablyEvil:
** In ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'': He mockingly welcomes Conan to his empire after luring the latter into a trap in Stygia in the hopes of killing him.
** In ''Savage Sword of Conan'' #191, he initially speaks respectfully towards fellow EvilSorcerer Thulsa Doom before abruptly dropping his pretense of respect and angrily accusing him of undermining him.
--->'''Thoth-Amon''': ''Now. So your are the earthly remains of Thulsa Doom--Greatest sorcerer in the days before the Great Cataclysm! Implacable foe of the legendary King Kull of Valusia. And the antiquated heap of dung-encrusted bones that is trying to steal away all my loyal followers!''
* FeudalOverlord: In ''Red Moon of Zembabwei'', he is informed by King Nenaunir that this is the best case scenario he can hope for himself, following Thoth-Amon's previous failures.
* ForcedSleep: In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he uses a beam to force Queen Nzinga into unconsciousness.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: In the Dark Horse version, he is revealed to have born into destitution and poverty with his abusive, alcoholic father forced him to beg and pickpocket for money. Then he got accepted into the cult of Set, rose through the ranks until he became the high priest, and eventually, king of Stygia in everything but name. Notably, Thoth is rather ashamed of his humble origins, freaking out when the ghosts in the Eyes of Usir confront him about it.
* GetOut: He demands Tevek Thul to leave his dwelling in the Oasis of Khajar after Thul hands him two of Epithur's tablets. Thul, however, keeps pushing his luck, insistent on getting Thoth-Amon to let him burrow his Ring of Power. Thoth-Amon eventually relents, but puts a curse on him.
* GloryDays: In ''The Phoenix on the Sword'', Thoth-Amon, at that point in time having been reduced to a slave, reminisces to [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron Dion]] about his time as a powerful sorcerer in Stygia.
-->'''Thoth-Amon''': ''Listen, my lord. I was a great sorcerer in the south. Men spoke of Thoth-Amon as they spoke of Rammon. King Ctesphon of Stygia gave me great honor, casting down the magicians from the high places to exalt me above them. They hated me, but they feared me, for I controlled beings from outside which came at my call and did my bidding. By Set, mine enemy knew not the hour when he might awake at midnight to feel the taloned fingers of a nameless horror at his throat! I did dark and terrible magic with the Serpent Ring of Set, which I found in a nighted tomb a league beneath the earth, forgotten before the first man crawled out of the slimy sea.''
* GodzillaThreshold:
** In ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', Thoth-Amon is such a dangerous sorcerer that Conan resort's to bringing the wizard Diviatix [[spoiler:and the Heart of Ahriman (a powerful magical artifact which Conan says can turn white magician's power-hungry) before confronting the Stygian wizard.]]
* GraveRobbing: In ''The Phoenix on the Sword'', he recounts to Baron Dion that "[[=he=]] found the Serpent Ring of Set in a nighted tomb a league beneath the earth, forgotten before the first man crawled out of the slimy sea."
* GreaterScopeVillain:
** In ''Literature/TheGodInTheBowl'', Thoth-Amon, despite not physically appearing, is responsible for the story's conflict by plotting to have the titular MonsterOfTheWeek assassinate one of his enemies, a Stygian priest named Kalanthes.
** In ''Conan the Invincible'', the BigBad of the story is Amanar, a rogue subordinate of Thoth-Amon's order. Additionally, one of the secondary antagonists of the story, Imhep-Aton, is a loyal subordinate of Thoth-Amon who attempts to use Conan as a pawn in his plan to bring about Amanar's demise.
** In ''Conan the Valorous'', he has a minor role in the plot compared to the story's [[BigBadEnsemble two main villains]], Hathor-Ka and Jaganath, but he is more cunning and powerful than they are. Thoth-Amon offers assistance to one of the story's main antagonists, Hathor-Ka, [[spoiler:as a ploy to destroy her. At the end of the story, following the deaths of Hathor-Ka and Jaganath, the Khitan Wizard Cha tells Conan that Thoth-Amon could have stopped the conflict a long time ago, but allowed it to progress in the hopes it would rid him of his rivals.]]
* GreenAndMean: He is often depicted wearing green.
* HandRubbing: He does thing after defeating Tevek Thul in their WizardDuel.
* HeinousHyena: The Black Sphinx Nebthu, which stood over one of his bases, was made in image of an entity known as the ghoul-hyena of chaos. [[spoiler:Thoth-Amon also has the ability to summon the hyena creature that the aforementioned Sphinx is modeled on.]]
* HeirInLaw: In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he attempts to usurp the throne of Zingara by hypnotizing the King Ferdrugo of Zingara into abdicating and marrying his daughter Chabella off to him, thus making himself its King. After Thoth-Amon flees, Ferdrugo nullifies this marriage, denying king kingship of Zingara.
* HornsOfVillainy: The Marvel Comics version wears a horned helmet. Later on, he develops real horns.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: On the receiving end. According to Louhi in ''The Witch of the Mists'', "Thoth-Amon [calls Conan] the most dangerous man the world," even though Louhi believed that honor went to Thoth-Amon himself.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen:
** By the start of ''The Phoenix on the Sword'', Thoth-Amon has gone from being a powerful sorcerer in the favor of the King of Stygia, to the slave of an outlaw.
** Following the events of ''The Phoenix on the Sword'', Thoth-Amon has regained his influence in Stygia, only to be brought down again during the de Camp and Carter pastiches. Thoth-Amon goes from being TheArchmage of a powerful order of sorcerers to a fugitive from Conan's wrath following his defeat at Conan's hands and the destruction of the Black Ring during climax of the pastiche ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu''. In the following stories, ''Red Moon of Zembabwei'' and ''Shadows in the Skull'', Thoth-Amon is treated as a lackey by his fellow Set-worshippers.
* HumanSacrifice:
** In ''Shadows in The Skull'' Thoth-Amon declares his intent of sacrificing Conan's soul to Set.
** In ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'', Tevek Thul believes that "Thoth-Amon had doubtless sacrificed thousands to Set in return for prodigious magical powers."
* IHaveYourWife: In ''The Witch of the Mists'', Thoth-Amon orchestrates the kidnapping of Prince Conn through his ally [[WickedWitch Louhi]], as part of a scheme to capture Conan.
* IWarnedYou: During his time as a slave to Ascalante, he warns his master that he will reclaim the Serpent Ring of Set and wreak vengeance upon him. Ascalante responds with striking him and reminding him of his BetrayalInsurance against Thoth-Amon, forcing him to back down. Shortly afterwards, Thoth-Amon does find the Serpent Ring, using it to summon a demon to kill Ascalante.
* ImplacableMan: In ''The Treasure of Tranicos'', Thoth-Amon tracks down Valenso despite the latters efforts to evade him by "[[=sailing=]] to put broad seas between me and him." Valenso adds that "[[=Thoth-Amon=]] is too crafty to be trapped or slain as one would do with a common man"
* IntergenerationalRivalry: He is centuries older than his arch-nemesis, Conan the Cimmerian.
* KarmaHoudini: He gets away with his crimes in the Howard-written stories.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: However, in the de Camp and Carter pastiches, he loses his influence and network of allies, is pursued by Conan to the ends of the earth, [[spoiler:and in ''Shadows of the Skull'', he is killed by Conn]].
* KillAndReplace: In Dark Horse Comics, he does this to his friend Amon in order to become a priest of Ibis.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm:
** In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he abandons his bid for the Zingaran throne after the Cobra Crown is destroyed.
--->'''Thoth-Amon''': ''It is time to cut our losses. The Crown is ruined—burnt out.''
--->'''Black Zarono''': ''Let me go! We still have a good chance, and I'll kill that swine yet.''
--->'''Thoth-Amon''': ''The gods have ordained that Conan shall win this time''
** In ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'', Thoth-Amon, having spent much of the story seeking the titular ArtifactOfDoom, opts to destroy it alongside Caranthes rather than allow it fall into enemy hands.
* LaserGuidedKarma: In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he betrays his ally Duke Villagro, who hoped who become King of Zingara, by having himself named King instead. This provokes Villagro into seizing the Cobra Crown, which he was able to do because Thoth-Amon had to remove in order to be coronated with the Zingaran crown. As a result, Thoth-Amon gets into a magical fight Villagro, and by the time he kills Villagro and reclaims the Cobra Crown, it has been rendered useless, ruining Thoth-Amons plans to use it for [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]].
* LastVillainStand: In ''Shadows in the Skull'', he faces Conan in battle after being pursued by him the the fringes of the known world, and running out of allies to shield him from Conan's wrath.
* LightIsNotGood: In ''Conan the Buccaneer'' and ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'', he is shown wearing a white robe.
* MadeASlave: He was once enslaved by the outlaw Ascalante.
* TheManBehindTheMan: In ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', he is revealed to be behind Duke Pantho's leading his forces into Poitan.
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: He is behind the monsters Conan faces in ''The God in the Bowl'', ''The Treasure of Tranicos'', and ''The Phoenix on the Sword''.
* ManiacMonkeys: The monster he summons to kill Ascalante resembles a baboon.
* MurderByInaction: He does not act to prevent Conn from killing King Nenaunir.
* NearVillainVictory: He comes close to killing Conan at the climax of ''Shadows in the Skull'', [[spoiler:but he is killed by Conn before he can complete his objective.]]
* NeverMyFault: He blames Conan for Nenaunir's defeat, even though he himself allowed Nenaunir to be killed by Conn.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: In ''Shadows in the Skull'', [[spoiler:Thoth-Amon's body disintegrates after Conn kills him.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: He inadvertently thwarted the assassination attempt on Conan by sending a demon to kill Ascalante.
* NoHonorAmongThieves: In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he is recruited to help Duke Villagro to usurp the throne of Zingara from Fredrugo, but in the climax of the story [[spoiler:he has himself declared king instead.]]
* NobleDemon: Most of the time.
* OhCrap:
** In ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', he has this reaction when he learns Conan and his wizard ally Divitax have the Heart of Ahriman in their possession, moments before the latter uses it to wipe out Thoth-Amon's followers.
** In ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'', he becomes terrified when he is being reprimanded by Set for seeking the Grim Grey God.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou:
** Averted in ''Conan the Buccaneer'', where Thoth-Amon allows Black Zarono to deal with Conan as he sees fit if the opportunity presents himself.
** In ''Shadows in the Skull'', Thoth-Amon insists to his ally Lilit on being the one to end Conan's life.
** During Marvel's ''Conan the King'', he again insists on being the one to kill Conan, this time to his current ally, Baron Maloric.
* OntologicalInertia: One of his curses, the Taper of Death, is mused by Tevek Thul to be able to continue killing the victim even in the event of Thoth-Amon's death.
* OutGambitted: In ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', he sets a trap in Stygia in the hopes of massacring Conan and his army. [[spoiler:However, Conan made sure to bring the wizard Diviatix and the Heart of Ahriman with him before confronting Thoth-Amon, which results in the destruction of Thoth-Amon's organization of wizards and Thoth-Amon himself being forced to flee Stygia.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: In ''The Treasure of Tranicos'', Valenso claims that "[[=Thoth-Amon=]] can raise storms to sink ships and throw down castles."
* PetTheDog: In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he takes his time to rescue his henchman, Black Zarono, from the wrath of Conan and his allies after their plans fail.
* PlayingWithFire: In ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', he primarily attacks his enemies by conjuring green flames.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In the ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', he calls Conan "dog of a northlander savage."
* PragmaticVillainy:
** In ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'', Thoth-Amon, upon learning that his ally Tevek Thul had massacred a village of people who were hostile to Thoth-Amon's ReligionOfEvil, refers to it as "A thorough desecration, but ill-timed and utterly lacking in subtlety."
** At the end of ''Conan the Valorous'', Cha tells Conan that Thoth-Amon is too wise to fool with the powers of the Great Summoning.
* RapidAging: He suffers from this after being exposed to the Heart of Ahriman in ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu''.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He is centuries old.
* ReligionOfEvil: He is the high priest of the cult of Set.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: He is on the delivering end in ''Conan the Valorous'', where he uses [=SenMut=] as a [[TheMole spy]] in the household of a rival sorceress Hathor-Ka, only to hand him over to Hathor-Ka for punishment as part of a deal he makes with her, saying that that "I have no use for him. He would betray me as easily as he did you."
* RingOfPower: The Serpent Ring of Set.
* SavedByCanon: Since some of his appearances in pastiches, such as ''The Treasure of Tranicos'', ''Conan the Buccaneer'', and ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'' are set before the events of the Howard story ''The Phoenix of the Sword'', Thoth-Amon's survival in them is a ForegoneConclusion.
* ShadowArchetype: To both Conan and Kalanthes. In Conan's case they're both driven men who rose from humble origins to achieve greatness; the difference is that Conan (despite being amoral at times) never abandoned his humanity and is proud of his heritage while Thoth is ashamed of his and sacrificed everyone he ever loved for power. In Kalanthes's case Thoth came from humble origins and should have known what it was like to be oppressed yet stepped on others, whereas Kal was born in privilege but was willing to help the weak and less fortunate.
* ShroudedInMyth: According to ''The Hour of the Dragon'', "the western world knew [[=Thoth-Amon=]] only as a figure of terror and myth."
* SiblingMurder: He committed an unintentional example. His sister is killed in a famine that he himself caused. He doesn't learn about it until after the fact from a soldier he sent to find her, but once he is informed of her fate, he shows no remorse for it.
* SicklyGreenGlow:
** In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', his home in the Oasis of Khajar has torcheres which glow green.
** He has the ability to cast green flames.
** He also gives a green glow when teleporting away.
* SlasherSmile: In ''Savage Sword of Conan'' #191, his grinning face is seen in the eye of Ee-Ch'ing, as an indication that Thoth-Amon is possessing Ee-Ch'ing.
* SoleSurvivor: Of a caravan attacked by Ascalante's reavers in Koth. Ascalante had everyone else killed, but kept Thoth-Amon as a slave after learning his identity.
* StartOfDarkness: The Book of Thoth describes his origins, and details his fall from somewhat ruthless but still having humanity to a monster who cares for no one.
* StrippedToTheBone: This happens to Thoth-Amon after Conn stabs him. However, the bones quickly crumble as well.
* SummonMagic: He has the power to summon monsters. One such demon is summoned by Thoth-Amon's ring to kill Ascalante.
* SupervillainLair:
** He has his home at the Oasis of Khajar. It is a red sandstone building, and the narration of ''Conan the Buccaneer'', is is described as being "better called a palace than a mere house."
** In ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', he has an ElaborateUndergroundBase beneath the titular statue.
* TakeOverTheWorld: In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he plans to use the Cobra Crown for world domination.
-->'''Thoth-Amon''': ''At last! With this, the empery of the world is within my grasp! and the holy rule of Father Set shall be restored over lands near and far.''
* ATasteOfTheLash: He suffered this at the hands of Ascalante.
* TheTheocracy: In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', Black Zarono suspect that Thoth-Amon will turn Zingara into one if he succeeds in securing his kingship.
-->'''Conan the Buccaneer''': ''Zarono had no illusions about the gratitude that he could expect from Thoth-Amon, should the Stygian make good on his claim to the Zingaran throne. All the posts of real power and wealth would doubtless go the the Stygian priests of Set.''
* ThreatBackfire: After Conan threatens Thoth-Amon by telling him [[ImpliedDeathThreat this will be their final meeting]], Thoth-Amon's response is to turn Conan's threat on its head and declare that he will be the only one who survives their encounter.
-->'''Thoth-Amon''': ''For the last time, you say? So be it! From this encounter, but one shall emerge alive, and that will be myself.''
* UngratefulBastard: In ''Red Moon of Zembabwei'', he is granted refuge from his enemies by King Nenaunir. Thoth-Amon repays him by allowing Conan's son Conn to kill Nenaunir, because Nenaunir insisted on Thoth-Amon being a "regent or governor" instead of an equal partner.
* TheUsurper: In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he attempts to usurp the throne of Zingara from King Ferdrugo.
* VillainExitStageLeft: He flees in ''Conan the Buccaneer'', ''The Witch of the Mists'', ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', ''Red Moon of Zembabwei'', and ''Conan and the Grim Grey God''.
* VillainKiller: In ''The Phoenix of the Sword'', he kills Baron Dion with a knife, and Ascalante through a demon he summons. In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he kills Duke Villagro with his magic.
* VillainTeamUp:
** In the Dark Horse comics, he makes one with Tsotha-lanti following the latter's defeat in that continuity's adaptation of ''Literature/TheScarletCitadel''.
** [[DefiedTrope Defied]] in Marvel's ''The Savage Sword of Conan''. Thulsa Doom attempts to team up with Thoth-Amon, but Thoth-Amon rejects him on the grounds that he is untrustworthy.
* VillainOfAnotherStory: In the original stories, while Thoth-Amon's machinations often caused trouble for Conan, the two were never in opposition.
* VillainousBreakdown: In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', when he realizes the Cobra Crown, which he planned to use to TakeOverTheWorld, has been rendered useless, he curses and discards it, before making his VillainExitStageLeft.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: He has a hard time getting along with his supposed allies. In ''The Witch of the Mists'', Louhi decides to keep Conan alive (against Thoth-Amon's protests for her to just kill him) as her prisoner so she can use him as leverage against Thoth-Amon. In ''Red Moon of Zembabwei'', King Nenaunir refuses to share power with him, deiging to make him his underling instead, [[spoiler:leading to a spurned Thoth-Amon to allow Conn to kill him.]] He also feigned allegiance to the serpent-folk, while also seeking to undermine them. In ''Shadows of the Skull'', he argued with the serpent-folk's ruler, Queen Lilit, over Conan's life.
* WeCanRuleTogether: In ''Red Moon of Zembabwei'', Thoth-Amon makes this offer to a fellow villain, King Nenaunir. However, Nenaunir dismisses him as a has-been, declaring that [[ICanRuleAlone he will rule the world alone]], and that the best Thoth-Amon can hope for is governing one of the regions he conquers. [[spoiler:Shortly after this rebuttal, Thoth-Amon [[MurderByInaction allows Nenaunir to be killed]] by Conn.]]
* WeMeetAgain: He says this to Conan when confronting him in both ''Red Moon of Zembabwei'' and ''Shadows in the Skull''.
* WeNeedADistraction: In ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', it is revealed that he used Duke Poitain to distract Conan so his thieves could infiltrate Tarantia.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Kalanthes.
* WeWillMeetAgain: He declares this to Conan at the end of ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'': "One day we shall meet again, dog!"
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim:
** In ''The Witch of the Mists'', He unsuccessfully attempted to convince his ally Louhi to kill Conan as soon as possible.
** Ironically, in ''Shadows in the Skull'', Thoth-Amon allows Conan to reawaken instead of killing him while he was still unconscious. Conan himself internally wonders why Thoth-Amon passed up an easy opportunity to kill Conan.
* WizardDuel:
** He has one with Diviatix in ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu''.
** In ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'', he participates in two separate duels, one against the [[{{Necromancer}} necromancer]] Tevek Thul, and another with the Ibis priest Caranthes.
* WorldsStrongestMan: In terms of magical prowess. The ''Witch of the Mists'' refers to Thoth-Amon as "earth's mightiest black magician," and the following story, ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu'', has him face Diviatix, who Conan refers to as "the greatest white magician alive on earth in our age," in a WizardDuel. Said duel results in Thoth-Amon destroying Diviatix's MagicStaff, [[spoiler:and Diviatix only emerges victorious with the aid of the Heart of Ahriman.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: In ''Red Moon of Zembabwei'', Thoth-Amon plans to kill Conan's teenage son, Conn, alongside his father. Before he can carry out his threat, he is stopped by his ally Nenaunir, who decides to sacrifice him to Damballah instead.
* YouFool: In ''Conan the Buccaneer'', he shouts "Give me the Cobra Crown, fool!" to his ex-ally Duke Villagro, who stole the Cobra Crown from Thoth-Amon after the Stygian sorcerer betrayed Villagro. Villagro refuses to return it.
* YouHaveFailedMe:
** In ''Conan the Invincible'', he threatens Imhep-Aton with this if the latter is unable to bring down Amanar and Morath-Amanee.
** In ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'', he himself is threatened with this fate by Set if he cannot reclaim the Black Ring, or if the Grim Grey God falls into enemy hands. Immediately afterwards, Thoth-Amon plans to invoke this against his pawn Tevek Thul (whose foolish massacre of a village is part of the reason Set is upset with Thoth-Amon) by allowing the Taper of Death to kill him.
* YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive: In ''The Treasure of Tranicos'', he tells Count Valenso of Korzetta that he will not be able to escape his demise
-->'''Thoth-Amon''': ''Did you think to flee me once mor? It is too late for that! All your schemes shall avail you naught, for tonight I shall send a messenger to you. It is the demon that guarded the treasure of Tranicos, who I have released from his cave and bound to my service. He will inflict upon you the doom, that you, you dog, have earned: a death at once slow, hard, and disgraceful. Let us see you mulct your way out of that!''
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In ''Conan the Valorous'', he hands his spy [=SenMut=] over to the sorceress Hathor-Ka, who he was spying on for Thoth-Amon, after haveing no more use for him.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: He can inflict this using the Taper of Death, as he does on the [[{{Necromancer}} necromancer]] Tevek Thul.
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!!Literature/TheFrostGiantsDaughter

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The daughter of Ymir encountered by a young Conan in ''Literature/TheFrostGiantsDaughter''.
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[[folder:King Yezdigerd]]
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Yezdigerd is the King of Turan, an Eastern nation in the distant Vilayet Sea and considered the mightiest empire to have ever existed. He is the son of King Yildiz, one of Conan's former employers. First referenced in ''The Devil in Iron'' where he is Jehugir Agha's boss, and referenced again in ''The People of the Black Circle'', where he is the boss Kerim Shah, who arranges the assassination of the King of Vendhya. Yezdigerd makes his first full appearance in the pastiche novel ''The Return of Conan'', where Yezdigerd and his minions hunt for Conan, who left Aquilonia in order to rescue his wife Zenobia from the EvilSorcerer Yah Chieng. However, Conan turns the tables on Yezdigerd and kills him once and for all. Yezdigerd is expanded in the Marvel Comics where he is a frequent rival to Conan after initially employing the barbarian as a mercenary against the people of Makkalet. In the Marvel Comics, Yezdigerd is also father to a woman named Yolinda, and the grandfather to her two [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Human Hybbrids]], Salbatanu and Zosara.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: In ''The Road of Turan'', Roxana claims the the Turanian people are afraid of him, and even Artaban, one of Turan's own generals are willing to betray him. Later in the same story, another Turanian general is introduced, who alse planned to betray Yezdigerd in favor of Teyaspa, claims that "the people will rise against [[=...=]] Yezdigerd if they have anyone else to follow."
* AbusiveParents: Towards his daughter, Yolinda, in the comics. He would would have had her stoned if Yildiz let him have his way.
* AdaptationExpansion: In Marvel Comics, Yezdigerd is a reccurring on-page character, both as a prince and as a king.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: According to ''The Return of Conan'', Conan and Yezdigerd never met in person until the events of the novel, which is set after the events of ''The Hour of the Dragon''. In Marvel Comics, however, Conan and Yezdigerd have several face-to-face meetings over the years, going as far back as when Yezdigerd was still only a prince.
* AmbitionIsEvil: In order to increase his territory, Yezdigerd wages war, and even orchestrates the assassination of the King of Vendhya.
* ArchEnemy: He regards Conan as one of his most hated foes for repeatedly spoiling his plans and never managing to get payback. The narration of ''The Return of Conan'' refers to Yezdigerd as "His [[=Conan's=]] most implacable enemy." Interestingly, ''The Return of Conan'' also mentions that Conan never met Yezdigerd personally until the events of said story. In Marvel Comics, on the other hand, Conan and Yezdigerd meet directly on several occasions, with Conan even having been a subordinate of Yezdigerd, then a only a prince, before their falling out. The comics establish Yezdigerd also despises Conan for [[ScarsAreForever disfiguring his face]], which was a souvenir from the aforementioned falling out.
* BadBoss: In the ''Return of Conan'', he has several of his men put to death.
* TheBadGuyWins:
** Despite not appearing in person during the story, ''The Road of the Eagles'' ends with both his father, King Yildiz, and his uncle, Prince Teyaspa, dead, clearing the way for him to become the ruler of Turan.
** In The War of the Tarim Arc in Marvel's ''Conan the Barbarian'', Prince Yezdigerd sacks the city of Makkalet. Slightly [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], in the sense that the Living Tarim's death prevents Yezdigerd from taking him alive, but Yezdigerd simply covers his failure up with an ElCidPloy.
** In ''Savage Sword of Conan'' #235, Yezdigerd orders to kill his daughter Yolinda are successfully carried out.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: In ''Conan of the Red Brotherhood'', he allows the wizard Crotalus to experiment on a puppy.
* BadassNormal: Despite having no supernatural abilities, Yezdigerd is one of the most powerful characters in the setting, turning Turan into the most powerful nation in Hyboria through his intellect and ruthlessness.
* BeardOfEvil: In ''The Return of Conan'', he is described as having "a short black beard." He also has a beard in the War of the Tarim Arc in Marvel's ''Conan the Barbarian''.
* BerserkButton: In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #19, he becomes enraged after Fafnir insinuates he is HidingBehindReligion. He was about to draw his sword against Fafnir before Conan successfully appealed to the prince's sense of [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou pragmatism]].
* BigBadEnsemble: With [[EvilSorcerer Yah Chieng]] in ''The Return of Conan''. Although Yah Chieng triggers the main plot of the story by kidnapping Zenobia, the efforts of Yezdigerd and his forces to hunt down Conan after he sets off to rescue her take up a large portion of the story.
* [[BigFancyCastle Big Fancy Palace]]: As seen in ''The Return of Conan'', his palace in Aghrapur has many rooms and is decorated luxuriously. His throne room alone is descibed as holding what was likely a thousand people. On the outside, it's appearence is compared to "a giant vulture of gold and marble."
* BlingOfWar: In ''The Return of Conan'', he goes into action wearing "silvered Turanian mail and a gold-spired helmet."
* BloodKnight: According to ''The Return of Conan'', Yezdigerd enjoys being a direct participant in the field of combat.
* BreakoutVillain: He was TheGhost in Howard's stories, and made his first on-page appearance during the pastiche novel ''The Return of Conan'', [[spoiler:where he was killed off in the middle of the story.]] However, he becomes a recurring character in the pages of Marvel Comics.
* BringHimToMe: He has a captured Conan brought before him in his throne room in ''The Return of Conan''.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #19, he prepares to attack Fafnir for offending him, but is convinced by Conan to spare his life after being reminded that he will need all the help he can get for his upcoming war against Makkalet.
* CheshireCatGrin: He has one in ''Savage Sword of Conan'' #112, when he offers to make Conan a general, while three scantily-clad women present him with a heap of treasure.
* ClassicVillain: Ambition, Greed, and Wrath.
* ClimaxBoss: In ''The Return of Conan'', Yezdigerd is killed by Conan midway through the story, he is a far more prominent figure in the overall franchise than the story's actual BigBad, [[EvilSorcerer Yah Chieng]], who is merely a [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villain of the Week]]. Many of the adversaries Conan faces in the first half of the story answer to Yezdigerd.
* ColdBloodedTorture: After Yezdigerd's minions capture Conan, they imply that this fate awaits him. After Conan escapes Yezdigerd's place, Yezdigerd announces his intention to inflict this on Conan and Rolf after they escape his palace.
-->'''King Yezdigerd''': ''When I have caught these dogs, they shall suffer the agonies of a thousand deaths in the torture chambers of Aghrapur.''
* ConspicuousConsumption:
** As shown in ''The Return of Conan'', his palace is extremely luxurious, and shows off his empire's wealth. He also has a silken couch to sit on in his war galley.
** In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #23, one of the pavilions of Yezdigerd war camp has an interior of golden lion statues, a golden throne for Yezdigerd, and a golden chair next to it for his councilor Sulimar, while several dancing girl perform for him.
--->'''''Conan the Barbarian'' #23''': ''Few men notice when evening falls again on the pavilions of the Turanian camp...for the golden splendor of Prince Yezdigerd makes the night scarcely less glorious than day.''
* TheConqueror: Under his rule, Yezdigerd has made Turan more than twice as large as it was before.
* CreepySouvenir: In ''Savage Sword of Conan'' #131, Yezdigerd's Jegungir Agha threatens Lord Khovan, another one of Yezdigerd's subordinates, by telling Khovan that Yezdigerd keeps a collection of preserved heads.
* CurbStompBattle:
** He is on the receiving end from Conan during their ThroneRoomThrowdown in the Aghrapur palace in ''The Return of Conan''.
** He is also on the receiving end of one from Conan in ''Conan the Barbarian'' #20. When Yezdigerd tries to prevent Conan from escaping his ship following Conan's killing of a Turanian officer, Conan "[[=slashes=]] his cheek [[=sending=]] him reeling backwards."
* DecapitatedArmy: After Yezdigerd is killed by Conan, his surviving crew on his war gallety promptly surrender to Conan's pirates.
* DecapitationPresentation:
** In ''The Return of Conan'': Ghandar Chen sends Yezdigerd a message promising to give him Conan's head.
** In the comics, Mikhal "The Vulture" Oglu and Oshmaan the Executioner both intend on bringing Conan's head to Yezdigerd. Both of them fail.
* DefiantToTheEnd: He utters his last words at Conan during their final fight in ''Return of Conan'', moments before losing his head to the Cimmerian warrior: "I saw your hand in this, Cimmerian cur! By Erlik, now you shall reap your deserts! Die, barbarian dog."
* DemandingTheirHead: In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #23, he tells Mikhal "The Vulture" Oglu to bring him Conan's head.
-->'''Prince Yezdigerd''': ''I know only that, when you bring me the infidel's head, your reward shall be thrice its weight in gold.''
* DirtyCoward: Conan insinuates that Yezdigerd is a coward when he is brought before him, mocking him for "[[=waging=]] your wars with the help of women" instead of getting his own hands dirty.
* TheDragon: In The War of the Tarim Arc in Marvel's ''Conan the Barbarian'', he is acting on the orders of his father, King Yildiz, to massacre the city of Makkalet.
-->'''Prince Yezdigerd''': ''Nor would wise [[GreaterScopeVillain Yildiz]] trust any to lead the hosts against Makkalet save his own son and heir.''
* TheDreaded: In ''The Road of the Eagles'', Yezdigerd, who was still a prince back than, is mentioned by Roxana as being feared by the people of Turan because of his cruelty.
* DrowningMySorrows: In ''The Return of Conan'', he is drinking wine while complaining about the difficulties he faces in pursuing Conan.
* ElCidPloy: After the Living Tarim is killed, Yezdigerd conceals his death by covering his remains in clothing and parading it through the city of Makkalat.
* TheEmperor: Of the Turanian Empire, and yes, he is very despotic, brutish and expansionist.
-->'''Literature/TheDevilInIron''': ''Yezdigerd, king of Turan, was the mightiest monarch in the world. In his palace in the great port city of Aghrapur was heaped the plunder of empires. His fleets of purple-sailed war galleys had made Vilayet an Hyrkanian lake. The dark-skinned people of Zamora paid him tribute, as did the eastern provinces of Koth. The Shemites bowed to his rule as far west as Shushan. His armies ravaged the borders of Stygia in the south and the snowy lands of the Hyperboreans in the north. His riders bore torch and sword westward into Brythunia and Ophir and Corinthia, even to the borders of Nemedia. His gilt-helmeted swordsmen had trampled hosts under their horses' hoofs, and walled cities went up in flames at his command. In the glutted slave markets of Aghrapur, Sultanapur, Khawarizm, Shahpur, and Khorusun, women were sold for three small silver coins—blonde Brythunians, tawny Stygians, dark-haired Zamorians, ebon Kushites, olive- skinned Shemites.''
* EnemiesList: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'' by the EvilSorcerer Tevek Thul, who pretends to be in the service of Yezdigerd.
-->'''Tevek Thul''': ''And King Yezdigerd records the names of those who impede his allies, lest their discourtesy goes unforgotten.''
* EqualOpportunityEvil: According to ''The Return of Conan'', his throne room hold a gathering of people from various races throughout the Hyboria, including Nemedians, Ohpirans, Shemites, Vendhyans, and the Black Kingdoms. Yezdigerd uses these people as a way of either building ties with, or conspiring against, their native lands in order to increase his own power and influence.
* EvilIsPetty: In the comics, Yezdigerd is obsessed with killing Conan because of a scar Conan gave across his face.
-->'''Prince Yezdigerd''', ''Conan the Barbarian'' #21: ''For, so long as the black-maned barbarian who gave me this scar still walks the face of the earth...Even for so long is Yezdigerd the most miserable of men.''
* EvilLaugh: He let out one after telling one of his generals about his intention to torture Conan and Rolf.
* EvilOverlord: He rules over an massive empire which practices slavery, and he wages war against other nations for the sake of increasing his wealth and power.
* TheEvilPrince: In Marvel's ''Conan the Barbarian'', Yezdigerd orchestrates an assassination attempt against his own father, King Yildiz, only to be foiled by Conan.
* EvilVersusEvil:
** In ''The People of the Black Circle'', Khemsa and his lover plan to raise in army (which they plan to fund by selling Devi Yasmina to him) to "oust [[=Yezdigerd's=]] Turanians from the hills" so they can [[StartMyOwn build their own]] empire. However, they are killed by the Black Seers of Yimsha before they get that far.
** In ''The People of the Black Circle'', Yezdigerd is competing with his former ally, the Master of Yimsha, for the possession of Devi Yasmina. The Master even kills Kerim Shah, one of Yezdigerd's minions, over the issue.
** In ''The Roadof the Eagles'', Yezdigerd is being conspired against by Artaban, a Turanian general who plans on putting Yezdigerd's uncle, Prince Teyaspa, on the throne instead. Within the story, he is described by Roxana as being a "cruel, gloomy youth," while General Artaban is mentioned in the narration to have once massacred a ship of innocent merchants in order to pay off his gambling debts.
* {{Expy}}: He was originally based on [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Suleyman the Magnificent]] from Robert E. Howard's short story ''Literature/TheShadowOfTheVulture'', since he sends an skilled hunter known as the Vulture to track down TheHero.
* Fiction500: According to ''The Devil In Iron'', Yezdigerd's palace holds "the plunder of empires."
* FingerInTheMail: In Marvel Comics, he receives the head of one of his underlings, Mikhal "The Vulture" Oglu, in a chest.
* FluffyFashionFeathers: His turban in ''The Return of Conan'' is described as vaving bird-of-prey feathers. The feathers get damaged by Conan's scimitar.
* {{Foil}}: To Conan. Both are the rulers of powerful nations, with Conan ruling the Western nation of Aquilonia, and Yezdigerd ruling the Eastern nation of Turan. However, while Conan was a foreign barbarian who won his throne by overthrowing a powerful tyrant, Yezdigerd inherited his throne from his father Yildiz. In ''The Scarlet Citadel'', Conan mentions that "Today no Aquilonian noble dares maltreat the humblest of my subjects, and the taxes of the people are lighter than anywhere else in the world," while ''The Return of Conan'' describes how a struggling fisherman "must also strain and work to meet the taxes imposed by [[=King Yezdigerd=]]," and that "[[=King Yezdigerd's=]] taxgatherers had supple whips and no compunction about using them."
* GemEncrusted: The hilt of his scimitar has jewels.
* TheGhost: He never appears in any of Howard's stories, but he is mentioned in ''The Devil in Iron'', and ''The People of the Black Circle''. He is also referenced as an important background character in the pastiches ''The Road of the Eagles'' and ''Black Tears'', but he doesn't appear in those stories either.
* GoldMakesEverythingShiny: In ''The Return of Conan'', the doors to his throne rome is gold-worked, the trumpets in his throne room are golden, this throne is golden, his clothes are golden, he drinks wine out of a golden beaker, and when he is dressed for battle, he wears a "gold-spired helmet".
* GreaterScopeVillain: Several villains that Conan faces are Yezdigerd's subordinates such as Shah Amurath and Oshmaan, but they are almost always acting in their own accord rather than the Emperor himself.
** In ''The Devil in Iron'', he is the person who Jehungir Agha, the AntagonisticGovernor trying to kill Conan, reports to.
** In ''The People of the Black Circle'', he enlists the Black Seers of Yimsha, to assassinate King Bunda Chand of Vendhya, in order to make it easier for him to conquer Vendhya. Yezdigerd also plans to make Devi Yasmina his concubine, with his agent, Kerim Shah, serving as the main agent for Yezdigerd's will throughout the story.
** In ''Black Tears'', Conan spends much of the story pursuing Vardanes, a comrade who betrayed him to Yezdigerd's faction.
** ''Sons of the White Wolf'', a story from ''The Savage Sword of Conan'' #37 features a rogue subordinate of Yezdigerd known as Oshmaan the Executioner as the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villain of the Week]]. After Oshmaan's imperialist ambitions fall through, he intends to go back to working for Yezdigerd by killing Conan for him.
* {{Greed}}: According to ''The Devil in Iron'', he keeps wealth plundered from other empires inside his own palace, and according to ''The Return of Conan'', he forces city-states in Brythunia and eastern Shem to pay him tribute, and his navy robs foreign merchants in his name. The text of ''The Return of Conan'' outright describes him as "an insatiable plunderer."
* HeroesActVillainsHinder: In ''The Return of Conan'', he interferes with Conan's quest to rescue his wife Zenobia from the EvilSorcerer Yah Chieng.
* HidingBehindReligion: In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #19, Yezdigerd uses the kidnapping of the Living Tarim, an important Hyrkanian religious figure, to justify his father's decision to wage war against Makkalet. However, upon hearing this explanation, Conan's companion, Fafnir, mentions this war would also rid Aghrapur of an economic rival. In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #26, he uses an ElCidPloy to cover up the Living Tarim's death.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Yezdigerd decides to lead a couple of [[SlaveGalley Slave Galleys]] in pursuit of Conan. After Conan's pirates [[SlaveLiberation free the slaves]], [[TheDogBitesBack they immediately proceed to help the pirates]] fight Yezdigerd's men.
* HonorRelatedAbuse: He wishes to kill her daughter after learning she is pregnant.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: He is on the receiving end in ''Conan the Barbarian'' #23, when he is terrified by the presence of Mikhal "The Vulture" Oglu, despite Oglu being on his side.
-->'''''Conan the Barbarian'' #23''': ''Even Yezdigerd, ruthless heir-apparent to the throne of Turan, can scarcely repress a shudder at the dimly-illumind form which now stands before him. For this is Mikal Oglu, whose name is a quivering on both sides of the storm-corsed Vilayet Sea. Mikhal Oglu--most noted slayer in a nation of slayers...Mikhal Oglu--called the Vulture''
* HornsOfVillainy: He wears a horned helmet in ''The Savage Sword of Conan'' #87.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: After pursuing a pirate crew led by Conan, Yezdigerd ships crashes in shallow waters, leaving them vulerable to a counterattack from Conan's crew.
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Authority (He is the ruler of Turan), Birthright (He is the previous ruler's son), Money (According to ''The Return of Conan'', he uses material wealth to entice people into going after Conan), and Fear (He executes minions who fail him as an example to other minions)
* IHaveNoDaughter: In Marvel Comics, he disowns his daughter, Yolinda, after she becomones pregnant.
* IWantThemAlive: In ''The Return of Conan'', when one of Yezdigerd's minions tries to kill Conan, another one of them insists that Yezdigerd will reward them if Conan is brought to him alive.
* IntimidatingRevenueService: His tax collectors whip taxpayers in order to collect payment.
* ItsPersonal: In ''The Return of Conan'', Yezdigerd wants revenge on Conan for "[[=slaughtering=]] his soldiers, [[=burning=]] his cities, and [[=scuttling=]] his ships."
* KarmaHoudini: He never answers for his actions during the Howard's stories.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: In the pastiche novel ''The Return of Conan'', [[spoiler:he is killed by Conan after trying to kill the Cimmerian warrior one time too many.]]
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. In ''The Return of Conan'', the last scene before Yezdigerd's death shows Conan and his pirates preparing to attack Yezdigerd's flagship. The next scene skips over to a tavern sometime later, where one of the pirates who was present during the fight narrates the final confrontation between Conan and Yezdigerd in elaborate detail to other people in the tavern (and the reader)]]
* TheKingslayer: While he doesn't carry out the deed himself, he arranges the assassination of Bunda Chand, the King of Vendhya, with the assistance of the Black Seers of Yimsha.
* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He is willing to have his own daughter, Yolinda, killed.
* KneelBeforeZod:
** The narration of ''The Return of Conan'' mentions, he forced King Mithridates of Zamora to do this in order to keep his position.
** However, in ''The Return of Conan'', he is unable to force [[DefiantCaptive Conan]] to do so, even when one of Yezdigerd's men attempts to physically force him to.
* LargeAndInCharge: The text of ''The Return of Conan'' describes him as "a swarthy giant of a man."
* LaserGuidedKarma: Slavery was widespread throughout Yezdigerd's empire, and Yezdigerd's final defeat at Conan's hands was assisted by freshly-freed [[GalleySlave Galley Slaves]].
* LeeroyJenkins: When pursuing Conan, he sails straight into through an archipelago instead of around it like his admiral and shipmaster suggested, ignoring their warnings that the ship might be grounded. Sure enough, his ship crashes into a sandbank.
* LightIsNotGood:
** He is described as wearing golden clothing and a white turban in ''The Return of Conan''.
** In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #275, part of his outfit is wife.
* LightningBruiser: As shown in ''The Return of Conan'', he is capable of dealing a "swift and powerful blow" which "No ordinary man could have avoided or stopped."
* {{Lust}}: He has a [[RoyalHarem seraglio]], and seeks to make Devi Yasmina its newest member.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste:
** During his introduction scene in ''The Return of Conan'', he is described as wearing silk and gold clothing, and a white turban with feathers.
** in the epilogue of ''Conan the Barbarian'' #23, Yezdigerd is seen wearing purple clothing, red and golden headwear, a necklace, and a cape.
* MiscarriageOfJustice: In ''Savage Sword of Conan'' #112, he has Numallah, one of his Captains, put to death after suffering a defeat, unaware that he was being used as a [[TheScapegoat scapegoat]] by the [[GeneralFailure incompetent General]] Orne'q, whose orders Numallah was following.
* MrExposition: In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #19, Yezdigerd narrates the legend of Tarim and the kidnapping of the Living Tarim by the city-state of Makkalet in order to explain to Conan and Fafnir he is roping them into participating in.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His flagship is called the ''Scimitar''.
* NeverMyFault: He ignores warnings not to takes his ship into unsounded waters, and when his ship crashes, he has two men executed.
* OhCrap:
** His reaction to seeing Mikhal "The Vulture" Oglu standing over him, despite Oglu being his ally.
** He also has a shocked expression when he finds Oglu's head in a chest.
* OhMyGods:
** In ''The Return of Conan'', he exclaims "By Erlik, now your shall reap your just desserts" during his final fight with Conan.
** In ''Conan the Barbarian #19'', he shouts "By the crimson heart of Erlik, i'll--"
* OffWithHisHead: In ''The Return of Conan'', He has two of his men executed in this manner after his ship crashes into a sandbank. Shortly afterwards, [[spoiler:he himself is killed by Conan this way.]]
* OffingTheOffspring: In Marvel Comics, he is willing to have his own daughter, Yolinda, killed. [[spoiler:He eventually succeeds.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Most of the times King Yezdigerd comes into conflict with Conan, he leaves his underlings to do the legwork instead of getting his hands dirty himself. Conan actually lampshades this when brought before Yezdigerd in ''The Return of Conan''.
-->'''Conan''': ''You wage your wars with the help of women. Can you handle a sword yourself? I'll show you how a real man fights!''
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain:
** In ''The Return of Conan'', Yezdigerd refers to Conan as a "Cimmerian cur" and a "barbarian dog" [[spoiler:moments before his death at the hands of the latter.]]
** In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #23, he refers to one of the dancing girls entertaining him as a "wench."
* PragmaticVillainy:
** Despite his hatred for Conan, Yezdigerd is willing to hire him to bring down a group of conspirators who seek to depose him.
** In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #19, he is talked down from attacking Fafnir by Conan on the grounds Yezdigerd will need as many "living men" as he can get to help him fight against the city of Makkalet.
--->'''Prince Yezdigerd'': ''True enough. You'll do me no good resting in some shark's belly.''
** In ''Conan of the Red Brotherhood'', Yezdigerd Plays this Trope Straight during his youth by dismisses the idea of slave laber as short-lived and unreliable in battle. By the time of ''The Return of Conan'', set late in his life, however, he's [[SubvertedTrope abandoned this pragmatism]] by using galley slaves to pursue Conan, which results in the galley slaves revolting against Yezdigerd.
** Also in ''Conan of the Red Brotherhood'', he criticizes the idea of {{Conscription}} because he believes that arming and training civilians will make them harder to control.
* {{Pride}}:
** In ''The Return of Conan'', Yezdigerd complains that "The red-handed barbarians have escaped and mocked the majesty of Turan."
** In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #19, he takes personal offense then Fafnir insinuates that Turan's supposedly regligiously-motivated war against Makkalet is actually financially motivated, preparing to draw a sword on Fafnir for "[[=speaking=]] thus to the once and future majesty of Turan" before Conan intervenes.
* PurpleIsPowerful:
** According to ''The Devil in Iron'', his war galleys, which dominate the Vilayet Sea, have purple sails on them.
** In the epilogue of ''Conan the Barbarian'' #23, Yezdigerd is seen wearing purple clothes.
** He wears purple pants in ''Conan the Barbarian'' #275.
* PuppetKing: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''The People of the Black Circle'', where Devi Yasmina questions if Yezdigerd is the Master of Yimsha's puppet upon learning the Master was helping Yezdigerd for [[HiddenAgendaVillain unknown reasons]].
--->'''The Master of Yimsha''': ''My acolytes in the temples of Turan, who are the priests behind the priests of Tarim, urged me to bestir myself in behalf of Yezdigerd. For reasons of my own, I complied. How can I explain my mystic reasons to your puny intellect? You could not understand.''
--->'''Devi Yasmina''': ''I understand this: that my brother died!''
--->'''The Master of Yimsha''': ''As Yezdigerd desired. For a while it was my whim to further his ambitions.''
--->'''Devi Yasmina''': ''Is Yezdigerd your vassal?''
--->'''The Master of Yimsha''': ''Is the dog that licks up the offal in the temple yard the vassal of the god?''
* RapePillageAndBurn: According to ''The Devil in Iron'' Yezdigerd is known to order cities to be burned, and much of his fortune came from plundering other lands. In The War of the Tarim Arc in Marvel's ''Conan the Barbarian'', he does this to the city of Makkalet on the orders of his father, King Yildiz.
* RedIsViolent: The Marvel Comics sometimes depict him wearing red as part of his getup, and he is a violent man.
* RedRightHand: The scar on his face in Marvel Comics.
* RevengeMyopia: In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #20, then-Prince Yezdigerd orders the death of Conan for killing his henchman Balthaz, who had ordering one of Conan's friends (who was also working for Yezdigerd) thrown overboard after [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness deeming him useless]]. During his escape, Conan scars Yezdigerd's face after Yezdigerd tries to prevent him from escaping, which causes Yezdigerd to develop a lifelong grudge against Conan. This is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Conan during his confrontation with Yezdigerd in ''Conan the Barbarian'' #275.
--->'''Prince Yezdigerd'': '''It's only my personal vengeance that needs concern you--Revenge for the scar you gave me, a decade past, on the Vilayet Sea!'''
--->'''Conan''': ''After you let one of your Turanian pigs toss my comrade Fafnir overboard--Because he lost an arm in fightingand was [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer of any use to you]]! I wasn't trying to kill you then--But on second thought, I should have been--A mistake I'll correct tonight!''
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: He has Zorka, a treacherous former comrade of Conan, put to death by one of his officers, Commander Grimm, after receiveing information from him.
* TheRichWantToBeRicher: Yezdigerd, who is already a king, spends his reign plundering riches and collecting tribute from other lands, as well as imposing heavy taxes on his subjects.
* RiskingTheKing: In ''The Return of Conan'', Yezdigerd personally travels aboard one of the two war galleys he sends after Conan. [[spoiler:It gets him killed.]]
* RoyalBrat: In ''The Road of the Eagles'', Roxana describes then-Prince Yezdigerd as a "cruel, gloomy youth."
* RoyalHarem: Being an wealthy emperor of a large kingdom, it shouldn't come to a surprise he can afford to have as many wives and concubines as he wants. In fact, this causes a complication in the Dark Horse comics where an ArrangedMarriage is made between him and Queen Taramis so she can become his newest wife in exchange for Turan protecting her kingdom Khauran, but due to some dispute with ''another marriage'' with a different princess leads to him sending an messenger to call off the union. In ''The People of the Black Circle'', he seeks to make Devi Yasmina on of his concubines.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: In ''The Return of Conan'', Yezdigerd personally leads a hunt for Conan and faces him in battle.
* {{Sadist}}: He find amusement at the thought of torturing Conan and Rolf.
* ScarsAreForever: In Marvel Comics, Yezdigerd has a scar on his face, courtesy of Conan.
* ShieldsAreUseless: His shield is destroyed by Conan during their duel aboard the ''Scimitar'', [[spoiler:immediately before Conan decapitates him.]]
* ShootTheDangerousMinion: In ''The Savage Sword of Conan'' #37, it is mentioned that he did this do his councilor, Sulimar.
* SinisterScimitar: In ''The Return of Conan'' Yezdigerd wields a scimitar when Conan confronts him in his own throne room, which gets wrecked. His also brings a scimitar with him during his subsequent pursuit of Conan. Additionally, Yezdigerd named his flagship the ''Scimitar''.
* SlaveGalley: He uses these as warships, pursuing Conan with them after he flees Aghrapur. This end up backfiring on him, as the galley slaves end up rebelling against him.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: According to ''The Devil In Iron'', the slave trade is large in many Turanian cities under Yezdigerd's rule, selling women from various lands.
* SlouchOfVillainy: He is introduced lolling in his throne in ''The Return of Conan'', which is his first on-page appearance in Conan media.
* TheStrategist: He is described as being this in ''The Return of Conan'', having used his intelligence to expend Turan's territory.
* SuccessionCrisis: In ''The Return of Conan'', Conan mentions that Yezdigerd had no successors at the time of his dearth, and predicts this will result in the Turan being fractured by Shahs and Aghas.
* SuperiorSuccessor: He is considered a stronger and more effective ruler than his father, King Yildiz.
* SuppressedRage: When a captive Conan is brought before him during ''The Return of Conan'', the narration states that "The lust for vengeance churned up within him [[=Yezdigerd=]], but he held himself in check while the guardsmen knelt and touched their foreheads to the marble floor." After Conan subsqeuently escapes, Yezdigerd stops suppressing it.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Yezdigerd has complained about his underlings on multiple occasions.
** He sends Jehungir Agha a message, which Agha described during ''The Devil in Iron'' as "[[=Yezdigerd=]] [[=complaining=]] bitterly of what he calls [[=Agha's=]] failures to guard the frontier." Ironically, in ''The Return of Conan'' it was him ignoring his subordinates' advice by sailing into unsounded that led into a downfall, as he ended up crashing his flagship, leaving it vulnerable to an attack from Conan's pirates, [[spoiler:which ended up costing Yezdigerd his life.]]
** In ''The Return of Conan'', Yezdigerd, upon learning Conan and one of his companions escaped his palace, asked "Are my soldiers sucklings, that they cannot lay two men low?"
** Later in ''The Return of Conan'', Yezdigerd, while in pursuit of Conan, complains that "My cursed amirals need half a day to put my flagship to sea." Moments afterward, after being assured by his minion Thanara that they will have Conan in their grasp, Yezdigerd responds by complaining about his henchmen's repeated failures to capture Conan, saying that "My henchmen have often thought so, yet that scoundrel has tricked his way out of every trap. Now for once I am the hunter!" I will personally see that he escapes not."
* ATasteOfTheLash: His tax collectors use this method on the populace. He also subjects his [[GalleySlave Galley Slaves]] to this when pursuing Conan.
* TheTeetotaler: In ''Conan of the Red Brotherhood'', set during his time as a prince, he abstains from drinking alcohol out of religious devotion to Tarim. He loses this trait as time goes on, as in ''Black Tears'', set early during his reign as king, he is mentioned in the narration as having private wine cellars, and in ''The Return of Conan'', set many years afterwards, he is shown drinking wine.
* TemptingFate: In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #23 he responds to Mikhal Oglu's BadassBoast that "If I bring you not his head...I give him leave to send you mine." (Which itself is an example of TemptingFate) by telling Oglu "He'd take you up on that, I trow." Sure enough, the issue ends with Conan sending Yezdigerd Oglu's head.
* ThroneRoomThrowdown: He has a brief swordfight with Conan in his own throne room, before his men take him to safety while Conan fights his wat out of Yezdigerd's palace.
* TitleDrop: Played With in ''Conan the Barbarian'' #21. Yezdigerd doesn't namedrop the title for the current issue ''The Monster of the Monoliths'', but rather for the upcoming issue ''Conan the Barbarian'' #23, which is titled ''The Shadow of the Vulture'', as a method of {{Foreshadowing}}.
--->'''Prince Yezdigerd''': ''Soon, though, a shadow will fall across the doomed land...The Shadow of the Vulture''
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: He succeeds his lenient (by Turanian standards) father Yildiz as the ruler of Turan, becoming an cruel and aggressive warmonger. In ''The Road to the Eagles'', many Turanians fear that the then-Prince Yezdigerd will become this, so a group of conspirators attempted to put his uncle Teyaspa on the throne instead. They fail.
* TheUnfought: Due to being TheGhost, Yezdigerd never fights Conan in any of Howard's stories. [[spoiler:Subverted in ''The Return of Conan'', where Yezdigerd finally fights Conan directly, not once but twice, the first time in Yezdigerd's throne room, and the second aboard Yezdigerd's war galley.]] Averted in Marvel Comics, where Conan had directy fought with Yezdigerd as early as Yezdigerd's princely years, which scar on Yezdigerd's face can attest to.
* UnseenNoLonger: After being TheGhost in Howard's stories, Yezdigerd makes his on-page debut in ''The Return of Conan''.
* VillainNoLongerIdle: In ''The Return of Conan'', Yezdigerd (eventually) gets personally involved in the pursuit of Conan. He mentions that whenever his underlings thought they had Conan cornered, Conan found a way out. [[spoiler:It gets him killed.]]
* VillainOfAnotherStory: Being a powerful military genius with a massive empire at his disposal and a personal grudge with Conan could have easily made a threat out of him. Yet, he is too busy running his empire to confront his enemy face-to-face. [[spoiler: [[VillainNoLongerIdle Until]] ''The Return of Conan'', that is.]]
** In ''The Road of Eagle'': The story's main antagonist General Artaban, is seeking to prevent Yezdigerd's rise to power.
** In ''Conan and the Grim Grey God'', one of the story's main villains, Tevek Thul, pretends to be a servant of Yezdigerd.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** He has one ''The Return of Conan'' after being tricked by Conan into crashing into a sandbank.
-->'''King Yezdigerd''': ''I will hunt that dog to the ends of the earth! The whole thing smacks of that devil Conan! I'll warrant he is aboard. Will Khogar never get this cursed tub afloat?''
** In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #23, he leaves his pavilion in shock after being delivered the head of Mikhal "The Vulture" Oglu, who he sent to kill Conan.
* VillainousCrush: He wishes to make Devi Yasmina of Vendhya has concubines, which puts him conflict with his former ally, [[EvilSorcerer the Master of Yimsha]], who also desires to have Yasmina as a slave.
* VillainousDemotivator: After his men fail to prevent Conan's escape, he orders a fraction of his guards to be executed in order to motivate the remainder.
* VillainousFriendship: In the comics, he has one with Mikhal "The Vulture" Oglu, as seen in ''Conan the Barbarian'' #23. He refers to the Vulture as his friend, although Yezdigerd does fear making an enemy out of him.
-->'''Prince Yezdigerd''': ''Better to have you at my side, old friend...than at my back."
* VisionaryVillain: In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #19, Yezdigerd's dialogue reveals that even as a prince, he had ambitions of expaning Turan.
-->'''Prince Yezdigerd''': ''I, Yezdigerd -- Who one day shall spread the borders of Turan beyond my sire's wildest dreams!''
* {{Wrath}}: He is a brutal warmonger, a BadBoss who repeatedly executes or threatens his underlings, and has a strong desire for vengeance against Conan.
* WhoDares:
** In the ''The Return of Conan'', he uses this as a way of berating his men for failing to prevent Conan's escape from his palace.
--->'''King Yezdigerd''': ''You have dared to fail!''
** He also has this reaction in ''Conan the Barbarian'' #19, after Fafnir questions Turan's motives for waging war against Makkalet.
--->'''Prince Yezdigerd''': ''You dare speak thus to the once and future Emperor of Turan!?''
* WhyWontYouDie: He screams for Conan to die during their duel aboard the ''Scimitar'' in ''The Return of Conan''.
* WouldHitAGirl: In the comics, he is perfectly willing to order a woman's death...[[OffingTheOffspring His own daughter]], to be more specific.
* WreckedWeapon: His scimitar is broken by Conan during their brief fight in Yezdigerd's throne room.
* TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone: In ''The Road of the Eagles'', Roxana believes that Prince Yezdigerd, despite being the son of the reigning King Yildiz, is unfit to inherit the throne of Turan because of his cruelty, and conspire to make his uncle Teyaspa king instead. Ultimately, the plan fails, and Yezdigerd becomes king.
* YouExclamation: In the comics, this is his reaction when he wakes up to see [[TheDreaded Mihkal "The Vulture" Oglu]] standing over him.
* YouHaveFailedMe: There are several occasions where he executes or threatens his underlings, or one of his underlings threatens another with Yezdigerd's wrath.
** In ''The Devil in Iron'', [[AntagonisticGovernor Jehungir Agha]], who just received an angry message from Yezdigerd, fears Yezdigerd will have him replaced if he continues to displease them.
--->'''Jehungir Agha''': ''The king grows short on patience. In his own hand he complains bitterly of what he calls my failure to guard the frontier. By Tarim, if I cannot deal a blow to these robbers of the steppes, Khawarizm may own a new lord.''
** In ''The Return of Conan'', he has one-tenth of his guards executed as punishment for failing to prevent Conan's escape (as well as a way "to bolster the courage of the rest"), and later has another two of his men executed after his war galley crashes in shallow waters.
** Also in ''The Return of Conan'', Thanara tries to intimidate Ardashir into compliance by [[ImpliedTrope implying]] that Yezdigerd might inflict this on him after losing a company of men.
--->'''Thanara''': ''What will happen to you when the king learns you have lost a whole company of his precious Imperials but escaped without a scratch himself''
** In ''The Savage Sword of Conan'' #87, he threatens to crucify an underling if he can't fulfill his orders.
** In ''Savage Sword of Conan'' #112, he has Captain Numallah executed after suffering a costly defeat in Rymra Pass. Later in the same story, he does this to General Orne'q, having been informed by Conan that Orne'q was responsible for the aformentioned defeat in Rymra Pass, as well as Orne'q's subsequent failure to prevent Fort Khenat from falling into enemy hands.
** In ''Savage Sword of Conan'' #131, [[MouthOfSauron Jehungur Agha]] threatens Lord Khovan with this fate on Yezdigerd's behalf.
--->'''Jehungir Agha''': ''I grow weary of these revelries, Lord Khovan. The king is weary of your failure to deal with these kozaki.''
--->'''Lord Khovan''': ''My lord Jehungir Agha, I swear by Tarim that I shall pile the severed heads of these kozaki before the throne...If not heads, then hands...or ears...or something.''
--->'''Jehungir Agha''': ''Be careful the king doesn't appoint your lieutenant, Shah Amaruth, as your successor--After he's had your head preserved with honey and brine to add to his collection.''
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #20, Yezdigerd's soldiers throw Conan's friend, Fafnir, who was also fighting for Yezdigerd, off the ship after he loses an arm. While it was Yezdigerd's subordinate, Balthaz, who gave the order to so, Yezdigerd allowed it to happen, something Conan angrily reminds Yezdigerd about in ''Conan the Barbarian'' #275.
* YouShallNotPass: In ''Conan the Barbarian'' #20, he personally blocks Conan's escape route after the latter kills on of the former's subordinates onboard the former's ship, even ordering Conan to stop. However, Yezdigerd is quickly defeated by Conan, who promptly jumps overboard.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: According to ''The Return of Conan'', "lines crisscrossed his stern and gloomy features ten years too early."
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!!Literature/ThePeopleOfTheBlackCircle

[[folder:Devi Yasmina]]

The ruler of Vendhya following the death of her brother Bhunda Chand.
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* [[Characters/ConanTheBarbarianThothAmon Thoth-Amon]]

* GreenEyedMonster: In ''The Phoenix on the Swords'', he is envious that his subordinate Prospero for being able to travel to Nemedia while Conan is tied home by his official duties.

[[folder:Thoth-Amon]]
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Thoth-Amon is a Stygian wizard, Lord of the Black Ring and High Priest of Set. First introduced in ''The Phoenix on the Sword'', he is notable in that, despite being portrayed as something of an ArchEnemy to Conan, the two of them never actually meet each other in direct confrontation in the Howard stories.

[[folder:Epemitreus the Sage]]
Epemitreus is a sage who lives centuries before Conan's time, having dedicated his life opposing Set. Even after his death, he appears to Conan in a dream to help him combat Set's influence.

[[folder:King Numedides]]
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King Numedides was Conan's predecessor to the throne of Aquilonia, slain by Conan himself when Conan took the throne.

* NoBadassToHisValet: To his boss, King Conan. In ''The Phoenix on the Sword'', Conan, who is uspet at not being able to travel to Nemedia, complains of Publius' insistence that "that affairs in the city require [[=Conan's=]] presence."

[[folder:Prospero]]

Prospero is a Poitanian who serves as one of Conan's most important subordinates during his reign as King of Aquilonia

* NumberTwo: Ascalante refers to him as "King Conan's right-hand man."
* TemptingFate: He deems an assassination attempt on Conan with his own city to be impossible. Shorty afterworld, an attempt on Conan's life comes very close to succeeding.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: In ''The Phoenix on the Sword'', he suggests for Conan to execute Rinaldo for slandering him. Conan reject this suggestion, deeming him to be untouchable.

[[folder:Thoth-Amon]]
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Thoth-Amon is a Stygian wizard, Lord of the Black Ring and High Priest of Set. First introduced in ''The Phoenix on the Sword'', he is notable in that, despite being portrayed as something of an ArchEnemy to Conan, the two of them never actually meet each other in direct confrontation in the Howard stories.

** In ''Shadows of Zamboula'' he uses a NeckSnap to kill Ball-Pteor, who used [[NeckSnap Neck Snaps]] to carry out hundreds of human sacrifices (Baal-Pteor even mentioned strangling women, children, and the elderly).

** In ''The Slithering Shadow'', he defeats the EldritchAbomination Thog.
** In ''The Devil in Iron'', he defeats the HumanoidAbomination Khosatrel Khel.

** Prior to the start of ''Rogues in the House'', Conan kills a priest who betrayed him and his Gunderman companion to the authorities, leading to the Gunderman being hanged.

** ''Die yourself, jackal of Turan!" (to King Yezdigerd in ''The Return of Conan'')

** In ''The Scarlet Citadel'', he kills Prince Arpello, the tyrannical PuppetKing installed by his enemies, and King Strabonus, an ambitious monarch seeking to gain a foothold in Aquilonia.

** In ''Shadow sof the Moonlight'', he kills Shah Amurath (The man who massacred Conan's kozaks and Olivia's abusive master) and the pirate captain Sergius.

* VillainKiller: In the Howard stories, his kills include Strabonus, Thugra Khotan, Shah Amurath, Sergius, Thak, Nabonidus, Khosatrel Khel, Zogar Sag (by killing the demon he is [[{{Synchronization}} synchronized]] with), Baal-Pteor, Totrasmek, Prince Olmec, and Tolkemec. In the pastiches, he kills Olgerd Vladislav, King Yezdigerd, Yah Chieng, and Sagyetha. His killing of King Numedides is first referenced in the Howard story ''The Phoneix in the Sword'', but depicted in the pastiche novel ''Conan the Liberator''. In the Marvel Universe', he kills Thulandra Thuu and [[spoiler:the resurrected Thoth-Amon.]]

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: In ''The Road of Turan'', Roxana claims the the Turanian people are afraid of him, and even some of Turan's own generals are willing to betray him. later in the same story one such Turanian general, who himself was planning to betray Yezdigerd in favor of Teyaspa, claims that "the people will rise against [[=...=]] Yezdigerd if they have anyone else to follow."

* EldritchAbomination: He is a god-demon who appears as a serpentine creature coalesce from mist.

[[folder:The Devourer of Souls]]

Introduced in Marvel Comics, Wrarrl, also known as the Devourer of Souls, is an interdimensional being who has antagonized Conan on multiple occasions.

* EvilIsBigger: He is taller than Conan.
* ForcedTransformation: He has the power to inflict this on his victims in order to devourer of souls.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: He has red eyes.
* SoulEater: He eats peoples' souls. He is even called the Devourer of Souls.
* TinTyrant: He has this appearance.
* YourSoulIsMine: He devourers the souls of his victims.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Diana]]
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A character from an untitled Howard story that was never finished during his lifetime and was published under the name ''A Snout in the Dark''. She was a Nemedian slave caught up in the court intrigue of the Kushite city of Shumballa. Diana receives a substantially bigger role in the comics; she was a Brytunnian noblewoman who accompanied her sister Natala and her brother-in-law in search of a treasure when they were attacked by pirates in service to Thoth-Amon. They tortured Natala's husband to death, while the sisters were sold to slavery. However, they were the two people who know where the treasure is currently located.
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[[folder:Yah Chieng]]
From ''The Return of Conan'', Yah Chieng is a Khitan sorcerer who kidnaps Zenobia.

* EvilVersusEvil: He is an enemy of Set, another malevolent diety.
* SoulsEater: He devourers the Souls of his victims. His epitet is even "Eater of Souls"

* BigNo: He shouts one when feeding Amanar's SoulJar to Morath-Amanee.

[[folder:Oshmaan the Executioner]]
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A one-shot villain from ''Savage Sword'' who stands out for being one of the vilest enemies that Conan had fought against. Oshmaan is a Hyrkanian warlord in service to Turan who deserts to create his own horde, the Sons of the White Wolf, who aim to create their own empire.

* BigBad: Since his accomplices Thutkekri and Zargheba are off-page antagonists, with the latter even being KilledOffScreen halfway through the story, Gwarunga effectively serves as the story's main on-page villain. Gwarunga's on-page villainy entails trying to kill Muriela in the penultimate chapter after she betrays Thutmekri, and later trying to kill Conan in the final chapter of the story, and his off-page villainy entails giving "secret of the pool-entrance to Zargheba" in order make it possible for Thutmekri and Zargheba replace Yelaya with an imposter to decive the Keshans.

* EldritchAbomination: In ''Conan of the Isles'', he appears as a "black cloud that cloud that had taken the shape of some amorphous sea creature"

** In ''Conan the Valorous'', he has a relatively role in the plot compared to the story's [[BigBadEnsemble two main villains]], Hathor-Ka and Jaganath, but he is more cunning and powerful than they are. Thoth-Amon offers assistance to one of the story's main antagonists, Hathor-Ka, [[spoiler:as a ploy to destroy her. At the end of the story, following the deaths of Hathor-Ka and Jaganath, the Khitan Wizard Cha tells Conan that Thoth-Amon could have stopped the conflict a long time ago, but allowed it to progress in the hopes it would rid him of his rivals.]]

** Subverted In ''Red Moon of Zembabwei'', where he is unable to overcome [[GodOfEvil Set]], the GreaterScopeVillain of the franchise. Conan only survives because his son Conn kills Set's summoner, King Nanaunir before Set can destroy Conan.

* DamselInDistress: At the beginning of the story, she is a prisoner of King Bajujh before Conan slays her captors, and later in the story, she is captured again by a group of women who try to sacrifice her to an EldritchAbimonation.

[[folder:The winged one]]

!!Literature/ThePoolOfTheBlackOne

[[folder:Sancha]]
A former Zingaran noblewoman who was kidnapped by Zaporavo.

* CowerPower: When her captor throws her down, "she grovelled, crying with pain and terror."
* HappinessInSlavery: The narration mentions "she found pleasure in her existence" as Zaporavo's plaything
* MadeASlave: By Zaporavo.
* MsFanservice: She removes all of her clothing and swims to the island the crew of the ''Wastrel'' are visiting, and she spends the remainder of the story "deck naked as Eve."
* SexSlave: She was forced to become Zaporavo's plaything.

[[folder:Zaporavo]]
The captain of the ''Wastrel'' before Conan took over.

[[folder:King Bajujh]]
The King of Bakalah.

* ChronicBackStabbingDisorder: He plans an attack on Jihiji despite wth truce he made with them, and Conan expects Bajujh to do betray him as well.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: He is killed halfway through the story, leaving th "devil from the Outer Dark" and the women of the Vale as the story's endgame antagonists.
* OffWithHisHead: On the receicing end.
* VillainousGluton: He "[[=crams=]] his froglike mouth to capacity with handfuls of mealies scooped up from a vessel held up to him by a kneeling women."

[[folder:Livia]]

An Ophiran noblewoman held captive by King Bajujh.

* BlueBlood: She belongs to "the house of Chelkus, scientists and noblemen of Ophir."
* SexForServices: She offers herself to Conan if he kills Bajujh.

!Characters from non-Howard stories

[[folder:The Bone Woman]]
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A mysterious and sinister crone with magical powers, she turned Janissa into her unquestioning enforcer and ordered her to serve as bodyguard to Kalanthes.

!Characters from non-Howard stories

[[folder:The Bone Woman]]
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A mysterious and sinister crone with magical powers, she turned Janissa into her unquestioning enforcer and ordered her to serve as bodyguard to Kalanthes.

* DealWithTheDevil: She offers her protection to Conan from Thoth-Amon. Him being GenreSavvy and knowing what happened to [[BreakTheCutie Janissa]], he refuses.
* EvilMentor: To Janissa. The way she turned an innocent girl into a cold assassin was despicable.
* EvilOldFolks: While her motives for protecting Kalanthes and Conan are mysterious, there is no denying that this crone is evil.
* InstrumentOfMurder: Instead of some wand or staff, she uses a flute to canalize her magic in order to raise and control zombies or to [[spoiler:manipulate an EldritchAbomination such as Nazu]].
* ManipulativeBitch: [[spoiler:She faked her death at Janissa's hands and then instilled her desire to start a slave liberating crusade in her former student by assuming the form of a female slave. This was all a ploy to direct her towards the Tower of Silence, massacre the Priests of Asura and then summon a Great Old One]].
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: She is very diminutive in size. Think of an [[EvilCounterpart evil]] [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]].
* OffWithHerHead: How Janissa kills her.
* OhCrap: Has one when Conan kills Nazu via the massive chime in the tower.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: That is pretty much how she is known for.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Her robes are adorned with several little bones, giving meaning to her name.
* VillainousBreakdown: Has a slight one when Conan tells her to go to hell.
* WickedWitch: She got the look down in the part, except for the pointed hat.

[[folder:Captain Bor'Aqh Sharaq]]
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Created for the Marvel-branded ''Savage Sword of Conan'' comics, Sharaq was a ruthless Barachan pirate member who crossed swords with Conan and ended up losing a hand and being left for death, but survived and vowed revenge on the Cimmerian at any cost.

* ArtificialLimbs / SwissArmyAppendage: His prosthetic arm that can be fitted with a sword, an axe or a spring-powered throwing iron.
* BadassNormal: Most of Conan's enemies were dark wizards, Sharaq only got a metal arm with detachable blades and a very dark determination.
* BerserkButton: Conan the Cimmerian is the biggest one for him, but the prospect of any one else killing him but Sharaq himself sends him in a frenzy.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Has a tendency to [[UngratefulBastard kill people who help him out]].
* {{Determinator}}: Despite being a villain, he is more of this trope than an ImplacableMan, since he keeps coming back through sheer force of will.
* EscapedFromHell: In the second confrontation with Conan, Sharaq was thrown into a sacrificial pit and dragged to a infernal dimension by the very hands of a demon-god. He was forced to serve said demon-god, who created a device to cross over into the mortal plane, but Sharaq waited for his master to sleep long enough to steal the device and go back home.
* EyeScream: His right eye was gouged out under torture to reveal where Conan is. [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou He refused even more to tell his captors since only he is allowed to kill the Cimmerian himself]].
* HandicappedBadass: Losing his sword hand in a duel with Conan and later an eye to Zingarans have only made him ''more dangerous''
* HumanPopsicle: His ultimate fate is being frozen in place.
* JokerImmunity: He survived things that any other person would have died from: being thrown off a tower, dragged to another dimension, turned into a statue. It got to the point even the writers were sick of him.
* KickTheDog: Let's see: killing an elderly couple who saved him after his escape from the Zingarans, murdering the blacksmith who forged his mask and metal arm, raping a young woman right after he killed her lover, testing the rapid aging dust on a prostitute, holding an entire family hostage... The list is very long.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: He vowed by the gods that he would take Conan's life himself and not even under pain of torture he would reveal his location.
* ThePowerOfHate: His hate for Conan keeps him alive.
* TalkLikeAPirate: He distinctly spoke this manner in this introduction. This comes to bite him in the ass big time when a couple of Zingaran sailors find him marooned in an isle and he pretends he is just a Zingara fisherman, but his accent completely gives him away and the others recognize him as Captain Sharaq and promptly arrest him.
* TakenForGranite: A cat-like monster turned him into a gem statue, though he managed to recover.

[[folder:Conn]]
First appearing in ''The Witch of the Mists'', he is the firstborn son of Conan and Zenobia.

* DistressedDude: In ''The Witch of the Mists'', he is kidnapped by the Hyperboreans, who are allied with Thoth-Amon.
* ExtremelyProtectiveChild: In ''Red Moon of Zembabwei'' and ''Shadows in the Skull'', [[spoiler:he kills King Nenaunir and Thoth-Amon respectively]] to save his father's life.
* NonProtagonistResolver: In ''Shadows of the Skull'', [[spoiler:He is the one who kills the longtime villain Thoth-Amon, not his father Conan.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Conn resembles his father Conan.
* SunkCostFallacy: After getting lost hunting after a white stag, Conn expects to be punished by his father for wandering to far, but continues hunting the stag in the hopes that his success would impress Conan enough to dampen his anger.

[[folder:The Devourer of Souls]]

Introduced in Marvel Comics, Wrarrl, also known as the Devourer of Souls, is an interdimensional being who has antagonized Conan on multiple occasions.

* EvilIsBigger: He is taller than Conan.
* ForcedTransformation: He has the power to inflict this on his victims in order to devourer of souls.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: He has red eyes.
* TinTyrant: He has this appearance.
* YourSoulIsMine: He devourers the souls of his victims.

[[folder:Diana]]
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A character from an untitled Howard story that was never finished during his lifetime and was published under the name ''A Snout in the Dark''. She was a Nemedian slave caught up in the court intrigue of the Kushite city of Shumballa. Diana receives a substantially bigger role in the comics; she was a Brytunnian noblewoman who accompanied her sister Natala and her brother-in-law in search of a treasure when they were attacked by pirates in service to Thoth-Amon. They tortured Natala's husband to death, while the sisters were sold to slavery. However, they were the two people who know where the treasure is currently located.

* AdaptationExpansion: Receives a much bigger role in the comics.
* AttemptedRape: In the comics, Eamon the Flayed tries forcing himself on her, but she fights him off and ends up killing him.
* BittersweetEnding: She briefly reunites with her sister, but they go separate ways when Natala decides to accompany Conan and Diana joins Abit.
* BrokenBird: Diana and her sister were taken as slaves and were separated when she was sent to a RoyalHarem. She becomes even more broken following her ordeal in ''Conan the Avenger''.
* CuteMute: In the comics, after being mutilated by Tanada.
* DamselInDistress: In her backstory and her current state.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: She undergoes a lot of trauma in her backstory and during the comic's storyline, but her ultimate fate is ascending to the throne of Shumballa as Abit's queen after he is chosen to be their new monarch.
* MadeASlave: Just like Natala, she was sold to slavery by Amon's minions. However while Natala became merely a menial worker, Diana had the even more unfortunate fate of being forced into a harem.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In the ''Conan the Avenger'' comics, she is Natala's sister whereas in the original books there was no such indication they were related.
* SexSlave: To the King of Shumballa.
* TongueTrauma: Her tongue is torn out by the king's sister Tanada because Diana was given as a gift by her political rival Thuthmes to the king to manipulate him.

[[folder:Diviatix]]

A Pictland druid who aids Conan against Thoth-Amon during ''Black Sphinx of Nebthu''.

* TheAlcoholic: He is infamous for his penchant for alcohol
* TheArchmage: Conan calls him "the greatest white magician on earth in our age."
* DavidVersusGoliath: He is the David to Thoth-Amon's Goliath.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Diviatix is able to wield the Heart of Ahriman without succumbing to power hunger.
* LightIsGood: He wears white robes, and he is a benevolent magician.
* MagicStaff: His staff has the ability to "[[=sprout=]] fresh young leaves."
* PintSizedPowerhouse: When he has the Heart of Ahriman in his possession, he has the power to crush the sorcerers of the Black Ring, despite his small size.
%% * WhiteMagic: He practices this type of magic.

[[folder:Duke Feng]]
A Khitan guide who betrays Conan.

* BigBad: Of ''The Curse of the Monolith''.
* EvilReactionary: He attempts to orchestrate the deaths of Conan and his men into order to prevent the culture of his kingdom, Kusan, from outside influence, which he fears is being threatened by a treating his own king signed with Conan's employer, King Yildiz of Turan.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He behaves with mock politeness when taunting Conan.
-->'''Duke Feng''': ''Forgive the ruse, O noble savage! It was needful that this person concoct some tale to appeal to your primitive lust for gold, in order to allure you hither alone.''
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He is killed by the very monster he planned to kill Conan with.
* ManipulativeBastard: He manages to lure Conan into a deadly trap with false promises of treasure.

[[folder:Duke Villagro]]
Appearing in ''Conan the Buccaneer'', Villagro is a Zingaran nobleman who seeks to usurps the throne of Zingara from King Ferdrugo.

* AristocratsAreEvil: He is a Duke who is plotting against his king.
* LeanAndMean: The narration of ''Conan the Buccaneer'' describes him as lean and elegant.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Throughout most of the story, he relies on Black Zarono, Menkara, and Thoth-Amon to do the heavy-lifting for him. However, once Thoth-Amon betrays him, Villagro steals the Cobra Crown and dons it himself, giving him enough magical power to pose a serious challenge to Thoth-Amon.
* TheUnfought: He is killed by Thoth-Amon become Conan has a chance to fight him.

[[folder:Jalung Thongpa]]
* Appearing in ''The City of Skulls'', Jalung Thongpa is the ruler of Meru.

* AdiposeRex: He is described as "short and fat."
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: He attempts to force Zosara, the daughter of King Yildiz, to marry him.
* BaldOfEvil: He is bald, and he kidnaps Zosara to be his bride and sends Conan and Juma into slavery.
* BigBad: Of ''The City of Skulls''.
* GodEmperor: He is referred to by his subjects as a god-king.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He is crushed to death by a statue which was animated through his own prayers.
* RedRightHand: He has a mismatched face, with one half "[[=hanging=]] slackly from the bone and [[=bearing=]] a blank, filmed eye."

[[folder:Janissa the Widowmaker]]
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Introduced in the Dark Horse comics, Janissa was originally a Zingaran lady turned into a warrior woman who fought side by side with Conan.

* AmazonBrigade: By the time she is reintroduced in ''Conan the Avenger'' comics, she is leading an all-female warband of ex-slaves she had freed and trained to fight.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She wanted to get away from her controlling father and not be forced into an ArrangedMarriage, but unfortunately she sought [[EvilOldFolks the Bone Woman]] of all people to turn her into a fighter.
* CharacterDevelopment: Was rather coarse and rude when she first met Conan; by the time they meet again she's far more calm and thoughtful, and even respects Conan for indirectly inspiring her to finally stand up to the Bone Woman.
* DarkActionGirl: A brutal and ruthless fighter who served as an assassin for her EvilMentor.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Conan is utterly shocked after hearing her backstory, but she brushes off any attempt of sympathy from him.
* TheDragon: To the Bone Woman, originally.
* DualWielding: Her favored weapons are two curved swords.
* FoeRomanceSubtext: With Conan when they meet in Avengers.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: She sports a large one in the left side of her face. Not very a very disfiguring one, mind you.
* HeelFaceTurn: Introduced as an AntiVillain, she rebels against her EvilMentor and starts fighting for a noble cause.
* LadyOfWar: Despite not being lady-like, her movements are surprisingly graceful and elegant.
* RapeAsBackstory: As part of her training, Janissa had been repeatedly raped by demons every night until she could find a way to fight them off.
* SlaveLiberation: After turning away from the Bone Woman's service, she embarks on a new quest to free any woman she can find, build an army and eventually take on Shem and Turan, the biggest slave-trades in Hyboria - its something that Conan definitely approves.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her outfit [[BareYourMidriff bares her stomach]] and even features some {{Underboobs}}
* TookALevelInKindness: Is far more pleasant when Conan meets her in the Akrel Oasis; they even part on amicable terms.
* TrainingFromHell: The Bone Woman trapped Janissa in a cave and summoned demons to attack her every night. If they overpowered her, they would beat and rape Janissa. The Bone Woman then proceeded to augment her strength with magic and advised her on battle tactics, until Janissa grew so deadly with the blade that she managed to slay the monsters for a month. Then the Bone Woman implies they were manifestations of her own mind.

[[folder:Juma]]
Introduced in ''The City of Skulls'' Juma was Conan's comrade during his as a mercenary for King Yildiz of Turan.

* BirdsOfAFeather: He and Conan, who has much in common, namely their impressive heights and their status as outsiders, quickly became good friends when they met as mercenaries for Turan.
* GalleySlave: Like Conan, he is forced to work on a galley during ''The City of the Skulls''.
* MadeASlave: He was kidnapped and sold into slavery when he was a child., and in ''The City of Skulls'', he is enslaved once again the the Meruvians.
* NonProtagonistResolver: In ''The City of Skulls'', it is he, not Conan, who kills [[BigBad Jalung Thongpa]] by throwing him into the path of the very statue Jalung animated.

[[folder:Kalanthes]]
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High priest of Ibis, the peaceful Stygian god of knowledge. He is one of the few sympathetic magic users in this setting.

* AnimalMotifs: The ibis bird, obviously. Kalanthes wore at some point a feathered robe resembling his god.
* TheArchmage: He commands a powerful will and magic that arguably rivals any other soul on the continent.
* AscendedExtra: In Howard's tales, he was just a guy Thoth was trying to kill.
* BigGood: In ''VideoGame/AgeOfConan'', he is the primary-quest giver and mentor figure to player characters.
* CoolOldGuy: Kalanthes is supposedly centuries old according to [[WordOfGod Kurt Busiek]].
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: The main reason he failed to stop Thoth's rise to power; he didn't want to believe his friend was evil until it became so obvious it couldn't be ignored.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: A humble and pleasant CoolOldGuy and priest of the Stygian god of knowledge.
* TheHeretic: Ever since Thoth-Amon usurped power in Stygia and made Set its mainstream deity, the priests of Ibis were declared heretical and driven out from their country.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Conan. Kalanthes is centuries older than Conan yet he and Conan view the other with respect (in fact there's one instance when Conan is willing to do something he otherwise wouldn't because Kalanthes is the one who asked.)
* LastOfHisKind: The last still living priest of Ibis.
* OddFriendship: Its hard to imagine someone like Conan being friends with [[AlwaysChaoticEvil a Stygian sorcerer]].
* WhiteMagic: Unusual in Hyboria where most MagicIsEvil. Justified since Ibis is his patron god rather than Set.

[[folder:King Nenaunir]]
King Nenaunir is the ruler of Zembabwei and an ally of Thoth-Amon.

* AttackOnTheHeart: [[spoiler:He is stabbed in the heart by Conn.]]
* BigBad: Of ''Red Moon of Zembabwei''.
* EvilLaugh: He laughs when watching Conan's struggle with Damballah.
* EvilOverlord: He is the ruler of Zembabwei, and he performs human sacrifices.
* HighPriest: Of Damballah (a.k.a. Set).
* HumanSacrifice: He sacrifices people to Damballah.
* ICanRuleAlone: By the time of ''Red Moon of Zembabwei'', Nenaunir makes it clear that he has no intention of sharing power with Thoth-Amon.
* InsistentTerminology: He insists on referring to Set as Damballah.
* {{Lunacy}}: He has the ability to summon Set during a lunar eclipse.
* PurpleIsPowerful: He wears purple robes when attempting to sacrifice Conan and Conn to Damballah, and he is an EvilOverlord.
* ScaryBlackMan: He is a muscular black man who performs [[HumanSacrifice Human Sacrifices]] and plans to TakeOverTheWorld.
* SnakesAreSinister: He possesses a serpent mask and a staff with the head of a serpent (both of which are on his person during the attempted sacrifice of Conan and Conn)
* TakeOverTheWorld: He plans to conquer the world and become its sole ruler.
* ThroneMadeOfX:He has a throne of skulls.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: In ''The Witch of the Mists'', he does not consider Conan to be a threat.

[[folder:Kulan Gath]]
From the Marvel Comics, he is a power-hungry sorcerer who has been the enemy of Conan, Red Sonja, Spider-Man and the Avengers. He is recently the main antagonist of the "Savage Avengers" comics.

* BackFromTheDead: He is resurrected by Armati following his death at the hands of Shuma-Gorath.
* CannibalismSuperpower: He ''eats magicians for their power''. Dr Strange, a rival sorcerer who's seen the worst horrors imagined and beyond that, is repulsed by him.
* EvilIsNotAToy: He is killed by Shuma-Gorath after seeking to control him.
* FreudianExcuse: He grew up a slave and was abused in many ways. This led to him desiring power to avoid that fate forever.
* GodzillaThreshold: In the "Savage Avengers" comic, he has grown so strong that Doctor Strange requires the assistance of many enemies and rivals, from Doctor Doom to the otherworldly beings Shuma-Gorath and Nightmare.
* UnholyMatrimony: With both Vammatar and Armati.

[[folder:Louhi]]
Appearing in ''The Witch of the Mists'' Louhi is a witch who kidnaps Conan's son Conn.

* EvilOldFolks: She is an old woman.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: She is referred to as priestess-queen.
* LeanAndMean: In ''The Witch of the Mists'', she is described as "old, lean, and withered."
* LightIsNotGood: She wears white robes.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: She does not consider Conan to be a threat, despite Thoth-Amon's warnings.
* WickedWitch: Louhi is an old, wrinkly witch, and was complicit in the kidnapping of a child.
* [[ManOnFire Woman on Fire]]: She catches on fire when hot coals light her robes.

[[folder:Oshmaan the Executioner]]
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A one-shot villain from ''Savage Sword'' who stands out for being one of the vilest enemies that Conan had fought against. Oshmaan is a Hyrkanian warlord in service to Turan who deserts to create his own horde, the Sons of the White Wolf, who aim to create their own empire.

* AppropriatedAppelation: Lady Alondra called him a "bloody executioner" for killing her husband, but Oshmaan like the title so much he took it as his ''nom de guerre''.
* DangerousDeserter: He was once a Hyrkanian mercenary employed by the Turanians until he grew sick of fighting their wars against his own people and went rogue.
* DarkMessiah: He adopt the worship of White Wolf, an Hyrkanian pagan deity before the Great Cataclysm and they adopted Tarim and Erlik as gods, and uses it as a rallying banner to unite his army.
* DirtyCoward: After his men are defeated by Conan's nomadic allies, he tries to flee and gloats he will take the Cimmerian's head to the King of Turan so he can rejoin the nation he betrayed.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Tries to claim Alondra for himself as the first woman of his harem.
* RapePillageAndBurn: His ''modus operandi'', starting by pillaging the innocent city of Djebal and slaughtering the entire population except for the young and attractive women, who are made {{Breeding Slave}}s for him and his soldiers.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: While the setting as a whole isn't very friendly to women to begin with, Oshmaan manages to appall others by treating women as breeding stock with the sole purpose of creating a MasterRace so he can take over all of Hyboria.
* VillainousBreakdown: He becomes completely insane when his forces are butchered by Conan's desert allies.
* WouldHitAGirl: As if his treatment of women in general wasn't bad enough, he mistreats Alondra and threatens to [[ATasteOfTheLash whip her]] if she continues to spur his advances. At the climax of his story, him and his men butcher the harem prisoners for no reason but to spite Conan's allies.
* WouldHurtAChild: He has no compunction about putting even ''babes'' to the sword.

[[folder:The Prince]]
Exclusive to the Dark Horse comics, he belongs to a mighty eastern empire in the distant future from Conan's time that had conquered the land that used to be Hyboria. He was sent on a mission to catalog the land's history and comes across the Nemedian Chronicles narrating his life. He is the prince whom the opening narration ("Know o Prince") refers to.

* AudienceSurrogate: The Prince's role is to have someone narrate the story to the audience through him.
* FramingDevice: Conan's accounts are narrated to him by Wazir.
* HeroWorshipper: ''Oh yes''. The Prince expresses both fascination and admiration for Conan's legend and quickly becomes his fanboy, if his excitement at hearing his stories is any indication.
* NoNameGiven: His name is never said in the story.
* NonSpecificallyForeign: Even though he looks fairly Arabic and is mentioned to have come from the vague East, his place of origin is not named in the comic.
* TheUnfavorite: Its stated that he has no love for his father and the feeling is mutual, since the Prince suspects his father will try to [[OffingTheOffspring have him killed at some point]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He hasn't appeared in any new comics ever since Sorrow of Akivasha in 2009.

[[folder:Set]]
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The patron deity of Thoth-Amon, much like his servant he only appeared sparingly in the original books. He is most certainly a bigger threat in the comics, adaptations and spin-off media and serves as the GreaterScopeVillain for the Conan mythos.