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* DarknessEqualsDeath: Literally. Khosatral's necromancy only fully revives the population of Dagon at night, "which is akin to death," as they've been dead to long to be fully restored to true life. By day, they fall into a deathlike slumber.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Jehungir has a Shemite torturer, and just the threat of being turned over to him for an evening is enough to make Octavia's resistance to her part in the plan vanish. Octavia is threatened with this then handed to make Jelal Khan, "a nobleman whose name was a byword for degeneracy." [[NothingIsScarier We're not told what either of them did to or planned for the girl,]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere but it's enough to prompt her act as the bait.to escape.]]
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* BedsheetLadder: How Octavia escapes her captivity for true. [[Literature/XuthalOfTheDusk Though again, with torn tapestries instead of proper bedsheets.]]
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* AsYouKnow: Ghaznavi, a Turanian counselor, tells Jehungir, a Turanian noble, of the island on which most of the action takes place, and how they lost a detachment of troops near it to Conan's ''kozaks''. Lampshaded when Jehungir wryly replies "I am not likely to forget that."
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* BarbarianTribe: Conan is leading them.
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* BarbarianTribe: The ''kozaks'', made up of criminals, deserters, and other undesirables, who've formed their own society. Conan is leading them.
* BlueBlood:Octavia.Octavia was a Nemedian noble before she was MadeASlave.
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* SelfPlagiarism: One of the common complaints against the story, as it blatantly recycles elements from previous stories, ''Iron Shadows in the Moon'' and ''Xuthal of the Dusk'' being the most obvious. Lampshaded with Conan himself comparing the city to Xuthal.
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* ThisWasHisTrueForm: Whatever it was, it's so ghastly that it sends Conan fleeing in fear.
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* ThisWasHisTrueForm: Whatever it was, it's A rare inversion. While Khosatral was human in his life as an EvilSorcerer, when he died, he reverted into something so ghastly that it sends sent Conan himself fleeing in fear.
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* MercyKill: Octavia begs for this when she and Conan are cornered by the apparently invulnerable Khosatral Khel (apparently Khosatral has threatened her with a FateWorseThanDeath). Conan instead tells her that he will hold off Khosatral for as long as possible to give her a chance to escape the island.
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* MercyKill: Octavia begs for this when she and Conan are cornered by the apparently invulnerable Khosatral Khel (apparently Khosatral has threatened her with a FateWorseThanDeath). Conan instead tells her that he will hold off Khosatral for as long as possible to give her a chance to escape the island.
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* MercyKill: Octavia begs for this when she and Conan are cornered by the apparently invulnerable Khosatral Khel (apparently Khosatral has threatened her with a FateWorseThanDeath). Conan instead tells her that he will hold off Khosatral for as long as possible to give her a chance to escape the island.
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* NeutralFemale: Octavia doesn't even try to help out while Conan is fighting [[spoiler:the giant snake.]]
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* SnakesAreSinister: A forty-foot snake is one of the creatures doing Khosatral Khel's bidding.
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* LotusEaterMachine: Conan at first assumes the city is this, due to the drugged, sleepy behaviour of the inhabitants. [[spoiler:Subverted: the townspeople act that way because they are brought back after centuries of death, and Khosatral Khel expends immense amounts of power keeping their mental faculties working.
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* LotusEaterMachine: Conan at first assumes the city is this, due to the drugged, sleepy behaviour of the inhabitants. [[spoiler:Subverted: the townspeople act that way because they are brought back after centuries of death, and Khosatral Khel expends immense amounts of power keeping their mental faculties working.]]
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* LotusEaterMachine: Conan at first assumes the city is this, due to the drugged, sleepy behaviour of the inhabitants. [[spoiler:Subverted: the townspeople act that way because they are brought back after centuries of death, and Khosatral Khel expends immense amounts of power keeping their mental faculties working.
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* SelfPlagiarism: One of the common complaints against the story, as it blatantly recycles elements from previous stories, ''Iron Shadows in the Moon'' and ''Xuthal of the Dusk'' being the most obvious.
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* SelfPlagiarism: One of the common complaints against the story, as it blatantly recycles elements from previous stories, ''Iron Shadows in the Moon'' and ''Xuthal of the Dusk'' being the most obvious. Lampshaded with Conan himself comparing the city to Xuthal.
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[[InMediasRes Conan has been leading a band of kozaks for some time]], and it's causing no end of problems for the local Turanian governor Agha. Noting Conan's [[GenreSavvy predilection]] towards DamselsInDistress, he decides to use his most beautiful slave, Octavia, as bait to lure Conan into a trap. Octavia, looking to escape her enslavement, warns Conan of the attack, and the two flee to a deserted island in the middle of a lake. Unfortunately, this was the governors plan all along, and with his best men he follows them.
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[[InMediasRes Conan has been leading a band of kozaks for some time]], and it's causing no end of problems for the local Turanian governor Agha. Noting Conan's [[GenreSavvy predilection]] towards DamselsInDistress, he decides to use his most beautiful slave, Octavia, as bait to lure Conan into a trap. Octavia, looking to escape her enslavement, warns Conan of the attack, and the two flee to a deserted island in the middle of a lake. Unfortunately, this was the governors governor's plan all along, and with his best men he follows them.
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[[ColdOpen A fisherman lands on a deserted island]], where he finds a danger resting on top of a statue as hard as iron. He takes the dagger for himself, [[JumpScare only for the statue to open its eyes...]]
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[[ColdOpen A fisherman lands on a deserted island]], where he finds a danger dagger resting on top of a statue as hard as iron. He takes the dagger for himself, [[JumpScare only for the statue to open its eyes...]]
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* SelfPlagiarism: One of the common complaints against the story, as it blatantly recycles elements from previous stories, ''Iron Shadows in the Moon'' and ''Xuthal of the Dusk'' being the most obvious.
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[[ColdOpen A fisherman lands on a deserted island]], where he finds a danger resting on top of a lifelike statue of a giant man. He takes the dagger for himself, [[JumpScare only for the statue to open its eyes...]]
[[InMediasRes Conan has been leading a band of kozaks for some time]], and it's causing no end of problems for the local Turanian governor. Noting Conan's [[GenreSavvy predilection]] towards DamselsInDistress, he decides to use his most beautiful slave, Octavia, as bait to lure Conan into a trap. Octavia, looking to escape her enslavement, warns Conan of the attack, and the two flee to a deserted island in the middle of a lake. Unfortunately, this was the governors plan all along, and with his best men he follows them.
[[InMediasRes Conan has been leading a band of kozaks for some time]], and it's causing no end of problems for the local Turanian governor. Noting Conan's [[GenreSavvy predilection]] towards DamselsInDistress, he decides to use his most beautiful slave, Octavia, as bait to lure Conan into a trap. Octavia, looking to escape her enslavement, warns Conan of the attack, and the two flee to a deserted island in the middle of a lake. Unfortunately, this was the governors plan all along, and with his best men he follows them.
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[[ColdOpen A fisherman lands on a deserted island]], where he finds a danger resting on top of a lifelike statue of a giant man.as hard as iron. He takes the dagger for himself, [[JumpScare only for the statue to open its eyes...]]
[[InMediasRes Conan has been leading a band of kozaks for some time]], and it's causing no end of problems for the local Turaniangovernor.governor Agha. Noting Conan's [[GenreSavvy predilection]] towards DamselsInDistress, he decides to use his most beautiful slave, Octavia, as bait to lure Conan into a trap. Octavia, looking to escape her enslavement, warns Conan of the attack, and the two flee to a deserted island in the middle of a lake. Unfortunately, this was the governors plan all along, and with his best men he follows them.
[[InMediasRes Conan has been leading a band of kozaks for some time]], and it's causing no end of problems for the local Turanian
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[[ColdOpen A fisherman lands on a deserted island]], where he finds a danger resting on top of a lifelike statue of a giant man. He takes the dagger for himself, [[JumpScare only for the statue to open its eyes...]]
[[InMediasRes Conan has been leading a band of kozaks for sometime, time]], and it's causing no end of problems for the local Turanian governor. Noting Conan's [[GenreSavvy predilection]] towards DamselsInDistress, he decides to use his most beautiful slave, Octavia, as bait to lure Conan into a trap. Octavia, looking to escape her enslavement, warns Conan of the attack, and the two flee to a deserted island in the middle of a lake. Unfortunately, this was the governors plan all along, and with his best men he follows them.
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On the island, Conan and Octavia are shocked to find a city that wasn't there the day before, full of hanging tapestries, golden banquet halls, and beautiful sleeping people. Heading for the center of the city, they find it's keeper, Khostral Khel, a millennia old HumanoidAbomination who has just awoken from his long slumber, who has [[MindOverMatter brought the]] [[RealityWarper city back]] to it's former glory.
Realizing he is [[MadeOfIron impervious to all attacks]], Conan and Octavia flee, only to run into the governor and his men. While Khostral Khel makes short work of them,
On the island, Conan and Octavia are shocked to find a city that wasn't there the day before, full of hanging tapestries, golden banquet halls, and beautiful sleeping people. Heading for the center of the city, they find it's keeper, Khostral Khel, a millennia old HumanoidAbomination who has just awoken from his long slumber, who has [[MindOverMatter brought the]] [[RealityWarper city back]] to it's former glory.
Realizing he is [[MadeOfIron impervious to all attacks]], Conan and Octavia flee, only to run into the governor and his men. While Khostral Khel makes short work of them,
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Has been adapted into comic form by Creator/MarvelComics in ''The Savage Sword of Conan'', and most recently by Creator/DarkhorseComics in their book ''Conan the Savage''.
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* EldritchAbomination: Khosatral Khel, first appearing as an EvilSorcerer and a {{Necromancer}}, turns out to be this when Conan kills him, reverting to a form so ghastly that it causes Conan to flee in fear.
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* EldritchAbomination: Khosatral Khel, first appearing as an EvilSorcerer and a {{Necromancer}}, turns out to be this when Conan kills him, reverting to a form so ghastly that it causes Conan to flee in fear. In fact, he's stated to be this, as he came from the primordial chaos. The name of the country he's ruled? Dagon.
** HumanoidAbomination: Khosatral Khel, again, as he has taken a human form. His description is a quote for this very trope!
** HumanoidAbomination: Khosatral Khel, again, as he has taken a human form. His description is a quote for this very trope!
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"[[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_Iron The Devil in Iron]]" is a ConanTheBarbarian story by Creator/RobertEHoward. First published in August, 1934.
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"[[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_Iron The Devil in Iron]]" is a ConanTheBarbarian Literature/ConanTheBarbarian story by Creator/RobertEHoward. First published in August, 1934.
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* EldritchAbomination: Khosatral Khel, first appearing as an EvilSorcerer and a {{Necromancer}}, turns out to be this when Conan kills him, reverting to a form so ghastly that it causes Conan to flee in fear from it.
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* EldritchAbomination: Khosatral Khel, first appearing as an EvilSorcerer and a {{Necromancer}}, turns out to be this when Conan kills him, reverting to a form so ghastly that it causes Conan to flee in fear from it.fear.
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* FauxDeath: He finds people rousing from it.
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* EldritchAbomination: Khosatral Khel, first appearing as an EvilSorcerer and a {{Necromancer}}, turns out to be this when Conan kills him, reverting to a form so ghastly that it causes Conan to flee in fear from it.
* FauxDeath:He Conan finds people rousing from it.
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* ActionPrologue: The fisherman breaking into the temple
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* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: The fisherman rouses the evil by his curiosity
curiosity.
* DamselInDistress: Octavia.
* DeadlyDecadentCourt:the The city that appears; what Octavia fled
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* MadeOfIron: The villain, literally, making him nearly invulnerable, to everything except the dagger.
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* ActionPrologue: The fisherman breaking into the temple
*TheBait: Octavia
* BarbarianTribe: Conan is leading them
*BlueBlood: Octavia
*ColdBloodedTorture: Octavia is threatened with this to make her act as the bait.
*CuriosityIsACrapshoot: The fisherman rouses the evil by his curiosity
*DeadlyDecadentCourt: the city that appears; what Octavia fled
*DistressedDamsel: Octavia
* FauxDeath: He finds people rousing from it.
* FemmeFatale: Octavia was ordered into it.
*HumanSacrifice: In the back story
* IntroOnlyPointOfView: the fisherman dies and so exits the story
*MadeASlave: Octavia's BackStory
*{{Necromancer}}: Who roused the city
*RescueSex: Conan is surprised that Octavia rejects this and has to seduce her.
* SealedEvilInACan: The {{Necromancer}}
* TempleOfDoom: Where the trouble was unleashed
*ThisWasHisTrueForm
* ThunderboltIron: Enabled a slave revolt
* WaitHere: Conan tries this on Octavia
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* ActionPrologue: The fisherman breaking into the temple
*TheBait: Octavia
* BarbarianTribe: Conan is leading them
*BlueBlood: Octavia
*ColdBloodedTorture: Octavia is threatened with this to make her act as the bait.
*CuriosityIsACrapshoot: The fisherman rouses the evil by his curiosity
*DeadlyDecadentCourt: the city that appears; what Octavia fled
*DistressedDamsel: Octavia
* FauxDeath: He finds people rousing from it.
* FemmeFatale: Octavia was ordered into it.
*HumanSacrifice: In the back story
* IntroOnlyPointOfView: the fisherman dies and so exits the story
*MadeASlave: Octavia's BackStory
*{{Necromancer}}: Who roused the city
*RescueSex: Conan is surprised that Octavia rejects this and has to seduce her.
* SealedEvilInACan: The {{Necromancer}}
* TempleOfDoom: Where the trouble was unleashed
*ThisWasHisTrueForm
* ThunderboltIron: Enabled a slave revolt
* WaitHere: Conan tries this on Octavia
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