Conan is the archetypal sword-and-sorcery hero created by Robert E. Howard, born in the bleak northern land of Cimmeria and driven by wanderlust across the breadth of the Hyborian world. He passes through roles as thief, pirate, mercenary, and general before seizing the throne of Aquilonia by his own hand.
Fierce in battle yet possessed of sharp instincts and cunning, Conan contends with Stygian sorcerers, priests of the serpent-god Set, and the eldritch remnants of prehuman civilisations. Howard published his Conan stories in "Weird Tales" between 1932 and 1936, founding the conventions of modern heroic fantasy.