History Literature / TheFrostGiantsDaughter

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Conan is depicted in later stories to be just as smart as he is strong. Here he's little more than a brute.

* VaporWear: Atali is described as wearing a thin, sheer gown which leaves nothing to the imagination, and it's torn off later anyway.

JustForFun/{{The one w|ith}}here [[ValuesDissonance Conan's an]] {{attempted rap|e}}ist.

* GivingThemTheStrip: How Atali gets away, bewitching Conan with her beauty and making a run for it.

!!Tropes included

* BadassBeard: Every Nordheimer has one. The redness of their hair is singled out in the narration at one point as a sign of their manliness.

* TheTease: Atali doesn't seem interested in having sex with her targets and prefers to toy with the dying, [[EnthrallingSiren leading them off to be killed by her brothers]], who then offer up the hearts of these warriors as a sacrifice.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: See AttemptedRape above. Normally Conan adheres to a sort of rough chivalric code, and rape is beneath him. The insane murderous lust Atali works him up into--[[EnthrallingSiren whether he's under a spell or not]]--demonstrates just how far out on the edge he is.

* VaporWear: Atali is described as wearing a thin, sheer gown which leaves nothing to the imagination, and nothing else.

* AttemptedRape: Conan's lust is overpowering, and it's one of the very, very few times where Conan is thinking of sex without the woman's consent.
** Although it should be noted that Atali is based on a Fey, a creature from European folklore that had the ability to literally drive men insane with lust. At the end, Conan even calls what happened to him "madness".

** MookHorrorShow: Much prose is utilized to depict Atali's fear and frenzied attempts to flee from Conan's grasp.

* OhCrap: The minute Alti sees that her trap failed.

* TheTease: Atali doesn't seem interested in having sex with her targets and prefers to toy with the dying, leading them off to be killed by her brothers, who then offer up the hearts of these warriors as a sacrifice.

* DisabilityImmunity: Grom had seen Atali who comes to those in battle who are about to die with the severity of his wounds, but he survived because his injuries prevented him from following her.

* HornyVikings: The Aesir and Vanir. Conan is this as well, being a sort of naturalized Aesir; given that he basically adopts their ways and manners, swearing by their gods and desiring their afterlife. Atali calls him out on it.
* AnIcePerson: As ice gods, Atali, also her father.
* IShallTauntYou: Atali mocks Conan endlessly. Until he kills her brothers.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: See AttemptedRape above. Normally Conan adheres to a sort of rough chivalric code, and rape is beneath him. The insane murderous lust Atali works him up into - whether he's under a spell or not - demonstrates just how far out on the edge he is.

* TheTease: Atali doesn't seem interested in having sex with her targets and prefers to toy with the dying before they perish in the snow.

* IShallTauntYou: Atali mocks Conan endlessly.

* DisabilityImmunity: Grom had seen Atali who comes to those in battle who are about to die with the severity of his wounds, but he survived, which prevented him from following her.

* LighterAndSofter: As the second story in the series and technically the first made of original material, it has a much more ethereal atmosphere and features beings who don't seem purely evil. It also lacks a conventional BigBad and there's only a brief fight at the beginning.

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** Although it should be noted that Atali is based on a Fey, a creature from European folklore that had the ability to literally drive men insane with lust.

** Although it should be noted that Attali is based on a Fey, a creature from European folklore that had the ability to literally drive men insane with lust.